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Good Morning! This morning I woke up very early…I was thinking of a song ‘It’s 5 in the morning, the end of November’… and it was indeed 5 in the morning and the end of November;-)
Anyway, Jakarta has officially become (according to UN statistics) the most populous city in the world, with just over 42 million people in the wider urban area.
Despite this it is IMHO one of the least interesting major cities in the world, with little to see and do for the tourist, compared to many other major cities.
Have any of you been there? If not,is it a place you might visit one day?
Ice roads are not a thing of the past: a group of volunteers is making one between two villages, shortening the driving distance between them from 25 kilometers of regular roads, to just one kilometer. Article in Finnish, video doesn’t need language skills: [https://yle.fi/a/74-20195974](https://yle.fi/a/74-20195974) They make holes in the ice, pump additional water on top of the existing ice, and the road is expected to be strong enough for traffic next week.
The article mentions that the temperature during filming was -26C. Living at the other end of Finland, the last time I experienced that temperature was a couple of years ago, it’s quite rare here.
It was so much fun looking through cooking subreddit titles yesterday. “Green been casserole: soup wasn’t condensed!” I have no idea what any of that means but it’s also so cool that so many people speak a common food language and everyone seems to be helping each other. Someone’s dog ate the turkey. Another person had ham drama. So interesting.
Speaking of drama, I saw that r/Art is under lock and key due to a user revolt after bad m*d behavior. I checked r/outoftheloop but the explanation is even wilder. That’s the biggest art subreddit so it being locked is a big deal I guess.
More drama, but real life! My brother’s workplace has only been paying half of the wages since a few months. The country is circling the drain.
Did you have your daily dose of thinking about past country already?
The GLA (terrorist) campaign of CNC generals has a really weird unit: the angry mob. The iconic Arm the Mob (with AK 47s) upgrade actually arms them with futuristic Guass AK-47s that can tear through the toughest armor even though your actual soldiers’ AKs can barely scratch light vehicles. Unfortunately, they are extremely vulnerable to splash damage (including your own arsenal of warcrimes) and the American sniper units.
Do you guys have [Cornelian cherries?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornus_mas) For the longest time I thought what Americans call cranberry is our Cornelian cheery, but it turns out it is an entirely different plant.
I am craving them so badly right now. They’re available in winter, very tart, very red, very delicious. They make the best jam and you can make a delicious drink from them. But impossible to buy here. I should plant one, but I don’t know if it’ll thrive in this climate.
Today’s fleamarket find, a European made maroon mid-calf double breasted wool-cashmere blend [overcoat](https://i.imgur.com/QPZsAyv.jpeg) for 10€, lmao what? Not buying it would have been unethical.
I’ve been watching the WRC season finale Rally Saudi-Arabia this weekend. It’s the penultimate day today. Love me a bit of sportswashing.
It’s a three way title fight, but the rally is pretty much just a lottery of tyre punctures. Such rough conditions that every stage somebody gets a puncture. Not exactly the type of event you’d want to see a championship be decided at, but oh well.