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Cake day: June 28th, 2023

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  • I think I went on a rabbit hole reading about this island online awhile back. IIRC they speak creole Portuguese, while EG speaks Spanish, and have been punished by the government for wanting independence for years. This Internet shutdown is just a drastic and recent punishment.

    It does seem like a nice life there. But very different than what we in the west are accustomed to. They lack many basic necessities, there’s shortages of everything that’s imported.

    It would be important to not be a burden to the community. Starlink isn’t available there, so I’m not sure of another way to work remotely from there. And unless you have a skill they would benefit from, you might be a strain on a community already stretching it’s resources. But I do see the appeal of an island like annobón.

















  • I would love to be able to afford to have a kid! What policies are we going to pass to help people that want to have children?! Are we going to make childcare more accessible? Reduce the costs of childbirth? Larger tax credits for children and stay at home parents?!

    “the answer to the problem of loneliness and demographic decline must begin with marriage,” casting blame on “free love, pornography, careerism, the Pill, abortion, same-sex relations, and no-fault divorce,”

    Oh we’re just going to criminalize porn, birth control, and being gay… That doesn’t help.