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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Except the difference between billionaire and millionaire is considerably more vast than that, and humans are quite poor at understanding that intuitively.

    One million seconds is about 11.6 days. One billion seconds is 31.7 years.

    It’s an issue when people think of that leap of million to billion as you have, as it greatly discounts how much these leeches have sucked out of working people.






  • There’s that series of pictures taken on a street that shows a comparison of how much space it takes to move 60 or so people in cars vs a bus vs bicycles. Obviously, the cars take up vastly more space than the other two.

    Walking shouldn’t be the only other option. The influence of car and oil companies has created a car dependent dystopia in North America, where it seems like it’s either car or walk. But it’s really the same as the trash problem. If trash bins were freeways, we don’t need more of them, we need to be more efficient at moving people, essentially reducing the trash.