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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Nice little qualifier you added there. Cause it’s generally accepted that the God of Abraham ordained killing at least two million people prior to the birth of Jesus Christ. I get the sense that you’re perspective is that if God does it then it must be just and you want to prove anyone who thinks otherwise is wrong. If that’s the case, you’re in the wrong place my friend.



  • It’s actually spelt LIngta’ but maybe closer to LIngt’a’ or to be specific a LIngt’a’ Haj’dob mev’obDeSna. Translated to English is roughly ‘I am certain that this Lingta leg will feed you’. But Klingons are lazy so it’s shortened to LIngta.



  • Part of me thinks half of the reason Stargate did so well was because of the culture of the post-9/11 world. Westerners and Americans in particular got to watch SG1 fight people who looked what they thought terrorists looked like. Admittedly they’re not Muslims they’re more akin to Ancient Egyptians aliens. Insofar as Western culture in the early 2000s the early season villains are Muslim adjacent. I don’t think it was intentional, the movie came out long before 9/11. It was just in the right place at the right time. The show got a lot better once the Gua’uld and the Jaffa weren’t the villains of the week.



  • You think dihydrogen monoxide is bad HOH is right there beside it. On average globally around 1000 people a day die as a direct result of HOH exposure. It’s estimated to be a contributing factor in around 7% of all deaths. HOH is also impossible to get away from, it’s used to make tires, soap, explosives, I couldn’t possibly name everything it’s in. It’s even worse for kids, HOH kills more children than adults per capita. Regulators aren’t even talking about it, because it’s so ubiquitous it would crush our economy removing it entirely. So we just accept that it kills 320,000 people a year.




  • You are not wrong. So I am not an expert in this area. My understanding is that we get different answers depending on what branch of math/physics you’re using. Relativity theory says it is infinite, quantum theory says it isn’t. The consensus of most experts in this field is that the center of a black hole isn’t infinite, but that’s based more on intuition than actual evidence. So the real answer is we don’t know, but the educated guess is that it is not infinite.


  • Nobody who’s informed believes that the center is infinite, the general public on the other hand has been told the center of a black hole is a point of infinite density by ‘experts’ for nearing a century. It’s the same mistranslation that happens when a lot of science is published in media, it’s easy to just say what an expert knows but it’s a lot harder to explain it well. The expert knows TONS of nuance on their subject while the rest of us don’t have nearly enough time to become as informed as they are.





  • Because the chocolate industry like many others could not grow without child and slave labour. And because the big industry players we have now built their empires on the backs of the easily exploitable they can’t stop doing it without losing wayyyy more than they’re comfortable with.