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I read an article this morning about how Warsaw has become one of the best places in Europe to find Vegan and vegetarian restaurants, and the ‘political connotations ‘ of this… apparently the political right in Poland regards this as dangerously subversive, and believes that everyone should be patriotic and eat meat 😉
Do you ever eat in vegan restaurants? Are they popular where you live? There are very few or no purely Vegan places here where I am,AFAIK.
Man, they have made Reddit so unusable that even for basic tasks I need to switch to old Reddit. I really don’t know how long this site will remain functional. If old.reddit is gone, I will probably have to stop altogether. I don’t even like old.reddit!
Last night I started thinking about a movie with Michael Jordan and Looney Tunes characters, where he was a baseball player but then had to play basketball in order to save the world from alien invasion or something? It sounded so random that I thought I am making it up, but it turns out I am not! Man, Space Jam was so long ago. There should be more movies like that and Who Framed Roger Rabbit that feature humans and cartoon characters together. It was so much fun.
I’m almost there! One essential contact away from being able to delete Whatsapp, and switching to Signal.
My brother said that no one was sure what the Trump buyout mentioned the other day means. Perhaps you’d be placed on administrative leave or a lower level workload until you fully jump off the boat. It’s unclear if you could take another position until the transition period is over, especially if you have access to classified information. If it was free money, he might be tempted to jump and join one of the contracting companies.
Anyways, it looks like my current job will end soon. Some of my colleagues have been leaving for the past year or so. It looks like Iike most ended up in one of the national labs (government owned privately operated labs for various civilian science or military projects). Others have ended up at other similar facilities more orientated towards military production. Apparently, the ladder has been hiring a lot.
UMK will be held next weekend, which is the song competition where they choose the Finnish song for Eurovision. From what I gather so far there is one song that’s by far the early favourite, [Ich komme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFWtYcKb7C8) by Erika Vikman. It’s very strange with vast tonal shifts from the verses to choruses, but it’s quite the banger, I hope it wins. I saw some foreign Eurovision nerds be very excited about it and call it an early favourite for the big competition too, we’ll see.
I think there might be an eurodance renaissance in our future. The hyperpop movement that spawned out of the UK rave scene about a decade ago didn’t quite explode into the mainstream, but it might have been a prelude to eurodance coming back. Some of it was very eurodance inspired, I mean, The Vengaboys even did a cover of Charli xcx’s 1999. I think the cultural and political ethos in Europe is suitable for that kind of frivolous, cute and shallow (on the surface at least) music becoming very popular.
Speaking of eurodance and songs with German titles, the guy who did Eins zwei polizei is apparently Italian? I only learnt this yeasterday.