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Cake day: 2023年6月21日

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  • here’s a still frame of Spain’s foot on top of Argentina’s.

    Spain won and is the better team, so we don’t need to get all worked up about a goal being called back. 2-0 or 1-0, Spain won. Did Argentina overly flop for this? Yeah I’ve never flown into the air crying like that from having my foot stepped on. But also, did he get his foot stepped on? Yes. Is that against the rules? Yes. Was this a valid call to make? Yes.

    Biases go both ways, Spanish coverage is naturally going to want this to count. Argentine coverage is naturally going to highlight other plays they disagree on the commentating on. All of the Spanish clips I’ve seen conveniently start AFTER the foot stepping. The play continued for long enough that it was easy to miss (especially if you didn’t go back far enough)

    This was a legitimate call. If anything, the bigger referee mistakes were in NOT calling other issues throughout the game.




  • it confuses me because I have my own internal model of what i was trying to do. I know what I’m capable of. Executing on my capabilities doesn’t seem praiseworthy.

    If I’m capable of 95%, and I only execute at 90%, then I feel like I’ve done poorly. But if everyone else is only executing at 75% then just because my model says “I could have done better” it can still feel weird getting praise, even if it is “justified”




  • My last update to vidcutter was from 2025 (based on my pacman logs). Some tools will scan for “did you install the bad package during the bad time period” and some will scan for “is the bad package name installed at all” - so i was able to identify that vidcutter was installed and I knew that the package names looking familiar made sense, and I was able to manually confirm that I was still clean. And now I have a lot of system pruning to do.

    But if you thing some packages look familiar, it might be worth double checking.



  • Sorry. Also, apparently she got the covid vaccine. She just uses a lot of “I have a lot of questions about the vaccine industry” type rhetoric that makes her popular among anti-vax circles. She’s not a strict anti-vaxxer, just kinda weird about the whole situation and generally doesn’t get vaccines most of the time.

    I also think that it’s a very tricky situation. Because a lot of people are morons. If you talk about negative side effects, people will be like “Oh no, I’m not taking a 1 in 100,000,000,000,000 risk. I’d rather get measles!” but if you don’t talk enough about negative side effects, there’s some sort of conspiracy cover up.

    I don’t think she’s lying about the severity of her side effects, but the article has a slight air of “doctors are LYING about side effects, if this happened to me, this must be happening SUPER OFTEN to A LOT OF PEOPLE” which i don’t think is the right message to be putting out either. Some of that might be because of bias around her other stances.

    But it is still an anecdote, from Fox News. I feel like theres probably a better source, even for the same story.



  • I find pedants are often wrong or completely missing the point.

    Sometimes it triggers a fun discussion. and sometimes it’s just tedious.

    (ghoti could never be pronounced like “fish” because “gh” only sounds like an F near the end of a word after au or ou, but ghoti is at least an interesting way to bring up the topic of weird inconsistencies of the english language, even if it’s wrong)


  • I left out some context. There was a massive controversy that sparked a lot of the “toxic community” claims. Someone showed up with pronouns in their discord display name. A server mod changed that user’s display name on the server so the pronouns were “(who/cares)” … Which vaxry declared “not a big deal” but they made it clear that showing up with pronouns in the server was “politically divisive” and that users who include pronouns are unwelcome.

    “LGBT issue” being lumped in with “politics” in his quote is intentional, as his way of being dismissive of it.