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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • It really feels to me as someone who abstains from that particular vice to be like homes had running vodka next to the water tap. I don’t like gambling as a vice, and while I have many reasons for opposing it, they’re irrational next to my personal approval and use of alcohol.

    But neither should be allowed to advertise, in the same way tobacco isn’t. And gambling should be relegated to self and amicable administration in the home and in licensed physical establishments. You want to gamble with your friends and acquaintances? Have fun. But gambling in your own home should require you to find people to gamble with.







  • Unless you actually start looking into the whole of the aids epidemic its easy to miss what an absolute clusterfuck it was. The systems in place weren’t prepared at all for it and through a combination of maliciousness, ideological hardheadedness, and novel circumstances more Americans were killed by a virus than by the Viet Cong. But because it hit a group that was already fighting for our rights as well as the fact physicians in high places understood that their duty was not to the public “morality” but to public health things were able to be fought.