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Cake day: January 23rd, 2026

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  • Yes in theory, euthanasia should be a thing. The problem is that we live under capitalism, and therefore this will always be abused to kill the poor. It already happened in a few countries that allowed it, I believe Canada is one of them.

    The problem is that we think or these options in an ideal world/in isolation but our world is soo far from that… that for this to be debated seriously we have soo much work ahead of us, before we are even close to the state where something like this should remotely be allowed.


  • I recently switched to Proton, mostly to get out of Gmail and Hotmail.

    I did this firstly to get out of the yankee services, not because I trust Proton: their claims of private mail are mostly bullshit, and they do clearly behave like a CIA honeypot, so I don’t trust them (as I didn’t trust the other two), so I use the free account (also there are increasingly fewer and fewer free options nowadays) just to get emails that I’m more than okay being known, or where my domain emails don’t work.

    Everything else goes to an assortment of addresses on my webstorage with my domain, running on a national server outside of all the cursed 9/14/etc eyes. Even still I expect them to be fully visible under a court order. But I get no one actively profiting off their info, and get no spam there. So I’m very happy with the change.



  • Now this is an unexpected take, and granted you might be right, but I always understood the prisioner’s dilema as a restricted view of relations between individuals at very similar status, or in this case of the same class in similar circumstances.

    I did see an old Richard Dawkins documentary’s about this many years ago, before we became a massive prick, and it did inform my view of this particular thought experiment. But I always took the tit-for-tat response to it, as an indicator of reasonable response to people on the level with you. Obviously, your manager/boss/etc will rarely give you a favourable answer, to begin with, or when it does it’s with the prospect of getting something extra out of you, it’s more of a prisioner-warden relationship.