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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • It’s a monocrop. Vast swaths of the Amazon Rainforest are destroyed for its cultivation. It’s one of 14 allergens that are mandated to be listed in the EU, but is otherwise ubiquitous in processed products often without labelling. It’s also prone to cause intolerance of it in humans, causing gastrointestinal bloating and diarrhoea. It fixes nitrogen, but depletes other minerals regardless and requires a lot of water.

    As always, it’d be fine if crops were rotated or better yet mixed a lot more and if governments wouldn’t subsidize it. Soy has very diverse uses. However many fruit plantations and local crops have been reduced to nothing to grow this cash crop for big ag in Central and Eastern Europe.

    The foresight we lack now will bite us in the face in a decade or two.










  • My dad and his buddy devised a plan to get unlimited calls from phone booths to abroad. They drilled a 2 Deutschmark coin and put a fishing line through it. They figured out that the coin only drops after the allotted time is up, allowing the machine for there to be credit registered. But there was nothing preventing the coin from going upwards again. So they just kept pulling it out and then inserting the coin again. And re-dialing the international number. Like some petty comic book villains.






  • You seem to be much more knowledgeable on the topic, and while I would call myself privacy conscious, I would hardly consider myself within the pricacy sphere. How would using something like bitwarden or keepassxc work with entering passwords on websites? Firefox just retrieves it from its vault (as bad as it may be from what I’m reading) and then inserts it into the u/p fields. I’ve seen LastPass in action plenty, because corporations seem to love it, and I find it anything but seemless. So how do those two aforementioned compare?