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Cake day: July 23rd, 2023

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  • There’s a growing sense that Donald “TACO” Trump’s threats are hollow.

    Also, more and more people are realizing that there’s no appeasing a dictator - especially a feckless one like this one. If you cave in, you’ll get on the orange utan’s wrong side eventually anyway and it will all have been for nothing. So why even bother…

    And finally, let’s not forget that Trump’s tariff are illegal. when (if?) America gets its collective brain unscrambled and rein him in, and annul the illegal tariffs, India will have lost nothing if they just waited.







  • Cars make people lose 20 IQ points the minute they step inside.

    My theory is that cars, being uniquely private spaces moving on public roads, become bubbles of highly territorial spaces that people feel compelled to defend in what they perceived to be a “not-theirs”, adversarial environment. And when people feel the need to defend their own shit, they become aggressive.

    That’s one of the minor reasons why I quit driving: even I, an utterly placid man who really, REALLY doesn’t care about his car all that much, feel slightly more agitated and more on the defensive when I hit the road. I don’t like the feeling of becoming more aggressive and stupid.


  • Concentration camps were for prolonged confinement

    That is not what defines concentration camps.

    Concentration camps, or internment camps, are prisons where people who are arbitrarily targeted by the regime are detained - more often than not in inhumane conditions - without due process. It doesn’t matter if it’s for 5 minutes or 5 years.

    Most Nazi concentration camps were transit camps, designed to, well concentrate people in increasingly high numbers. And in a lot of “final” camps, people got in and were sent off to the gas chambers within hours of arriving there.