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Cake day: January 23rd, 2025

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  • Not to mention that Santa is a prolific home-wrecker, as millions of children have witnessed him making out with one of their parents’ partners.

    Probably the weirdest thing to me about Thanksgiving is that it wasn’t even remotely real in the sense of being founded on a historically coherent event. Perhaps this is just the nature of mythology. Thanksgiving was a religious fasting ritual at the time. Sharing a meal with indigenous people was a coincidence during a harvest festival, which isn’t exclusive to any one religion or even spirituality at all. It’s two, entirely unrelated things that got crammed into a single tradition because they occur roughly during the same season. Also, there was a lot of ethnic cleansing before and after, but that doesn’t go well with primary school history class, so let’s leave that bit out.



  • I just saw it again this week, too!

    It sounds like he learned two new languages. That’s several years right there. He mastered the piano at a professional level at a late age. That’s nearly impossible for most people, and would take a decade or so.

    He has an intimate knowledge of every single person in the entire town, such that he can effortlessly rattle off the entire life history of any one of them. That’s at least another ten years. More importantly, he’s able to predict what people would do in different situations. He didn’t just memorize the routine of the town and everyone in it, he memorized most of the variations of the routines. That’s information orders of magnitude larger than just the history of everyone in the town and their actions in a single day. He was there for a long time. 1000 years isn’t unreasonable.

    Still, we only see his experiences for a few days. It’s possible that was the intent of the writers and director, but at a certain, point it doesn’t matter, because art is as much about what the audience perceives as what the author intended, perhaps more so as time goes on. I think it’s safe to assume he was there for at least hundreds of years in the cannon of that story. We just see his first day, his last day and a few days scattered in between among the myriad of those during his time loop internment.