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Cake day: July 16th, 2023

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  • I got downvoted to hell last time I expressed my views about religion, but it has served me well for 29 years now (having been born in the shadow of the Vatican), so I am willing to share again:

    I work, collaborate, spend time and even sometimes have sex with religious people, all while maintaining the idea that each one of them is akin to a dormant terrorist cell, and that given the right conditions their fundamental distancing from reason and in some cases recognition of undeserved authority can turn against me and everyone else.

    I live a subtly tense life, but usually I am already in a safe place when shit hits the fan.

    I also have a very wide definition of religion and of priest.









  • I haven’t ordered from Amazon in years so I don’t know how better things got, but I remember exactly why I stopped, and that’s because of the variety and convenience of ordering literally anything from smaller e-commerce sites in Sweden, using Prisjakt to discover the best products.

    What my way of shopping differs from most people who order from Amazon is that I don’t want to be “inspired” to shop. I shop only what I need and for that I want the best, based on specifications and maybe the few detailed reviews made months after purchase that I may find for some products.

    When I see a shopping platform using words like “inspiration”, “season” and “for you”, my rectum clinches.






  • I am talking about Europe now:

    we need trains. We need to unify the rail systems (rail width and electrical tensions) and the ticket systems. Europe could be easily served using a network of night train routes.

    I think there should be way more political discourse about rail in the EU, but, for example in Italy, airports have been used as electoral campaigning devices.