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Cake day: April 22nd, 2023

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  • I like it! Solid effort. I love a good history reference pun.

    Because I believe I’ve seen you make It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia references before, I feel obligated to share what popped in my head when I saw this post ('cause my goofy brain is always forcing connections to it): “I will burn you alive like the last bitch who crossed me!” & “Ya light ONE Tesla dealership on fire and everybody FREAKS OUT!” - The French, apparently. They’re still hot!


  • The photograph doesn’t show the front of the sign, so we don’t see what it says. I’ll try describing the image:

    The image in the post here is a screenshot of a social media post with a caption that says “when you participate in a peaceful protest, but are prepared for the alternative.” Underneath the caption is a photo taken from behind of a person at a protest who is holding a sign. We only see the plain white back of the sign, but we can see that the stick they used to hold up the sign is a baseball bat taped to the back of it.












  • This was a great article, thank you for sharing it with us here, Alyaza!

    I especially appreciated this bit at the ending:

    Why do people still feel compelled to argue about the Everest 1996 tragedy nearly 30 years after the event? Because, as Krakauer writes, this disaster was “the result of multiple, complex, interrelated factors,” and because many key facts can never be established, as the witnesses to them died on the mountain. At our worst, human beings rebel against such situations. We want to believe that clear-cut blame can be determined because it brings the terrifying forces that sometimes crush us under our control. Also, as the internet demonstrates over and over again, we just love picking a villain, then doubling down on the choice until we’ve transformed them into an absurd caricature of wickedness. Whatever need this impulse serves, it’s never a desire to know the truth.

    This way of thinking/behaving that humans so often do has long super bothered me. They cope with complicated situations by coming up with their own version of ‘reality’ that’s simpler for them, that they could have had some control over, rather than accepting the unfair clusterfuck that is life. I have family members who are very prone to this and it weighs heavily on me…and makes me so sad.