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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • This kinda reminds me of when Beavis and Butthead first came on the air. Panned as the stupidest thing on TV.

    When it came back in the 2010s, it was exactly as stupid. However, relative to what ELSE was on TV? Suddenly it was relatively high brow. It was easily the smartest show on MTV. By a LOT.

    Putting super Gover in the first Iron Man? Nonsense. Putting him in whatever they do next? IMO it would generally raise the bar. No offense, MCU superfans.






  • I mean, it’s a reasonable place to start at the very least?

    We’re talking about pickpockets, right?

    Someone tried to pickpocket me in Europe on the train. I blocked the door and, despite having no common language, I left them know I was aware they had taken my stuff. I’m pretty sure they understood it was my intention to get it back and that was going to be a hassle for everyone.

    They just handed it back and left.

    Should I have just started swinging?


  • I get it, but it has to be obvious how quickly this logic can spiral, though.

    If I come around a corner and find you putting the boots to someone begging you to stop, you’re getting smoked by the biggest thing I can find. I don’t know the context. Violence to stop violence is measured.

    Being wronged isn’t a carte blanche. As soon as you introduce violence, suddenly violence actually becomes the measured response against YOU.



  • Yes, we can accept that we’re all multifaceted. We contain multitudes. We can love some things about a person, and hate others.

    Difficulties really only arise when we choose to make the broadest judgements into the narrowest categories. The whole must be good, the whole must be bad.

    I hate how brutal he can be. I love how brutal he can be.

    I think people are too obsessed with assigning a binary state to a whole human. It’s downright offensive.


  • It’s been 30 years since I used mega blocks, but damn they sucked.

    I’ve always wondered if it was QC, or if there was some material properties of Lego that made them so much better? Like can they use tighter tolerances because of better plasticity/flexibility of their material?