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Real roads in the USA

16 Mar 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/Z9WezSYOURUICfvn I promised to tell you about the roads in California... I was reproached by some comrades for not posting videos with a "beautiful highway," especially when I wrote a post about...

Why are conspiracy theories so popular in Russia

13 Mar 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/Z9HcEg-X7nfy5FNe Why are conspiracy theories so popular in Russia? Conspiracy theory is convenient because it allows people not to think about difficult issues and not take responsibility. It cr...

ABORTION: Murder or Healthcare?

10 Mar 2025 8 minute read 36 comments YouveBeenGreeked

Alright, let's get this modern shit-storm topic over with...   In the modern, socio-political environment, the debate over abortion can pretty much be divided into two parts: The right-wing, conservative, Republican-leaning side (for the most part) w...

SELF-FLAGELLATION: The Drug of the Modern West

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...

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...

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...

ONE-SIDED REPARATIONS: If it were Ever the Other way Round...

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...