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Cake day: November 3rd, 2024

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  • No sources from me, only uneducated guesswork.

    Two events of 1971 stand out to me, as I knew of them beforehand:

    • My brother was born. Not relevant to the question at hand (I hope), I just wanted to mention it.
    • The oil crisis.

    The latter strikes me as probably a big factor. The world was basically using oil for everything (Even more so than now), and an oil shortage (or fear thereof) is likely to send a drastic shock to the system. Manufacturing, logistics, energy, EVERYTHING becomes more expensive, resulting in having to do more with less.

    Shortly after the (percieved) shortage, there was an oil glut and overcorrection. I’m not clever enough to say what effect this would have in exact terms, but I highly doubt that an already turbulent world economy did well because of it.


  • I tried to (re)watch Lucky Number Slevin, but I just couldn’t finish it.

    I first watched it when it came out, and I remember liking it, but I didn’t remember much of the actual movie. So I decided to rewatch it recently and… I absolutely hate it. I figured I may have found some of the dialog funny before, but now it’s just tiresome.

    I like convoluted plots, but here I get the sense that it’s convoluted just for the sake of being convoluted. On top of that the writing seems to have been done by a 17 year old who thinks he’s the smartest person in the world coming up with the dialog, but in the end you have a movie that simply tries too damn hard to seem smart.

    I found myself rolling my eyes so much that I gave up halfway through.