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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • they have nothing to hide from those with access to their data (governments/corporations).

    That is only a good point until you remind them that the government/corporations aren’t just entities but also consist of people, any of which could end up being their neighbor tomorrow, hold their next job interview, be their next potential tinder match, etc.

    Of course the rest of what you wrote is true too, but I really felt the need to point this out.

    To give an example: I’m in data science. As part of a contract work I had access to a csv dump of a database of addresses of all people who ordered campaign material for a specific political campaign. I could have easily sated my own curiosity and checked who in my near vacinity is in that list, as well as the exact amounts that they ordered and some other notes about them. Suddenly it wouldn’t just be some corporation anymore but their neighbor.


  • One in five is quite a bit. To make an extreme example: If one in five people on the street were looking to stab you, you’d be thinking there’s a lot of people wanting you dead.

    Also it’s ca. one in three among the young men, which is terrifying. And if the “more favorable among heterosexual” holds true for only the male half (I see no reason why it wouldn’t), that’s even higher among that demographic.

    Fuck that’s scary.




  • I’m a bit worried after Cyberpunk and now this that large western franchises will use anime as a glorified advertisement.

    But on the other hand, it looks like a fun show, well animated too and written by the tag team who wrote Vivy, so I have no reason to think it’ll be bad.

    Also I (tongue-in-cheek) worry about the consequences of putting Harley Quinn (and to a lesser degree Joker) in front of all the weebs and otaku…


  • After a quick Google search I learned that the answer is “kinda”.

    Just like us they do produces gases as part of their metabolism. That gas has to go somewhere. Some of it is absorbed into their hemolyph (blood) and expelled into the air through openings in their exoskeleton. But it’s very unlikely that none of that gas exits through their anus.

    Also, people have spotted “bubbles” on insects trapped in amber right where their anus is, it’s likely that those are encased fart-bubbles.




  • I’m sure someone with more experience can weigh in better than me. From my understanding, they are important to a degree, even outside of calligraphy, where of course they are very important.

    Handwriting will start to deteriorate as people write faster and more sloppily. However, if they use the correct stroke types, it will deteriorate in a more predictable manner. I’m gonna be honest here, I do personally not pay attention to the stroke types, but for example if you look at “tome” vs. “harai”, doing stop pen -> lift pen means it’s way less likely for there to be a faint line from the end of one stroke to the start of the next one, as would often happen after sloppily writing a “harai” stroke.

    This is the same reason why stroke order (and direction) is very important when it comes to legibility of handwriting.