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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Holy shit really? That’s crazy. I live in a rural area and still can get an HVAC guy out in about a day usually it’s same day. We even have after hours guys. Don’t let that make it sound like it’s a flooded trade here, as that’s completely wrong, most of these guys are literally busy 24/7/365 but that sounds like an untapped industry.

    I do understand that a lot of the new generation has been sold desk jobs making 6 figures though, at least here…and not enough people want to take the outdoors and labor intensive style jobs anymore. Welders are a good one around my area, you’d think we’d be crawling in them, but nope they’re a trade that has a lot of openings, as the older generation(boomers) are retired, then Gen x is hitting retirement and there is even less millennials that picked up the trade and even less Gen z…times gonna get rough soon.












  • Go on Facebook marketplace and get a bigger cage. People basically give them away all the time. When we had rescued two conures and a cockatoo, I ended up building an aviary in a spare side of the house. Used 12g 1/2" x1/2" welded wire, it was 12x20 and even that wasn’t enough to make me feel good about having birds in captivity. We would let them out and fly around the house when we were home but it’s not a good life for these guys. I really wish exotics would be banned.




  • India the country is not poor as fuck. It’s a nuclear power. Even after the west stripped it for profit, it still has absurds amount of wealth and resources.

    So does pretty much every middle east country…and it’s consolidated at the top.

    The other big difference is that while the power and money is consolidated to a segment of the population, that segment is very large compared to most countries.

    Ratio wise, it’s probably less than you think. Remember India has 1.4 billion people.

    And overall, you have the direction wrong. The middle east doesn’t export these people. The west accepts them as refugees. But because of the wealth of india, their refugees rarely get accepted. So the religous nutjobs still exist (I’ve worked with some), they just stay in country. They stone their own people for being gay, or refusing to marry their rapist and all that.

    There are a good number of people from India all over the west though. I do agree that a lot of the EU takes in refugees at the expense of their own people though.