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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • I don’t agree that just not making these kinds of shows is somehow the solution. How is not having a conversation about such a character at all a net improvement?

    It’s not the fault of the show, which has done everything it can to depict Homelander in the worst light, if certain people deliberately ignore or misconstrue the narrative because the character validates their awful world view. To say that is to say that humans cannot be trusted with the privilege of thought.

    The sort of people who romanticize Homelander would still be there without him, and would pick other characters from history or fiction to idolize instead (if they don’t already idolize those characters in addition to him.) This only reveals a societal issue that we’ve known about for roughly a century, now.









  • I installed Brave earlier this week and that’s mostly true. There’s some built in stuff that will show by default, notably the toolbar buttons and the notification style alert on the new tab page for one of those things mentioned, but you can just close the notification and remove the toolbar buttons and you’re set.

    That said, I think it’s still in the data monetization market like Alphabet with anonymized tokens, though I don’t remember the details.





  • Some religions, for example Mormonism, picked up a taboo of coffee and tea alongside other abolitionist sentiments popular at the time, with similar reasoning to alcohol - caffeine is a psychoactive drug, so it’s not “pure.” Mormonism was founded when early puritanical and evangelical Christian movements grew rapidly in the US, and you’ll see a similar taboo among other Christian sects originating in this time period.

    Yoga probably has the same taboo in American Christianity as Dungeons and Dragons once did during the satanic scare era, and that taboo is likely only due to the link to spiritualist practices in yoga. To the brainwashed evangelical, since it’s not Christianity, it’s Satan.

    Edit: a few words added for clarity