asta123

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by asta123 5mo ago
> I would really like to see professional, established coach running around with young prodigies on a peak of their biology. Experienced high IQ player in a team sport could also be considered player-coach. Players like Lebron James or N
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by asta123 9mo ago
"This is more about oil and deposing Maduro." Scary how overt these 'operations' are these days. 50 years ago governments would try hide stuff like this. Someone said 'lack of shame' is very concerning with gov
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by asta123 1y ago
In Australia most of the narrative on the housing affordability crisis is around lack of supply and nimbyism. In the meantime Melbourne has dropped to 4th most expensive city in the country and becoming more affordable. Most likely reason -
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by asta123 2y ago
Peak free-market unregulated capitalism failed when GFC happened. We have been bailing it out ever since. US has not had a surplus since 2001. I don't know what this 'socialize losses, private profits' is but it does not look
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by asta123 2y ago
My mate was good at extending a conversation when someone dialled a wrong number, pretending he is the kid of whoever they called :)
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by asta123 2y ago
In WW1 they had the ability to bomb civilians but it wasn't done.
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by asta123 2y ago
You should read a bit of Dostoevsky for his analysis how 'rational' people are. Not to mention what decades of absolute power do to your ability to reason. I am also not sure what the end game is here and what 'defeating&#x27
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by asta123 2y ago
In Australia few years back the highest paid CEO was not from industries you might expect like mining, banking... but a company doing international student placements, whatever that is - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020
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by asta123 2y ago
My son put effort into dressing up for his Year 10 formal as that is what you do. But during the event he observed that most kids focused on how they looked rather than noticing others, and thought he should have spent a lot less effort int
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by asta123 3y ago
'wound' singular
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by asta123 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company
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by asta123 3y ago
I see a lot of talk of this 'increase supply' in Australia where house prices are out of control. Personally I think insatiable demand is a bigger problem and no increase in supply will fix it. Over last couple of decades we have
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by asta123 3y ago
Interesting. Lotharius encounter with Palmisano shows him as a mafia guy and not just a 'hustler'.
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by asta123 3y ago
Mafia was a very secretive organization. This was one of their core principles and their survival depended on being good at this. So if you lived in the 70s I wonder how many people would say mafia was a 1930s Al Capone thing and didn'
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by asta123 3y ago
Agree about Slovenia. Very different story. But the rest of the region has been dominated by nationalist politics for couple of decades whose survival depends on amplifying those national differences. And as a result cultures are now differ
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by asta123 3y ago
"that were culturally or ethnically distinct, like much of Europe" Other than religion I'd like to know what these cultural differences are? Serbs, Bosnians and Croats speak the same language which is very much unlike, say, F
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by asta123 3y ago
Yugoslav communist party was trying to build 'Yugoslav' (South Slavic) identity and trying to suppress nationalist differences. It was more multi-cultural than today's countries in the region which were formed on these ethnic
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by asta123 3y ago
So there is assumption that 20 something year old, living with information propaganda portraying West as class-divided, colonial enemy, should somehow know the 'enemy' spy was a good guy? Especially considering this Dvoracek case
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by asta123 3y ago
Know someone who fled Bosnia during 90s to Germany. No more Yugoslavia so this person had a Bosnian passport in Germany. He had a kid in Germany, so his kid had a German passport. His parents fled to Serbia, his dad had a Serbian passport a
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by asta123 3y ago
"Yugoslavia is viewed as anti-Serb mistake" It is fascinating that nationalist Serbs and nationalist Croats think that Yugoslavia was a mistake and benefited the other side?? Someone must be wrong I guess.
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by asta123 3y ago
Not only nostalgia. Many families from former Yugoslavia don't fit in narrow national identities of new Balkan states. e.g. one parent from Serbia, the other from Croatia. Would be nice to also have some sort of an umbrella nationality
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by asta123 3y ago
I think main point of the article is that with deletion of .yu domain many websites and historical content was lost - "At its peak .yu hosted about 32,000 websites."
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by asta123 4y ago
Unfortunately large number of people seem to be more concerned about feeding their already made up bias then authenticity of content. So not sure they will start logging off.
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by asta123 4y ago
Alain’s School of Life has been excellent for me. Mostly introducing me to well known philosophers, psychologists and summary of their ideas. It fascinated me that challenges analysed by thinkers a century or more ago apply to me today. The
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by asta123 4y ago
"Amor fati"
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by asta123 4y ago
Don't know. How well would a car named 'Che' sell in different Sth American countries?
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by asta123 4y ago
And for these reasons I question the whole concept of money, working for it, and saving for whatever dream. Flood of money can be so easily created but you have to work for it? Then you have to max out on debt, speculate and risk your hard
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by asta123 4y ago
They may be overvalued but don't see how they could fall without forced sales. At start of pandemic borrowers got mortgage repayment holidays in Australia - so didn't have to sell if you got into financial trouble. Yesterday one o
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by asta123 5y ago
There were decentralized Christian-like religions like Bogomils (Cathars in Western Europe) in south Slavic parts before modern centralized religions. Maybe those would work better with Slavs who seem to not organize well around centralized
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by asta123 5y ago
I think Slavs historically tended more towards decentralized structure. So maybe communal in a small community structure.

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