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Report from a travel to San Diego

7 Mar 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/Z8rA5w0xlwxGV1WU I don't like zoos, but by a happy coincidence, I once visited a zoo in Thailand and it amazed me. All animals there, with the exception of those especially dangerous to humans,...

2022, October 9-10: Melbourne, FL

6 Mar 2025 20 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

  While we're waiting, I observe that Mom does seem somewhat out of it. Dad's convinced that he knows all the signs, and that she's just had another stroke. Marlen meanwhile is nowhere to be found, has obviously wandered away somewhere, possi...

SPARTA'S RESURGENCE: The Battle of Notium, 406 BC

6 Mar 2025 8 minute read 5 comments YouveBeenGreeked

The Battle of Cyzicus in 410 BC had momentarily restored Athenian dominance at sea, but the consequences of the victory were far more complex than immediate celebrations suggested. While Alcibiades, Thrasybulus, and Theramenes had shattered the Spart...

Traveling by car across the USA from Idaho to California

6 Mar 2025 5 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/Z8iE7QE0BwXErNlH Idaho. A clean, well-groomed, agricultural state, traditionally republican. Large areas are occupied by fields, and a caring human hand is visible everywhere. Everyone is very c...

Castles in Poland - Ogrodzieniec Castle in the Podzamcze village

6 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  The ruins of the castle in the village of Podzamcze, in the Jura Krakowsko-Częstochowska, built on the so-called Eagles' Nests trail, in the village of Podzamcze in the Silesian Voivodeship. The gothic castle was built in the mid-fourteent...

COLLECTIVISM VS INDIVIDUALISM: Humanity's Greatest Struggle

5 Mar 2025 11 minute read 6 comments YouveBeenGreeked

What's more important: the individual or the group? Is it more important to judge and act upon the issues of people based upon their individual needs or their collective, shared needs? Is the individual tree more important than the concept of the for...

The rich grandmother of the average Russian

5 Mar 2025 2 minute read 1 comment Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/Z8hC8wob8QSl42jG And let's calculate the pension of your rich grandmother in the happiest country? How is the pension calculated? There's a teenager writing to me in private messages. First of a...

Three years later - the Russo-Ukrainian war as the opening phase of a world war

5 Mar 2025 4 minute read 4 comments VVoytila

It is a strange feeling, agreeing with one's past self but being wiser. Hindsight is a strange tool. It allows us to trick ourselves into believing we were always correct or always wrong. In a post made three years ago I was convinced of Russia's ult...

BYZANTIUM: The Empire that Never Existed

4 Mar 2025 9 minute read 4 comments YouveBeenGreeked

Ah, the Roman Empire - well and truly, my intellectual, mental and spiritual comfort zone. And maybe when time travel becomes a thing, my physical comfort zone too. It's often regarded as one of humanity's peaks, at least for its time, encompassing...

SEC drops lawsuit against Kraken

4 Mar 2025 1 minute read 3 comments Yugocean

     In another bold move (not a surprise), the SEC has freed Kraken from its Gensler clutches. Let's find more.   Lawsuit against Kraken dropped      The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) dropped its case against cryptocurrency exchange Kr...