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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • If you’re not having fun with Mario Kart you should play Drinking Mario Kart. Everyone gets a beverage of their choice. By the end of the race it has to be empty. But because we are all responsible adults we don’t drink and drive. In order to take a sip (or down the whole thing) you have to drive off the track (or to the side, whatever is possible) and come to a complete halt.

    Loser drinks one more because they are a loser. And the winner drinks one more to celebrate.



  • Actually for my kids at least it’s different. They’re so used to ad blocked YouTube and ad-free Netflix. That when the adblocker fails for whatever reason they get first delighted to see something new and very soon after annoyed at having to see that shit all the time and cry for someone to help them.

    We watch regular TV so little. The other day we didn’t have internet for several hours, maybe a few days. That’s when we discovered that the TV is actually too far away to reach the cable of the satellite dish.




  • Still that’s a solved problem. You just use different color coded papers for each item that has to be voted on.

    I really don’t get the US’s difficulties with paper votes. It’s so easy to understand literal preschoolers can understand it. I know because our children voted on meal choices in preschool every time an election happened in Germany.

    It’s super transparent. You can just watch the counts or even count them yourself if you doubt them.

    It’s fast. If you have enough voting districts counting takes an hour or two. Maybe a few more if you have a big district with many different issues to vote on.

    Almost everyone can understand how it works. Even many literally mentally disabled people. I find this to be the most compelling argument for paper voting. You leave noone behind. It’s a super simple concept to grasp that reaches every citizen. But with electronic voting you need to have a degree in computer science to understand that it is not transparent at all what is happening inside the machine.