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Cake day: June 4th, 2026

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  • I am quite concerned as a south European, the heat every summer becomes more and more unbearable, the official temperatures don’t do it justice, I have seen temperatures above 52° celsius on my car thermometer parked in the shade. We have no protection against this extreme heat, on the cold you can dress warmer, but with the heat there is nothing we can do if you have to work in the street. Migraines all the time, heat rashes all the time, food spoils all the time, wildfires all the time. A constant nightmare






  • Some things are meat to be time consuming and hard. You cannot hurry things like learning or maturity, our current world has convince us that faster is always better, but that is not always the case. I always volunteer for voting counting and despite the fact that it takes from 7am to 10 pm on a Sunday I enjoy doing it, you feel like you are part of the cogs of democracy, doing your part to ensure the democracy works as intended, like you take part In something greater than yourself, you set aside your political filiation and do your part




  • I agree, I live in a country that still uses papel ballouts (Portugal if you’re curious) and on election day representatives from.diferent parties, volunteers, and government officials count the votes by hand, the whole process is bureaucratic, time consuming, and incredibly complex, but that’s exactly what makes it almost foll proof, there is no way you can alter votes in a meaningful way without a lot of people noticing, and even if by some miracle you did, the very next day all the votes get re counted in front of a judge and other set of volunteers chosen randomly.