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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • The Mississippi River sees constant river boat traffic.

    Those smaller, feeder rivers often aren’t big enough to support a barge.

    The Jones act mostly applies to ocean shipping, in fact, I don’t think the Jones act even applies to river traffic.

    To be fair, the Jones act consistently fucks over Puerto Rico, and should probably be scrapped or amended, it just doesn’t stop river traffic on rivers that can’t actually support said traffic.




  • It’s gone back and forth a few times. I think in the comics he’s currently moderately successful. But that does tend to change quickly.

    For decades, Spider-Man had to make a living selling selfies to someone who absolutely hated him. Peter Parker wasn’t even directly employed by Jamison, he was an independent contractor.

    The MCU version had him start off as Ironman’s protégé, and now he’s poor and unknown thanks to Dr Strange holding the idiot ball.