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Cake day: August 17th, 2023

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  • I watched a few of her videos just to have something on in the background while I worked. A lot of the takes presented didn’t sit quite right with me, but I didn’t know why. Then I watched her videos on Nietzsche and realized she hasn’t read and actually understood what he wrote, despite claims to the contrary. I blocked the channel. I later found a sort-of response video from some other YouTuber that went through those videos and confirmed she didn’t understand the material by countering each point with actual receipts.








  • I literally quit playing botw and totk because of weapon durability. It adds nothing to the game except to make it possible I’m in an unwinnable boss fight because I forgot to bring more than five weapons. If I could use weapons for 5x as long it wouldn’t have made me quit; I’d just not like that part of the game. But some weapons lasting only 3-5 hits is fucking ridiculous.






  • If you want to design and build large-scale industrial plant infrastructure like pressure vessels, piping, pumps, turbines, etc., most of the codes and standards you have to meet cost money to even see -and they are NOT cheap (in the tens of thousands of dollars for a full set).

    In several jurisdictions, the standards are incorporated into law by reference. Most people think that you should have free access to read the text of the law that you’re beholden to, but what happens when a copyrighted work is incorporated into the law?

    archive.org asserted the law should be free to access. However, they lost a copyright lawsuit brought by the American society of mechanical engineers because they were hosting copies of these standards.

    So, to read the law you are beholden to in this sector of manufacturing, you must either pay a private organization ($$$) or memorize it (impossible); you cannot make copies for yourself to reference at your leisure