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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • No stupid questions time: This kind of lurks in the back of my mind and I sometimes find myself hesitating to use the term “female” to refer to female figures in any context. I don’t have to do that, right? Like, would “woman lawyer” be better than “female lawyer” in contexts where specifying gender might be relevant? I would conversely prefer the term “male lawyer” in the same context and “man lawyer” sounds just as odd to me as “woman lawyer”. “Lawyer who is a woman” is a little verbose, too. Am I overthinking this?


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    27 days ago

    TL;DR? It’s not written like an article at all (i.e. the important information isn’t what’s included first like it’s supposed to be). It’s all one long buried lede that goes on and on.

    I was curious, so I pasted it into a word processor. This article is literally thirty three pages long. It’s really more of a short story than an article.


  • I think this is a pretty good representation of rams in pastry form. I can see the phallic resemblance, but honestly, I think this isn’t bad at all. If you wanted to be sure they wouldn’t be confused with anything other than a ram, perhaps you could get some food-grade paints and paint in eyes, nose, mouth, nostrils, etc. I think the faces being painted/frosted on would help eliminate the tendency to see a dick and make it less ambiguous.


  • I’ve had to read a few old German documents for personal genealogical research and good god, the handwritten words were hard to make out. Spent like 20 minutes just trying to read the phrase “ein und funfzig” (51, as in 1851). Someone else who’d read those documents completely misread them and listed his birthyear 20 years later than it should be, implying he was a 13 year old boy when he married a 30-something year old woman.