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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • The great thing is that this money doesn’t have to be found in other budgets or by raising taxes or anything. It’s quite literally fuck-you-money and can be spend as such.

    Of course it’s a shame to have to dig into the fund to cover for a war that should never have been started in the first place, but it’d be a lot worse in ten years to have sat on the money if Russia isn’t stopped and knowing that it could have been used for that.

    I hope they manage to find enough European manufacturers ready to take orders.





  • I’m beginning to consider the idea of having an apartment but then also a plot of land with just a shed or cottage. Something like that. I’d like to spend more time outside in most of the year but also keep the convenience of an apartment during winter. I have a house in a good location now, so it’ll probably not happen unless something drastic happens. Maybe when the kids move out.



  • I read a reaction from a Greenlandic politician. He was mostly upset about the laugh track that followed Trump saying “incredible people”.

    Watch the clip again if you didn’t notice.

    It’s perfectly reasonable that they don’t want to be addressed like that. The politician went on to call it an “unacceptable human view”.

    I agree. The act of the middle school bully doesn’t translate into anything remotely strong or respectable. It’s just disgusting. It doesn’t matter who or what they’re talking about, and when presenting themselves by giggles and eye-rolling, they’re really only presenting their own insecurity by hiding their disgusting views in the support of a laugh track.

    I am from Denmark, which actually colonized Greenland. We have made mistakes and treated them badly in the past for sure, but never like that. We have never laughed in their faces when doing so.



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    If its not the default it’s considered disabled.

    Vision is the outlier on this. More people wear glasses than not. This of course goes both ways and in various degrees, but I think the average is slightly nearsighted. It’s easily correctable, so nothing is done to make anything more easily accessible for vision impaired people.

    However, neurodiversity is not easily correctable, so perhaps we ought to accept that with the rise in diagnosises that perhaps it’s actually rather normal and adjust our expectations for what people can actually do, instead of calling a majority of people “sick”.

    I mean, look at attention disorders like ADHD. They’re perfectly healthy and can do all kinds of stuff. They just can’t do it for 8 hours straight between 9-17… its the expectations that need to change. It’s sick.









  • I think a lot of their culture revolves around adolescence. Sports, music, movies, fashion etc. are based on juvenile traits, where talking, actions and getting attention are more important than more mature things like listening and compromising.

    They’re not all like that, but there certainly are many who get through life in an American cultural bubble. When you reach your early twenties you probably think you’ve got everything figured out. That will last until you encounter other cultures that can challenge your views. A lot of Americans don’t encounter other cultures.

    I know plenty of Europeans who are similar, but they don’t appear as one group. A German ignorant appears and speaks different than a Swedish ignorant, and both countries are known for having a similar superiority complex based on their own domestic successes. The Americans are in a disadvantage here, since everyone can hear and understand them, and there’s quite a lot of them, so their presence is just a lot more obvious.


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    I’d turn it around. If I were ever in an position to negotiate with Trump, the first question would be “Why is your face orange?”.

    It’s not relevant to any potential negotiation, but if he can not answer that without lying, I’d walk away, because how in hell are you supposed to negotiate anything with someone who lies about something that is obvious.