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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • Don’t start that old tired TABOR argument.

    In Colorado, citizens get to vote when the state tries to increase taxes.

    Colorado’s congress always drafts bills with language like, “we want to fix school roofs, and also give superintendents Bentleys, and we can increase this percentage whenever we want.”

    The bills that don’t have the nonsense scams, voters pass, as it turns out Colorado voters are intelligent.

    One of the State congress’ recent gambits, was to fund a firearms safety training program with money from Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Why this route? Because they’d have to ask voters to approve the money needed, and rather than do that, they decided to poach vehicle registration revenue from the state parks department, just to pass a rushed bill in a year when America is on the brink of no longer existing.

    Time and again, they haven’t shown voters they can be trusted, why would voters let them do whatever they want?

    The CO budget deficit right now is more nuanced at any rate. State planned to do certain things, Federal toilet decided to change the rules of the game halfway through the year. Federal congress of traitors and Mango Mussolini are the real cause of the financial issues right now, across the entire United States.






  • 100% this. From the marketing move they were never going to do, to the reversal and shift in “values”. They were just doing the New Coke gambit to drum up business.

    Other things to do, stop paying for streaming services and check out books and DVDs from your local library. Cancel expensive cell plans (since they are, unfortunately partially needed today), and switch to the cheapest MVNO that works. Downgrade home Internet to the minimum tolerable. Don’t upgrade phone, car, tablet, whatever as long as one can hold out. Cancel services like Amazon prime and impulse buy less.

    Find local businesses to shop at rather than corporate chains (which can be difficult, so just a little at a time.)

    Pay off debts, save, live free. Let the corpos wither.


  • We also must remember that, while the 21st century Nazis stole the script, it will likely not play out in a linear fashion. So always be sure to read ahead and behind to ensure the proper context.

    Also current history as well. ICE was formed in 2003, after 9/11 as a “response” to it, and the whole time, both Dem and Repub run government have used it to deport people in cruel ways. Now ICE is very overt and emboldened more than previous, but the cruelty has always been present. There are many ways this could continue that may not end up seeming so overt, people must remain vigilant.









  • Depends. Colorado has half a state of flat plains, then some mountain ranges, high plains, some mountain ranges, and some desert. Cities and towns are cities and towns. In any given area, they already have utilities strung for power, phone, cable. They’re just cities and towns. The front range is just big cities and highways like anywhere. Several cities in the state have muni fiber. (AT&T cellular is terrible universally though. Somehow Verizon and even T-Mobile work better.)

    Satellite makes sense for those people in rural homes on mountains that no longer can purchase homeowners insurance in many areas because climate change fire risk is too great. So limited market. But, they could also just beam a 2Gbps P2P radio link from a town with fiber because line of sight from a mountain is forever, so…