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Cake day: September 20th, 2023

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  • A couple of nazis coincidentally being fans of a specific franchise does not constitute a “nazi-problem” within said fandom, in my opinion. I’m pretty sure bronies were quick to shun said individuals. It would only be a “nazi-problem” if that belief was a common trend in the group…

    I always found it mind-boggling how some neo-nazis, could somehow identify with a show based around friendship and inclusion. There is some cognitive dissonance there…



  • “D-A-D” (Disneyland After Dark} made a couple that might fit.

    “Bad Craziness” is probably the closest.

    “Sleeping My Day Away” could also work.

    “Home Alone 4” is perhaps a little bit melancholic but not a sob fest.

    Honorable mention is; “I Won’t Cut My Hair” it doesn’t fit the prompt, but it’s good for rocking out alone at home.


  • I think; if you dig deep enough in any larger fandom, you are bound to find some neo-nazis. A very loud minority of bronies painted a very large target on the rest of us with these beliefs. Especially because the outrage-fueled media ran off with a half cocked story again…

    I still haven’t found out whether Aryanne was originally created as a joke or not. Unfortunately it’s hard for a brony to really-really hate a cute fictional pone like that, and there are a couple of great stories with her as a character (on the bad guy’s team of course).

    I of course hate nazis with a passion, but nazi characters in fiction can be a useful vehicle for storytelling under the right circumstances.







  • Well, kinda. Vaccines are tools for “educating” your immune system. Classical vaccines generally work by providing “dead”/harmless examples of a particular infection, so that your immune system will recognize the real thing and stop it early, so it doesn’t develop to much. The immune system takes a while to get going, so “teaching” it in advance makes a huge difference against aggressive, quick acting infections.

    The mRNA vaccines skip most of the “learning phase” and provide the body directly with the template to produce the right antibodies. And this is where the “cure”-part comes in. The whole problem with cancer is that it consists of a variation of your own cells. Which is why the immune system won’t target it. It’s not an infection or foreign. To your immune system it’s just another part of you. mRNA can be used to tell the immune system to attack it anyway, leveraging it against the cancer. But it requires a sample of the cells to be attacked, so as to make the right mRNA for the particular instance of cancer. So it’s not really useable as a preventative thing. At least not yet…



  • As a car guy, there is so much wrong in this picture

    Why is he running motorcycle tyres?

    Right front wheel is a spoked alloy wheel, but the left is some kind of inverted steel wheel or something, with no space for any brakes.

    Spare wheels are way smaller, much wider and generally completely different than the ones on the car.

    Why is the pit crew wearing helmets, but the driver isn’t?

    What is the random wrench for?

    The car is styled like it has a turbine engine, but Mario is sitting right in the middle of the intake, blocking it.

    The one wheel we can see, doesn’t have a center nut or anything that the impact wrenches on the ground would fit on.