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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • well, not sure if it works the same everywhere in the world, but here, you first write the graduation thesis and then you have to publicly defend it.

    if the defense committee (or is it an attack committee, since it is the student who is on defense? :D) can’t ask questions in a way to find out whether the student actually wrote the paper and understands the topic, then what fucking pseudo-scientific field is that? (and the answer indeed is - it is economics 😂)











  • i don’t think it is the same problem as privatization of fema. world is not going to change because scientists publish a report and some average joe like you or me says “exactly. time to do something about it!”.

    this change, unfortunately, cannot come from the bottom. i could buy new electric car (if i could afford it), but since i live in a country where 75% of energy comes from fossil fuels, it doesn’t really change anything, it just moves the exhaust pipe from the car to local coal power plant. this needs big structural change and that change will come when and only when the BIG MONEY™ finds out that doing business as usual started to hurt their bottom line and they cannot bullshit their way out of it.

    and to me, the discussed news means we are at that point and they realize that. will they try to cheat and hoard as much money as possible during the process? of course they will, but they would do it anyway, so i am really glad we have at least arrived at this point.