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Cake day: July 26th, 2023

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  • I’ve been to Alcatraz prison and gone on the tour and one of the things that she spoke about was how much of a pain it was being on an island. Since you’re totally the mercy of the sea is to whether or not you can get supplies in.

    The only real advantage of Alcatraz was that it was difficult to escape from but you can get the exact same result with fencing and guards, so there’s no point putting up with the logistical challenges have been stuck on an island, which is why it was closed.


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    15 hours ago

    I refuse to believe anyone can actually read Japanese. I can speak a very little bit of Japanese but I have no idea about the language at all. I don’t know how to approach a language that lacks the concept of an alphabet.

    How to Japanese people know how to write a particular word? In most languages you can hear the word and at least get a good idea of how it’s written, even if it’s a made-up word. In manga there are a lot of made up, in universe words, and I do not understand how they decide how to write to write to them down or how anyone who reads those words knows how to pronounce the word.



  • Passover is a Jewish holiday.

    UK is not a Jewish country so the two holidays are unrelated, but obviously a lot of different cultures are going to celebrate the days getting longer again so it’s not surprising that there are multiple different holidays that are all celebrated at the same time. Also of course the Christian church overwrote a lot of pagan holidays so Easter being celebrated when the days get longer tracks even though that’s not actually what the celebration is about.

    I’m not really sure what the egg laying rabbit is about though.







  • They have a two-party system and when they don’t like either candidate they throw a tantrum and vote for no one.

    Sure the US political system is the most broken of all democratic nations but throwing the baby out with the bathwater isn’t the solution either. As bad as Kamala Harris may have been I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t have randomly started to war with Iran so does that.






  • Didn’t it get guttered and rebuilt a couple of decades back anyway. I’m sure I read somewhere, actually it might have been in one of the X-Men movies, that it’s completely different now to how it what originally rebuilt after the fire. So this would be at least the 4th iteration of the White House.