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Cake day: October 17th, 2023

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  • I just think of how the Swedish press acts the day after the Nobel Prize party.

    There are always huge parts of the press devoted the the dresses worn at the event.

    It is funny, usually the royals often rewear dresses and jewelry from their past, especially later years as reusing have become more important, the queen and princesses also ofter share dresses, Victoria has on several occasions worn dresses from Silvia’s wardrobe.



  • I seem to be missing something here…

    If I understand FPTP correctly, it means that only the majority holder of votes in a single district gets full representation of that district, right?

    So if A gets 51% and B gets 49%, A gets to represent the entire district, right?

    Without FPTP, the district result doesn’t matter at all, since it is the total number of votes that matter, not a designated winner of a district.

    So since the result of a district election doesn’t matter for the end result of the election, there is little point to spend time and resources to gerrymander anymore.

    Have I understood the issue correctly?












  • Dear Mr. Bezos, instead of pushing for increased energy use to create more slop, how about making something truly meaningful?

    You have the money to do a LOT good, you also have the resources and contact to actually do it.

    Here is a suggestion:

    Set up a fund with 10 billion USD, have it managed to produce a decent, but predictable return every year.

    Take another billion USD, and fund a non-profit organization that will develop the following:

    1. A semi autonomous garbage collecting boat, powered by solar power.
    2. A mothership for number 1 with a processing facility that takes the garbage collected by a a fleet of the smaller crafts, basically dry it, filter the water and compact the dry gargabe.
    3. A high power incinerator at a port that can burn the garbage at a very high temp.

    At the end you should have a large fleet of the semi autonomous garbage collectors, a minimum of two motherships and a port side incinerator.

    Deploy the garbage collectors and motherships to the great garbage patch and set to work cleaning up the surface.

    As the initial funding for the company dries up the funding of the organization should come from the returns of the fund set up earlier.

    The organization should accept donations and build more garbage collectors and motherships, and also develop new methods of collecting garbage from the oceans.