Odd thoughts on random subjects, no. 1, 9.2.2021

  1. There’s something fundamentally calming about watching ‘Exterior Shots of the European Commission’ while browsing the EC’s Audiovisual Service portal. It feels like watching the crackling of a fireplace at Christmas.
  2. Why does Brussels collect waste in little plastic bags that people leave outside their doors two days a week? Why not just leave everything in a wheelie bin down the street?
  3. Fake news hates real news, and fake news attacks real news by calling it fake. But which is real and which is fake?
  4. Watching Sergei Lavrov talking about disinformation is like watching Kylo Ren wax sentimental about Father’s Day.
  5. Speaking of Kylo Ren, he and Rey were the only characters in the last three Star Wars films worth watching. Convince me I’m wrong.
  6. Got me a treadmill before lockdown. SUCK IT BASIC FIT
  7. After Brexit happened, I had a tiny moment of feeling morally superior to the UK. Then Trump happened.
  8. The only bad thing about the pedestrian zone downtown is that, with traffic noise mostly gone, you can really hear the screaming of the drunks.
  9. These days, the ‘news’ is so absurd that only comedians can report it.
  10. Can you entirely divorce foreign policy from economic policy? Can you say, ‘You’re been bad bad bad, here’s money for the gas’?
  11. As Lenin once said in so many words, the first victims of propaganda are its creators.
  12. There’s no reason, in any context, to ever use the phrase ‘in a transparent way’. The phrase is an ABOMINATION.
  13. The first question in the Borrell-Lavrov press conference was a speech by a Sputnik reporter denouncing the alleged persecution of Sputnik reporters by the Latvian government. Borrell responds that he trusts the Latvian judiciary to deal with the situation. The second question is a bizarre interjection of US-Cuba relations that seems intended to highlight differences between the US and the EU regarding the country. The reporter wants Borrell to comment, although it’s hard to say about what. The reporter also says that ‘American journalists’ asked him to ask that question, although it’s not clear if he’s talking about US journalists or journalists from elsewhere in the Americas. Even more bizarrely, after Borrell expresses surprise about the Cuba question, Lavrov says that Borrell shouldn’t be surprised because if he always gets questions abroad about Ukraine, then Borrell should get questions about Cuba. Uh? Lavrov then rambles on about Cuba for what seems like hours.
  14. Honestly, what pro-Kremlin propaganda seems to dislike, more than anything, is the EU.
  15. The EU is one of the best things, and in some ways the best thing, that humanity’s got going right now. Convince me I’m wrong.

2 thoughts on “Odd thoughts on random subjects, no. 1, 9.2.2021”

  1. Finn and Rose were interesting to me, and developed well in The Last Jedi. Shame that the final film pretty much dumped them both.

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