The one who controls the past controls the future and the one who controls the present controls the past, and we all who don't control the present don't control anything.
22 Jun 2026 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
Well, I tried Google Flow and made these two ads for my children: What can I say? My impressions are generally positive. The working environment is much more predictable. You don't have to constantly fight it to make it follow the prompt. In...
18 Feb 2026 6 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
For a long time, nuclear weapons were viewed as a deterrent. Their power lay not only in instant destruction and mass death, but also in long-term consequences—radiation, disease, and environmental degradation. Nuclear war meant not the victory of on...
10 Dec 2025 3 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
Hey gang, By any stretch of imnagination I'm no expert on this topic. This is just my subjective opinion, based on stuff I've read and a bunch of YouTube clips I've watched. Cheers There comes a moment when a nation stops wanting to be great. Not be...
3 Dec 2025 3 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
I watched the film by James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez Alita: Battle Angel (2019), based on Yukito Kishiro’s manga, belonging to the genre of cyberpunk action. The movie is full of intense action, fights, beautiful animation, and budding romance (b...
1 Dec 2025 2 minute read 1 comment mgaft1
The most serious problem with the application of AI is the loss of human control over decision-making. That is, the delegation of decision-making authority to AI. And this process will not be violent or imposed from the outside by some Big Brother. P...
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The Planned Economy Unlike the “Wild West” where the economy developed based on the supply and demand of a free market, the socialist economy was planned. That meant that the central organization in Moscow planned any kind of production enterprise...
5 Oct 2020 4 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 Free Stuff Public transportation was very cheap. The bus, trolley, or metro trip was just a couple of pennies. Medicine and education in the Soviet Union were free. The quality of the medicine wasn’t as high as it is in th...
3 Oct 2020 4 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
Part 1 Human factor Living under socialism, I always heard from the radio, TV, and in school that socialism makes labor a pleasure. This dominant narrative instilled in my mind the concept that people are so happy to give "their all" for their co...
2 Oct 2020 3 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
Since early childhood, I remember the emblem of three good grandpas: Marx, Engels, and Lenin. I thought that because of how good they are, all three of them live in Kremlin and during the new year, dress like Santa Clauses and bring children presen...
