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Why Some Words Are Worth More Than Money

16 Jan 2026 3 minute read 3 comments floc1960

We live in a world where almost everything is measured in numbers.   Views. Likes. Tokens. Dollars. Even on platforms like this one, we talk about “earnings” per month, per view, per tip.   And yet, every now and then, something happens that reminds...

What’s the Economic Interest in GREENLAND?

15 Jan 2026 2 minute read 1 comment RionWeb3

Greenland has recently received a lot of media attention after the US showed interest in the region. But why is a territory that is 80% covered in ice attracting so much global attention? The interests range from logistics to the potential mineral...

Future Wars will have NO HUMANS!

14 Jan 2026 2 minute read 1 comment RionWeb3

History is a great source of comparison. Based on past wars, we can see that the future of warfare tends to be increasingly about long-range combat, because we've moved from sword duels to long-range weapons and are entering the era of robots and...

Even if the World were, We are NOT PERFECT!

13 Jan 2026 3 minute read 1 comment RionWeb3

Have you ever wondered what a perfect world would be like, whether it would be closer to our current world or like the past? Even if such a world existed, if we were placed in it unchanged, would we have any problems? Let's start by talking about...

DYOR - Do it properly!

12 Jan 2026 2 minute read 2 comments rah

Many of you who ready my posts will see that I often write DYOR - and many of you know that this means you should do you own research. I could speculatively claim that BitCoin will hit $1,000,000 by December and I may or may not be right and my sourc...

The Ballad of Jesus Christ

8 Jan 2026 3 minute read 2 comments Nathan Payne

"All pretensions and presumptions are stripped away fromthe words, and what is left behind is a beautifullyblunt baring of the naked teeth, or soul."Going Soon In Aztlán   With the exception of "The Sky Is Obviously Mad," I haven't written a song in...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 45

17 Dec 2025 12 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Our antics have us feeling bulletproof. With only the landline that we have a policy of never answering, forcing someone to leave a message — or else call and call and call and then leave a message. On our old school machine with the volume...

End of the year and unfulfilled goals (maybe never fulfilled)

16 Dec 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Shiftrox_

Many goals fall by the wayside in a year, even though we always try to take advantage of the beginning of the year and the new energy, we end up not being able to accomplish some things. I, for example, would really like to join a gym, improve my die...

A Weird Bit of Code

10 Dec 2025 4 minute read 1 comment rah

Following the generally positive reception to the last snippet I posted a couple of days ago. Here is a  little something else from earlier in the same novel. Just a bit of fun with "pointless" coding, but that is exactly the point. Don't try to figu...

SPARTAN MERCENARIES IN PERSIA: The Battle of Cunaxa, 401 BC

3 Dec 2025 36 minute read 6 comments YouveBeenGreeked

At the turning of the fifth to the fourth centuries BC, over a thousand miles from Greece, ten-thousand Greek mercenaries employed by a Persian general found themselves stranded deep inside Persia, in what is now modern-day Iraq. The ensuing escape s...