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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • I used to absolutely hate cucumber, to the point that I could taste it if someone cut a tomato salad with the same knife they used for the cucumber without washing it in between, the whole tomato salad would be ruined for me.

    I could smell instantly when someone started chopping cucumber in the other room.

    That’s it, my superpower is to detect traces of cucumber.


  • I love being married, I met my wife 10 years ago and we got married 3 years later.

    The wedding was just with our close family and homemade food, nothing expensive.

    One big aspect of being married is that our relationship is not a question anymore. By being married we are committed to each other, it means we can make decisions accordingly.

    For example I love the house we have, but without being married I don’t think we would have bought it. The house is a lot of work, will take years of renovation and is perfect for our family currently but would not be as good for either of us separately.

    So if we were in the mindset that we could split up at any time we would have never bought this house.

    I find marriage is actually freeing.










  • Reintroducing mammoths in the arctic could potentially help reduce the climate change.

    There is a scientist in Siberia who built the Pleistocene Park. An area where he reintroduced a lot of large herbivores and studied their impact. He’s saying that boreal forest have a very low biodiversity compared to mammoth steppes. The steppes have way more animals, are stocking way more carbon in the soil and prevent methane leaks by keeping the permafrost frozen due to the low albedo of the biome.

    The problem is that with the mammoths are indispensable to maintain the steppes. They are the only animal big enough to clear up trees, without them the forest is taking over and all the ecosystem of the steppes disappear.

    So (according to this scientist), resurrecting the mammoth could revive a whole ecosystem, with a very rich biodiversity and that could have a give impact on the climate.