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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • That woman (Alice Weidel) is a rollercoaster of contradictions:

    • She is one of the leaders of the far-right and nationalist party AfD, but lives in Switzerland herself.
    • She lives with her girlfriend but refuses to call herself queer and voted against gay marriage
      • her girlfriend voted pro gay marriage in Switzerland
    • Said girlfriend is a Swiss immigrant, originating from Sri Lanka, but Weidel promotes the typical anti-immigrant politics you’d expected from a right wing nut job


  • The only thing that can stop a bad guy with e2e encryption is not letting the good guys have e2e encryption! (or something like that)

    The topic of freedom vs security is as old as statesmanship and philosophy, and most would agree that at least some freedoms must be given up to achieve an appropriate amount of safety. The problem however comes with human psychology: while by most metrics we are at record levels safety in these modern times, this doesn’t reflect into the human perception - it just becomes the new baseline. If this wasn’t the case, there wouldn’t even be a debate to give up the fundamental freedom of privacy just to provide whatever sliver of extra security this might possibly yield.


  • And one final interesting fact, our sun is actually moving at 200km/s, as is earth, and everything else in our solar system, as it moves around the milky way.

    To be fair, nothing is ever stationary except in very specific frames of reference. I think it’s usually fair to say that the sun is stationary because most of the time when we discuss observations involving the sun, those observation happen within our solar system so the sun is the frame of reference. Otherwise you’d have to constantly point out that a house, tree, mountain or whatever is not stationary, because it moves with the earth.