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Cake day: October 6th, 2023

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  • Well, sort of. You want to get a good bit inside the waterbearing layer, and since that’s waterbearing, it tends to flow. And that makes the dirt on top of it collapse, which is makes even a stable slope slide down and kill you.

    But it really doesn’t make sense to dig like this, because this is a LOT of digging to make what is in the end, a very narrow hole.

    Normally you’d make a small hole, place a perforated tube inside, then get inside and start digging down. As you remove dirt from under the ring and inside the hole, the ring slides down, and the people on top extend it upwards. Then, ideally, you seal the bottom of the well with something like clay so your water doesn’t get too muddy, and you’re good to go!















  • I’m in the Netherlands, helping out at a station in a school gym. This station had three booths, with one low-height voting booth, both for shorter people, but also for people in wheelchairs and whatever other reason. A man in his mid-30’s comes up in a wheelchair, we check his ID, hand him a ballot and the famous red pencil, and point to the direct of the booths, where someone has the temerity of allready occupying the wheelchair booth! GASP, SHOCK!

    The guy proceeds to absolutely flip his shit, calling us bigots, racists, haters and nazis for not letting him vote from a wheelchair. That “people like us” have always hated him. For what’s it worth, note that both him and me are roughly the colour of fresh milk.

    It was super awkward, because the man was “punch-your-face” angry, and I was the only person there who was under 60… But like… he’s in a wheelchair, and I’m sure he’d hurt himself a lot more than me. I was seriously considering just wheeling him out, but he hadn’t voted yet, and assholes have rights too, and the optics aren’t exactly great on that. One of the old ladies who also volunteered told me “Don’t worry girl, we get a few like that every time, just let him go and laugh about it over dinner”.

    The kept ranting on his way out the door.




  • But it would be very dangerous politically to allocate a lot of ressources to the military after the war, when the country is in dire need of restoration to where they were before the war.

    I’d argue the reverse, Putin isn’t ruling democratically, he doesn’t need votes or approval. He DOES need a very strong military to stay in power, which is why Russia has the “national guard”, Rosgvardiya, under the sole authority of the president.

    Of course, a palace guard military has very different material demands, and their main use is against civilians and other military, so the level of equipment can be decreased, but for a dictator to have a country full of disgruntled veterans is a very dangerous thing.