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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • My main grip on this is that the sub-destinctions of racism makes it harder to deal with.

    We have plenty of racism here in Scandinavia, but it’s only a knee deep trench. People are racist or they’re not. The racists hate the immigrants. They don’t care if the immigrants are black, middle eastern, asian or even white people from the town next over.

    Once we start accepting the words that distinguish the out-groups, it only makes the trench deeper and more difficult to get out of, because then people can partially accept one group over the other, which maintains the overall racism.




  • Some year/decades ago Prague was the best place to experience fantastic jazz for cheap money. Probably still is to some degree.

    This was because they had a lot of people enrolling in universities (music conservatories) due to poverty. They even have a one of a kind conservatory for blind musicians.

    The entire countryside was a dead end, so anyone with a remote talent for doing the hand whistle would move from the villages all over the Czech Republic to take the chance in Prague. Education gave them a low but steady income and a chance of getting into an orchestra. Much like Hollywood, right? Except these people got paid to do it, so it obviously attracted many to do so.

    However, orchestras and universities only need so many players and teachers, so once they were educated they ended up playing on the streets or in small dive in bars if they were lucky.

    Mind, these were the state-of-art and most talented people at that in the world. Competition was fierce. Only the best could survive on that.

    As an ignorant tourist not knowing the reasons, this was heaven. The street artists were more talented than the professional orchestras at home.

    I myself had a dream of becoming a performing musician at the time but I gave up that dream after seeing a guitarist at a jazz club in Prague play the most magnificent solo while attempting to keep the band aid shut on his finger to avoid the blood dripping over the stage from playing ten gigs before on the same day.

    Soon, if things continue the way they are, we will find the best computer programmers on the streets, making code for nickels while wearing casts to keep their mouse stain injuries from stopping them.

    Anyway. Romans didn’t do that, but gladiators, musicians and coders are still just people trying to make living.




  • In my opinion that’s a band aid that has to come off.

    We shouldn’t take the high road to avoid backlash. The populists are going to go lower regardless of where we set the bar. This is how it has already gotten so low that we’re even debating straws.

    We should set the bar much much higher, so they can bitch and moan about hundreds of issues instead of finding unity in single issues like straws.









  • A luxury resort is the perfect cover for a lot of criminal activity.

    It’s gated off, so nobody from outside can see what’s going on. It’s basically an entire city, so they use all kinds of services and nobody asks why they need weird pool cleaning chemicals or expensive art which may or may not even exist. Clean money comes flowing in from guests who prepaid the entire stay, and nobody can audit what services were actually provided.

    They can also house all the illegal immigrant workers, so they don’t need to go outside in the real society. These workers can also be moved to other locations easily, when the “Illuminati” needs new blood in MarLago or Epstein island.

    So if you want to whitewash money to pay assassins and dispose of dead bodies while cooking meth and trafficking prostitutes: A luxury resort might just be the thing for you.