I like recipes and games, both digital and analog. I’m an increasingly old fart with kids who knows a little bit about a lot of things.

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Cake day: June 28th, 2023

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  • It’s not even really that. Paris Hilton? As replaceable as the next individual human. Almost totally without any production or material value, yet loaded with worth. There are dozens of people like her. Or on a smaller scale, many mid-upper level managers are completely interchangeable and produce little to nothing, but are valued far more than someone working in a packing plant.

    Worth and value have no correlation in our society. People who have money have it because they have money, not because they work harder or do more important things. Some people do have money and also work hard or do important things, sure, but it isn’t correlated.



  • Spent so much cognitive effort making sure my kids didn’t feel hamstrung by gender roles. Wound up with two kids who identify at least partly as non-binary, and have chosen their roles as much on their own as I think they can reasonably do.

    Of course both of them, hilariously, wound up choosing incredibly typical gender-aligned stuff. The “amab” NB kid loves machines, Lego, spaceships, engineering, explosions, and anything STEM. The “afab” NB kid loves puppies, pink stuff, flowers, dresses, helping with household chores, cooking, and scorpions. Typical girl stuff.

    Not ascribing any deeper meanings. I just think it’s cute and funny.



  • Can confirm. Sh.itjust.works has gone to shit and several of the responses I’ve received - and the areas where they (the admins and moderators that is) have remained conspicuously unresponsive - indicate to me that they are, by and large, quite sympathetic to alt-right views, hence their very slow delay. I get the impression that they come at this from an Enlightened Centrist angle, so I don’t think they consider themselves sympathetic. it’s that kind of sympathy where they think it’s fair to equally tolerate group A that just wants to exist and group B that openly calls for violence against group A. Both sides amirite?

    I don’t really want to get down to it too much more than that.








  • I’ll be very curious to see how it goes. there’s already some public awareness that it’s taken them much longer to block alt right than any other major server (from the look of the response to my last post it’s going to be about a month longer), so I don’t think they’re going to slip under the radar as much as they think.

    From the responses, I predict that the server is just going to start holding votes for ever increasingly right wing stuff to be allowed until it’s a true haven of “free speech” in the purest enlightened centrist way. But who knows, maybe not, they might just hold a vote any time any major action is needed against the fascists so that the server gets locked in paralysis. It sucks but it will be interesting to see how it goes.




  • It isn’t at all a no true Scotsman argument, what are you talking about?

    You can be a leftist and not be bigoted. Bigots also join the left, we can’t help that, but that’s because they personally are bigoted, not because the ideology is. In fact, most modern leftism argues that bigotry is fundamentally at odds with the core ideals, and in my experience a majority of the left, at least in English speaking countries, wants to distance these people.

    You cannot be a fascist without being bigoted. Being bigoted is part of the ideology. It aims to spread and teach bigotry, that’s the purpose of it.

    No true Scotsman would be “yeah but the anti Semitic leftists aren’t real leftists”, which isn’t what anyone said.