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Monthly Archive June, 2024

Before the Start of Euro 2024

I guess it sounds fitting to have 24 teams in Euro 2024, but it’s just too much. It also makes for a weird competition format, with third placed teams indirectly competing with each other in a way that can’t possibly be fair and pairings and routes for the knockout phases that can’t be known ahead […]

European Parliament Elections 2024 – Vote, Push Back, Keep Fighting

I’m about to go out to vote, and over here that means casting no less than five votes today, since our officials have decided to lump our local elections together with those for the European Parliament. On the other hand, in a few other countries the European elections have already taken place over these past […]

Quick Review: Imparatia Ultimului Cerb (The Kingdom of the Last Stag)

I’m not at all keen on reading in Romanian in general, and fantasy that’s actually written in Romanian in particular is something that just doesn’t seem to work, or at least my, admittedly very few, past experiences showed that I just can’t deal with it. So my expectations of this book were low, but it […]

Bookfest 2024, Another Game Received and a Flickering Light Bulb

Since I still can’t make myself write about the half marathon, as in the actual run, but Thursday I went to Bookfest, I guess I’ll write about that now, to have a second post for the week, and I’ll start from that day’s early hours, when I went to the kitchen very late, several minutes […]

Trump Being Found Guilty Must Not Be Allowed to Boost His Chances

Even if this trial was far less important than the others he currently faces, the fact that Donald Trump was found guilty of all charges in the hush-money trial should be good news, not just for his opponents or the USA, but for the world. But, on top of the fact that a convicted felon […]