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Cake day: October 6th, 2023

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  • I mean, different people have different traditions for sure, and I have no intention of invalidating your beliefs and upbringing in any way. And there are of course also different denominations of Judaism, Orthodox and Conservative Jews for example are much more focused on God for certain. But in the US, Reform Jews are the most common and for most Reform Jews tradition and community tend to be the most important tenents, faith in God coming in somewhere behind those.

    It’s so demonstrably false.

    That strikes me as extraordinarily difficult to demonstrate…





  • The worst part is that for most of these services, the child accounts are still functionally useless for parents.

    We have a kid who actively seeks out content they know they’re not allowed to watch, which means unfortunately a Netflix subscription simply won’t work for us because Netflix doesn’t allow you to actually password protect your profiles. So our kid can just select the parent profile, or make a new one if they want to watch whatever they want.

    As far as I know only Disney+ (and HBO i’m told) allow you to put a login pin on parent accounts to lock kids out. That would be useful, except the Roku we use to watch things on the tv doesn’t password protect all of its channels, so we still have to be on top of him to make sure he’s staying within disney+…

    I gotta be honest, I kinda miss cable tv.




  • That is not typically how Judaism works though. At least for the Jews around me, Judaism is a culture centered around asking critical questions. God doesn’t even enter the equation for a great many Jews, that’s not the point. The point is using the tradition, the rituals and the community to remember and better understand the past and to use that understanding to prevent the same kind of tragedy in the future.

    Anyway, that’s the kind of thing we talked about at my sedar.


  • Could we please just say that bees are dying? When you say disappearing it makes it sound like a conspiracy, which it isn’t. The CIA has not partnered with bigfoot to kidnap the bees as part of a secret operation in the time war…

    It’s not a conspiracy, they’re dying probably because of something we’re putting into the environment. And by “we”, I mean most likely the agriculture industry operating perfectly legally under current law. I specified “legally” to point out that it’s not the fault of farmers, they’re just doing their job, the problem is that we’re not regulating the use of chemicals carefully enough - and that is our fault.

    And all that is to say, can we please just call this what it is?




  • An inconsistent voltage is a bit of a deal breaker if it’s a significant swing. For example, AA batteries are supposed to be 1.5v. Typically you can measure them at 1.7v when they’re brand new, and that’s fine. The voltage will drop as it’s used and devices tend to stop functioning when the battery reaches about 1.3v.

    That’s a fairly narrow range of voltage required to keep the device working correctly.