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Watched the Eurovision song contest via Discord stream for the second year in a row, though my desktop failed to play the stream properly and I ended up having to use my iPad. And honestly, I wasn't all that impressed by the songs in general. I liked some of them, particularly Austria, Australia, and Moldova, but there was nothing to win my love the way plenty of past Eurovision songs have done now. I went in thinking of voting, now that we all can, but it definitely was not worth paying anything to vote for anything I heard today. The Swedish song was one of the better ones, and as good as any for the win, really, and we should probably all be very glad Israel didn't win, because then the contest would've been in real trouble next year. (Also, their song got way more support than it deserved.) Now I'm observing other people be furious at the result and am mostly just feeling confused by that.
I also heard complaints about the hosting, mostly that the British took too much attention to themselves and didn't give Ukraine enough. But at least we won't have that problem next year, and the Swedish are very good at hosting it.