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Cake day: June 4th, 2023

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  • The crucifix is an implement of torture and execution, upon which the titular Christian god was executed to fulfill a blood oath. Executionists, torturers, blood magicians, nailers, death cultists, the forsaken (Psalm 22)…

    Being shephered by a higher authority is also a common theme. Sheep is right there, although some actually use that directly.

    Another common theme is the second arrival of their god, starting the end of the mortal realm and the death of all mortals. Death cultists again, apocalyptics, doomsdayers…

    There’s lots of heinous things in their book, but most reject them or are unaware. You could call out lots of things there.


  • The dot-com bubble isn’t the internet. The internet existed long before and continued to grow after. Companies that used digital posters on the internet had a crash, but the internet kept growing.

    Digital posters do still have a use today, and there are still companies running on promises, but digital promises are simple and cheap. AI is not. At least not in this form.

    Big tech hype will continue after this tech hype bubble pops, but that doesn’t mean the tech is good.





  • Blaschko’s lines happen mostly in mosaicism, where an embryo is formed by the fusion of two embryos, gets a mutation early in development, or otherwise gets two different genotypes. It can also be caused by X-linked genes. If those genotypes produce different skin colours or react differently to skin diseases, you can see the lines directly.

    It looks like any visible form of mosaic disease may present along Blaschko’s lines.



  • There’s lot’s of issues with current physics, mostly in cosmology. String Theory was partly invented to describe the interior of a black hole. The characteristics of the Higgs field are still unknown. Gravity is still not unified with the other forces, despite appearing to couple with everything. Our current best models for the formation of the universe predict huge amounts of invisible matter, and we have no idea what that could be, from new particles to microscopic black holes formed in the first nanoseconds of the universe, to reinterpretations of relativity. Those same models also predict that out universe is dominated by strange energy inherent to space itself, which has no basis in the Standard Model at all. I wouldn’t call these perfectly fine answers.

    And even if the nature of the interior of a black hole what the only issue, the final part of physics we haven’t explained, I would say we’ve thought that before. About a century ago, the scientific community though they had mostly solved physics. The last big question was why ultraviolet light didn’t extend out to infinite energy as predicted. Then photons happened and we discovered quantum physics.








  • The topic is sharing culture, where lots of very patriotic US things have their origins in other cultures. How so much of the US identity is a mish mash of other cultures. The US is even known as a cultural melting pot!

    The hypocrisy is being ok with other cultures if you’re familiar with them, but hating ‘new’ culture. The comic is criticizing xenophobia by pointing out the (somewhat) xenophilic history of US culture.