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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Continuing this take. From a storytelling point of view, they should’ve made it so that having a lightsaber was extremely difficult, the defining feat of a master Jedi knight. Something that padawans trained to use eventually but was an actually really hard, life threatening even, object to create. Crystals should’ve been an statistical impossibility, involve a pilgrimage and ceremony, you’d have to be a keen user of the force, train your sensibility to it, master the skill of manipulating life and matter through the force to construct it. Sabers had to be relics, with names, history and mythology. Handed from master to padawan when they became knights through the ages. Further symbolizing the master-apprentice relationship. Thus there can’t be any more apprentices than there are masters. Sith would have to kill Jedis and steal them, corrupting the sabers.

    But Lucas was a meh world builder anyways, so whatever.




  • Oh there are these things I call Hollywood wounds. All these wounds that are supposed to be survivable in action movie land but would be very real life threats. Stabbings are nasty, specially in the abdomen. You just got signed to play craps with loaded dice and the casino is abdominal cavity infections. You might survive the bleeding, but the fever can still take you out several days later.

    There are others like being shot in the leg or the shoulder. Technically survivable, but will destroy your mobility forever. Another one is vertebral spine fractures (which this batman also miraculously survives). If you can walk again after that it would be after years of rehab, and even then you’d still be in pain the whole time until the day you die. Superhero movies are very unrealistic on their handling of human anatomy.



  • I thought that Kagi would have way more users. That blog was an interesting read. If that is their financial management, they’re doomed to fail. The founder also seems somehow worse than Brave’s. But it does give me a chance to mention something I’ve been thinking about for the past 6 months.

    There’s right now a massive trend towards co-opting in tech. Where startups and corporations use current trends in the tech savvy consumer to push products and services that ultimately actually go against the trend. Privacy, security, federation, climate change, open source. But just like most con men, it’s all performative, not substantial. They are trying to get fast to the wallet, then run for the hills with it. It reminds me of common greenwashing from oil companies, I call it privacywashing. In the end they still get to keep your data, and push anti-consumer tech like blockchain scams and fraudulent AI.