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Cake day: December 20th, 2023

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  • I don’t like cats, mainly for two reasons:

    1. I am allergic and they just make me feel bad on a physical level
    2. Cats, as any animals, require care, and responsible owners add it to the list of their burdens. It’s like constantly having a baby that never grows up - cats can wake you up in the middle of the night, force you to remove feces, etc.

    I, however, love people, and am far from being selfish or narcissistic. People around me often find me warm, comforting, and supportive.




  • You mean, against Russians, people that form a quarter of its own population?

    For what it’s worth, Latvian policymakers are so russophobic even the EU makes sure to calm them down once in a while.

    And as for international policy against Russia, Latvia is generally following EU guidelines, so they don’t hit Russia the state in any special way.

    Latvians themselves, in the meanwhile, have split opinions - nationalists, moderates and russophiles are all present, with varying shares across regions and age brackets.

    Upd.: I must assume all those downvotes are a knee-jerk. To clarify: I stand against actions of Russia the state, but what Latvian government does to Russians the people, its own citizens, is nothing short of tragedic, with a country on course to become an ethnostate.

    This has led European Union to force Latvia to recognize Russians as an ethnic minority and grant them basic access to culture, language etc. that was stripped in an attempt to erase Russian identity within the country’s borders. For the first time in years, Russian kids born in Latvia can have access to extracurricular classes on Russian language and culture; previously they were completely confined to Latvian ones, with any alternatives strictly prohibited.









  • Not a fan, but it generally boils down not to where they can fly but how they differ in other aspects, mainly cost.

    SpaceX is currently the world pioneer in heavy reusable rockets, which is another way to say they are the only ones to launch big stuff up there so cheap, and it gets even better.

    They are essentially doing the good side of capitalism - making stuff cheaper - applied to space, one of the most expensive industries in the world.