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  • Back in early 2000s I was working as an Internet cafe admin, selling services and managing computers on the outskirts of Kyiv.

    There was this one customer, a late 30..early 40s dude who showed every now and again. He had two giant mastiff dogs in a regular three room apartment in a typical Soviet 9 story panel building, and a serious hard on the whole FBI, CIA and secret operations thing. Internet was quite new back then and one day he came to me and said that he knows an address of the FBI web page with all the most wanteds listed there. And he was very specific in saying that there was that bearded Muslim Al Quaeda guy, probably Osama bin Laden.

    So I wonder, what would he say today? Like, there a most wanted guy who... burned a car?

  • Reposting my old comment

    Here's a thing I often think about.Somewhen long, long time ago trees existed, but there were no microorganisms or fungi which could break apart wood, so for some 60 millions of years land was littered with unrotten trees.Until these microorganisms and fungi came into existence and started to feast. That event made wood a perishable material, and people now have to treat wood in different ways in order to show down its decay.Currently, humanity relies on plastics. And one large advantage of plastics is that they are, well, effectively non perishable. At the same time, humanity actively creates microorganisms that would be able to do what nature learned to do to wood.If Michael Crichton taught us anything, it's the impossibility of containing such organisms in the lab. So I think it's fairly reasonable to say that humanity will face with natural plastic rot within the next hundred years.Am I mad?Can you imagine challenges that will bring? Think checking every plastic bit of an airplane? A car? A ship?

  • Just tried smoking a CBD joint, again. God, it's awful. Clear and direct legalization of THC containing cannabis is a must, otherwise all that Delta8/HHC/whatever chemically treated bud you can think of will be a major health issue everywhere.

  • There's a fantastic documentary by Adam Curtis, called "I can't get you out of my head". It explores specifically the transition from the 'then' system of thinking to, well, now. It's long but give it a watch.