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Cake day: July 23rd, 2023

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  • I don’t have anything against renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, the Gulf of Cuba, the Gulf of Michael Jackson or anything really… provided that 1/ there’s some sort of desire for a new name, 2/ it makes more sense and 3/ everybody in the region agrees.

    Trump’s Gulf of America doesn’t meet any of those criteria: nobody asked for this, it makes no more sense to attribute the name of this gulf to any one of the countries bordering it than to Mexico (and it doesn’t concern the whole of the American continent) and nobody agrees to do this.

    Trump’s Golf of America is strictly a low-effort attempt by Trump to pander to his racist magaque base. And of course, the tech monopolies like Google just ro-ro with that because money.


  • wild kittens may not waddle up to a human

    Our last cat did exactly that. Not that young, but she was a very young kitten and she made a beeline for us across the street and never left us for the next 12 years.

    Or this is staged crap posted by a user on YouTube called KittySOS who appears to repost rescue videos.

    Well okay, that’s possible. But the kitten was still cute in that video, regardless of whether or not it was staged. Surely it wasn’t paid to meow…

    So many people are so cynical about everything on the internet. I don’t know man… I just enjoyed watching the cute cat myself.



  • Basically Finland asked for military assistance from Nazi Germany to keep the Soviet Union at bay. German troops fought the Soviets on Finnish soil. And then when the war turned sour for Germany, Finland turned against Germany and kicked them out - more or less at the behest of the United States.

    Finland’s problem has always been its gigantic aggressive neighbor to the east - and it still has that problem today. It explained its cozy relationship with Nazi Germany by the need to keep a bigger problem at bay. And it was completely true and completely rational.

    But what was also true - and I know it for a fact because I talked to Finns who lived through the war and housed Germans - is that the German troops behaved impeccably in Finland and left a very good impression, even today. The Finns aren’t too proud of that but it’s a fact, and it’s even understandable from the point of view of individual Finns of the time.

    After the war, not wanting to lose a potential ally in the newly-established Cold War, the US sort of accepted Finland’s rationale and let it slide. Kind of like they did with France too, which equally deserved a lot more flak than they got.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland_in_World_War_II