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1 Apr 2020 1 minute read 2 comments mgaft1 $0.21
They say that hatred is the opposite of love. I don't think so. The opposite of love is indifference. Hatred is an emotion and could be a very powerful emotion. I remember a story I read in one of the Remqrque's novels. The author tells the story abo...
30 Mar 2020 4 minute read 0 comments ZackNorman97 $0.08
Embarking on a new journey is always a daunting task, filled with unknown faces and challenges ahead, and one might never know what they might stumble upon. To face their fears and overcome obstacles, or to turn back at the sight of danger, these are...
27 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1 $0.07
A hotel guest came out to the street and noticed that next to the hotel doorman there was a cute puppy. "Does your dog bite?" he asked the doorman. "No," answered the doorman. The hotel man then bent down and telling the dog gentle nothings attemp...
22 Mar 2020 3 minute read 2 comments bonedaddy $0.19
Historically whenever it comes to something I don't understand, I tend to make massive assumptions about whatever it is, mainly due from a place of ignorance and not have experience in a lot of things "non-technical". If it's something to do with tec...
20 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1 $0.06
When translating I use an automatic translator but with caution. Often what comes out from it makes no sense. Language often is a reflection of cultural patterns that are specific to a particular culture and cannot be translated directly. Here is an...
20 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1 $0.04
A reverse split is a process by which shares of corporate stock are effectively merged to form a smaller number of proportionally more valuable shares. Like if you have 1000 shares that cost $10 reverse split will make you have 100 shares at $100 dol...
6 Mar 2020 1 minute read 5 comments mgaft1 $0.20
When I was five or six years old, I had my first real awareness about the spender of the United States and it happened because of beach towels. Some kind of old man came to our small room in Moscow. He spoke broken or rather half-forgotten Russian, a...
4 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1 $0.05
What did I witness? Many things and nothing. Nothing overwhelmingly original. Nothing worth mentioning. That is to say with the eyes of the body. And yet I saw lots of interesting events with the eyes of my mind. Those events were produced by electri...
1 Mar 2020 2 minute read 0 comments mgaft1 $0.03
Kurt was a huge, comfortable man, whose body dropped fast into any inviting spaces. However, the word “comfortable” was his attempt at irony. If no one saw him, and the door was shut, he sat in front of a TV. Life was good. He was safe. Video game...
26 Feb 2020 1 minute read 5 comments mgaft1 $0.16
When writing a story the hardest part for me is a character's back story. Why? Because I am not an insider to American or, in the grand scheme of things, to the Western culture. When I was growing up, from an early age I was spoonfed with the ideals...
