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Cake day: July 16th, 2023

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  • That’s the perfect tone for this letter, it’s very well worded. It maintains deep pride in Iran alongside positive acknowledgement of her emigrants that contrasts with how the west would expect the government to feel towards them as an example of the inaccuracy of western reporting on Iran. I don’t know if it’s genuine (I know too many Persian and Kurdish people from Iran to fully believe it, but I also know several people whose families are refugees in Iran and who feel very positively towards it, so I think the question of Iran’s benevolence has an answer with more complexities than I am capable of understanding without having gone there or even to any politically neutral or allied country), but it’s a hell of a piece of political art. To be clear, I’m just talking about his tone here, I do absolutely believe that Iran was not intending and just about to create and use nuclear weapons against the US or Israel, but that was also true before I read this letter.

    Anyway, I hope it works.


  • I mean, I can get a gas chromatograph, then test it however many times I need to, to prove to myself that it’s accurate, then use it to test whatever I’m suspicious of. I don’t feel the need personally, but if a person wants to, they can. It’s honestly not even as expensive as I would have expected- plenty of options under €1000.

    And for more advanced science, the same applies- it would require a lot more faith to believe that everyone with more than two college chemistry classes is lying about the nature of the world than that they’re not.

    But yes, you need faith in either direction. Just a lot less of it if science is real.






  • I can’t digest pork well (it runs right through me and frequently causes vomiting), so I don’t l eat it, but if I were to follow a diet with 500 calories of pork in it, I might get 100 from it. On the other hand, I digest beans and lentils incredibly well, with no noticeable gas. I can imagine that I might actually get 110 calories from a “100 calorie serving.” It is possible to determine your caloric intake despite this variation, but because people aren’t well educated about it, they see a mismatch in the math and reality and think it’s pointless to calculate it at all instead of realizing they need to adjust it for their specific digestive system.