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  • Unconditional love does not mean unconditional tolerance.
  • They want your effort not your wisdom. Good word!
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Snaha znamená mútiť, hýbať vody - “s (s) tlakom (ha) na vody (na)”. Ísť na silu. Možno je teraz čas nechať vody byť vodami.

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Spiritual War

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Všetko v Paraguaji trvá príliš dlho. Ľudský čas tam nemá veľkú hodnotu, pretože každý zarába okolo 300 až 350 dolárov mesačne. Všetci vedia, že zarobia rovnako, takže sa nikam neponáhľajú, na všetko majú čas. (src)

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Pavel Čadek - Nikdy nevíš

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Mam rád po-riad-ok.

Preto počúvaj, lebo hluchý je hlúpý. A používaj svoj um, aby si po-roz-um-el a mohol si po-raď-iť sám.

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siren: mid-14c., in classical mythology, “sea nymph who by her singing lures sailors to their destruction,” from Old French sereine (12c., Modern French sirène) and directly from Latin Siren (Late Latin Sirena), from Greek Seiren [“Odyssey,” xii.39 ff.], one of the Seirēnes, the mythical sisters who enticed sailors to their deaths with their songs, also in Greek “a deceitful woman,” perhaps literally “binder, entangler,” from seira “cord, rope.”

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wealth <-> worth (src)

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Back to the roots

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Kamil Galeev: 34. Our social hierarchies select for high ambition low curiosity people. Productive, socially intelligent, people on the top tend to be shockingly narrow minded. They can’t think out of the box, because they don’t have out of the box knowledge. They never had time to acquire it.

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Distraction & destruction

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Ianto Watt: Slaves are equal, citizens are free.

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Kamil Kazani: “Problematic” is the most powerful rhetorical weapon ever. Just call them problematic and you won. What are they gonna do? Denying you are “problematic” amounts to claiming you are “non-problematic”. You see, it already sounds stupid. NB: Do not add any specific details of why they’re problematic. If you add just a grain of substance into your accusations, you are giving them an easy way out. They may change the topic of conversation to the specifics and escape the trap.

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Kamil Kazani:

  1. Russian expansion is often described as a story of hard-won battles. But it was most importantly a story of hostile takeovers. Step by step increase our influence, push in our representatives and so on. There could pass a century between the establishment of actual control and formal annexation.
  2. Somehow many observers presume that we can ignore the economic context of Russian expansion. They ascribe it to ideological, historical, religious motives. That might not be wrong. But this expansion is critically dependent upon technological import and thus can not proceed without a constant flow of export goods.
  3. Therefore, maintaining these export flows is a matter of first and foremost importance for the Russian leadership. Their priorities are: to secure the extraction of natural resources, and secure their export to the West. Without taking this into account we can’t understand either Oprichnina, nor Putinomics. Basically we can summarise priorities of the latter as building seaports, railways and pipelines. Everything to secure the continuous export of natural resources.`
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Kamil Kazani: When discussing Soviet/Russian policies we tend to focus on irrelevant crap, like which ruler is “liberal”/“democratic” (no one). But the oil prices are a much more important factor behind Kremlin’s policy. Expensive oil -> Aggressive. Cheap oil -> Docile

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Kamil Kazani: Russia is not self-sufficient and it never was. It’s not so much an evil empire as a Trade Federation, dependent on technological import from the West and export of natural resources. That’s why every major war without Western allies ended in catastrophe like Crimean or Livonian.

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Rovnosť v duchu vyvažuje všetky nerovnosti sveta.

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Excuses prevent learning. src

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Jack Ma: 20, 30, 40, 50, 60

  • 20-30: find a good boss
  • 30-40: try to do something yourself
  • 40-50: do things that you’re good at after 20y or learning
  • 50-60: spend the time among young people
  • 60+: spend with your grandchildren
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Utrpenie mladého Werthera

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Éra váhania, polovičatých opatrení, upokojujúcich a mätúcich riešení a odkladov sa blíži ku koncu. Namiesto nej nastupuje obdobie dôsledkov.

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paja @ armadninoviny.cz:

To je totiž dneska úplně normální, zevšeobecňování a zveličování jednotlivých epizod, které nemají ve statistických číslech žádnou váhu - dnes se jim říká příběhy. Všimněte si, jak všichni místo, aby popisovali věci tak jak jsou, tak vyprávějí příběhy - lidí, koní, aut, vlaků, tanků, pušek, nábojů a já nevím čeho všeho možného. Je mi z toho špatně.

Novináři dělají z komára velblouda a z jedné, dvou zkušeností všeobecnost. Je to trend posledních 20 let, kdy nezáleží na kvalitě podané informace, ale na množství šokovaných čtenářů.

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MacGyver @ armadninoviny.cz: Nejhorší věci se mi v životě děly, když jsem ztratil nadhled.

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Hnev nie je zlý, učí nás, na čom nám záleží (src)

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Jan Grohmann @ armadninoviny.cz: Není důležité, kdo má pravdu nebo ne. Pokud se účastníte diskuze, tak jste součást hry - legitimizujete téma. To klíčové je, kdo tyhle témata vytváří. Třeba ten ceremoniál. Ať už to hodnotíte kladně nebo záporně, obojí toto téma legitimizuje - ukazuje, že je důležité a že k tomu musíte zaujmout názor, zvolit stranu. Takhle skutečně funguje propaganda. Nesnaží se přesvědčovat nebo vyvracet, ale vytvářet témata.

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essential is to remove what is not necessary. (src)

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Nietzsche’s distinction between Kraft (“force” or “strength”) and Macht (“power” or “might”). Kraft is primordial strength that may be exercised by anything possessing it, while Macht is, within Nietzsche’s philosophy, closely tied to sublimation and “self-overcoming”, the conscious channeling of Kraft for creative purposes. (Will to power)

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“when does the service begin?” He responded, “when the worship ends.” src

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Coco Chanel: the best things in life are free, the second best things are very expensive (src).

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The problem is the solution (src). And the solution is the (new) problem.

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Stop assuming guilt. Use presumption of innocence.

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Want to know who really understood women?

Mussolini.

Here in 1938 he describes the dangers of unmarried British women, and the havoc they caused (memorize the last sentence):

“In a country where animals are adored to the point of making cemeteries and hospitals and houses for them, and legacies are bequeathed to parrots, you can be sure that decadence has set in.Besides, other reasons apart, it is also a consequence of the composition of the English people. Four million surplus women. Four million women sexually unsatisfied, artificially creating a host of problems in order to excite or appease their senses. Not being able to embrace one man, they embrace humanity.” src

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Freedom is obtained by reduction. The less I have the more I’m.

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Realita holt odměňuje ty, kdo ji neignorují. src

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Ted Goya:

  • There’s a reason why the most popular words in tech right now are acceleration, destruction, disruption. Have you figured out what they want to destroy and disrupt? Here’s a clue—take a look in the mirror.
  • Anything related to the arts and the humanities needed—and deserved—a mature mind with some experience of the world before it could bear fruit.
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Láska čo nič nestojí, za nič nestojí (Marián Kuffa: “Pilát - Typický liberál”).

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Co Bůh činí, dobře činí.

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Musk říkal, že největší chybou velmi chytrých inženýrů je vylepšování součástky, která nemá existovat.

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Paradise is the absence of alternative

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Card UI and swiping reduce you to a pigeon … src.

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Where the adult a world, the child sees only God everywhere. The difference is that the former commands a language while the later does not.

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Purpose of mass media is to fill the bandwith of the recipients so they don’t have the possibility to spend their intellectual and emotional resources on what matters.

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Longhousing the Internet: Women unused to the personal protection of men seek instead the employment of distant “authorities” to keep them “safe”.

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Am I looking for outer or inner perfection?

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The faster the mind turns the faster the time flows.

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Nicolas Gomez Davila said “Cultures dry out when their religious ingredients evaporate.”

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All are born females.
Having lost their own will, they become males.
For the man is he who accepts whatever happens, because he just knows.

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Unknown is the canvas for projections of the subconscious.

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Ideological politics is the art of persuading others that the impossible is both desirable and possible - if only you had more power.

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Easy != simple

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Deadly Lifestyle: Even neanderthals knew about ornamentation and figurative art, but paintings of actual people, created by communities along the Nile River, some 8,000 years ago, signaled the rise of more advanced, stable institutions.

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bureaucracy:

  • The mandarin is always over-impressed with his own intelligence, even if his role doesn’t involve using it.
  • Bureaucrats are also almost universally reviled for their lack of accountability and the lack of pride in their work.
  • Jobs was an arch bureaucrat; he innovated absolutely nothing, but he was excellent at running a bureaucracy and making it do useful things through terror and bullying. He was also a good salesman. Woz was the main innovator and probably has two standard deviations more intellectual horsepower than Jobs did.
  • Bureaucrats are socially necessary.

In the end the power and glory of a bureaucrat comes from the ignorance of his believers. Both are still only bricks of a pyramid, even though they might appear of different quality.

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Computards reduce efficiency

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Almost 50, I remain philosophical because I spent about the first ~45 of them living without Youtube. Did that well enough. — https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users

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The mythical 10x programmer:

  • Bare programming abilities - ability to produce code
  • Experience - ability to resort to proven solutions
  • Knowledge - some theory helps
  • Low level - understand how the machine works
  • Simplicity
  • No willingness to sacrifice - often complexity is generated when there is no willingness to recognize that a non fundamental goal of a project is accounting for a very large amount of design complicity
  • Perfectionism - biggest barrier to deliver things fast (seeing what matters and what not)
  • Ability and possibility to focus
  • Debugging skills
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Valerij Markus: Pozorovať je vždy horšie a zložitejšie, než sa toho priamo účastniť. Pretože z diaľky s tým nemôžete nič robiť.

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Ted Gioia: Crisis of trust. If your job was to destroy access to reliable information in our society, how would you do it? 30 steps…

And one more: Scarcest thing in the world

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Kamil Galeev: The media and the academia are obsessed with the unimportant.

Western discourse in Russia is mostly a projection of Western intellectuals. They project their fears, of course. But also their hopes and dreams

Being the King’s Philosopher, a brain behind the tyrant, has been a wet dream of intellectuals at least since the days of Plato.

The King is in no need of a “philosopher”. What the King needs is a jester.

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Design for the web without Figma.

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“Emotional intelligence” is like “dry water”.

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Glubb: “The heroes of declining nations are always the same, the athlete, the singer or the actor”

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Forbes: “it holds 65% of the world’s total arable land, 30% of the world’s mineral reserves, 8% of the world’s natural gas and 12% of the world’s oil reserves.” That includes “40% of the world’s gold” and the “largest reserves of diamonds, cobalt, platinum and uranium” on the planet. Compound that with a population of 1.4 billion people, with many people soon entering the workforce (the median age is 19)"

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Politics is not the pursuit of the perfection, but the art of the second best.

Napoleon: There are only two powers in the world – the power of the sword and the spirit… In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit.

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Kamil Galeev: Putin’s grandfather worked at Lenin’s canteen as a cook Kirilenko’s great-grandfather headed this canteen In a country like Russia they had the highest privilege one can have. The Access to the Body and: Serving at the table = recipe for the upward social mobility

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Kamil Galeev: According to Ibn Khaldun, an assabiyah typically lives for four generations: from the conquest to the downfall. It very, very rarely outlives this span. If I remember correctly, Ibn Khaldun himself could name only one single exception to the rule.

Four generations is one human life …

Annick De Souzenelle: The Body and Its Symbolism: A kabbalistic Approach

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How People Come To Believe Something As Stupid As Male & Female Equality

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la pornografía de indignación

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Sorprenderse, extrañarse, es comenzar a entender. Es el deporte y el lujo específico del intelectual. Por eso su gesto gremial consiste en mirar al mundo con los ojos dilatados por la extrañeza. Todo en el mundo es extraño y es maravilloso para unas pupilas bien abiertas. Esto, maravillarse, es la delicia vedada al futbolista, y que, en cambio, lleva al intelectual por el mundo en perpetua embriaguez de visionario. Su atributo son los ojos en pasmo. Por eso los antiguos dieron a Minerva la lechuza, el pájaro con los ojos siempre deslumbrados.

– Ortega y Gasset Jose, La rebelión de las masas.

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Hypotéka je ve své podstatě otroctví.

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Don’t install copilot

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The proximity is no coincidence (src)

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Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness. — Ibn Taymiyyah

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Overkill is the dust that settles on the stuff that took a lot of energy to build or buy, but turned out not to be necessary.

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Que es la buena educacion? Toda buena educación parte necesariamente del reconocimiento de que el hombre es una criatura caída—pero redimible

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Iphicrates: Personal benefits have to be earned through personal action. Money gained without fighting should not be conferred directly on specific persons.

Also:

  • Coordination and organization is paramount. If any part of this body [army] was deficient, the army could not function to its potential. But if it lacked a “head” (i.e., a proper general), then it could be capable of nothing at all.
  • Continuous innovation is necessary.
  • Present a more formidable appearance than the enemy.
  • Lead by example.
  • Idleness is mother of sedition and mutiny.
  • I would indeed be a fool if I could fight for the Athenians, and be unable to do the same for myself.
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Most people prefer to suffer with interpretations that give their world meaning than to relax in the cave without an Ariadne’s thread. – David Riesman in “The Lonely Crowd”

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Sinuhet říkal: Tvoje řeč je bzučení mouchy v mých uších

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Ideal team size is two

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The simplest thing that could possibly work.

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Freedom of speech can provide enough feedback for a system to be continually improved, thus enabling it to outdo rigid, centralized state models.

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Mr.Tomas 19:35 23.01.2023 @ armadninoviny.cz

Maďarsko a Turecko sú dnes posledné krajiny ktoré neschválili vstup Švédska a Fínska do NATO.

V 15. storočí Turci obliehali byzantský Konštantínopol. Svoje služby vtedy Byzantíncom ponúkol maďarský zbrojár a odlievač kovu. Ponúkol im, že vytvorí delo aké svet nevidel. Byzantský cisár si však nemohli dovoliť sumu ktorú požadoval. Svoje služby tak ponúkol ich nepriateľom- Turkom. Pre sultána vytvoril vyše 8 metrov dlhé delo vrhajúce pol tonové kamenné gule, ktoré malo najväčší podiel na prelomení konštantínopolských hradieb a páde Byzancie. Ten maďarský tvorca dela sa volal Orbán.

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