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by lemursage 4y ago
`Life is not short if you're lucky?*` I think that's what Seneca would have said back in the day. Nowadays, at least for the developed countries we could state `Life is not short if you're not unlucky`. That said, many good
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by lemursage 4y ago
This feels like that Futurama episode where Farnsworth discovers the last particle and descends into panic, realising he has nothing else to do. However, in my opinion, asking why there's nothing else is also a valid question to consid
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by lemursage 4y ago
This reminds me of a story my father used to tell us. Once he travelled to Finland (70s) with my grandfather and they ended up in some restaurant. Having no clue what was in the menu, as neither of them spoke Finnish, they decided to go for
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by lemursage 4y ago
I remember when I first read Samuel Pepys's diary. What struck me the most is how insightful this man was and how organised his thoughts were. Incredibly aware of the political situation as well. It read so "modern", that it
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by lemursage 4y ago
Reading that today, at the moment when Ukraine is at war with Russia, when post-Brexit EU internally struggles to present a unified front and when global food supply seems to have become a subject to a gamble, it may seem that parts of thos
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by lemursage 4y ago
At this point -- how do one may try to fix such a situation (assuming there's a political will to do so, which judging from Erdogan's actions, may simply not be there). Cutting public spending? Resetting the currency?
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by lemursage 4y ago
One more thing I've also noticed. I wanted to exchange movies with a Turkish friend. We both realised that the best movies/series from our regional Netflix offerings are not available in other's Netflix feed. The only availa
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by lemursage 4y ago
Agreed, I feel that in the case of Netflix et al., it's just orders of magnitude more ridiculous -- may I just get the list of the films instead of being force spoon-fed crap content, please? I don't even know how to begin to tel
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by lemursage 4y ago
It may be just a question of days until somebody hooks it up back to /r/pol. I bet quality of discussion won't decrease though.
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by lemursage 4y ago
I wonder if they had some collision avoidance protocol? Possibly at the speed it was operating on, it wouldn't be too bad -- but I like to imagine that there were some harmless collision between two archivists who got completely submer
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by lemursage 4y ago
I actually believe that working long hours is a huge problem that obscures natural creativity in people. When you are spending hours in the same environment, it's difficult to have a breather and think about something original or new -