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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • I hate defending cowardly corporate bullshit but any tech company that doesn’t kiss Trump’s fucking ring is absolutely in for a world of retaliatory pain in the next four years. Smaller companies like mine are just divesting from the US but large companies are logistically unable to do anything.

    All the tech CEOs donating to the fuckwad’s inauguration is just as meaningful as companies that put up a rainbow flag during pride month. It’s all just empty lip service.

    There’s plenty of shit to rage against Apple for - donating to Trump is really low down on the list of shit I care about even if it sets a terrible precedent.








  • Ah, as someone who doesn’t hide differences do you walk into the office like…

    “Hey Nigerian Dan, did you get the memo from Polish John about half-irish half-welsh Sarah’s presentation later today?”

    In no way am I trying to erase people’s identities, I just want to highlight that language places an immense emphasis on gender that erases non-binary people and cements it psychologically as an important trait for social interaction.

    People are fucking complex, there’s no reason to constantly bucket them into groups by gender identity.



  • Yea, it probably could be best solved through cooperation but the thing that springs to mind for me is that card responses for link unfurling have a standard way of presenting an image, or text, or an image embedded in text - but there’s no standard (even an unofficial standard) way to clearly respond that the link unfurling should be multiple images in an arbitrary gallery ordering. If multiple images are returned in a card the context reads like a blob of text with multiple images in series.


  • Cast iron has a really large thermal capacity (I use it for searing, as an example, because once you get it hot it’ll sear food without noticeably cooling down).

    This is generally a bad property for baking since you would, ideally, like to submerge most baked goods in uniform temperatures to produce consistent heating. This is why baking moulds are made of very thin metal. To work around it with a cast iron pan you’d want to partially preheat the pan so that the heat conductivity of the cast iron is as close to air as possible - that’d be extremely hard to do precisely.

    It’s a neat experiment though so thank you for sharing it. We do use our cast iron for cooking some breads but they’re quite distinct. We use it for Farinata, Pupusas, and corn tortilla - and it works for these breads because they’re unleavened and using high thermal capacity cookware slightly simplifies the cooking process by making the heat transference more consistent.


  • Yes, it is to me. English (and most languages tbh) has constructs that constantly reinforce a concept of binary genders and highlight that as an important factor.

    When you learned about Mr., Miss, and Mrs. did you find that awkward? To know how to title a woman (absent the more modern Ms.) you’d need to know their marital status - but for dudes it’s whatever? That fucking pissed me off as a kid - how are you supposed to know if someone is married when writing them and who fucking cares…

    To me, at least, gendered pronouns are the same way - I’m writing to a person, about a thing, as them as an individual. Gender is generally irrelevant to this interaction so why the fuck is it necessary for it.

    Imagine if it was astrology sign instead: I just finished writing up a response to OsrsNeedsF2P. I hope Virgo appreciates the care I put into it because I enjoy the question Virgo asked.

    Imagine needing to know someone’s birth sign to talk about them and imagine that English constantly reinforced that birth sign was the way to identify others and that there were twelve and only twelve proper birth signs.

    Gender expression is an important part of our identities - I have a complex expression as a non-conforming man - but it’s not the important part of our identity. It’s a factor of our identity and, I’d argue, only really rarely a top five factor. People are philosophers, crafters, writers, artists, hikers, gamers, cooks, painters, etc… those activities we enjoy are much more core to most of our identities. Our gender expression is important but should usually only impact a very narrow portion of our identity.

    So to me, yea, it’s a real issue.


  • It’s a really heavy read. If you’re not in a good place mentally, I’d really advise against it.

    This story isn’t unique and a lot of programs for people in a rough place were designed around this kind of tough love - they started out mostly as cult like organizations for adults who had repeated difficulty stopping self-destructive behavior (Synanon was a notable example) and then at some point some asshole figured out they would try it on kids. If you ever have kids never trust programs like this

    But yea, if you’re getting ill reading it it’s probably not healthy to continue and that’s alright.