Life is not a race or a videogame. Every person decides the goals and follows them.

There is no right or wrong. There is no goal. We have limited time in this world and it is up to us to decide what to do with that time.

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Go fight them in Ukraine. What are you waiting for?

The fact that I was born in Soviet Union. Also the fact that the place I was born is now the capital of an Islamic country. Also the fact that I think that Asian cultures in some aspects are better than western ones.

More likely, they have messy legacy mainframe systems and they cannot find anyone to keep them in business. Bu touching such systems is extremely dangerous.

I think that you should keep a diary to write down that stuff.

Expensive clothes or new clothes

This is not an isolated incident, but a preview: more liberal masks are poised to fall.

Isn’t it a bit early to write that?

The expected result is that both China and India will stop buying seaborne crude oil from Russia and purchase more pipeline crude oil. Currently, China buys ~1.4 million barrels per day (bpd) via ships and ~800,000 - 900,000 bpd via pipelines.

Russia already transports about 10 million tons of oil per year (roughly 200,000 bpd) through the Atasu-Alashankou pipeline in Kazakhstan. Even before the latest sanctions, Russia had proposed increasing this volume by 2.5 million tons annually, making this existing route the most immediate and feasible path for boosting pipeline deliveries to China.

See here: https://www.worldoil.com/news/2025/10/23/u-s-sanctions-on-russian-oil-giants-spark-supply-concerns-in-china/

The expected result is that both China and India will stop buying seaborne crude oil from Russia and purchase more pipeline crude oil. Currently, China buys ~1.4 million barrels per day (bpd) via ships and ~800,000 - 900,000 bpd via pipelines.

Russia already transports about 10 million tons of oil per year (roughly 200,000 bpd) through the Atasu-Alashankou pipeline in Kazakhstan. Even before the latest sanctions, Russia had proposed increasing this volume by 2.5 million tons annually, making this existing route the most immediate and feasible path for boosting pipeline deliveries to China.

See here: https://www.worldoil.com/news/2025/10/23/u-s-sanctions-on-russian-oil-giants-spark-supply-concerns-in-china/

I agree in part, but the YouTube recommendation system is really broken. Even if you told YouTube several times that you don’t want to see content from that clickbait channel, YouTube will keep on showing it to you in the main page.

If you watch YouTube from a desktop computer or a browser, you can bookmark this URL here https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions and unsubscribe all people who do clickbait videos

Also stacktraces are very useful, and overflow/underflow exceptions too. So many modern and useful features were missing!

Having a try/catch block is much better than using Goto Err

Edit. Rest in peace mono-basic https://github.com/mono/mono-basic

For books, Alibris https://www.alibris.com/ has a very nice bargain section.

For other things, AliExpress is way cheaper, just do not buy expensive or tech stuff there.

Self-diagnosing depression can be unhelpful. What you’re experiencing may be something simpler and more easily treatable.

There is a very nice Chinese drama called She and her perfect husband https://mydramalist.com/64781-the-80-20-rule-of-love

I was born in Soviet Union and grown up in Italy. Teachers lied and misintepreted my behaviour and my words a lot.

First it was trolls, then it was trolls using AI. I understand why many users are abandoning social networks.

You can write in the prompt to the AI to write in hip and casual tone, but you will get something that will give you “How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?” meme vibes.