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Cake day: June 13th, 2025

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  • Yeah but that’s the thing nowadays: there’s an attack on facts, proof and science in general. It’s all about feelings and the loudness of the biggest screamers (populist politicians and extremist influencers). Scientists and fact checkers are portrayed as dumb, incompetent, terrorists, etc. These arguments are the weakest possible in a discussion but somehow people just follow these idiots and reject science and facts.

    The same happened when the church felt threatened by science during the discovery of the round earth traveling around the sun. The general public was riled up against science, even forcing academia to practice in secret.




  • Just because something already exists, doesn’t mean it can’t be also caused by something else. Like canser. It already exists. But smoking can cause it too.

    Next to that, it’s paracetamol. It predates the discovery/naming of autism. It’s already proven not to be the cause by other studies. Of course these studies could have been wrong, but I highly doubt that.

    So this statement is incorrect. Doesn’t change the fact that I don’t believe a word of either Trump or RFK. I still believe science and I still don’t believe pseudoscience.





  • Friends of mine are expecting a child. They have an app to compare the current size of the baby. It has the weirdest choices:

    • Wedding cake (they are always the same size? Depends on the budget right? So if you’re rich your child is bigger than when you’re poor, when it’s the wedding cake size?)
    • flat box of chocolates (always the same size? Flat child?)
    • small popcorn bucket
    • small pinguin (there are so many differently sized small pinguïns)
    • cotton candy (last one I had was huge, I feel sorry for the woman with a child that size in their womb)
    • maki
    • jackfruit
    • rhubarb (so it’s a stick shaped child?)
    • kitten (a grows the most as a kitten. They are kitten for the first year. It’s like saying the size of your baby is the size of a baby.)

    I have no clue what these sizes are exactly. I do know what 10cm or 20cm is.