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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Racy!

    But seriously, seeing the older people made me realize that those guys wouldn’t have even had cars all over when they were growing up.

    From Wikipedia:

    “The modern car—a practical, marketable automobile for everyday use—was invented in 1886, when the German inventor Carl Benz patented his Benz Patent-Motorwagen. Commercial cars became widely available during the 20th century. The 1901 Oldsmobile Curved Dash and the 1908 Ford Model T, both American cars, are widely considered the first mass-produced and mass-affordable cars, respectively.”

    (First gasoline car at all was 1808 though)

    So this was at most around 21 years after the Model T. For anyone much older than that, cars would have been rare at best when they were young.



  • Those don’t eliminate the spoiler effect, but it does end up looking different. (Maybe has a different name in this form?)

    My blue state has a blanket primary, and this last election I saw that demonstrated:

    One race had two Republicans and like half a dozen Democrats and another half a dozen in other parties. The Republican vote of course was split between the two candidates. The Democrat vote was split like a hydra and we very nearly had (few hundred votes away) the two Republicans go to the general!

    Fortunately, the top Dem barely squeaked into second place, and then easily won the general, but it was mighty close.





  • Absolutely.

    Genetically I’m around 50% descended from people of a culture that I simply wasn’t raised in, which is associated with a religion I never practiced (as opposed to the different religion I left)

    Based on looks I could easily identify as that culture and strangers wouldn’t question it. They also don’t question my lack of doing so.











  • And indeed 1F414 is a lower (hexadecimal) number than 1F95A, so in the absence of other criteria I’m sure in most systems it would sort first.

    They might not know the name for the extension of alphabetical order to all characters in Unicode (and neither do I) but it’s logical to associate it with alphabetical since it’s similar in concept.