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Cake day: August 17th, 2023

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  • Thanks.

    Absolutes with a goal for a future population often appeals to a specific group that I can’t stand who appeal to it “being necessary” but often leave themselves out. So I try to push back on it so they know it’s not acceptable to take seriously. It’s just not an answer.

    I know it doesn’t go over well in these communities but I don’t care. If even it pops up in the back of their head when thinking about “what helps” I want counter words there to say hoping for death of nearly everyone is miserable even if it’s an “easy” out for suffering.

    Thanks for being able to recognize it as wishful past missed conservation.


  • Waiting for a population to age out as a fix for anything isn’t a fix. I’m not unaware I just don’t sit around waiting for hopes and prayers of the slow death of billions of people as an answer.

    We have now and current reality. Playing make believe doesn’t help. And who doesn’t have kids? Cause plenty of people will have them anyways despite the obvious issues the planet is facing so how do you stop them?

    This entire line of thought of just a decreasing population to a size you think is right is wishful “merciful” eugenics.

    Saying you wish we hadn’t got here is one thing and not helpful but one can forgive that as we all get mournful of the past. Hoping for it as a future is wrong and out of our control without some awful steps. I won’t back down on that.

    Edit: and you ignored that you said we are still in exponential increase of population which we are not. Its just an easy excuse for the mentality.



  • Who needs to be the 6 billion to die then?

    Edit: Also go ahead and tell me where you get your population size to land use models so that it can be checked to not be still overshoot if you are so worried about how very few people can be supported by apparently this very limited planet.
    And show me this exponential growth that hasn’t apparently slowed at all with decreasing births


  • I’m so done with this garbage random eugenics idea that the world should have exactly 1 billion people on it like some pseudoscience perfect number.

    Its not a debate if you use feeling and lack any reasoning to get to your starting position.

    There world is not some incapable small bubble that can only support some racist perfect population size of your desires.


  • Actually, literally this. The only people they meet online agree with them 100% and those that don’t can be bullied down into silence and it feels like it works to get rid if the opposition.

    Then it does absolutely fuck all for the real world where they meet people that disagree and don’t disappear when they click their heels together 3 times.


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    If you were using an LLM it would have said something stupid about how book burning is something that can be normalized by either side and then given definitions for way to many words in a long paragraph.

    I don’t think it would be better, and prefer the emotional but educated response of someone else seeing through the garbage of calling out the opinion forum of newspaper for being responsible of all said in it.








  • Grapeseed oil.

    Cheap at big box stores. Incredibly high smoke point. Dirt cheap.

    Use that for first couple layers and after that honestly whatever oil or fat you want to use or have. I re-up my pans with everything from Crisco to just cheap “vegetable” oil (rapeseed or soy usually) and even duck fat from after making other dishes.

    Don’t expect any to necessarily be more delicious but sometimes you get different flavors from what sorta burns in. You supposedly might get some iron passing through but it’s actually kinda a necessary mineral like volcanic ash.