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Cake day: 2023年6月21日

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  • Maybe

    Half baked (well done, but incomplete) research has said:

    -Eggs are dangerous to eat

    -Saccharine causes bladder cancer

    -Smoking is good for colds

    -The way to lose weight is to eat a low fat high carb diet.

    Maybe not

    Part of science is recognizing how strong your data are and not generating hysteria after every research paper.

    What REALLY sucks is that we can no longer rely on the CDC and NIH to make recommendations.

    So you are free to cut sorbitol out of your diet and it may turn out to be a good choice. If that change makes you and others obviously healthier, I am sure this research will be repeated and expanded and soon we will all look back and remember having had your opinion.

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  • I know you are joking but I can’t sleep so I will share.

    I have seen two huge gasoline explosions and the aftermath of a gas pump explosion.

    One was from a cigarette. I didn’t actually see that, but I was sitting in social studies class when the shockwave hit us. It felt like the ceiling pressed down on us. It blew out all the pane glass windows in downtown. This was in the early’80s. Someone who was cleaning a gasoline barge lit a cigarette out of habit. It was like a fuel air bomb going off.

    I was a little kid in the early ‘70s when a gasoline truck driver accidentally set his truck on fire by the static from his nylon jacket. It was at night and the explosion woke me up. You could see the fire from everywhere in town.

    In the late ‘70s these three dumbasses were stealing gasoline from the filling station where they worked. They were filling 55 gallon drums in a van. It was dark so one of these genuses lit his lighter.

    The burned out van was still there in the middle town in the morning. Everyone in the small town drove by to look.

    Every annoying safety rule has multiple stories like this behind them.



  • We are often tripped up by trolls.

    Billionaires (think Koch Brothers) and authoritarian enemy governments spend untold sums funding troll armies to play the game called:

    Let’s you and him fight.

    They come with their wedge issues and purity tests and they are very effective.

    As soon as we make any headway at all, they come with fresh horrors about transgender girls in high school sports or new pushes to ban guns.

    Those issues are perfectly designed to scare any center right (or even center center) supporters back to the GOP.