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May day is approaching at a steady state (every 24 hours, an entire day goes by in Finland). I haven’t been to any May day activity in a long, long time but now I think about it, I struggle to come up with anything May day related that would interest me.
Maybe I’ll just break my routine and go eat in a bistro or something, after a morning at a birding tower. Strong and cold north winds are keeping migration back, meaning when it changes or dies down, we can expect massive amounts.
I saw a really nice park that was duck heaven. The man made lake in the middle was full of nothing but ducks, a few geese, and one turtle that was just sitting on a random rock or piece of debris for no reason. In front of a minidam that created the lake, I saw some female ducks with their ducklings (seems to range from 3 to 7). There was some really peculiar behavior from one mother who was quite aggressive in attacking another mother and one or two of the nearby males. The other mother just left while one of the males started attacking another male. Was the aggressive female perhaps angry at her partner for not being aggressive enough? I don’t know what was going on.
Anyways at least they avoided the paved paths and didn’t shit all over the place unlike the geese. I think their nice/asshole ratio is still better.
Also apparently ducks sleep with their head turned 180 degrees to rest on their body. I saw a few males sleeping.
There are a bunch of Americans on a Discord channel I am member of who are discussing their recent/planned gun purchases. It is so weird people just talking casually about buying guns. One of them even said “I need to buy one, too”. Why would a person need to buy a gun?
I guess I just have to accept that it is a different culture and so on, but… Man, this is a Harry Potter fanfiction discord? Like, one of the guys is a tow truck driver from Idaho who writes female Harry Potter fics and now also owns a gun and seems to be very fond of it. Duality of man, I suppose.
I haven’t written anything in a while. It seems like I can either read or write at a given time but not both.
Cyrus the Great founded the city of Pasargadae to serve as the capital of the Achaemenid Empire. Later, Darius the Great founded Persepolis to do the same thing, even though as far as I know Pasargadae still existed. Another ancient new city meant to serve as a capital that pops to mind is Akhnaten’s Amarna. And I think St. Petersburg too, founded by Peter the Great.
I wonder when the current tyrants we have on our earth, or tyrant-wannabes, will start to do shit like that? Just decide that it’s time for a new capital somewhere and move everything there. I know there are planned capitals, like Brasília or Canberra, new ones being set up like I think in Egypt, but they don’t feel the same.
Like, would you be surprised if Trump suddenly decided to set up Trump City somewhere and build his ballrooms with gilded accents there? I kinda want that to happen, just to see how it would go. I think the Saudi line project is probably the closest to this, but it’s not a capital.
If I was a megalomaniac tyrant, which I basically am just without any power or money, I’d 100% found a new capital.