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7 Mar 2025 7 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Scrolling is fun... I mean, it's not, but we seem to do it a lot. Like, a lot - 99% of people who scroll can't even remember the post or short they saw five scrolls ago. Seriously, next time you're scrolling, try and remember what you saw 5 to 10 pos...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
3 Mar 2025 10 minute read 6 comments YouveBeenGreeked
There's often a large call in many western countries today for reparations to be paid to... well, vague, non-western countries I guess because of actions committed by our ancestors. The narrative seems to be that European and American history is brim...
28 Feb 2025 3 minute read 12 comments Myxoplixx
The Catalyst The heated confrontation between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump, with Vice President J.D. Vance playing instigator, marked a turning point in U.S.-Ukraine relations. During the Oval Office meetin...
27 Feb 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Myxoplixx
The Debt Regime By 2035, the United States no longer democratically governs itself. The Debt Authority, an unelected national financial body, controls all fiscal decisions. Formed under the guise of "economic stability," it emerged after the U.S. de...
26 Feb 2025 5 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard
Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/Z7rg0M0eRy_qhadX So, I will continue about the disadvantages of living in America. So that you don't decide that this is heaven on earth and that you will come here with the whole of Russia! Jok...
