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Cake day: November 1st, 2023

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  • An omnipotent being choosing to let you do wrong so that it can punish you if you do, is sick and twisted through any lens. The usual response is “God can’t be understood by mortals” but that’s a thought-terminating cliche…

    “Be free or be a slave” is a false dichotomy. It is very easy to imagine a being that has free will and a huge range of creative and artistic expression while also being limited from doing harm. No limitations could apply to an omnipotent creator, so the only reason for the status quo would be its choice. And frankly if there was intelligence behind this design they could have done a hell of a lot better.

    God is a fiction humans created to personify the apathy of nature so that we could cope better with our existence.




  • I got a microwave with an inverter magnetron.

    When you set your microwave to, let’s say, 20% power, a typical microwave will cycle the magnetron, so that it runs at 100% power for 20% of the cooking time and is off in between. With an inverter, the actual power output of the magnetron can vary, so it’s actual 20% power for the whole time. It does an excellent job of gently reheating things like sandwiches and cooked rice without drying them out or scorching. Also, if something has instructions written for a lower wattage microwave, I can just turn the power down until it’s close to that wattage instead of doing calculations to modify the time.