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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Let’s have a quick lesson in credibility:

    You should take everything you read with varying degrees of skepticism. Some things warrant more skepticism than others. For example, which of these two should you be more skeptical of?

    1. An article written by someone paid to write things. Their actual name is on the article, thus so is their reputation. And if they’re worth their salt, they’ll also link to direct sources for data shared in their article.

    2. some random dude on a forum who consistently fails to provide sourcing for the numbers, this failing to price they didn’t pull those numbers out of their ass.

    Now, I don’t have to accept any of the options at face value, but one is more convincing than the other.