You know what you could do on this amazing day? Read Five Things and then become a paid subscriber! Awesome idea, right? ✌🏻 Oh, by the way, if you do not want to subscribe to Five Things, Five Things Tech and Five Things Running, you can select which one of the newsletters you want to read in your account settings. Hello and welcome back to Five Things! Every morning I look at my wife and she gives me a very annoyed look. When I ask her what’s going on, she looks at me, shakes her head and screams: “that idiot again!” - and you probably experience the same since Trump was sworn in again. Every morning we wake up, only to find out that the level of idiocy has been raised once again. Do you remember the good old days when the media was pinpointing every politician who did a flip-flop on an important issue? With Trump it is much more than that, it is a flip-flop-flip-flip-flop-flop-flip-flap-flip-flap-flop-flip and this all happens during the course of a week. Tariffs up, down, good, bad, whatever. The leader of the Western world was never bright to begin with, but has clearly lost his marbles and the only two things he cares about is creating a financial windfall for his family and destroying democratic institutions. Last evening while we were in the car, my wife noticed that I got a push notification from The New York Times. She said to me: “don’t you want to check what it is about, maybe Trump has died!” and I remarked: “if that had happened, the streetlights would be flashing and fireworks would go off!” Honestly, we are normalizing idiocy and somebody has to tell him to check into a mental institution. And no, we cannot legitimize a Russian war on the Ukraine and give Putin what he wants. That is insane! Also, will the real conservative people please stand up and stop the flirting with authoritarian disaster! Here are this Sunday’s Five Things - enjoy! The Hottest Border
The first time I went to Estonia was almost 10 years ago. Estonia is a fantastic country, very modern with a strong focus on technology, and at the same time it feels like it is stuck in time with so many artefacts from the soviet times. The proximity of Russia is constantly on the mind of the Estonians and when I remarked that my hometown of Hamburg has more inhabitants than Estonia, my counterpart quipped: “but we have an army!” In 1990, One of the Great Forgotten Acts of American Subterfuge Unfolded. It Involved Pizza Hut.
Looking back at the 80s and 90s it was really interesting how a company like Pepsi could poke holes into the iron curtain. I remember two vacations in Hungary in the Mid-80s when Pepsi was available everywhere, but you had to know where to go and how to ask to get the real stuff: Coca-Cola. I also remember a very long line in front of the McDonalds in Budapest. So the experience of opening a Pizza Hut in Moscow must have been wild, especially in the years after the iron curtain fell. Is Zionism Colonialism?
Of course not. Zionism is not colonialism. And it doesn’t matter how many people scream that at demonstrations. Oftentimes it helps to to look at history to understand the present or even get ideas about the future. Mapping Bob Dylan’s mind
The times they are a-changing. Bob Dylan’s music stays. In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon
We’re standing on the shoulder of giants. Without pyhsics, emoticons would not have been invented. :p That’s it. Have a great Sunday! If you missed last Sunday’s edition of Five Things, have a look here: — Nico You're currently a free subscriber to Five Things. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription. |






