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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • This is a meme, coming from an old copy/paste bit. Know your meme has a good write up about it.

    Albert Einstein Copypasta, also known as “Malice of Absence,” is a fictional account of a philosophical debate on the benevolence of God between a religious-skeptic professor and a student of faith, the latter of whom is revealed to be the world-renowned scientist Albert Einstein. Online, the last line in the story is often referenced in discussion threads and comments to mock hyperbolic statements or tall tales.










  • My curiosity is piqued too! I’m mostly commenting so that I can check back later, but…

    • Are they wearing chain mail gloves (for sharks or cutting meat) that the hair would catch?

    • Going forearm deep in food, to stir or, I don’t know…?

    • Reaching into hot ovens or crucibles that the hair would singe?

    • Going forearm deep to help birth sheep or cows?

    • Or are they a wristwatch/hand model?




  • This is a bad take. I’ve never read Romance novels, but I’m not enough of a book snob to tell people that things that get them reading or brings them joy is awful, wooden or painful to read.

    Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
    -Maya Angelou

    Harry Potter was valuable in getting millions of people, especially children, interested in reading. Not everything needs to be high art, and not everything needs to appeal to you. You’re clearly not the target audience, so don’t shit on someone because they enjoy a thing that you don’t.
    If there is something offensive in a book, it can and should be discussed, and readers can become aware of representation and other issues this way, but you’re not trying to have a good faith discussion with your comments above.