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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • It’s very possible moral in the context of your own time. To still be seen as a moral bastion, centuries after the public discourse has advanced beyond anything you’ve ever been really exposed to is astonishing, so much so that some people are remembered specifically for that.

    I’m sure in a century or two, 99.99% of us here will hold at least one view that is seen as reprehensible to the future zeitgeist. Grandpa and Grandma having some dated views isn’t something recent, after all XD



  • Camoflage is a legitimate war tactic. So long as you didn’t fire before raising your actual flag, it was a legitimate ruse-de-guerre to get closer to an enemy.

    Also where the phrase “showing your true colors” comes from. It’s pretty neat how phrases centuries or decades removed from relevance still have a place in language!