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Cake day: July 30th, 2023

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  • Peacock Premium comes free with my 1gb internet package. It’s so much better than Netflix or Amazon. Amazon was good in 2017-18 too with The Americans and Mozart in the City but now they’ve gone dumb.

    Netflix is like 99% movies and shows I fall asleep to.

    Hulu has good stuff.

    I haven’t watched regular TV nor have bought a cable package in 20 years and I feel like I have contributed to the decline of TV and am glad because that shit was mostly garbage anyway and with the ability to cancel subscriptions on the drop of a hat maybe they’ll finally start listening and stop putting adverts in everything because that’s the biggest issue I feel people have.

    I don’t need some assholes with some shit jingle to tell me to buy anything. I’m grown, I know I need food and paper towels and medicine.




  • So I knew a woman who got divorced and got a big payment and became a drum making shaman who had the demeanor and speech of a valley girl build her artistic shamanic dream home in a destination spot.

    The home was hand crafted out of sandbags and barbed wire. It was supposed to take a year but took 7. When it was done it was too hot and too cold and uncomfortable to live in. It was so bad that the building department told her it was a mistake.

    She never had any dream catchers around and now that I think about it, one could have probably saved her from that mess.






  • I was in Niger in 2015 and the mine outside of Agadez hired everyone to come and work which left schools lacking teachers because pay was better at the mine. Then they closed it down and teachers went to find other jobs.

    I have been to dysfunctional countries before but this was pretty bad. The government was shaky then and basically the military takes bribes for anything. Wells that NGOs paid to have dug are basically cement slabs on grade and no well.

    The complicated history, culture, colonialism and people really leave shallow options for improvement. Coups are a part of Niger unfortunately. It sucks because the culture and the people are really amazing.

    I wonder what Sidi Amar and the Tuareg are up to. Probably kicking some ass as usual.