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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I’ll give you mine from an old ass copy of the Joy of Cooking. Been making it for years and it’s a big hit around the holidays. When Granny is begging for my recipe you know it’s good.

    2 1/2 lbs of cream cheese

    1 3/4 cups of sugar

    1 teaspoon of lemon zest

    1/2 a teaspoon of vanilla extract

    5 large eggs

    2 egg yolks

    1/2 cup of heavy cream

    The crust is up to you but I usually do graham crackers and melted butter spread out over a spring form pan. That’s another important part. Make sure you’re doing this in a spring form pan. This is a thick cake.

    It’s as simple as mixing all the ingredients together until you get a smooth and creamy mix. Use a mixer. Start with the cream cheese and sugar. Then the eggs. Then the cream. Then the zest and extract. Cook at 500 degrees for 15 minutes, then reduce to 200 for an hour. When done cooking let it cool to the touch then put it in the fridge for at least 8 hours. The cake will come out looking burnt and jiggly like jello. Trust me that’s just the first layer. The liquidity is from it being hot. Once it cools down you should have a fluffy and creamy cheesecake.


  • I’ve been thinking about this for a while. We really are at a point where taxation without representation should be examined. There’s always the suggestion of a general strike to force them to function, but I think the easier and more destructive method would be to not pay taxes en masse. It would take organization to get the whole country to do it but there’s already a set date and way to disrupt the system that involves you doing nothing. Simply don’t file. What happens if nobody files their taxes? What happens if the system grinds to a halt because they chose to collect the most money from the lower tax brackets and let the big corpos run free? On the flip side what happens if everybody doesn’t file taxes and the system grinds on anyway? Then what’s the point of taxes? Wouldn’t that really expose the lack of representation?



  • This is key. A decade ago I did all three days at the New England Metal and Hardcore festival. Bodies fell from the sky on me. I got punched in the back of the head. I was almost knocked out on multiple occasions. I lost my glasses and was blind for most of the trip. What hurt the most was my feet. The pain was only alleviated when I was running around in the pit and walking back to my motel. I was in my early 20s then. I can’t imagine doing that now.






  • I’ve lost all of my grandparents. Most of them I lost at an age where I could comprehend what was going on. Death is the slowest process on earth. The actual passing is quick. It’s emotional and hard but it lasts for the blink of an eye. The decline can take years. To watch somebody age in those final 5-10 of their life is excruciating. It’s a drip feed of watching somebody act in ways where you can tell they’re just not themselves anymore.

    Now with all that said I’m not saying Biden is knocking on deaths door, or that the process even started. What’s clear to everybody though is that he’s not the same guy as when he started his presidency. He’s studders a lot more. He’s lost a lot of hair. And he’s clearly slower than he was just three years ago.

    Hes doing the most stressful job in the world. A job that accelerates the aging process. He’s already of an advanced age more so than any president in the history of this country. He’s approaching the line of being too old to non functional. So if you’re against him you’re gonna take that to the extreme and cry he’s dying right at this moment. But to everybody else he’s past the “he’s old” stage to “ehhh he’s really fucking old, should he be doing that stage?” That’s a decline.











  • I understand the infancy part of it. It’s why I bring up the discussion. How can we as users influence development to get things the way we actually want from the fediverse. To your point, this post was posted to Mastodon from Calckey and even though it’s only a 500 character limit on Mastodon, it displays the whole thing which is almost 3000 characters. A limit set by Calckey. My bigger issue is how a user navigates from one instance to another. Clearly content is being pulled expecting user to user reception, when there’s user to place(!) and user to thing(#) applications too.