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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • That’s a prime rib roast and it’s beautiful. That’s closer to Med Rare than Blue.

    Someone mashed it with a fork to get those red juices to the surface. (mioglobin, not blood) And that bright red color of the flesh is because it was just cut off the roast and is only just being exposed to oxygen.










  • We can abstain from defining people’s sincere beliefs on their behalf without pretending that obvious fraud is the real deal.

    This is a straw-person argument. Claiming two beliefs being valid is not the same as two beliefs that are equal.

    You can prefer liberation theology to prosperity gospel. I do. But that’s a question of politics, not theology. A non-believer taking such a side is making a mistake because doing so implies the following:

    1. Jesus existed
    2. Jesus had a message
    3. that message was accurately recorded
    4. that message was accurately transmitted
    5. that message was transmitted intact
    6. you’ve been exposed to and understood it correctly

    That’s conceding that the Bible is a unique moral document, probably miraculous.





  • I think it’s been a minute since Lindbergh was anybody’s hero. However, before anyone defends him as a “product of his time”, antisemitism and racism may have been more socially acceptable, but everyone knew, or should have known it was wrong.

    There was never any time in history where “nobody knew” oppression was wrong. The oppressed always know, but nobody listens to them for some reason. And the oppressors imply knowledge of their wickedness when they spend so much effort making cringe arguments that it’s a virtue instead.

    What we should highlight is the fact that being a bigot cost Lindbergh, not just his legacy. It made him foolish enough to swallow bad-faith bullshit and get on the bandwagon with a circus of pigs. Racism makes fools of smart people.