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Cake day: July 29th, 2025

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  • Being a Jew isn’t about genetics. It’s a fucking religion first and foremost.

    Oh, well in that case, Hitler still wasn’t Jewish. He was raised Catholic. Later described himself as “not a Catholic and not a Protestant, but a German Christian.”

    So how do you interpret someone saying “Kind of how Hitler was Jewish”? Seeing as how he wasn’t part of the religion, and given how “Jewish” is both a religion and an ethnicity? Because I interpret that as someone saying he’s part of the ethnicity, which was long rumored, and which was very recently shown not to be the case.

    Do you think Hitler really cared about lineage when he was clearing out Jewish homes?

    Yes? Eugenics was a big part of Nazi ideology.









  • Nothing wrong with MSG. It’s the building block of the savory taste the same way sodium chloride is the building block of the salty taste.

    The whole thing about MSG sensitivity and it being bad for you was largely xenophobic in origin, and a fascinating example of the nocebo effect.

    In college I remember hearing about a study where they gave people who claimed to have MSG sensitivity a Chinese meal and an Italian meal. They claimed to have symptoms after the Chinese meal. But that particular Chinese meal had no MSG in it. Meanwhile, people didn’t report symptoms from the Italian meal, which was chock-full of MSG.

    Do yourself a favor: get a shaker of MSG from your local grocery store and put that shit on eggs (along with salt). It’s amazing what a pinch of “the flavor enhancer” does.

    Edit: also nothing wrong with fluoride in the water at the doses we get it. It’s good for developing stronger teeth.









  • 1080p looks fine on a 4K (2160p) screen especially if whatever you’re using to display it (be that your machine, receiver, or the TV itself in the case of “smart” TVs) is good at upscaling. Worse case scenario it looks the same as 1080p content looks on a TV of the same size, since 2160p is literally just 4x the pixels of 1080p.

    1080p can look bad on a 1440p display though, since it doesn’t go evenly in and you’ll need good upscaling.