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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Unfortunately trust doesn’t work that way. When you betray alliances, trust is broken and it would take a fundamental change in the US political system and many decades to rebuild that trust.

    This isn’t Trump’s first term. This isn’t an interruption of America being it’s true self. Biden was the interruption, Trump is the new normal of what America is to the world. Even if a Democrat wins the next election (if there is one) no one can trust that the US won’t go back to someone like Trump in a future election.

    The US is at best an unreliable ally and at worst an adversary. That’s just how it is now.


  • Bumble bees are actually inspiring wing designs now. For a long time our best theories on aerodynamics couldn’t explain how Bumblebees could fly. Given the relative mass and wing size the bumble bee they couldn’t explain how a bumble bee could fly.

    In the last decade or so they figured it out after putting enough bumble bees into wind tunnels. Bumblebees generate additional lift by creating little vortexes in the air. So now wing designers are trying to incorporate that effect into their designs.


  • Every year when the clocks change people are cranky and start demanding this kind of thing be eliminated. Politicians capitalize on it and say they will do something about it. In a couple of weeks everyone forgets about it.

    In the end, the government can’t do anything about the tilt of the Earth and there is no time system that can be devised that will make everyone happy. Many people like having more light in the evening and wouldn’t be happy if DST were eliminated. People are going to be cranky for a couple of weeks in the year but it’s generally considered worth putting up with so people have more daylight in the evening rather than having it before they wake up.


  • Changing working hours would be decided by individual businesses and inconsistencies on this would be a logistical nightmare. Delivery of materials are suddenly an hour later and you have a bunch of people standing around with nothing to do. Or maybe it’s earlier than usual and it comes before your business is open.

    Signage about business hours would have to be changed twice per year. A customer not aware of the change in business hours may show up too early or two late.

    And it would be an insane amount of work to change all the schedules of automated systems to conform with business hour changes that happen twice per year.

    So to avoid these kinds of problems you need the entire society to change their schedules consistently. It’s easier to change the clocks than to change everything other than the clocks.