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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • The Daughters settled in the former Confederate capital after Governor William Tuck, who spent his governorship fighting civil rights laws, offered the land. Virginia’s General Assembly approved the offer in 1950 and tacked on $10,000 toward construction fees. The deed, however, included stipulations: If the UDC doesn’t use the property for five years, it reverts to the Commonwealth. The UDC cannot sell the building, because the state controls the land; the group cannot move it, because it’s marble. If they ever couldn’t pay for upkeep, they would have to abandon the memorial.

    Their racist headquarters is eventually going to be seized by the state.

















  • I had to buy a netbook last week and I decided against a Chromebook. If this was a few years ago I would have been excited to try ChromeOS, but after their attempts to destroy adblock and force unwanted DRM onto the web I do not trust them. Now I feel like using ChromeOS is just another way to have control of your own system taken away from you and force advertising malware I do not want onto it. I don’t even want the Chrome browser installed on my PC let alone allow it to be the default operating system.