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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • The Heritage Foundation released one that includes several former Trump staff and the current VP nominee; it is Project 2025. You aren’t going to get anything more precise out of Trump or his campaign.

    Harris released her full platform and it is ok. I’m sure people want her to do more, but I don’t know if she has the votes for it.

    I don’t think you are going to get a full policy update because the policies in Project 2025 are so bad and the Trump campaign doesn’t want to run on it. That’s why Trump is running on the idea he will stop immigrants from eating your pets.


  • The public spaces seem better maintained than in the USA. Mass transit is also better in general to equivalent American cities. A lot of it feels driven by a relative lack of homelessness in tourist areas combined with continued post war investment in urban areas.

    Food seems more expensive in general, but it depends on the country/region.

    I’ve never had to deal with EU healthcare besides Covid testing. Turkey is really great for medical tourism.

    Europe felt safe in general, but then I feel safe in where I travel in the USA.









  • Wikipedia makes most of its money from donations, with some money coming from other sources like commercial API access. It consistently raises more money than it spends and has been building an endowment. However, that income mainly comes from the fundraising drives.

    Wikipedia has an endowment, but it isn’t enough to run the website for more than a few years.

    In terms of expenses, the largest expense is in having staff to run the various websites and foundation. Charity auditors rank the foundation highly on expenses, so the foundation is likely not overpaying staff.

    Wikipedia needs donations to survive, but it isn’t struggling. If you feel like you have better things to donate to, it is probably ok for now.