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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • “We store the information we collect in secure servers located in the People’s Republic of China”

    Now you Americans know how we Europeans feel when Google, Amazon and Facebook store our information on American servers. Hint: The protective wall between Chinese servers and their government are about as good as the one between American servers and their government - at least for non-US citizens. The last thin veil of privacy for Eurpeans has been ripped to shreds by Trump last week.

















  • Reminds me of a story, but I don’t know if this actually happened:

    An architect was asked to plan a new university campus. He presented his plans with all the different buildings, but people were astonished: “You have not planned any paths in your layout!”. Architect: “We’ll just sow grass everywhere. A year later, we will know where to put the paths.”


  • Same shit with American custom forms. On the one hand, they threaten you with Armageddon if you fill out the form incorrectly, on the other hand, they only allow plain letters, numbers, and a handful of special characters. Nobody there has the capacity of the mind that maybe a name cannot be correctly represented with that tiny subset of characters. So it is simply impossible to fill out that form without breaking the law. And it is a customs form, so they should know that people filling it out are most likely foreigners.