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Cake day: August 8th, 2023

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  • The things that annoy us are things we are not used to. There are hundreds of things in your life that are equally annoying but since they have always been that way you don’t notice them. That’s why babies are the way they are. Everything us new and annoying.

    I had the same instinct to tear them off but I told myself to not be a toddler and just got used to it within a week.




  • My general impression is that India are really good at scientific innovation and so on but only because the incredible inequality allows India to channel its resources so that it can be on par with other countries a fraction it’s size.

    If they did the work required to lift the poor regions out of poverty, and sometimes just straight up feudalism, the country would become a proper superpower with far reaching cultural impact but right now India seem to slide further into Hindu nationalism so now it’s more of a worry for everyone else if India became another dictatorship like china.










  • It depends on where you live I guess. I live in Sweden and bike everywhere so I hit ice and go down at least once or twice every winter. It’s usually black ice in early winter where things look fine and nothing is sanded or salted yet and you hit a curve that is just glass.

    Some neighborhoods don’t plow the local roads so that the cars just pack the snow and Polish it into an icerink. If you then add powdered snow so that it looks fine you can suddenly go down and slide several meters. In those situations you are a bit fucked because there isn’t enough traction to get up again and you have to turtle a bit until you find your footing.

    Summer and spring is mostly fine tough with the exception of 2 collisions from other bikes and once when one of the pedals mechanically failed. This is over more than a decade tough so it sounds like it’s more than it is but it’s still more incidents than my brother have had while driving which is zero.