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Cake day: July 20th, 2023

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  • Cool but flawed website.

    Earlier times dont include myths that are on later years.

    There is no overlap in myths between 1990 and 1970-80 but there is with the myths of the 60s, so we stopped teaching it for 20 years and then went back to it?

    “Sugar causes hyperactivity in children” is mentioned to have been corrected around 1995 but stops making the list from 1980 onward. I have heard it after 95 but not from school.

    I wanna recommend it to others but i cant in this state.



  • This was so normal that the knights almost anticipated being able to survive.

    This massively backfired in for example the battle of the golden spurs between the french heavy cavalry and (now Belgium) peasants.

    The French thought they where going to have an easy win, when this turned out not to be, many french knights trow their sword away to surrender, expecting etiquette where the farmers imprison them for ransom.

    The farmers though had no intention to respecting this and the knights where promptly killed sending a clear message to french rule.





  • Til autism was once understood as being the same as schizophrenia.

    Quite interesting how the concept of neurodivergence is almost doing the opposite with respect to individuals who overlap on multiple neurological labels. Except it celebrates the individual uniqueness of their mind, needs, strenghts and challenges rather then generalising to find the one pill to sell to all.



  • Its almost certainly something like this, i bet its actually all coming from replicator allowance.

    In voyager, Harry Kim mentioned saving up replicator rations to replicate a clarinet. I assume the same can be done for any hobby.

    Nothing would stop anyone from slowly replicating an entire kitchen (except maybe physical space constraints), then replicating basic ingredients to cook everything else, possibly even saving rations that would go to complex dishes in the long term.




  • Social media is a big part of the problem but still a symptom of the same systemic issues that phones are a symptom off.

    Modern Phones are pocket-sized personal computers that are heavily restricted in what users can do, heavily tailored to what consumption our corporate overlords want to maintain (social media being an example, predatory games another).

    Just like social media (facebook) is near impossible to avoid because all your local businesses don’t have a website and only inform and communicate trough a social media page (thanks my partner still has an account) you cannot simply not own a phone because scanning qr codes is now often a required part of participating in society, often unexpectedly.



  • Ignoring the funny, here is my interpretation to 6 meetings in 24 hours for executive elites.

    For a corporate drone this would be a hell of day for others:

    Wake up like everyone else

    • first 2 meetings are short 15 minutes things and there only contribution is being present.

    • 1 of them is boring and goes on longer but they have to leave early to catch the next meeting.

    • the next meeting is a 2h lunch meeting in a super fancy restaurant where each party tries to get the other agree on an unbalanced deal.

    • 1 actual long boring meeting in the afternoon where actual work is done.

    • final meeting with close allies over fancy dinner, mostly recalling relevant things that happend today.

    End of the workday like everyone else.