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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • Ah. Okay. It took me a moment to get this person’s perspective on this. They’re a non-US citizen who’s asserting that this person’s ‘wokism’ (i.e. nont being a prick) is hypocritical because they didn’t voice their concerns over the exile of Russian devs from the Linux Kernel. Isn’t that kind of a mix of a straw man (not clear what this ‘woke’ person’s views are on that; troll makes assertions on what the ‘woke’ person didn’t say) and an ad hominem (this ‘woke’ didn’t argue against anti-Russian sentiment, therefore their arguments for equality are invalid).

    I feel like I’ve wasted my time considering what this clown had to say.




  • My favourite one is where the person you know who drinks at least 4 beers a day and smokes weed round the clock seems overly fixated on the protein issue. Even putting aside the actual facts. (You can absolutely get enough protein from a vegan diet; there are professional bodybuilders who are vegan.) This person fundamentally doesnt care about health issues. They care about justifying their burger and their unwillingness to examine their engagement with evil.


  • Ehhh, I don’t agree with the notion that extremists are bad. The definition of an extremist is ‘A person who advocates or resorts to measures beyond the norm, especially in politics.’ I don’t think animal rights extremists or environmental extremists are bad because I think the norm is morally reprehensible, unacceptable and unlikely to change without a pushing that norm through extremist measures.