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Cake day: April 12th, 2026

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  • This is something that can be found out, actually. For example, large monasteries that have existed for a millennium or longer are likely candidates. Though, maybe some airport loo generates enough turd per day that they can cover that monastery’s monthly turd production in a day?

    That would mean that they are able to turdify our seas in half a century as much as the large monastery can do in about 15 centuries.

    What toilets have a constant queue 24/7, decade after decade? There aren’t that many of those.
    We can do this. We just need to put our heads into it!







  • Some literal translations of the books’ names into English. They are unlikely to correspond with the real English titles, but might be enough for guessing what books these are in other languages.

    Das ABC der Rollenspiele – The ABC of role playing games
    Die göttliche Komödie – The divine comedy
    Liegt die Antwort in den Sternen? – Does the answer lay in stars?
    Eine kurze Geschicte des Universums – A short story of the universe
    Der Außenirdische ist auch nur ein Mensch – Even the extraterrestrial is just a human
    Ihr habt keinen Plan - darum machen wir einen – Youse have no plan - that’s why we’ll make one
    Kosmologie für Füßgänger – Cosmology for pedestrians
    Was hat das Universum mit mir zu tun? – What has the universe got to do with me?
    Sieg der Blödigkeit – Victory of stupidity
    Unberechenbar – Unreliable
    Die Zukunftsformel – The formula for future


  • Frontend is what is being actually interacted with by the intended user.

    In a car the frontend is:

    • Steering wheel
    • Gear stick
    • Wheels
    • Seats
    • Pedals
    • Lamps
    • Ports for pouring in oil, windscreen washer, fuel
    • All the different buttons on the dashboard and elsewhere
    • Doors
    • Keyholes

    In a car the backend is:

    • Engine
    • Gearbox
    • Fuel pump
    • Cabling
    • The actual lightbulbs inside the lamps
    • Mechanism for reacting to key being turned in the lock

    Etc.

    Frontend is what is what is being physically used, backend is what actually makes all of this function. Of course anyone can also go poke at the backend, but without some very deep knowledge, you’re bound to break something. Better let the backend specialists (regarding cars: a mechanic) handle whatever counts as backend if they need to be touched.

    In a physical shop the frontend is anything the customer interacts with, while backend includes for example the workers’ pause room, the intermediate storage for goods brought to the store by lorries, etc.