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Cake day: August 17th, 2023

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  • The podcast “American Carnage” is a great journey if you don’t know anything about John Brown. They mention this sword in the podcast, it’s got a hollow compartment in it that contains liquid mercury. The mercury flows forward when it’s swung in a slash, changing the weight distribution of the blade to kill the enemies of abolition with greater prejudice. Based

    Edit: My only source for this was the podcast I mentioned, so take it with a grain of salt. I hope it’s true though. It’s such an interesting idea for a sword.















  • In our healthcare system they’re talking about refusing non emergent treatment for people without insurance until they get Medicaid, which can apparently take a month. This would save about 20million, which is strikingly close to what Propublica reports the system pays in executive compensation. In other words, if the money is THAT important, we have a way to save that money without literally denying cancer care (time is a factor). But reduction in executive expenses isn’t on the table. Fuck these high earning sociopaths.