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Cake day: June 13th, 2024

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  • From Adam Ragusea on conspiracy theories (from his blurred Pyrex video):

    Reality is weird and often not as you would expect. That’s why common sense only goes so far. It’s good to be skeptical of the media you consume. That’s awesome. Question things, absolutely. But don’t go and just make up your own answers, as so many of us are prone to doing. It’s fine to speculate responsibly about multiple different possible explanations for something that you’re scrutinizing, but don’t settle on one of those explanations until you have enough evidence to settle on it. Be open minded, in every sense. If someone is lying to you, you’ve gotta be careful not to invent another lie to replace it. Yeah, you outsmarted the liar, but that’s all you did. You’re still dumber than everyone who knows more than you.

    Smart chef, Adam


  • For the time being we certainly at least still seem to be allowed, legally, to joke about it. That said…

    Worried about Stewart & Colbert & those kinds of folks. Imagine 0.00[…]1% of the deranged out there would be incensed by humor about “their” guy so I personally might not find the average joke at Kirk’s expense to be worth it. (Logic: political commentator on right is killed, those on left make jokes, guy on right gets super upset and kills a late night host on the left in part b/c a straw broke the camel’s back)

    On the side of those were alive I like speaking truth to power. For those who are no longer alive I like remembering their character (e.g. “purported free-speech proponent, marred by alleged issues of intellectual honesty, …” or something).

    btw

    btw hopefully I personally living in a way simply “remembering my character” isn’t offensive/shocking