I’ve been awake for too many hours and probably nothing I post right now should be considered a reasonable take

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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • I once went to a city council meeting in Utah. The city’s engineer was giving a report on traffic projections if they installed a stoplight in the place of a stop sign. He was very explicit that he was giving estimates of the most traffic that the intersection should see under the proposed change. He was calling them conservative estimates because they were good estimates, and if he (accurately) called them liberal estimates the estimates would be rejected as faulty. Because folk in Utah apparently can’t comprehend a language where ‘liberal’ has a nonpolitical, nonobscene meaning. So the liberal estimates were conservative estimates because fuck you ain’t gonna do a job for it to be rejected (by idiots) for stupid reasons. At least that’s the mood the guy seemed to have I could have been projecting.