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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • I recall a similar study years ago. They concluded 32 was minimal viable, assuming a strict breeding regiment over several generations, with 8 men and 24 women. They also concluded about 500 would be the smallest practical size, given people aren’t robots and losing even a couple people before leaving the breeding pool would be very bad. That was a fundamentally different study though, looking at long term, self sufficiency. This one seems more focused on an Antarctica like outpost that would be able to cycle people in and out, and not establishing a full on colony.




  • I, well didn’t remove my headrest, but may as well have. It’s at a crazy aggressive angle that is not comfortable at all, so I took it off and spun it around backwards. Now it might as well not be there, I’ve thought about taking in off and leaving it in the back seat or something but that seemed weird so I just leave it backwards now. Also, no car seems to be designed with decent posture in mind at all, sitting up straight I hit my head on the ceiling of just about every car, and I am not a tall man at 5’9".


  • Several countries have already figured this out, ot isn’t rocket surgery. The government has a pretty good idea what you owe, and send you a bill. If you want to take another route, you’re free to submit your own taxes, but the vast majority don’t need to do anything like that. There’s no reason we couldn’t use the same system, if it assumes standard deduction that would cover the vast majority of people. Anyone who wants to itemize would be free to, it just wouldn’t be automatic, so essentially, nothing would change for them. Well, almost nothing, the difference is if they take too long they have a safety net standard deduction already filed and done I guess.