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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • There are a lot of things that are unacceptable only if you’re poor. In fact, if a rich man hoarded a ton of old newspapers, he’d be called an “eccentric collector of vintage print media.” A rich woman with 150 cats would be a “dedicated feline rescue worker.”

    A poor guy with a car up on blocks and a stockpile of rifles at his mobile home is “trailer trash,” but put that car in a big garage and the guns in a case at a nice mansion and he’s a “hunter and tinkerer.” A poor farmer trying to stop a highway from being built through her field is “impeding progress,” but if it’s a rich woman’s family estate, she’s “fighting government overreach.” Rich, blithering racist idiots with clear signs of dementia get elected to the Presidency, while Uncle Cletus gets escorted out of the town council meeting and his family is handed a flyer for a memory care facility when he says the same things.

    Across the board, there’s stuff that’s normalized and accepted for the wealthy but dismissed and looked down on for the poor. It’s not just that hoarding the money is itself accepted, but also that someone who hoards money will find that all of their other antisocial and concerning behavior is also acceptable in the eyes of the public

    Money makes a very effective blindfold.




  • The theme park opened in 1964. If you’re over the age of 80 and have been living in the same house since age 20, and it just happens to be next to Universal Studios Hollywood, ok, I think you have a bit of an argument (though honestly, you probably should’ve brought this up sooner). But for everyone else, you knew what you were getting into when you bought a house in that neighborhood.

    Big companies do terrible, awful, harmful stuff all the time. This isn’t one of those times. They even built the ride extra quiet to help make life better for you. They didn’t have to do that, because again, you’re the one who bought a house next door to a theme park.












  • “Slop” is not determined by quality, but by intent. If no one responsible for making it cares about the quality of the output, it’s slop, regardless of how well-made it might be; on the flip side, even if something is really bad, it isn’t slop if the people making it are really passionate about doing the best they can. Kurzgesagt might be low quality, and it might be slop, but the two are not necessarily dependent upon one another.