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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • Well, it comes down to the fact that professional athletes strive to be the best of the best.

    Obviously we don’t need everyone to practice those skills at that level; if we did, then we’d be out of luck because only a small minority is even physically capable of doing so.

    But to say that practicing those sports doesn’t have practical benefits is another matter, especially at the amateur level.

    Like, you could apply it to any field. If the best chef in the world disappeared, we’d probably be fine. But that doesn’t mean that cooking is a useless skill in general.














  • My parents didn’t specifically tell me if Santa Clause was real or make-believe. They wanted me to come to my own conclusion, I guess. My dad is a rationalist person, and my mom’s from a culture that doesn’t traditionally celebrate Christmas.

    So what I believed was that the appearance of presents on Christmas was an unsolved mystery, and Santa Clause was just a hypothesis to explain it.

    I suspected the real explanation probably involved the tree working as an antenna for some kind of cosmic energy that triggered the appearance of presents. Perhaps in ancient and more superstitious times they discovered this phenomenon by accident and continued to put up the tree ever since.