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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Who do you ask a question to (the person pushing the wheelchair, or the person in the wheelchair?),

    -> depends on why they sit in a wheelchair and what I want to ask.

    sit next to on public transit (the black guy or the white woman?)

    -> I mostly stand but again, if I had to sit, it depends on the vibe I am getting from both, with - vibe considered equal - a tendency to sit near a guy to not make a woman feel uncomfortable.

    , friend’s teenager you ask to babysit/house-sit (the white girl or the black guy?),

    -> if color of skin or gender enter my considerations, I would let neither anywhere near a child, as I obviously do not know them nearly well enough.

    hire to do your gardening (the Hispanic man or the black woman?)

    -> I will not pay someone to do chores for me, doing everyday chores is what keeps people grounded. I don’t want to risk becoming something like a boomer.

    , question do you take first after your work presentation (white man or Indigenous woman?),

    -> whoever signaled a question first

    smile at politely as you pass on the street (the unhoused?)

    -> everyone that makes eye contact

    -> holy shit you made that list of examples sound like it’s in any way difficult to know exactly how to behave.













  • That is how expiration dates usually work for anything moist/liquid/perishable. You open it and then you should consume it within a short time. Typically a few days at most, bit more for marmalade.

    Reason: food contains microbes/spores. Preservation processes slow down growth, and/or reduce initial amount, but not to zero. Microorganisms in food grow exponentially over time, and the best before date is a statistically determined date by which 99.x% of food samples are still good to eat if unopened. Open it, and you expose the food to the much higher load of microbial life from ambient air and whatever you stick in there (spoon, butter knife, drink from the bottle). Boom, microbial growth explodes and food perishes within a short period.

    Same goes for interrupting a cooling chain or exposing e.g. milk to sunlight.