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@left2kolou "... When the truth offends, we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there. But it is, still, there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid..."

Once you hit about a 20-point IQ gap, communication starts to completely break down. It's not that the lower IQ person is "stupid" (although that can often be the case) or the higher one is arrogant, it's that you're literally operating on different systems. A 20 point difference (roughly 1.3 standard deviations) means: Vocabulary and abstraction levels diverge sharply. What feels like crystal clear logic to one side sounds like vague, pretentious word salad to the other. Jokes land flat. Metaphors get taken literally. Complex cause and effect chains get simplified into "this good, that bad." Different time horizons and pattern recognition. One person thinks in months or years and sees systems, the other is locked into days or immediate rewards. Trying to explain second order effects feels like speaking another language. Also, processing speed and working memory gaps. The higher IQ person is already three steps ahead, getting impatient. The lower IQ person feels talked down to or overwhelmed. Both walk away frustrated. Both have wasted each others time.

@histories_arch High resolution scan: metmuseum.org/art/collection…

Thomas Sowell on engineers vs intellectuals: “The engineer is judged by the end product. If he builds a building that collapses, it doesn’t matter how brilliant his idea was—he’s ruined.” “Conversely, if an intellectual has an idea for rearranging society and that ends in disaster, he pays no price at all.”

Cat’s reaction to toys is very funny 🤣🤣🐱

A woman and a chicken trying to separate two fighting cats drew attention

Ουδέν σχόλιον protothema.gr/stories/articl…

Rita Moreno performing "Fever" on the Muppet Show with Animal on drums which originally aired almost 50 years ago in the UK on September 12, 1976 and in New York on September 20, 1976 which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award.

There was a demographic problem 2,200 years ago, and Polybius wrote exactly what caused it. Read carefully: "In our times, Greece as a whole is experiencing a lack of children and, more generally, a decrease in population. Because of this, cities have become deserted and there is a lack of productivity, even though we do not suffer from constant wars or epidemics. So if someone advised that we send priests to the gods to ask them what we should say or do to become more numerous and better inhabit our cities, he would not seem foolish, since the cause is obvious and the solution lies in our own hands. People have turned to arrogance, greed, and laziness, and they neither want to marry, nor, if they do marry, to raise their children. Instead, they have only one or two children with difficulty, just to leave them wealth and raise them in luxury. This evil grew rapidly, and we did not notice. For when there are only one or two children, and one is lost to war and the other to illness, it is obvious that the cities will inevitably become deserted, just as a beehive weakens little by little, so too do cities that lack population become unable to survive." Source: Histories, Polybius, 36 (ΛΣΤ) The similarities after 2,200 years. People prefer partying, doing drugs, and living for today rather than having a purpose, building a family, and leaving a positive footprint in this world. They choose the easy life. At this point, it’s a form of natural selection between those who are worthy and those who are not to continue.

Thomas Sowell: “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”

“White people have no culture” Precisely because European-derived culture is so dominant that it’s become the invisible default. It’s so thoroughly baked into the fabric of modern life, institutions, technology, law, art, language, and everyday norms, that it no longer registers as a distinct “culture” at all.

“You cannot simultaneously have a welfare state and free immigration.” — Milton Friedman

@too_slow_mo @sonyxperia Same here!

@sonyxperia We love @sonyxperia for not making us choose! I've had 5 Xperia phones and love them all!

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Women hate it when you come up with solutions to their problems, so dont: 😭

Something extraordinary that happens in people's life around 40‼️

“Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the only system that stood for man’s right to his own mind, to his work, to his life, to his happiness, to himself.” — Ayn Rand

"Impression, Sunrise" was born 3 years after "The Magpie." Monet was still broke. And the Paris Salon had rejected him for years. So he and a new generation of artists rebelled. They bypassed the elite system entirely. And launched their own independent exhibition. Critics mocked their raw style, dismissing the paintings as mere "impressions." Instead of backing down, they took it as a compliment. They proudly called themselves the Impressionists. The revolution exploded. The rest is history.

Η γελοιοτητα σε όλο της το μεγαλείο!.. in.gr/2026/05/23/gre…

My therapist told me a marriage truth nobody mentions: You'll fall in and out of love with the same person repeatedly. The falling out is normal. The falling back in is the choice. Most people leave during the out phase. Long marriages aren't one love story. They're multiple love stories with the same person.

🎦🧠Information Warfare via Cinema Propaganda surrounding the upcoming Odyssey film continues through the systematic distortion of the ancient Hellenic epics. The actress cast as Helen recently declared that the story is “not history but a mythological tale.” This claim is misleading. While the narrative certainly contains mythological elements, it fundamentally recounts the history, ethos, values, and customs of a specific people: the ancient Hellenes. Helen of Troy was a Spartan queen. She was not a neutral or universal figure her identity, heritage, and cultural context were clearly defined. The Trojan War itself was a real historical event, the core of which has been corroborated by archaeological evidence. Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are foundational works of Hellenic civilization, deeply rooted in the geography and culture of the Eastern Mediterranean. They are not African, Near Eastern, or universalist myths detached from their origin. They belong to a specific time, place, and people. This is a clear case of information warfare. Certain academic circles, particularly in American universities, driven by ideological agendas and what appears to be a deep-seated inferiority complex toward classical Western civilization, are attempting to downgrade and deconstruct Greco-Roman antiquity. Their goal is to sever these works from their Hellenic roots and repurpose them for contemporary political narratives. We are not obliged to apologize for our heritage. Whether the epics appear problematic, patriarchal, or insufficiently diverse to modern sensibilities is irrelevant. The Iliad and *Odyssey are ours. They do not require external validation or permission to exist as they are. Hellenic civilization has endured for over 3,500 years. It remains here and it will continue.

Κάποια στιγμή στο παρελθόν,την εποχή που είχα ακόμα μαλλιά,μια καθηγήτρια μου έδωσε το μεγαλύτερο μάθημα της ζωής μου που με κρατάει όρθιο ασχέτως των όσων έχω περάσει.Μας φέρνουν στην σχολή κάποια μοτέρ.Το δικό μας είναι ένα το οποίο ήταν κάπου πεταμένο γιατί από την μια πλευρά είχε χώματα και χόρτα και από την άλλη λάδια.Μόλις το βλέπω λέω την καθηγήτρια ότι αυτό ήταν για πέταμα,τι μας το φέρανε.Γυρνάει και μου λέει με ένα χαμόγελο που δεν το έχω ξεχάσει από τότε «αν δεν μπορείς να το φτιάξεις δεν πειράζει».Η ανακατασκευή του μοτέρ το οποίο δούλευε πλέον σαν καινούριο μου χάρισε ένα 20αρι και ένα αριστείο αλλά το μεγαλύτερο κέρδος ήταν η νοοτροπία.Γι αυτό όταν ακούω «δεν γίνεται» λέω,αν δεν μπορείς να το κάνεις δεν πειράζει.