For Orthodox Easter I'm back in my 1700 persons town accomodating 5 churches, oldest one from the 14th century: - Orthodox - Catholic -...
I'm drunk hence thinking philosophy. What differentiates Germany from Russia? Both are unlovable. Yet Germany somehow pulled the trick of...
Started watching Star Trek: The Original Series on Netflix and oddly enough I made it through the first 3 episodes. It's rare that I can watch...
I keep seeing these articles and people confirming and re-enforcing as a fact that LLMs are practically replacing programmers. So I have a...
I finally have a working, valuable trading strategy. Perhaps two, perhaps more but I'm taking a pause now before pursuing more. Working in...
I learned a new term while watching American Dad, Rubberneckers episode: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3667582/ In summary (as a parody to...
There's a story that during the WW1 induced shortages in Russia, the Tzar was offered in lack of the original what was described to His Highness...
Was this a genre in the US as well or was it confined to Europe? In the 90's progressive clubs I was going, a regular evening would start around...
We might start a "demotivators" thread, if you don't know what they are then take a look at https://despair.com/collections/demotivators. Here's...
I'm bored so I'll launch a debate, what do you think those of you that have to do this in a professional setup (software developer), of the...
I was thinking dedicating 30 minutes per day to reading the Mickey Mouse magazine in German. I've a collection of some 70 issues of it:...
There's some Internet talk about the latest ecranisation of Snow White story which basically sums up to this: [ATTACH] Now the pictures might be...
2000 years. Greece separated by 500km of barbarian-slavic speaking territory from just as despised if not more, Latin. Vulgar Latin that is, real...
A stronghold deep in the Carpathians. Some 1500 years later it will bring forth the myth of Dracula. Before that for 1000s of years there was hot...
I realized that almost all comedy I ever watched and enjoyed was English-language speaking. Not necessarily natively English, I found "Norsemen"...
I work in the EU division of a multinational company (i.e. American) that not long ago acquired said EU company. Leaving aside the 200+ highly...
Do you give to charity? What are your opinions on it? Anything goes, from small change in the hands of a homeless person to some campaign to fund...
On kid's birthday my wife crossed the Rubicon. One time too many. She's a spoiled narcissistic fully grown adult with a pea size brain that, in...
There was a free sample from ORATS at some point but I lost it, so I gotta ask. Looking on ORATS site I cannot find any free sample, only this:...
Is "all-inclusive" an American thing as well, a Global thing maybe? Because in Europe it's the status quo. It's the 15'th year or so since I...
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