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Cake day: August 13th, 2023

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  • I suppose it was a thing I read about years ago, but I recall there being stories about rich socialite who drive around recklessly (often under the influence) and run someone over. They then go back and finish the person off because if the person dies you pay a monetary penalty (if you can) as opposed to paying medical bills/lawsuits.

    Do you have recollection of that? Was it just rumor and hearsay that spread because of sinophobia or whatever.

    I also recall several high profile US cases (because that’s the world I largely live in on the internet) where someone rich faces consequences because they defrauded the wrong people. Most notably Sam Bankman-Fried and Elizabeth Holmes. That doesn’t mean the US system inherently works because of two cases, just a case of a broken clock.







  • You are the one making an issue out of it for an entire group of people because of your own perceived optics. You’re not even saying you’re offended. Just that there’s the possibility of causing offense.

    Why does theoretical offense clearly not intended by the social media post matter? Why cant people just have fun? Why do you need to drag controversy into celebration?

    There are places that refuse to let women go out in public and you’re whining that there’s the possibility that a Twitter post is going to set us back 70 years somehow.

    It only matters to people who see controversy everywhere and refuse to enjoy themselves. Let me know when there’s an actual issue where people are actually affected by it, otherwise I will consider you to be little more than one of those people in the middle of times square with a cardboard sign screaming that the world is run by lizards and we should drill out our fillings to keep them from controlling us.

    Let people enjoy things.



  • So when are women allowed back in the kitchen? Is there a point where you dont get a raised eyebrow because of stodgy outdated stereotypes? Is there a point where women can be in the kitchen without it being framed as “bad optics”? How about Black people eating watermelon and fried chicken? Or east Asians who are good at math and science? Indians in medicine and IT? The British and cultural appropriation?

    Seeing everything through the eyes of stereotypes only diminishes the world, even if youre ostensibly defending against it.