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Cake day: January 20th, 2023

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  • Hmmm, for buying automatically, you might be looking into Bandcamp Clubs. You pick one of such “clubs” and you get one album into your library each month that you can keep forever.

    For downloading, there’s Batchcamp.

    I personally don’t mind visiting the website whenever I have some spare time each month to get something. I also have a task that reminds me of Bandcamp Friday (spoiler: it’s the 1st Friday of almost each month). In the months when there’s no Bandcamp Friday, I just mark the task as complete and move on.





  • 100 years

    It did look old tbh. Wow, you really held on to it. Here in Bucharest, we also have snow plowers, the ITB 3VU:

    We also have the ITB 1VU, which is the model in the background of the same pic, but I haven’t seen it in action in the latter years. They must have phased it out maybe, since it was 20 years older than the former, made in the 1980s.

    Also, another thing that I do not remember having was trams connected to train lines, as we never had cargo trams (afaik). There is still however a branch line to the former locomotive factory Faur, which somehow also got modernized with the rest of the section in 2007 or so, despite the factory almost closing (now I don’t think it produces anything anymore, only renting their spaces): google.com/maps/@44.4268207,26…

    (somehow, the Google car managed to catch it right as a bus was blocking it, but you can tell by the catenary that it’s new).


  • That remains to be seen. I think there are multiple factors that can be put into the equation here. Don’t forget that Europe has the biggest share in supporting Ukraine, and that the Baltics are also at the most vulnerable time in recent history (given the US support is now in question). If Trump decides to strike Greenland at the same time as Putin taking action in the Baltics and taking over the Suwalki corridor, then it will be a huge burden on the European defense resources. I really don’t know what their strategy might be, but I think they do not want to antagonize Trump that much until the primaries, when they hope the US Democrats will make a return. I hope they do build some resilience as a plan B in the meanwhile.

    It’s anyway a good diplomatic response imo. I do not have hope that Trump really understands the message (as with anything that cannot be put into a cheap reality show), but I am relieved that at least the European leaders are not on the same page as MAGA in regard to creating a world where might makes right.