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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • That, or numerous other health problems, his body was pretty much wrecked from years of wrestling and such even without the steroids, he’s had drug and alcohol issues, and the dude was in his 70s, it’s not exactly unheard of for even relatively healthy people his age to just kind of keel over.

    I don’t think there’s anything particularly interesting to his death, he was an unhealthy old guy, it’s not in the least bit surprising that he died. But “cardiac arrest” in articles is a personal pet peeve of mine. It says absolutely nothing about the cause of death, and people who don’t understand what it means tend to automatically think “oh, he had a heart attack” when that’s often not the case. It tells you basically nothing that a headline of something like “Joe Schmo, famous taxidermist, dead at 69” hasn’t already told you, and can be kind of misleading.

    I work in 911 dispatch, the codes and policies and such used by different agencies will vary from one agency to another, I’ve entered calls for a “cardiac arrest” for countless different causes


  • Cardiac arrest just means your heart stopped beating, which is pretty much the textbook definition of death.

    That’s basically like saying they’re dead because they died.

    The interesting thing we want to know is what caused the cardiac arrest. Any time you see “cardiac arrest” in an article, it means that they either don’t know or don’t want to say the cause of death.

    A heart attack can cause cardiac arrest, so could an overdose, or falling and hitting your head, or getting shot in the face.


  • Also, everything on that Amazon page seems to be “shipped and sold” by various 3rd parties. I don’t really understand the inner workings of how being a seller on Amazon works, but I’m not convinced that WSU actually has anything to do with that page, at the very least it doesn’t seem like you’re getting your cheese directly from them when you go through Amazon and there’s some extra companies adding markups and taking a slice of the pie along the way.




  • It sounds crazy, but it is a legit cheese, it’s even won some awards. It’s basically a wheel of cheese that happens to be packaged in a can.

    Washington State University has pretty big agriculture and food science programs, so they make cheese, and back in the 40s the us government gave them money to research how to put cheese in a can, so they’ve been doing it ever since.