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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • Lives. Human lives, no different from yours or mine. Possibly even yours or mine, or a loved one, definitely somebody’s loved ones, a lot of somebodies actually.

    Also immense financial and ecological cost and minds and bodies that will never recover. But it’s your cousin, or your classmate, or the neighbor’s kid all cut down in the prime of their lives alongside ordinary people from far away. Innocents and combatants alike.

    No sane and moral person desires war unless they feel they absolutely must.


  • Joining the hordes of followers of the beast of the sea because you think that the end of the world is awesome. I suppose there’s a theoretical nobility of choosing hell so others can go to heaven, but this ain’t it chief.

    Back when I was Christian I was so confused by these doom cultists. Like, the religion teaches that the gates of heaven are open. It’s not like the saints are waiting in sheol. There’s no benefit to the end of the world happening sooner from a theological perspective, and you aren’t supposed to know when it’s coming





  • It’s also wrong for St Linus. He was a college student trying a project for fun when he started. Part of what makes Linux great is that it isn’t something made from the ground up to change the world or to be its founder’s career. It was an interesting project that was so useful it wound up being adopted and evolving into what it is