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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • I think it’s pretty common that systemic problems are painted as personal failures. Poor? Get on that grind. Fat? cAlOrIeS iN cAlOrIeS oUt. Medical debt? Go do a Kickstarter. Got depression? Have you tried sunshine? Got ADHD? Just make habits. Anxious? Meditate. Can’t find a job? Just walk into a place with your resume and a firm handshake and variations thereof. Etc etc.

    It’s everywhere because people want to think the world is just and they deserve their successes. This is just the other side of the coin, that people must deserve the misfortunes that happen to them.

    But also screw people that can’t show up on time habitually.













  • Single day. It was work mixing cement with what was in a chemical lagoon for an ink factory. Basically the liquid would get pumped into a mixing machine and then piped over to a nearby site to make a more inert giant puck. Whoever was in charge of ratios was mixing things too thick and caused something to explode in a guy’s face. It wasn’t a big explosion, just enough to get the mixture all over him and into his eyes. I wasn’t really dealing with any of that yet, just starting on tarball duty where anything remotely black in the area around the lagoon was considered escaped contamination and got dug up with a shovel and tossed back in the designated area. This was in summer and we had to be in tyvek suits and rubber boots which both had to get taken off and thrown out in a special way every time you left the area. But seeing what happened to that guy just made me think all this wasn’t worth the risk and I didn’t come back the next day.