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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • I am so tired of this comment. Yes, I’m also worried about it. But this tired cliche doesn’t tell anyone anything they don’t already know, doesn’t raise any alarms or call anyone to any action, doesn’t do anything but spread more doomerism into an already oversaturated doomspace. It’s useless content, on the level of replying “first!” to a YouTube video circa 2013.

    I’m sorry that you had to be the recipient of this tirade. But I swear, I see this comment several times every day, and I can’t help wondering, “so what do you want me to do about it? What are YOU doing about it?” No. We have to assume there will be an election until there isn’t, and then we have to respond. Until then, we have to help each other out and keep on doing what we can. We definitely don’t have to comment the same low-effort doom every time midterm elections are mentioned; it just demoralizes people and makes the Trump fascism machine seem inevitable and unstoppable.









  • I wouldn’t. I want him to survive long enough to get thoroughly humiliated in court, and I definitely don’t want him to become a martyr. I want him to die in disgrace doing something banal, embarrassing, and publicly stupid. Something so embarrassing that people erupt into spontaneous and uncontrollable laughter just hearing his name. I don’t just want him dead, I want his whole movement to be completely discredited. If he’s assassinated, then forevermore his followers will remember him with fondness and his enemies will remember him with fear. But if he wipes his nose on the Epstein Files, trips on a hamburger, falls face-first into a diet coke, and drowns, he’ll never again be any more than a punchline.





  • Sorry, I left out the part where most RSS fetchers are not hosted by the user. Of course it is self-hostable, but that’s by far the less common use case.

    Images and CSS aren’t natively a part of RSS, though (and in fact I don’t think I’ve ever seen an RSS feed or reader that tries to do any CSS rendering at all). Assuming you have a third party downloading your RSS XML, all of the tracking capabilities are outside of the RSS spec itself, and dependent on you clicking on a link or something after you get the RSS feed.