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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • It’s good that your dad is your friend. He probably really loves you and wants the best for you, which isn’t always the case with other people.

    In fact I would say that your dad is probably the most important friend to have.

    With that out of the way, I’d also ask: How old are you? Do you want other friends? Have you met other people that you want to be friends with? What is your definition of a ‘friend’?

    You might already have friends but not think of them as such. You might be surrounded by people you don’t want to be friends with or your paths might not have crossed yet with anyone you want to be friends with.

    Does your dad have friends? My first friends were people my parents introduced me to. Now most of my friends are people that other friends introduced me to. Friends have been a very social thing for me.












  • No, I think it’s a good assessment.

    I swing between A and B and find B to be most healthy and reasonable, because I have no political power as well as for my own wellbeing.

    Ive tried RSS for world news but find it even more overwhelming than browsing news sites because it’s displayed more compactly and looks like an avalanche of dystopian madness if I dont open the feed for a day or two.

    What I really want is a weekly or maybe bi-weekly roundup of the five or ten most important global events. If anyone knows of a feed like that please let me know!


  • I’ve seen this argument made by right wing economic ‘think tanks’ like the IEA and I’m not convinced, either by the reasoning or the quality of the data that’s supposed to support it. If being able to charge extortionate rent was the only way to make a profit from building houses then house building would have correlated negatively with affordable rents, which AFAIK is the opposite to the historic reality, at least here in the UK. As long as there are people who need a house to live in there will be always be demand for housing; it’s just a question of who gets to own the houses. Is it people who are living in them or people who are charging others to live in them? Right now there is a rich minority who are able to buy more and more houses because a poor majority are paying them such high rent and are thus prevented from ever saving enough for a deposit and competing in the property market. That’s why inequality is compounding.