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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I loaded a deck joist into my Scion tC when I realized one of mine was rotten (while replacing the boards). I put it through the sunroof into the “trunk” (it’s a hatchback) and drove home like a majestic blue unicorn. It was beautiful.

    Got home and my neighbor said, “You could’ve asked!” while gesturing to his pickup truck.

    I said, “I wanted to see if it would work!”






  • The poster I replied to wasn’t ‘criticizing Israel’s tactics’ - they were questioning why ‘the West’ allowed Israel to attack Hezbollah.

    No they weren’t. They asked why the West was letting Israel get away with so much. Then listed various examples of things that are causing widespread harm to civilians.

    Then YOU asked if they think it’s bad that the West is letting Hezbollah get away with attacking civilians in Israel.

    But your question begins from a false premise. Basically no government in the West provides aid or weapons to Hezbollah. They are considered a terrorist organization by the West. So the West is not letting Hezbollah get away with it.

    Meanwhile the West continues to provide weapons to Israel, who is using those weapons to cause significant harm to civilian populations.

    That’s the question. Why is the West letting Israel attack civilians without repercussion? There’s no reason in good faith to ask someone who asks this question about how they feel about Hezbollah attacking civilians. Because, ostensibly, they are opposed to violence against civilians. As, clearly, is the West when it’s not Israel (or, indeed, the West) perpetrating the violence.

    (I think the obvious answer to the question is “because Israel is allied with the West and in realpolitik we let our allies do horrible things that we would not tolerate in our enemies.” That’s not an ethical answer, many of Israel’s actions lately have been horrific, but it’s the realistic one.)

    Edit: grammatical fix



  • It’s wild to me that Trump doesn’t understand being given a chance to answer hard questions is what makes most politicians WANT to talk to reporters. Because they’ve been briefed on what tough questions will likely come up and thus have a chance to give a rehearsed answer to the attacks their opponents make against their campaign. It’s a free platform to respond to criticism.

    But he’s too stupid to prepare answers and so he hears a tough question and gets mad.

    Edit: “WANT to talk to reporters” in the strategic sense. It’s probably pretty frustrating or exasperating, but it’s important.










  • In my experience iPhone FaceID works fine at night, with brightness all the way down. It shines infrared at you (you can vaguely see some light red emitting from next to the camera, some bleed from the infrared) and then captures that with the camera. It might also use LiDAR, I’m not totally sure. It even unlocks while I’m wearing my CPAP, believe it or not, because since the updates to make it work with masks it pays more attention to the area around the eyes.



  • I will admit when I went to the Dark Side I was shocked by how much I like Face ID. I do miss having the in-screen fingerprint reader when I’m wearing a mask, SOMETIMES, but even that has improved in the time I’ve owned an iPhone.

    But yeah, on my OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition and OnePlus 7T Pro 5G McLaren Edition (damn I loved those phones so much) the in-screen reader was excellent.