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  • A dog without leash shows that the owner hasn’t bothered taking dog training classes or in the case of my country that they haven’t bothered learning the law. If they can’t be bothered to do that, I worry that they are not responsible enough to take care of the dog, and they shouldn’t be allowed to own a dog. Dog ownership ought to require a license or mandatory training.

    The person using the perfume might also not even know about the issue, but in that case, I don’t think it makes sense to blame the consumer. There are simply too many types of products that are potentially dangerous when used wrong. Perhaps the seller ought to have warned about it, but I doubt that would make much difference. You can still be upset about it being produced. Lots of things are like that.

    Sometimes you can blame the consumer and sometimes you can’t.


  • If you’re a mathematician how can you be dissing 5 like that?

    Less than? Hell no.

    5 is soo much more and soo many things that 25 isn’t and never will be.

    Without 5 you wouldn’t even have 25. Some might even say that 5 is the root of 25. Show some respect for the roots.

    Not only is 5 a beautiful prime number, it’s also the perfect number for a geometric shape. Everyone knows what a pentagon looks like. The Pentagon even named their institution as that. They didn’t name it after 25. Who the hell has ever heard of the icosikaiopentagon? Nobody, that’s who.

    Look at the American flag. It has 50 stars. Guess which shape they have? That’s right, each of the 50 states have stars with 5 points. Exactly 0 of them chose to have a 25 pointed star.

    You know what a bad number is? Yes: 25.

    25 is a shitty composite number. It’s shitty because it’s not even good at being a composite number; having only a measly 3 factors: One, itself and 5 (of all things, duh…)

    That’s because it’s square and boring. Does it even look square to you? This uneven 25 is supposedly a square. I never made a square of 25 things. What’s the fucking point in that? If I had to make a square for any purpose whatsoever, I’d definitely chose a better number with many more factors, so I could actually use the squaredness to divide things and mark mid points and what not. 4 is a square. 16 is a square. They’re so much better at being square than 25, because you can cut them in half and make a grid with a midpoint.

    So, yeah yeah, there are probably other numbers out there greater than 5, but it sure as fuck is not 25.


  • Norway did it in 2015, and it seems to have been a success.

    There has been surprisingly little debate about it here in Denmark. I haven’t heard a single argument against it.

    It should be noted that the draft is for training only, and that it’s possible for pacifists to opt out of the military training by doing work for other institutions.

    Personally I think it might be a great help for modernizing the military, because they’ll need to rethink the old “one size fits all” procedures.







  • I feel the same way about Charles Bukowski. I can read, understand and appreciate the books without liking the guy. He also paints himself in a negative picture, but the thoughts are still worth considering or just knowing of. Whether or not it’s intended, I think it’s okay for litterature to provoke the reader to think that the author is wrong or plain crazy, because at least it makes me think about stuff instead of just entertaining my existing views.

    I did read Lila 25 yeas ago, but I hardly remember it. It’s been a long time since I last read any books at all. Perhaps I ought to give it a second chance.


  • It’s worth a read.

    I think it’s often frowned upon for being somewhat of a naive juvenile pocket philosophical rambling, or the dairy of a madman, but I’d say that it introduces some valid points about the concept of quality that you can then think about yourself.

    It’s definitely on my top 10 list of books. Not because it’s great, but because I can often relate to it in miscellaneous situations even 30 years after reading it.



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    Retirement age was recently raised to 70 in Denmark, but I’m honestly not even that pissed off about it, because I think it might finally be the key for people to understand and act upon something that is much more important:

    Retirement is not and has never been the carrot on a stick that excuses wasting most of your life on working.

    There’s no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for those who choose to endure 50 years of wage slavery. The cake is a lie, and if you didn’t get it before, you’ll surely get it now that the promised retirement is getting pushed further and further away. Fuck retirement. You’ll likely never get to it, so you need to live now.

    You need to make your life worthwhile through the entirety of it. If that life includes paid work, you need to make paid work worthwhile.

    Sure, it’s a lot of work in itself to make the conditions for your paid work better, but we have to start demanding just that and it’s really easy to get started: Join a union.






  • Yes patterns, but also basic physical resonance.

    Sounds in harmony creates more powerful standing waves which will affect your cochlea more than noise.

    Whether that is also more pleasant will depend on context, but music will definitely get your attention more easily than random sounds due to this basic physical property.

    Pretty much everything in the universe are frequencies. Things that resonate are simply more powerful better than things that don’t.