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Cake day: April 24th, 2024

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  • At first I only read that it was a building housing finance institutions, so I figured he had probably just snapped and figured he’d attack the world of finance. So crazy, but driven by the state of everything rather than by some random sports career.

    I didn’t see that it also housed the NFL. Makes the Football story a lot more plausible. So the CEO might indeed just have been a random bystander like anyone else at the scene.

    In either case it’s obviously not a defendable of constructive thing to do, I just speculated that maybe there’s bigger things in America to lose your mind over than football. Maybe I was wrong.

    In either case it’s a reflection of the mental health crisis.


  • He shot a Blackstone CEO, yet when I search for him the media reports on his football career as a potential reason?

    What the hell? America is not in a position where the assassination of CEOs needs to be explained. The question is how some of them can still show their faces in public.

    Edit: See comments below. I’m dumb and/or jumping to conclusions too quickly.






  • The Commission has no law-making power on its own. They can open proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union to verify compliance with existing laws, or they propose legislation that will have to go through other EU institutions (the Parliament, which is elected, and the Council, which consists of representatives from Member State governments).

    The job of the Commission is to propose laws. The job of the other institutions is to reject these laws if they are stupid. The Commission opening an investigation does not mean that the EU is “adopting similar regulations” - it is an extremely long way away from that.

    And even the Commission itself is likely to contain a wide spectrum of opinions within it - it tends to be a strange political constellation. So until there’s a Commission proposal (as happened with chat control) there’s really nothing. After the Commission proposal, we need to make sure it’s stopped by pressuring national governments (Council) and elected MEPs (Parliament).







  • I think it reveals that the antagonist is more used to hunting humans than animals, and that referring to the target as an “it” takes a bit of getting used to.

    For the movie it might help make the stakes seem a bit higher, underlining that this is no ordinary hunt.

    But also of course it hints that he know the identity. Especially so maybe when he feels the need to correct himself - the vicar gets the feeling something is off.


  • I have Microsoft Outlook accounts with two different universities.

    Outlook does not work with Thunderbird or any other app besides the official Outlook one, which doesn’t exist for Linux. Even if it did I wouldn’t want to install it. So I am forced to use web mail.

    Even though the domain names are different, Outlook freaks the fuck out at the notion that one could be signed in with two different Microsoft accounts in the same web browser. It’s hard to access my inbox for one university without completely signing out of my inbox for the other.

    Now I just allocate one university to container A, and the other to container B. It’s just one of the many hoops I have to jump through to make e-mail barely functional in 2025.