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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • It’s not that NATO is weak, it’s more a combination of Ukraine being in some sort of a political heritage gray zone and of the insidious way in which amoral corporations became bloated monsters with an insatiable appetite, got its’ tentacles in every corner of the world with no oversight, a process that began during the reagan and thatcher era.


  • The thing about any crackpot argument for “ancient electricity” that just dawned on me, is that they call it The Bronze Age for a reason, the ancients insisted on the versatility of their metal (bronze = copper + tin) over its’ conductivity (pure copper).

    There was a more ancient Copper Age, but it was brief, bronze was the definition of a technological leap forward.








  • Focusing solely on the movie-going experience, I would love to live in a city like LA or NYC where they have a few theaters with added technological features, like 70mm IMAX and/or 4K projectors and/or rumble seats (those must have been amazing with something like Mad Max: Fury Road).

    There’s at least one 60FPS theater in NYC, it must be wild to watch a film like that just by itself, or even WILDER, in 3D.
    But I believe there are a few theaters in Asia - probably in places like Singapore and Shanghai, but don’t quote me on that - that screened Ang Lee’s “Gemini Man” in the incredible-sounding combination of 120FPS in 4K and 3D, they said it was like the screen dissolved and you were watching the action happening through a huge rectangular hole in the wall.