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Cake day: July 16th, 2023

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  • Ja, das ergibt Sinn. Ich komme aus den USA und wir lernen eh nicht viel über den ersten Weltkrieg (und fast nur 1917-1918). Ich hatte keine Ahnung, dass Italien die Mittel/Achsenmächte auch im ersten Weltkrieg verlassen hat.

    Ich kann mir vorstellen, dass der Umgang zwischen den deutschen und den Gastarbeitern aus Italien wirklich unbequem war, auch wenn Deutschland den Krieg nicht mehr durchführen wollte.






  • I introduced my Croatian friend to my Serbian roommate about a week into arriving in Germany, thinking they’d hit it off and be excited for a common language.

    They were both kind and very firm about how differently the interaction might have gone if they were slightly different people.

    They did eventually become friends, but I also eventually met my roommate’s parents and got a better understanding of the older generation.


  • It’s definitely not for everyone, but the only thing stopping me from making a mac and cheese sandwich is shame.

    I will say, most of the mac and cheese pizzas I’ve had were more enjoyable(for me) than good and the texture is the reason. To do it well, you basically just need a good thick cheese sauce that coats the noodles well enough to insulate them from getting simultaneously soggy and burnt, but the best sauce for that is not the best sauce for standard mac and cheese




  • The DMV I used to go to had a vending machine that said profits went towards supporting an all blind baseball team. I’m still not sure if it was legitimate: I get that “blind” could mean with 20/400 vision, which isn’t that difficult to correct well enough to play baseball, but that seems like one of the worst sports to play with limited visual input.

    Every time I saw it, I had this thought process, then scolded myself for limiting people, then thought about how dangerous a fastball can be, then scolded myself again. I haven’t thought about that in a decade at least.



  • I’m on season 6 of DS9. I remember thinking about how fucked up it was that Sisko

    Tap for spoiler

    gases that maquis planet, but now he’s just falsified evidence to pull the romulans into the war (and Garak had a senator killed, to really sell it). The worst part is that the federation approved of the forgery.



  • I’ll admit that I’m not the most patriotic American (I’m an emigrant, for one), and I’m not from a deep trump area, but I don’t know a single American, except for maybe my fox news addled dad, who doesn’t think Canada’s completely in the right. Even Vermonters who worry about heating their homes want trump to stop, not Canada.