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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • To me any religion that excludes people or exalts people on the basis of tribe is not tolerant end of story.

    I haven’t read the entirety of the Bible. But happy to be persuaded that my understanding of God and his chosen people is inaccurate.

    For example, this was incredibly easy to search for: Destruction of the Canaanites

    I would wager there are many such stories. Judaism, like most religions, is pretty fucked up.

    If anyone really believes God chose their people over others, you inherently believe your tribe is more special, more righteous, or favoured by God. To me, that belief is nothing short of dangerous - *gestures broadly throughout human history*

    I’m not really out of line here to assert that makes the orthodox belief foster ethnic/tribal supremacy.

    I’m not saying everyone who believes in Judaism believes this way, but as a whole it’s pretty hard to argue their shit doesn’t smell as bad as the others.

    Exclusion is just not a sign of tolerance. Sorry ¯_(ツ)_/¯

    People are individuals, and I’d assert there’s a spectrum of views across believers.

    If we’re talking about the religion in general? I’ll have to strongly disagree that it’s only inward looking.



  • Oh neato then. I had a full-sized corded lawn mower back when I lived in a house where I was burdened with a lawn. It was quieter, but still loud.

    Glad to hear that there are quieter ones.

    Or the properties are just so huge you wouldn’t disturb anyone haha (I lived in a inner suburban place where the next house was less than 5m wall to wall)



  • Luckily for you that’s the iso standard haha

    I wouldn’t mind if it could be kept on the same line, but I don’t believe there is a non-breaking hyphen in unicode.

    You can insert non-breaking hyphens into MS Office programs like word though. Very useful if you’re an engineer and writing out tags in reports all the time (and dislike when they get broken across lines).

    The actual print character is a normal hyphen, though.

    Thanks for reading my pedantic preferences haha












  • I’ve tried to imagine how I would gesture ‘my heart goes out to you’ vibes. In no world can I imagine a down-turned, flat palm, fingers straight and all together at about 45° (Nazi salute).

    Like, if you were to give some one something (your metaphorical heart) you’d hand it over palm up. Or if you’re metaphorically distributing it like sewing seeds you would again, throw it out, palm up, hands slightly closed. Or if you’re throwing it like sand, you would have your fingers apart by the end of the throw.

    In no world, does this make any sense other being a Nazi salute.

    Or he’s the most awkward, weird dude in history. That is also, true, but given his other behaviour, I dunno how this could be read in any other way.


  • Despite the unhappy circumstances, it’s kinda nice Chinese and Americans interacting on social media.

    The fact this isn’t typically possible because of bans in China is not so nice. Neither is the fact the US is going down the same road instead of proper privacy laws.

    But still, kinda nice