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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • True. But the people advocating for these laws don’t want to deal with nuance and compromise on what it would take to have a society where you educate people on sex in a healthy and positive way. These prohibitionists see the world as either bad or good - nothing in between. Good (how ever they decide to define it) must win no compromises, and the weapon that they use is unfounded fear of the bad and it works.

    And the reason fear works is because it is easy and visceral and reality’s complexity doesn’t work for media’s need for sound bites.








  • That’s part of it but the deeper question is why are people more sedentary? Why do people eat more often?

    What is it about our society that promotes eating more processed foods?

    My feelings are that food for many people is a sedative for a stressful life. Sugar is a great drug to make you feel good temporarily.

    Then there is very little quality education around good nutrition and cooking in the US. Most people just take what the learned from their parents and go with it. And if their parents weren’t food smart then they probably will not be either.

    there is a lot more to the obesity epidemic than just “stop eating so much”








  • One problem is that a great deal of correct security advice contradicts “common knowledge” security practices. Password character classes – “must include capitals, lowercase, numbers, and symbols” – are a standard example. That idea got rooted in security requirements for banks and such, and it was a bad idea even then.

    I don’t know a lot about computer security - but must include capitals, lowercase, numbers, etc seems like a good idea, why is it not?