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Cake day: December 18th, 2023

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  • I’m an American with some outdated experience from about 25 years ago.

    I loved Germany and would love to return. I’ve even thought about migrating there, though I know this would not be simple.

    I was there for about 3 weeks. My last name is very Italian, but apparently the family i was starting with hoped it was Spanish and expressed this with shock when I corrected them.

    During my time there I witnessed quite a bit of racism directed at Italians and Turks. As it was explained to me, post WWII Germany encouraged migrants from Italy and Turkey to rebuild the workforce. What I witnessed was that Italians and Turks were looked down on and often held to lower jobs.

    It’s been 25 years. I hope things have changed.














  • Probably yes.

    I used to work for another office store that has since been absorbed into this one. There was an extreme white supremacist who ran a “church” in the area. My first manager told him we would not make his copies but he could use the self-serve machines. A few of my coworkers did not appreciate this stance and may have taunted him a bit.

    A new manager came in and asked him why he was using the self-serve and invited him to use our copy services. Most of the department walked out that day.

    The materials were what amounted to white supremacy lightly vailed as religion.




  • 200M spent on alligator Auschwitz and an estimated 450M annual operating cost.

    Some googling tells me that an apartment building can cost about 200k/unit (I suspect it could be less). That’s 1000 units. And then imagine what would happen if you put that yearly operating cost into healthcare and other social programs.

    They want to build 1000 concentration camps. Florida is working on their second. Texas has one. Other states will certainly follow.

    Maybe Newsom should be building homes instead of division.