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Cake day: July 21st, 2023

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  • The descent became a downslide and now it’s an avalanche.

    No, it hasn’t always been that bad. Stupidity happens. It is human. Most times people were able to keep stupidity in check.

    That’s why democracy was invented, by the way. It was founded on the belief that a collective can be more reasonable than a single or small group.

    Not saying that reason were the opposite of stupidity (that would be wisdom), but reason is a means to keep stupidity in check.


  • leading to all out war and global catastrophe.

    I doubt it.

    Unlike your typical nice bar brawl, not everybody is actually that eager to get involved in an exchange of nukes, and alliances get sometimes weaker when the risks get higher.

    I wasn’t getting into the literal size of bomb impact areas vs global surface area.

    Of course you are free to build your opinion on whatever speculation you like the most.

    Did you know that a good share of all American nukes are mounted on short range missiles that can travel only 100 km or so? Some people were considering funny scenarios there…


  • I suggest to read about Hiroshima, and what really happened there, and afterwards.

    Here’s a good book: Hibakusha: Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki https://a.co/d/8KS4RXC

    One bomb kills people in a circle of 10 or 50 km (I forgot), and injures people maybe 100km around. Then it does damage to nature maybe even 1000 km around. I live 2000km from Chernobyl, and we had some warnings regarding vegetables for a year or so.

    But the planet has a circumference of 40.000 km. Now let your thoughts run around the planet.