Cav's Place

The news that GOG.com was purchased by one of its founders sure came out of nowhere, but after the initial “well, shit” reaction when I started reading the title, knowing what almost always happens after such purchases, I strangely find myself cautiously optimistic. I mean, GOG.com has given up its original principles long ago, or […]

On the evening of December 14, I left at 8:15 PM, with the plastic and metal, which I dropped in a recycling bin, and the recyclables with the deposit symbol, entering Penny Basarabia with them, since I went there first and the machine didn’t work. Then I bought some cucumbers for dad… And saw that […]

This was another nice read, mixing the sort of “curiosities” that make up popular science with more advanced elements that nevertheless remain accessible and easy to read. And the effort made to show how other species perceive the world as differences, presenting each case as it is instead of focusing on comparisons to humans and […]

Eleven years ago, I was listing who and what I voted for ever since getting the right to do so, and the plan was to make another such post at the end of last year, considering the number of elections we had in 2024 and the fact that the next ones were only supposed to […]

Among this year’s slew of attacks on contraception, abortion and women’s rights, and now even China turning around from their previous policies even more and adopting more of a “stick” approach to increase natality that may well only lead to more STDs instead, the fact that the European Parliament voted in favor of the My […]