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Cake day: August 4th, 2023

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  • In China you simply keep your birth name forever, and children always follow the paternal side. That’s why having a male heir is important there, because a woman will only bear offspring for her spouse’s family.

    As to why the family bonds are so strong, it’s part cultural (your elders are always right and must not be criticised, and you must take care of your blood above anything else), part societal - parents work too much (60-100h weekly), so children are generally raised by their grandparents, which strengthens the bond across generations. And because the pension system is totally insufficient, grandparents will at some point typically move in with their kids, so people are used to live in a multi generational household.

    By the way, China is just one example, there are even Western countries where it’s not possible to change the names, such as Luxembourg.







  • You wouldn’t want to eat an animal that’s died of natural causes, it’s usually old and tough, or still died of an undiagnosed infection while old so not further investigated.

    All meat sold for human consumption must be certified, not gonna happen with random dead zoo animals in any developed country.

    If the zoo staff decide to go for it without, that’s probably on them, but they can’t sell or even legally give it away.

    Ostrich is quite nice though, it’s a very lean, red meat. Like a gamey beef I’d say, but not as intense as deer.



  • From is underrated? I didn’t know that, been watching it religiously.

    An older favorite of mine was The 4400 (the reboot is absolute dogshit though). Unfortunately they cancelled it after 4 seasons, but the original authors published 2 books afterwards to finish the storyline.

    Other series I enjoy that aren’t on most people’s radar (primarily for being British, mostly crime):

    1. Vigil (crime series dealing with an investigation on board of a nuclear submarine, 2 seasons, closed storyline).
    2. Unforgotten (crime, every season starts with an old body being discovered and then showing all people affected by the loss of said person over time until they eventually get closure. Highly empathic actors and excellent character development, season 6 currently being filmed).
    3. Death in Paradise (iconic light entertainment crime series playing on a remote Caribbean island where changing inspectors from England with various degrees of clumsiness are being sent to solve murders. Every episode is usually a closed case. Season 14 to start end of year).