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Cake day: February 20th, 2025

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  • On Monday, prominent Democrats including the Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren demanded an investigation of possible criminal corruption involving Starlink, citing “the Federal Aviation Administration’s decision to cancel a $2.4bn contract with Verizon to upgrade air traffic control communications, and to pay … Musk’s Starlink to help manage US airspace”.

    The SpaceX and Tesla billionaire denies conflicts of interest. Trump has said if conflicts are found, they will be addressed.

    That’s like the fox promising to make sure the henhouse is safe.

    I don’t know how there could not be a conflict of interest.











  • We’ve become a society of instant gratification, to the point where having to wait a week for an online delivery feels like a hardship!

    I dont know the solution either. As individuals we can try to not chose the “easy” over the “good”, allow ourselves a little bit of discomfort for the better good. Learn to live a little bit slower. I don’t know how to translate that to a whole society.

    Just my $0.02 to add, I guess.







  • I haven’t watched any movies on GEM yet (my smart tv is too old and doesn’t support it) but scrolling through to see what’s available, it looks like there’s lots of good stuff!

    Here’s a few I’ve watched in the past.

    • ROOM(based on the book by Emma Donoghue) heart wrenching. Definitely some trigger warnings but very good. Highly recommend the book too
    • Snowpiercer (based on a Graphic Novel) post apocalyptic dark and twisty sci-fi. The tv show is better imo, but the movie is still good.
    • The Holiday classic early 2000s feel good rom-com
    • Atanarjuat: the Fast Runner. The first movie to be completely written, acted, directed in the Inuktitut language, and
    • Napoleon Dynamite I think you could call it a cult classic, and definitely hugely influential at the time.
    • The Grand Budapest Hotel Wes Anderson, what more need I say.