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Cake day: August 5th, 2026

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  • That’s a fascinating point. Since there aren’t as many posts here, we do not actually need up and down votes to curate the feed. I wonder if I can find a setting to turn them off?

    It’s not as if I actually care about them here, I got harshly downvoted recently quite rightly due to posting something wrong, and I was just glad to learn the correct thing.

    Maybe I’m finally free of the point lust I learned on Reddit.

    We should take the time to design a better system while we still can, before growth floods us with comments and we have to curate somehow.







  • No, but “Jews drinking blood” is an old classic of the genre.

    I’m not a Zionist, I’m just pointing out a historical linguistic parallel. 😄

    If I was a Zionist I’d probably call all of these anti-semitic because “Jewish lawyer” is also a thing. However, not nearly a strong enough thing to be antisemitic on its own, which is why I picked out the vampire one. Two insults usually aimed at Jewish people? That nudges it above the level for me.

    Bear in mind, I do not think the author was a bigot, or racist, any of that. I definitely don’t think anyone would be a bigot for posting this. I just wanted to point out the interesting origins of a classic old joke.

    Maybe it would be more accurate to say “The vampire one has more direct antisemitic roots, while the others probably just originate from people who lost in court.”