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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • It’s not really about that, sometimes conservatives also agree that a change is needed but they disagree on how to get there.

    They see the current state as something that was built up naturally over a long period of time and everything has its place for a reason. Sometimes those reasons are not apparent immediately and making a sudden change will bite us in the long run in an unexpected way, maybe 100 years down the road.

    They might agree that the status quo is bad but they think change should come gradually in small steps, allowing things to settle down a bit, and reflect on the consequences before moving forward. They might say that at least we understand the situation and the rules of what we have now, we shouldn’t stray too far ahead into the unknown.

    For example, imagine that you live in a country under foreign rule. Should you start a war of independence and risk getting crushed or should you try to force concessions gradually over time and risk not getting anywhere? This is roughly the debate that took place in my home country in the 1800s.

    While it’s true that the extremes are that conservatives want time to stay still while progressives want to burn the world down and reform everything in a single day, but most of the time people are somewhere in between, or even change their positions depending on the issue.


  • Conservatives (with a lowercase ‘c’, I’m not talking about Republicans) prefer a series of small incremental changes over a longer period of time while progressives believe in big leaps. Both are valid viewpoints depending on the issue, sometimes we should take things slowly but other times we needed that change yesterday.

    Asking titles has been around for a long time so conservatives are ok with it. It also conforms to their existing ideas about gender and roles in society.

    Asking for pronouns is a relatively new thing and the whole debate around them is a big and sudden change (at least as far as they see), and it turns everything they believed in on its head.

    Of course, there are people who are just plain hateful but I think there’s more nuance to it than that most of the time.






  • It depends.

    Should governments regulate what you can or have to say? No (except if you threaten someone, call for physical violence etc.)

    Should individual people have the ability to ban you from their property or web service because of what you say? Yes (I prefer if they don’t but it should still be their right to do so)

    Should businesses? Yes but probably not arbitrarily

    What about spaces that can be seen as public forums? It’s complicated, maybe it should be handled on a case by case basis



  • Depends on what you mean by decent.

    For privacy it’s shit, it collects a bunch of data that’s sent to MS. It also serves text ads on the lock screen, which might annoy you.

    They also push their own products too much, like Bing AI and Edge, and sometimes an update can mess with the default apps, wich is annoying.

    If you don’t care about those things it’s fine, doesn’t get too much in the way of you doing what you want to do most of the time. I use it mainly because of gaming, but I can’t tell you much about its performance because I have a powerful PC so everything runs just fine.

    The start menu was dumbed down recently to a poor KDE clone, but I personally don’t mind since I wasn’t using it anyway.



  • There are many youtube channels that aim at beginners. Find recipes there that are easy (no advanced techniques required) and require few ingredients that are easy to prepare.

    The advantage of youtube is that you actually see how the food is made, how it should look, how much salt “to taste” means etc.

    Stay away from short videos with titles like “most delicious meal with only 5 ingredients, I make this every week”. They’re mostly made to farm views and don’t actually teach the basics. Not to mention they’re mostly unhealthy.

    Look for stews, soups, casseroles and oven cooked meat. They’re the easiest to make in my opinion, you prepare everything and wait until it’s done, maybe you stir every 10-15 minutes. Eastern European recipes are generally easy to make, cheap and taste very good. Simple Italian pastas are also great for the same reason.

    Pay attention to the heat level, wash your ingredients, follow the instructions to the letter for the first several recipes and don’t worry if your first few meals are too salty/spicy or tastes bland. Take it as a learning experience, you’ll do better next time.