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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • I think it’s easy to forget that we are all biased and when jumping to one conclusion is easy for us, another may be easy for someone else.

    My 2.5 year old sometimes watches this kid show “Bing”, and it really just spells out the moral of the story at the end, maybe “grown up” media should do that more too? Don’t expect your audience to just know what comes naturally to you, tell them.

    I know this goes against the core “show, don’t tell” principle of writing a good story, but maybe we can do show and tell?

    (And I say we collectively while I’ve never created anything with a message 😅)


  • On one hand I really like the idea, gamification of solarpunk could really propel things (though could also make people dismissive of it being only a game, beware), but on the other hand the custom extra tools required provide a higher barrier to entry, and extra e-waste if not handled properly (though apart from a 3d printed cover they seem like some raspi/arduino/similar programmable thing with some semi-standard attachments, so that may be pretty okay.














  • A good (not for-profit) criminal justice system is built upon the idea of reintegration. If you 100% cannot reintegrate a(n ex-)criminal, then sure, relieve society from that burden.

    EXCEPT that you can never be 100% sure of either guilt nor lack of reintegration, so lifelong internment is the only solution.

    To quote Gandalf: “Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it.”


  • Absolutely, it looks like it’s mostly managing expectations that come with calling something arch based.

    In your recipe analogy, calling your new cookie recipe, which you based on your granny’s chocolate chip cookie recipe, “chocolate chip cookie based”, but ending up with a raisin cookie (you removed the chocolate chips) would be false advertising, even if technically true in the way you describe.