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CAPTCHAs are a humiliation exercise

Robert — Wed, 29 May 2024 10:47:07 +0500

Robert:

Demeaning to humans.

Have fun!

Robert — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 02:13:50 +0500

Robert:

When you can, while you can.

Dear girls

Robert — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 22:15:18 +0500

Robert:

Stop with the goth! Especially with the piercings.

Don’t turn yourself into unattractive satanic witches.

The first step to civilisational downfall

Robert — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:16:00 +0500

Robert:

Littering.
Loud noises in public transport.
Constant delays.
Broken promises.

Mass tolerance towards this kind of “minor” misconduct is the first step to civilisational downfall.

The inner voice

Robert — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:49:56 +0500

Robert:

Listen to your inner voice. It speaks truth.

Light pollution

Robert — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 23:30:07 +0500

Robert:

Light pollution is a big deal. The bright spots are the worst places to live in:

North Korea is blessed to have dark night skies full of stars, with its citizens keeping their circadian rhythms intact.

A dog excited about beïng leashed

Robert — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 21:17:35 +0500

Robert:

Yesterday I saw a dog excited about beïng leashed.

The leash, despite beïng a mechanism of restraint, was seen by the dog as a sign of upcoming fun — of a walk.

Not everything in life is straightforward.

Sinners and tax collectors

Robert — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 16:36:11 +0500

Robert:

Mark 2:16–17:

When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him [Jesus] eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Based Jesus. Taxation is evil.

Genocide in Gaza

Robert — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 20:17:33 +0500

Robert:

In less than a month of active war, Israeli strikes have killed more civilians in Gaza than have been killed in Ukraine in the last twenty. That is more than 8000 Gazans — 3000 of them beïng children. It’s collective punishment, in a nutshell. But 67% of Gazans don’t even trust Hamas.

Israel has the right to punish only the attack’s participants and masterminds. But it is now bombing areas in south Gaza which it previously designated as “safe” for evacuation!

The whole thing is a deliberate mess.

Net n’ Yahoo knew about the incoming attack but chose to stand down.
Israel helped Hamas amid its founding last century so it would weaken the Palestine Liberation Organisation by competing with it. And indeed, Hamas are doing a big disservice to Palestine’s reputation among the ill-informed.
There are many Jews in the region today only because of preplanned mass migration that began in the 19th century and displaced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. (Mass migration makes sociëties implode.)
Gaza is an open-air concentration camp: it lacks resources, is surrounded by walls, and has its sea access fettered & its skies dominated by Israel.

I pray for peace and foreign non-intervention. Ending all bloodshed is step one on humanity’s path to bliss.

The stubborn will never find a lasting solution to the conflict. But all it takes is to understand that the real god does not have any “chosen people”.

The flow state

Robert — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 18:18:19 +0500

Robert:

The flow state is magical. Protect it.

Ward off distractions.

Everything is possible

Robert — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 23:51:59 +0500

Robert:

It comes down to desire.

At what cost?

Robert — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 14:45:06 +0500

Robert:

I too want to reach certain objectives, but not at all costs. I see vectors to follow, not specific points to land on (they don’t even exist, since everything oscillates).

“At what cost?” is a fundamental question. A Pyrrhic victory is no victory at all.

Eugenics

Robert — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 10:35:41 +0500

Robert:

Eugenics simply means finding ways to have the best offspring.

It is fine (moreover, great and natural!) as a man’s or a woman’s individual choice. But it is absolutely deplorable as government central planning for reproduction.

That said, incest should be banned.

Every hardship is a test

Robert — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 17:24:17 +0500

Robert:

The universe sends us hardships to see how we will reäct to them and whether we will reäct at all. This is not “unfairness”, but a test — a chance to prove ourselves.

The worst thing that happened to you is the best thing that could happen to you.

The high-carbon option

Robert — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 11:07:50 +0500

Robert:

Atmospheric CO₂ is at a 300-million-year record low.

As long as carbon counters last, I will try to pick the high-carbon option.

Nonprofits

Robert — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 18:18:20 +0500

Robert:

It’s good to reïnvest profits into development, but I won’t tie my hands by calling my company a nonprofit.

Politics and idiots

Robert — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 20:49:18 +0500

Robert:

Politics is a sociëtal cancer. It is evil, but ignoring it only leads to poorer outcomes.

In Greek, the word idiot pretty much used to mean apolitical. Don’t be an idiot.

Scary is scarry

Robert — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 13:40:54 +0500

Robert:

Scary is scarry: fear harms health. Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill.

Instead, set a personal placebo: this infection will only make me stronger, this hit to the head will only improve my eyesight, this delay will give me more time for a walk.

Cameramen at events

Robert — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 12:15:47 +0500

Robert:

I like making videos.

I will not, however, be a cameraman at an event — looking at real life thru a screen is a lifeless deed. Waiters, janitors, and bag-carriers have much more noble positions.

Fault and responsibility

Robert — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 22:28:06 +0500

Robert:

Fault and responsibility are two different things.

The railway company is at fault for the train being late, but I am the only one responsible for making it to the meeting on time.