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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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  • I think you may have quoted the wrong thing. The section you highlighted above states that clothing was fumigated with the same gas later used by Nazis to exterminate prisoners, it makes no mention of it being a way to “medicalize” or make exeuctions “humane”.

    Again, I’m not American so I’d appreciate it if you highlighted how this is related to “American Liberaism” which you initially criticised. As it is it appears you’re assuming whatever actions the someone in power in America takes is “American Liberalism”, I’m not sure that’s something I agree with.







  • Everything a computer does uses resources so every extension will have some performance impact, though you usually won’t notice the difference from any one extension. As a general rule of thumb, the more an extension does the more resources it needs and so the bigger the impact. Some extensions free up additional resources (eg by blocking ads or trackers) which may also result in a net performance gain dependant on the page you’re viewing.

    A large extension on disk doesn’t necessarily use more memory and CPU time than a small one, but it is more likely to. The only reliable way to tell which extensions are resource hogs is by benchmarking them.

    Disabling extensions not in use is a good idea, though personally I’d uninstall them instead.


  • It might be easier to visualise if you substitute money in for something more tangible. Let’s use water as an example; you might earn a one litre bottle of water for every hour you work. Your company then announces a pay rise accross the board; everyone in the company will now get twice as amny bottles! Sounds great, everyone’s on board, the company gets huge amounts of positive PR. You’re excited when it comes to pay day, just think what you’ll do with all that extra water! But when you get your pay you’re sorely dissapointed; while you did get twice as many bottles of water, each bottle is half the size. You may have got twice as many bottles but you got the exact same amount of water.

    In this analogy bottles are currency, water is value. Twice as many bottles is meaningless if they’re half the size. You got a 0% raise.