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Cake day: February 1st, 2021

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    • Yet another racism scandal in the Finnish parliament, PM Petteri Orpo gets to clean the mess again
    • Still no peace deal in Ukraine
    • Yet another impeachment attempt on Trump that goes as well as the previous ones
    • Some AAA game company releases a big-budget title that turns out to be a complete buggy mess (like MindsEye)
    • Some Big Tech social media platform falls victim to enshittification, leading to a refugee wave to the Fediverse
    • The civil war among Republicans continues, maybe leads into abandoning Trump?


  • Basically many movies from the 90s Disney Renaissance era:

    • Hercules
    • Aladdin
    • Pocahontas
    • Tarzan
    • Mulan

    And of course the Pixar movies from that era:

    • Toy Story
    • A Bug’s Life

    James Bond flicks:

    • GoldenEye
    • Tomorrow Never Dies
    • The World is Not Enough
    • Die Another Day

    Other movies:

    • The Mask
    • Home Alone 1 & 2
    • Ace Ventura
    • Spirited Away
    • The first Pokemon movie
    • The Matrix 1–3
    • Kummeli Kultakuume
    • Pahat Pojat
    • Pitkä Kuuma Kesä
    • South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
    • Jurassic Park
    • Jurassic Park: The Lost World

    Note that several of these movies weren’t for kids, but I got to watch them regardless.


  • I don’t think libertarianism works, it relies naively on how the free market is omnipotent, how freedom is everything and how having a small government is somehow good. There are no countries that are entirely libertarian, that also tells a lot about the ideology’s applicability in practice. A brilliant book about why libertarianism doesn’t work is a book “A Libertarian Walks into a Bear”. In the book, a group of libertarians decides to take over the small town of Grafton in New Hampshire en masse as part of their “Free Town Project”. Of course this group cares neither about the town’s original inhabitants nor their rights. What’s the result? They hollow out pretty much everything from the library, to the school, the fire department and the police. No regard is given to any laws on hunting or food disposal, and that lures in bears, who turn so aggressive that they invade people’s homes. In addition to bears, sex offenders and all kinds of criminals are also lured into Grafton. It’s pretty entertaining book, I recommend it.

    Another reason why I dislike libertarianism is that it can function as a gateway to fascism. This is a known phenomenon. Several key figures in the alt-right for example used to be libertarians. I stumbled into a clip from some American Libertarian Party convention where Richard Spencer was with Ron Paul. I had to rub my eyes a bit.


















  • He was inconsiderate when he made edgy jokes, tried to test if those two Fiver guys really would put up a sign saying “gas the Jews” and once said the N-word in a livestream – controversy ensued for obvious reasons and he since apologized for his actions. I haven’t been really following him in the last few years but after those controversies he left any Nazi jokes out, I think he learned his lessons. He has since settled down with a family and it has been pleasant following his life, especially now that he has gotten into Linux.

    But don’t tell anything like that to the average Internet leftist! Even if PewDiePie apologized and left edgy jokes out, changed and moved on, in their eyes he is eternally a Nazi or Nazi-enabler who can never redeem himself! No matter how many years have passed, no matter how many apologies, any time PewDiePie gets mentioned in a post or is the main topic, this happens.