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Cake day: July 15th, 2023

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  • This might interest you: In Danish grammar we have two genders. Not male and female, but common and neutral. Male, female and anything between is common gender. Everything else is neutral gender.

    The problem is the exceptions. There’s just too many exceptions.

    Man, woman, boy, girl, they are all common gender. Child is neutral gender. Baby us common gender.

    Dog, cat and pig are common gender, wild boar is neutral gender.

    A door is common gender, a door handle is neutral.

    Whyyy…


  • Then represent the person like that, but not worse.

    Plenty of people in history is presented as pure bad, but reality is more complex.

    For example, we know Adolf Hitler as one of the worst people in history (at least here where I live). But he did a lot of good for Germany. At the time, this is what he was known for, and that is why he was popular enough to be democratically elected.

    But if we only know him as a purely bad person, we will not recognize the next Hitler before it’s too late. We will see a person doing good stuff, but with signs that too many people will ignore.

    There’s also the idea that when you do good, you deserve to be recognized for that, no matter what else you’ve done. Not just because it’s the right thing to do, but also to encourage more of that.






  • I was told that the trick is to not have the egg in its shell.

    Take a cup, fill it one third with water, then crack your egg in the cup. Now it can’t build up pressure, it can’t explode.

    It microwaved without exploding. As I took it out of the microwave, it exploded. It went everywhere. The floor, the ceiling, every cabinet door. I count myself lucky that I didn’t get boiling hot egg in my eyes.

    Also, the noise attracted attention from everybody in the house, no way to just discretely clean it up before anyone noticed my stupid experiment.




  • A little tip for when you try out different methods: Check the weight of the silica gel, to check your progress.

    For example: Take a container from the AMS, weigh it. Give it an hour in a food dehydrator. Weigh it. Repeat until weight no longer drops. Give it a couple hours or more in an oven that’s at least 100 °C. Then weight it again.

    Now you know how long it takes in the dehydrator, and how well it works.

    Later you can weigh it again, and compare to the weight out of the oven. Now you know how much water is in there.









  • You’re not getting the point.

    A: You csn shop there without an account. It’s your own choice. An account has pros and cons, and it’s your choice.

    B: I don’t know how it works in US, but in my country a McDonald’s account is a fair deal to me. They pay me a fair price for some personal info. And if I go to McDonald’s and I for any reason feel like they shouldn’t register that particular visit, I just don’t use my account.

    C: I want to use Windows, but logging into a Microsoft account does not give me any benefits worth the cons. So I use Windows without a Microsoft account. And it will be annoying to keep track of a “fake” account just for that.