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> 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 b…

"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 sham…

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 th…

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 los…

My mate was good at extending a conversation when someone dialled a wrong number, pretending he is the kid of whoever they called :)

In WW1 they had the ability to bomb civilians but it wasn't done.

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 …

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 tha…

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 ot…

'wound' singular

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company

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…

Interesting. Lotharius encounter with Palmisano shows him as a mafia guy and not just a 'hustler'.

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 peopl…

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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 n…

"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 sa…

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…

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 go…

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. …

"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?? Someo…

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…

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."

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.

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 analy…