(Sorry all but I have been in la-la land due to food allergens for the past two days.)
Form: Diary
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Other Great Reasons for Life in Ukraine. Holidays. There is a holiday about ever
Other Great Reasons for Life in Ukraine. Holidays. There is a holiday about every three days in Ukraine. (Really). But the winter is the best. Christmas Shops open by the 1st of December. St Nicholas Day is on the 15th. (Think of it as santa’s day). Pagans can do the solstice. Catholic Christmas on the 25th. New Year’s Day on the 1st. Orthodox Christmas on the 7th. Old New Year’s on the 14th. So basically you celebrate for six weeks straight. Nothing gets done. It’s …. wonderful. Of course, while food and internet cost nothing, you have to live on cash, because the banks never work, half of them are on the verge of bankruptcy, the ATM’s run out of cash frequently. The network goes down frequently. People steal your card number at every opportunity and sell it to indonesian or other low trust countries. Gas (Petrol) is 4x as expensive. And surprisingly, apartments are ridiculously overpriced. And, I would much rather worry about that kind of thing than the internecine warfare and vast underclass burden that is a substitute for american social order…. I remember a homogenous america. And it was infinitely better. -
Other Great Reasons for Life in Ukraine. Holidays. There is a holiday about ever
Other Great Reasons for Life in Ukraine. Holidays. There is a holiday about every three days in Ukraine. (Really). But the winter is the best.
Christmas Shops open by the 1st of December.
St Nicholas Day is on the 15th. (Think of it as santa’s day).
Pagans can do the solstice.
Catholic Christmas on the 25th.
New Year’s Day on the 1st.
Orthodox Christmas on the 7th.
Old New Year’s on the 14th.
So basically you celebrate for six weeks straight.
Nothing gets done.
It’s …. wonderful.
Of course, while food and internet cost nothing, you have to live on cash, because the banks never work, half of them are on the verge of bankruptcy, the ATM’s run out of cash frequently. The network goes down frequently. People steal your card number at every opportunity and sell it to indonesian or other low trust countries. Gas (Petrol) is 4x as expensive. And surprisingly, apartments are ridiculously overpriced.
And, I would much rather worry about that kind of thing than the internecine warfare and vast underclass burden that is a substitute for american social order….
I remember a homogenous america. And it was infinitely better.
Source date (UTC): 2017-11-15 10:18:00 UTC
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Other Great Reasons for Life in Ukraine. Holidays. There is a holiday about ever
Other Great Reasons for Life in Ukraine. Holidays. There is a holiday about every three days in Ukraine. (Really). But the winter is the best. Christmas Shops open by the 1st of December. St Nicholas Day is on the 15th. (Think of it as santa’s day). Pagans can do the solstice. Catholic Christmas on the 25th. New Year’s Day on the 1st. Orthodox Christmas on the 7th. Old New Year’s on the 14th. So basically you celebrate for six weeks straight. Nothing gets done. It’s …. wonderful. Of course, while food and internet cost nothing, you have to live on cash, because the banks never work, half of them are on the verge of bankruptcy, the ATM’s run out of cash frequently. The network goes down frequently. People steal your card number at every opportunity and sell it to indonesian or other low trust countries. Gas (Petrol) is 4x as expensive. And surprisingly, apartments are ridiculously overpriced. And, I would much rather worry about that kind of thing than the internecine warfare and vast underclass burden that is a substitute for american social order…. I remember a homogenous america. And it was infinitely better. -
(Diary) I love my family. I especially love the chance to take care of my aging
(Diary) I love my family. I especially love the chance to take care of my aging mother. And I love how much *easier* everything is in the states. But I miss Ukraine and my friends in ukraine, and I feel like it is my home. I don’t think of anything in america with fondness, only utility. I think of europe as lower in utility but with greater fondness. And I think of the eastern europeans with more than fondness – with love. (((They))) Killed america as fast as (((Christianity))) killed Rome. The only question is, will we do something about it, or bring about a new dark age for having failed to? -
(Diary) I love my family. I especially love the chance to take care of my aging
(Diary) I love my family. I especially love the chance to take care of my aging mother. And I love how much *easier* everything is in the states. But I miss Ukraine and my friends in ukraine, and I feel like it is my home. I don’t think of anything in america with fondness, only utility. I think of europe as lower in utility but with greater fondness. And I think of the eastern europeans with more than fondness – with love. (((They))) Killed america as fast as (((Christianity))) killed Rome. The only question is, will we do something about it, or bring about a new dark age for having failed to?
Source date (UTC): 2017-11-15 09:18:00 UTC
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(Diary) I love my family. I especially love the chance to take care of my aging
(Diary) I love my family. I especially love the chance to take care of my aging mother. And I love how much *easier* everything is in the states. But I miss Ukraine and my friends in ukraine, and I feel like it is my home. I don’t think of anything in america with fondness, only utility. I think of europe as lower in utility but with greater fondness. And I think of the eastern europeans with more than fondness – with love. (((They))) Killed america as fast as (((Christianity))) killed Rome. The only question is, will we do something about it, or bring about a new dark age for having failed to? -
(diary) broke my brain today. I cannot afford to take the time to dive even deep
(diary) broke my brain today. I cannot afford to take the time to dive even deeper into the topology of meaning. And even if I do, I think that is a completely different project. As far as I know, I will not make a meaningful improvement upon operational grammar by getting down into the geometry of that level of complexity. So even though that evil machine in my head obsesses over it, I’m at the point of diminishing returns. The end result of going deeper will be contributing the the development of artificial intelligence, and not law. And while I really want to explore that problem, all I will do is justify operational grammar. and I really don’t think it requires justification. I am better off working at the level of programming languages than mathematics, because that is the lowest level that is applicable to the outcomes. And frankly, I don’t think anyone gives a damn if I go deeper. So, at least today, I am going to fight my autistic machine and just say that I’m leaving that level of detail for later work. And I can spend my old age working on it if I want to – unless someone gets there first. Ergo, I am going to try to complete the work now using this level of precision and bear the criticism of any formalists by saying that I just can’t take another two or three years to work through that level of detail. -
(diary) broke my brain today. I cannot afford to take the time to dive even deep
(diary) broke my brain today. I cannot afford to take the time to dive even deeper into the topology of meaning. And even if I do, I think that is a completely different project. As far as I know, I will not make a meaningful improvement upon operational grammar by getting down into the geometry of that level of complexity. So even though that evil machine in my head obsesses over it, I’m at the point of diminishing returns. The end result of going deeper will be contributing the the development of artificial intelligence, and not law. And while I really want to explore that problem, all I will do is justify operational grammar. and I really don’t think it requires justification. I am better off working at the level of programming languages than mathematics, because that is the lowest level that is applicable to the outcomes. And frankly, I don’t think anyone gives a damn if I go deeper. So, at least today, I am going to fight my autistic machine and just say that I’m leaving that level of detail for later work. And I can spend my old age working on it if I want to – unless someone gets there first. Ergo, I am going to try to complete the work now using this level of precision and bear the criticism of any formalists by saying that I just can’t take another two or three years to work through that level of detail.
Source date (UTC): 2017-11-13 20:45:00 UTC
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(diary) broke my brain today. I cannot afford to take the time to dive even deep
(diary) broke my brain today. I cannot afford to take the time to dive even deeper into the topology of meaning. And even if I do, I think that is a completely different project. As far as I know, I will not make a meaningful improvement upon operational grammar by getting down into the geometry of that level of complexity. So even though that evil machine in my head obsesses over it, I’m at the point of diminishing returns. The end result of going deeper will be contributing the the development of artificial intelligence, and not law. And while I really want to explore that problem, all I will do is justify operational grammar. and I really don’t think it requires justification. I am better off working at the level of programming languages than mathematics, because that is the lowest level that is applicable to the outcomes. And frankly, I don’t think anyone gives a damn if I go deeper. So, at least today, I am going to fight my autistic machine and just say that I’m leaving that level of detail for later work. And I can spend my old age working on it if I want to – unless someone gets there first. Ergo, I am going to try to complete the work now using this level of precision and bear the criticism of any formalists by saying that I just can’t take another two or three years to work through that level of detail.