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Cake day: July 23rd, 2023

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  • I didn’t do it on purpose. It just happened. I guess living out in the sticks does help: it’s not like we don’t have electricity or internet out here, but the first neighbor is 3 miles away, the town is 5 miles, and we have real starry nights here. So it’s quite easy to turn off the light and experience a, quiet peaceful night at the hours at which sleep should be happening naturally.

    I fall asleep around 8 or 9 pm and I wake up around midnight or 1am, watch something quiet and peaceful so I learn something interesting without falling fully awake - and more importantly without waking up the missus - then I simply fall back asleep until 5 am.

    I live above the arctic circle, so when it’s winter, I usually sleep longer. And when it’s summer and it’s daytime all night long, of course I sleep less. But on average, I sleep 2 x 4 hours per night. I feel just as refreshed as when I slept 1 x 8 hours. But perhaps feel less “disconnected”, if that makes any sense.








  • Nope. They’re headed straight towards jackboot dictatorship.

    If nothing else, Trump and his henchmen are proving day after day that the Americans talking big about their god-given Second Amendment right that keeps the government in check as the reason to own so many firearms and overlook so many deaths by firearm was basically a pretense: this is literally the scenario when they swore right and left they would exercise it and they aren’t.

    All a bunch of phoneys, is what they are. And they’re getting the nasty dictatorship they richly deserve.



  • That doesn’t matter: Chávez was the charismatic revolutionary, Maduro is his unloved but definitely authoritarian successor.

    Trump is the charismatic “leader” who got the whole shitshow going, and Vance is ideally placed to entrench the dictatorship, because he won’t need any charisma to do that.

    Although on a personal note, I really fail to see what sort of charisma this crooked crass New York slick his fans can possibly find in him. I really don’t.


  • I think he’ll snuff it soon - or more likely, he’ll become so blatantly deranged that he’ll be impeached because he’ll just have to be. And I think it’ll happen before the end of his term, assuming he doesn’t get impeached by the dems after the midterm elections.

    The immediate danger if that happens is Vance, who’s lying in the shadows and is 10 times more dangerous than Trump, because unlike Trump, he has a working brain.



  • Billionnaires are hoarders. Like all hoarders, they don’t need what they hoard.

    The problem for the rest of us is, instead of hoarding empty tincans or Hello Kitty figurines, they hoard money that they get in large part by not paying their fair share of taxes, and the money they hoard lets them buy politicians who in turn let them steal even more tax money.


  • The death of Henry Kissinger is a heartwarming reminder that life imposes an expiry date on even the most terrible people with power.

    Or as Chaplin said: dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

    A comforting thought in Trump’s America. Because remember: Trump is 79. His expiry date is fast coming - and not a minute too soon, I might add. All we really have to pay attention to is that none of his younger henchmen succeed him.

    That’s the legacy of Henry Kissinger. Damn his rotting corpse.