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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • I believe the current state is:

    • Mastodon users can participate on Lemmy
    • Lemmy users cannot follow Mastodon users

    So you may see comments or posts from Mastodon users who have posted to Lemmy, but if you want to follow Mastodon users you’ll need a Mastodon account.

    There is a middle ground. Mbin allows you to participate on both Lemmy and Mastodon.







  • We don’t lie, and talk about “who is going to be Santa this year”. Treat it like a game. I don’t think the youngest quite understands and we don’t purposely ruin it, but that the adults are Santa is openly talked about.

    Recently one of my kid’s friends got an elf on the shelf, and my kid asked what it was. I think that if other parents lie to their kids that’s for them to sort out, we can’t be expected to lie to our kids to keep up another lie. So I straight out told them what it was and that some parents use it to try to trick their kids into being good. They replied “can I have one?”



  • It’s a philosophical argument, not directions for how to live your life!

    I think it works better for giving others the benefit of the doubt instead of blaming people who have made poor decisions for not “pulling themselves up by their bootstraps”. But you definitely should not try it in reverse, “I’m gonna go get addicted to drugs because it’s not my fault” 🫤



  • If you think back a step, think about why some people are the way they are. Is it because of their genes? Because of a teacher or role model they had growing up? Because of the parenting methods or advice they got from those who raised them?

    People are who they’ve because of a number of factors that at their heart are all random.







  • I tend to find the saucier or sloppier a dish is, the better it freezes. I also avoid chicken as I don’t think it comes out very nice after cooking, freezing, and reheating.

    Minced meats work well. Lasagne, moussaka, bolognese (cook the spaghetti at time of eating, don’t freeze it).

    Also stews, pulled pork, or other slow cooked food. If you use a slow cooker, most of what you cook in there is probably good for freezing.

    In general I prefer to cook vegetables, pasta, rice, etc at the time of eating and then eat with the reheated food, because they don’t really taste that nice after being frozen and reheated, but it should be pretty quick to do those and don’t really need much work.



  • I think this is still not a citable claim. You link to the affirmative conclusion from a negative premise which includes that statement, but that page is explaining what that is. Your other page is using a claim to prove a different topic.

    The problem is that Wikipedia is not where you prove things. You need to cite somewhere else that proves it, and you need to do it in an impartial way.

    For example, saying that ‘“If you have nothing to hide you shouldn’t fear surveillance from the state” is a logical fallacy’ and citing the book makes Wikipedia have that stance.

    But in contrast, you could say that 'Critics argue that the argument “If you have nothing to hide you shouldn’t fear surveillance from the state” is a logical fallacy" then cite the book, this way the critic is the one with the opinion and not Wikipedia.

    More citations of more critics would probably help too.

    I’m not an expert on Wikipedia by any means, but I do see why someone may have considered this statement not belonging on Wikipedia.

    Wikipedia has some info here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view

    Also see the links at the top of that page about “Verifiability” and “No Original Research” as these are the three key things needed to allow the statement.


  • Not that I disagree, but Wikipedia requires specific criteria for sources. I am not sure that a book about it being a logical fallacy meets that criteria any more than a book about parenting could be used to prove how to parent a child.

    Are there other Wikipedia pages that claim things to be logical fallacies that could be used to see what the burden of proof is for this claim?