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This morning I decided to screw it and stay in bed an hour longer. It seems like the train I would normally have taken was so late (again) that I would have missed my connecting train anyway. So I finally managed to score against DB lmao.
All these talks about military and security are giving me post Vietnam flashbacks to the Covid pandemic.
About half a year into the pandemic, we were ready to submit a grant proposal to a call. I was new, it had been hard to get collaborators and I really needed the money. And just when we’re about ready to submit, I get a phone call. The call for proposals was cancelled. After that, it became very hard to get money for anything not covid related. I never could submit that proposal anywhere else, either.
Now with all the talks about increasing military spending, I can’t help but guess where that money will come from.
Maybe I am too pessimistic, I don’t know.
Yesterday I saw a headline saying that some Arctic foxes have again succesfully reproduced in the northernmost parts of Finland but I skipped the news.
Now, searching for it, I find news that are several months old.
Did some algorithm push a months-old piece of news to my feed? Weird. Would have been nice to hear it’s going better for them again.
This morning I was woken up at 4:50 am by a Breaking News notification on my phone, because Anora won best picture.
Was that really necessary?