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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I’m always a little torn on this. Generally, I absolutely agree, and I admire people who say “I don’t think I know the full story so I’m not sure”. And I try to preface my own uninformed opinions with said uninformedness. But there’s two ways to misinterpret this.

    There’s people who think only “experts” should have opinions and nobody else is allowed to have one, a dangerously elitist view. Don’t get me wrong, we shoukd absolutely listen to the “experts”, but we should still form opinions. This view can be used to silence other opinions, especially from those who have lesser access to education.

    The other perversion of this is that it can be used as an excuse not to care. Especially in Germany I’ve heard this as an excuse, after October 7th many people claimed it was wrong to even have an opinion on Israel/Palestine since you would have to have lived there to really understand, since it was all so complex and difficult. Anybody who had a clear opinion on it wclearly had no idea. However this rhetoric just enables the status quo (i.e. giving weapons to Israel), and prevents meaningful exchange of ideas.






  • Oh we’re doing cosmic horror neoliberalism?

    “Shiver after shiver went down my spine as I struggled to process the incomprehensible truths hurled at me telepathically by the strange tentacular entity, in which my eyes struggled to identify a beginning or an end, not to mention anything resembling a head or a brain. It spoke of states and markets, simultaneously free of rule or control, yet harsh arbiters of some cosmic, ultimate, infinitely moral law. It rambled of freedoms guaranteed by anonymous authorities and prosperity promised by exploitation. I was uncertain if the words themselves were ineffable or if my feeble human mind was simply not equipped to comprehend them. My mind was spinning, every synapse burning with the implausibility of what I could undeniably see, hear, and feel before me. This was not a nightmare, my brain could never have conjured such a terrible creature of infinite contradiction.”









  • quoting the article you linked:

    The modern sandwich variant of doner kebab originated and was popularized in 1970s West Berlin by Turkish immigrants.[5][6][7] This was recognized by the Berlin-based Association of Turkish Döner Manufacturers in Europe in 2011.[8]

    but it kinda doesn’t matter where it was invented, point is that most people absolutely mean this dish when they say döner kebab.