Niko Ništa
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My worldview, first posted as a comment on an answer written about the legacy of Gorbachev. As to what the point of the USSR was, it’s rather simple: Human life - the life of any living thing really - i…
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Is writer's block real? How do you overcome it?
No. There are two things that are frequently called “writer’s block.” They have different causes (in fact, they’re entirely different things), but they are not, in fact, actual blocks. The first thing people call “writer’s block” is just “I’ve done something wrong but I’m reluctant to do what I need t…
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60% of the time, it works every time! …
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Were there knights in medieval Greece?
Define “knight”. A heavy horseman that fights with a heavy spear or lance and uses a charge as his strong suit? Yes. Cataphracht (Kataphraktos), lit. “completely enclosed”, a heavy horseman adopted from Persian doctrine. Eastern equivalent to a western knight. But a proper knight is not just a heavy ho…
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Trump says his supporters are poorly educated and stupid and of course he is right, if they weren't these other issues wouldn't exist …
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AI to the rescue …
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Age differences… …
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If the "Sea of Galilee" was just a small lake, why do the Gospels describe it as terrifying to fishermen? What could explain this exaggeration?
The Sea of Galilee is not that small. It is 21 km long and 13 km wide, that’s quite a bit. More important, there are high temperature differences between the desert-like land around it and the cold water of the lake. These temperature differences often cause heavy winds and storms. Often, these storm…
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What are your thoughts on bullfighting?
Spanish-style bull-fighting, where bulls are tortured and horses gored, should be banned. Camargue-style bull-fighting, where they tie rosettes to the bull’s horns and then people dash in and try to snatch them is fine, as is bull-leaping which there are attempts to revive. But as with all sports whe…
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