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Sinners and tax collectors

Mark 2:16–17:

When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him [Jesus] eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Based Jesus. Taxation is evil.

Nice tramway map, December 2023

Today I’m releasing the biggest update yet to my Nice tramway map:

It now shows a railway line which was recently integrated into the urban fare zone. The line is thinner because of its longer intervals.

Line 2 no longer has a callout box! It has an extra indication in its middle. CADAM station is now in a geographically correct position.

Nearly all line 1 station names now face right, and are therefore easier to read. The map is now using my default typeface, Atkinson Hyperlegible.

Ground interchanges are now indicated more clearly.

I simplified the colors a bit, too. Line 2 and the sea’s name now use the coat of arms’ blue, while parks and gardens use line 3’s green.

The map is still the same size. High information density FTW!

The EU superstate

Tomorrow, European Parliament members will vote on whether they want to turn the EU into a centralised superstate.

Hardly anybody knows about this. dEmOcRaCy at its finest.

The blood must flow

A part cannot heal itself if it does not have enough blood flow.

Arterial supremacy.

Beautiful signals coming down

Trump at his Nov 11 rally in Claremont, NH:

We spent about three hours together looking up at the sky and seeing some beautiful signals coming down, right?

We’ll see you back there and some place else, okay? But we had—that was a great evening *slight smile*, wasn’t that wild, sort of? It—they started off very sad and, uh, we finished the evening and it was a beautiful beautiful tribute to them.

President Xi is like Central Casting. [Provider of body doubles for entertainment]

I kept Ukraine safe. He would have never gone in. I mean, I did it thru osmosis, they were safe.

Taygeta claims confirmed? I want to believe.

12 oz Coffee in Verona

Screens with menus:

The lamps look like big coffee cups—not bad:

My drink Coco Choco—an outright scam since most of the cup was filled with ice:

It QWACs like a duck

It looks like chatcontrol was called off.

But the EU still lusts for new surveillance powers (duh). It now wants to force browsers to use state-issued QWACs—lower-security web certificates which will potentially allow it to fully monitor web traffic.

I reckon that good open-source browsers will not put government above user. But article 45 of the eIDAS regulation should be stopped regardless.

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