Five Things: New Antisemitism, Disney Adults, Internet Pollution, Ukraine's Salons, Bad Drivers
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Hellooooo again! I hope you have a good start into this Sunday!
On Saturday we packed some of our kids in the car and drove up to Århus in Denmark, for now particular reason at all. Well, we like Denmark, we wanted Hot Dogs, and also Danish yoghurt is wonderful, so is the pastry and our kids love the Matilde cocoa. This was the first longer trip in the Polestar 2 EV I’m currently driving and aside from the hassle with trying to understand how to get a particular charger to charge my car (why can’t they all accept the same cards or apps or what not? do I really need 2 apps and one card to get by? And thanks for letting me register for an app in Danish and then find the right menu item to start the darn charger!), it went really smoothly and boy do I love those newfangled hyperchargers!
Anyhow, that was our Saturday, we spent it on the road. I think we needed to compensate for the fact that our oldest daughter went back to Vienna again to start into the new semester.
I don’t know if you remember me talking about Dry January - it’s now March and I still haven’t had any alcohol this year. I really miss the taste of red wine, but I’m sleeping much better without any alcohol in the evening. Even though I hate tea, I now drink herbal and fruit tea all the time, which makes me run to the bathroom more than a lot, which reminds me of my wife during her pregnancies…
So, if you have read this far, then please go on and read the selection of articles for this Sunday! ✌🏻
The New Antisemitism
“The new narrative of Jews as oppressors is, in the end, far too close for comfort to the antisemitic tradition of singling out Jews as uniquely deserving of condemnation and punishment, whether in its old religious form or its Nazi iteration.” - Prof. Noah Feldman explains how antisemitism has changed and how deeply engrained prejudices against jews still are. We need to address this again and again if we want to make our world a better place.
The “Disney adult” industrial complex
As a kid in Germany in the 70s, I grew up with Micky Maus Magazine, a weekly magazine for kids. I was a big fan of Donald Duck and of course liked the old-school stories by Carl Barks and the fantastic translation into German by Dr. Erika Fuchs, who also was the editor-in-chief of the aforementioned magazine. So I like Disney. But I wouldn’t say I’m a Disney adult. Are you?
Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI
We had content farms before and plenty of junk content on the interwebs and also on paper.
argues that AI now polutes the internet and that we need something like a clean internet act to stop the pollution before it polutes our brains.Inside Ukraine’s Wartime Salons
I admire the resiliance of the Ukrainian people, I really do. This war has been going on for two years and now is some sort of normality for the Ukrainians.
We Are All Bad Drivers
I live in a country where people think that driving anything other than a stick-shift is un-German and having a general speedlimit on the Autobahn would be the end of the world. Of course safe-driving cars make sense, especially if I can send it to park and charge itself somewhere.
That’s it.
— Nico