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Cake day: April 6th, 2024

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  • On the eve of battle, on a cold and windless night, an old general turned to a young soldier.

    “Tomorrow,” said the master, “you will know fear.”

    The young soldier — who had not yet experienced the agony of war — looked at the general with quizzical eyes, “How will I know fear if I do not know what it looks like?”

    The general replied, “You will know fear because it speaks very fast and it speaks very loud…”

    “If that is how fear acts, recognizing it is easy.” But as the young soldier considered the general’s advice, she asked the question facing us now, “Once I know Fear, how do I defeat it?”

    Even so, I come to ask myself the same question that young soldier asked that general all those years ago: “How do I defeat fear?”

    The general’s answer: “the only way to defeat fear is to tell it ‘No’.”

    No. We will not take shortcuts on the path to righteousness.

    No. We will not break the rules that protect us from our basest instincts.

    No. We will not allow desperation to destroy moral authority.

    I am guilty of all these things.

    Some say that in life there are no second chances; experience tells me that this is true.

    We can only look forward. We have to be torch-bearers: casting the light so we may see our path to lasting peace. We will continue exploring, discovering new worlds, new civilisations.

    Yes. That is the United Federation of Planets.

    Yes. That is Starfleet

    Yes. That is who we are

    And who we will always be.


  • I see little problem with not funding school lunches because we shouldn’t have public schools at all. Parents should have to pay for their kids education and food and they should owe more in taxes because they chose to have a kid. That, any gun control, emissions on vehicles, helmet or seatbelt laws, property taxes, sending aid to Ukraine, laws that criminalise victimless crimes are a few of the reasons I won’t vote for a democrat. And I won’t vote for a republican anyway.











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    7 months ago

    I don’t even like having to dry off after a shower. It’s easier to put on boxers and air dry mostly after first patting yourself down. It seems to be a difference in ritual as much as grooming. Dudes don’t worry about their skin getting dry or hair splitting because the harshness of their lives or clothing keeps they’re dry skin exfoliated enough and they trim their hair before ends become a problem so they don’t have high maintenance hairstyles.

    We don’t have to do as much preventative maintenance because we don’t worry about doing things daily