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Cake day: January 5th, 2024

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  • Interesting questions. It would also remove eyebrows and eyelashes, which serve to protect eyes from dust and things like that. Armpit and pubic hair serve to reduce friction in those areas and prevent chafing. Nostril hair, assuming it would also be gone, is part of the filtering system of the air we breathe. Considering all those health implications, being fully informed before doing it would be really important.

    But if someone still wants to do that to themselves, and is an adult capable of making their own decisions, I say let them!

    Whether it’s possible or not (the core of your question), I have no idea but the other comments seem to have some theories about that.




  • Israel: HaPijamot (literally: The Pajamas). It’s a sitcom for kids (but really more for their parents IMO) about a mediocre band that’s trying to make it big in Tel Aviv. The show often breaks the fourth wall in a way that’s really hard for me to explain. It’s kind of like a mockumentary, but it plays with it a lot. For example, there’s a “white screen” sometimes where the cast pauses the show to explain something to the audience. It’s clearly an abstract place that doesn’t canonically exist in the world. But occasionally it plays a role in the plot, e.g. a character goes there to hide from everyone else, or someone would abuse the system and activate the white screen to get out of a sticky situation.

    The original premise of the band quickly becomes secondary, it’s just a great show with excellent writing and a great cast. It even has a few spin-offs, including a great one where the fast food shop owner becomes a detective.

    I think you may have triggered a rewatch for me, it’s been years since I last saw it!




  • I never learned cursive (can’t even read it most of the time) but I don’t think my answer would be helpful to you. But it might be interesting.

    My signature isn’t my full name, it’s just an arrangement of 3 alphanumeric symbols that has meaning to me but to anyone else probably looks like a meaningless scribble. If someone ever tries to forge my signature, they’ll almost definitely do it wrong.

    But the reason my answer isn’t useful is that English isn’t my native tongue, and neither is the Latin alphabet. My native tongue is Hebrew. Hebrew cursive is very different from Latin cursive, in that the letters don’t flow into each other. It’s still “block letters”, just a different variant of them. I’ve never looked at many signatures but I think a lot of people just write their name quickly, and that inevitably involves lifting the pen from the paper between letters multiple times.

    In a lot of less important contexts that require signature (e.g. receiving a package), many people just make a really quick meaningless scribble, which might look like α or φ or whatever to just get on with it. Workers asking for these signatures often humorously say “give me a scribble here” in those scenarios.