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Cake day: August 12th, 2025

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  • You won’t get everyone to stop, obviously, just like there are a lot of people who still smoke. But there are much fewer people who smoke now than in the sixties and even than in 2000.

    And you have to keep trying to help people to stop, because – using the smoking analogy again – now we have vaping as a gateway drug to smoking, and quitting rates are much lower in third-world countries.

    Anyways, I did quit FB, instagram and never had a twitter/X account. Phasing out reddit as well. Not trying to be harsh, but the fact that you didn’t make it doesn’t mean no one else can.










  • American revolutionists would like to have a word… And even though after the French revolution times were bad you can ask yourself whether they would have been any better off if the revolution hadn’t occurred. Even if the French themselves weren’t better off, fear of revolution triggered other authoritarian monarchs, like the Dutch king to agree to massive reforms. It’s not always a simple A-leads-to-B connection.