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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • while your measured response is appreciated, I hardly consider a few dozen downvotes relevant, nor do I care in this case. It’s telling that those who did respond to my comment seem to assume I would consider myself a “pro” when that’s 1) nothing I said and 2) it should be clear from my comment that I consider the expression cringy. Outside memeable content, only idiots call themselves a “pro”. If something is my profession, I could see someone calling themselves a “professional <whatever>” (not that I would use it), but professional has a profoundly distinct ring to it, because it also refers to a code of conduct / a way to conduct business.

    “I’m a pro” and anything like it is just hot air coming from bullshitters who are mostly responsible for enshittification of any given technology.




  • If you lost it, you are dehumanizing people, which is a condition that many absolutist regimes aim to accomplish to enable genocide.

    The Russian war of aggression and uncounted war crimes against Ukraine are suitable to make everyone furious, but how we treat even mass murderers is a reflection not of who they are, but who we are. By doing more than the necessary (and if that is killing, by being excessively cruel, or enjoying the killing), we harm ourselves, not the enemy. Because we desensitize ourselves to violence, and we become that which we claim to be fighting.

    Support Ukraine with everything we have, but let us enable them to kill as cleanly as possible - that also means (looking at you, my government in Berlin) to give them proper long range missiles. Let us never rejoice over unnecessary cruelty towards anyone - although we may be happy for neutralized threats.