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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Just a heads up, those diagrams are also insufficient on their own. They don’t indicate which line goes to the wide blade and which goes to the narrow blade on the plug. Getting that backwards on some devices can cause switching and fusing to be on the wrong line and defeat certain circuit and safety protections.

    Much as I encourage people to fix their own things, wiring AC mains connections is one of those “if you have to ask, you probably shouldn’t” kind of things.


  • Not that there isn’t bias in the credit scoring system, but I don’t think anyone was having any trouble keeping black people from financing things before. Before credit scores, credit worthiness was just up to the opinion of the bank manager, who had latitude to be as racist as he pleased. Practices like redlining actually became a lot more difficult with standardized credit scoring criteria. Again, it’s not perfect, but it’s about as close to a fair system as we’ve ever gotten.




  • The only reason the military is able to swoop in and stop Goldfinger is because he was still able to gather and transmit intel even as a prisoner. Plus, Pussy Galore didn’t release the actual deadly gas because James told her it was fatal and not harmless like Goldfinger had said. Her “switching sides,” of course, paralleling the creepy “fixing her lesbian-ness” overtones.

    It’s not that he’s a bad spy for getting captured, it’s that he’s good enough to save the day even from captivity.

    However, he is a bad spy for getting both of the Masterson sisters killed.