If man wants to progress, he must create new forms of energy of greater and greater densities.
-Lazare Carnot (1784)
Can Catastrophic Collapse (ie Bronze Age Collapse) be Mitigated thru Simplification?
The Fall of the Roman Empire
The Western Empire Collapsed in 476 CE. The Eastern in 1453 CE
The hidden "Irony" in the term "Byzantine"
from Google AIThe Roman Empire officially became Christian in 380 AD and permanently divided into the Eastern and Western empires in 395 AD.
Here is how the timeline of both events unfolded:
1. Becoming a Christian EmpireThe shift from a pagan state to a Christian one happened in phases:
- 313 AD: Emperor Constantine issued the Edict of Milan, which decriminalized Christianity and ended centuries of state-sponsored persecution.
- 380 AD: Emperor Theodosius I issued the Edict of Thessalonica, which made Nicene Christianity the official state religion of the Roman Empire.
- For more on this timeline, check out History Hit's Growth of Christianity.
2. Dividing into Eastern and Western EmpiresDue to the empire's massive size and difficulty governing its vast territory, administration was split:
- 285 AD: Emperor Diocletian first introduced a multi-ruler system (the Tetrarchy), physically dividing the administration of the empire.
- 395 AD: Following the death of Emperor Theodosius I, the empire was permanently and definitively divided into two distinct political realms governed by separate imperial courts.
- The Aftermath: The Western Empire, struggling with invasions, fell in 476 AD. The Eastern Empire (known historically as the Byzantine Empire) survived until 1453 AD
More from Google AI:
The Byzantine Empire achieved organizational simplification primarily through the Theme System (Themata) in the 7th century. By combining civilian and military governance under a single general (strategos) and granting hereditary land to soldiers, the state streamlined its defense and tax collection during constant invasions.
The Theme System
To survive near-constant territorial threats, the empire abandoned the complex, corrupt late-Roman separation of military and civil powers.Bureaucratic Administration
- Civil-Military Merge: Regions were divided into administrative zones (themes) governed by a strategos (general) who held total authority over both the local military and civilian administration.
- Land Grants (Strateia): The empire allocated plots of land to farmers in exchange for hereditary military service. This decentralized defense while ensuring a highly motivated, localized standing army.
- Cost Efficiency: It removed the need to pay regular salaries and transport funds across vast, vulnerable territories, allowing the military to be self-sustaining.
While the empire shrank, the central government in Constantinople maintained a highly effective, centralized bureaucracy to manage the treasury and administration.Strategic Philosophy
- Fiscal Optimization: Specialized departments (sekreta) headed by Logothetes (ministers) accounted for state resources and tax collection.
- Separation of Power: The central government strictly forbade regional military leaders from collecting taxes directly, preventing generals from using regional treasuries to fund rebellions.
- Diplomacy over Warfare: Rather than relying solely on brute force, the state employed massive, structured intelligence and bribery to turn enemies against one another.
- Cavalry Focus: Tactics transitioned from the rigid, foot-based Roman legions to a highly mobile, cavalry-heavy force capable of repelling quick-striking invaders
To avoid collapse as its territory shrank, the Byzantine Empire decentralized into a proto-feudal system, created mobile standing armies, leveraged deep-in-depth fortifications, and perfected advanced diplomacy to divide and conquer its enemies.
- The Tagmata (Professional Armies): To supplement local thematic militias, emperors established small, highly trained, mobile standing armies. Stationed near Constantinople, these troops provided a reliable rapid-response force to counter invaders.
- The Pronoia System: As funds dried up, the state granted land and tax revenues to nobles in exchange for military service. This feudal arrangement provided a cost-effective way to raise cavalry and troops without maintaining an expensive standing mercenary force.
- Strategic Fortification & Defense in Depth: Instead of risking all-out battles, the Byzantines drew invaders into difficult, fortified terrain. They gathered all local crops and livestock behind city walls, forcing enemies to overextend and starve, making them vulnerable to ambushes.
- Masterful Diplomacy: The empire's most effective survival tactic was "divide and conquer." They used lavish bribes, arranged marriages, and paid one barbarian tribe to attack another, keeping their numerous adversaries too fractured and busy to threaten Constantinople.
- Naval Supremacy: The use of "Greek Fire"—a highly combustible, inextinguishable liquid weapon—allowed the Byzantine navy to defend the strategic waters around Constantinople and maintain maritime dominance.
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-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA JewMay 24, 2026 at 1:09 PM
I love parody. This whole blogsite runs on the self-esteam of a ship engineer....
AnonymousMay 25, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Yeah???
Especially when top man think that that parody is not parody at all, but real deal -- and demand of you to show self-esteam and run that damn thing... instead of loading bunkers with coal or tanks with gas??? %^)))))
And that EXACTLY what ruins empires -- top brass start BELIEVING their own propaganda
(and I saw it from inside -- when Gorbachov ruined USSR... because he foolishly believrd that talking truth and allowing to tell truth... is the way to rule))(((
\\If man wants to progress, he must create new forms of energy of greater and greater densities.
Yawn. "Ancient wisdoms tend...
What Karno knew about computers? About cybernetics?
//Naval Supremacy: The use of "Greek Fire
Ha-ha-ha... what a drag.))
The "nailed shield of Constantinople" refers to the legendary 907 CE military campaign led by Prince Oleg of the Kyivan Rus' against the Byzantine capital, Tsargrad.
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The Legend of Oleg's Shield
According to the 12th-century Primary Chronicle, Oleg (Oleh) the Wise attacked Constantinople with a massive fleet of 2,000 boats. To bypass the city's coastal defenses and iron chains across the Bosporus, Oleg allegedly put his ships on wheels and marched them overland to the city walls.
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Intimidated by the Rus' forces, the Byzantine Empire sued for peace and agreed to pay a massive tribute. To symbolize this triumph and the rising power of Kievan Rus', Prince Oleg famously nailed his shield to the Golden Gate of Constantinople before departing
//Masterful Diplomacy: The empire's most effective survival tactic was "divide and conquer." They used lavish bribes, arranged marriages, and paid one barbarian tribe to attack another, keeping their numerous adversaries too fractured and busy to threaten Constantinople.
Yeah. Until Osmans came.
With their "secrte techmof bridal promisquity. ;-p
//complex, corrupt late-Roman separation of military and civil powers.
Yeah-yeah-yeah... cause Roman emperors -- was not chief military commanders too. Starting from very first one who gave em the name (further transformed into meaning "king/tzar")
//Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
- Ambrose Bierce
...like "technology".
So? You must be loving techs.
Yawn.
As they are damn old thing by now. ;-p
Like...
Lazare Carnot (1784) <---
//Why isn't it merely just another Pandoran box?
You think you can PREVENT that nasty Pandora to look into that box???
Especually AFTER it all hapoened. Long-long time ago (like... from stone age ;-p
\\btw - What purpose does your central technological quest serve?
Same as Lem -- survival of Humanity.
But yoy, it seems, don't want it???
\\And why should anyone contribute to it?
Bevause that... damn interesting? And better than stupid and sad decline into oblivion???
//What is the "gift" and why does it surpass a "peplos"?
Why do youngsters si optimistic??? And wanna survive against all odds??? ;-p
\\Yes, I do. Abolish taxes. The IRS Code (Income tax) became the carrot and stick method of controlling the people (Est, 1913). It's when the social engineering all began.
Whatever. Yawn.
You gave no power to accomplish that...
\\And who are "those who know better" to you?
Some evil schemers behind the curtain?
Think about this -- who are parents to their children? Aren't they are ones "who know better". ;-p
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-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA JewMay 26, 2026 at 9:43 AM
"The government is best that governs least." - Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience" (1849).
Slavery abolished, 1865.
???
What with this responce?
Do you wanna abolish parenthood too??? ;-p
err... have no power
//I have. It's called "The Alchemy of Finance" by George Soros. Why care about truth if you can trick everyone into believing a falsehood? And why make it hard for them to do so?
Nothing hard at all.
99% of peplos believe in all and any kind of falsehood.
That's why Henlon's Razor in such a high demand... NOT. %^P
And there is no secret behind that "alchemy" what so ever.
Just "do what that 99% would not do"... like, go to the library. ;-p
//The internet isn't regulated?
Do roads (need to be) regulated? Or everybody can drive however he like???
That's just common sense(censure in social networks -- totally another story)
\\What's your protocol? I used to be a Jughead, Archie, and Veronica guy... before html.
Yawn.
html -- is not a protocol...
so, you just wanna drive, without regard to any rulrs
What's so strange with your ride being bumpy all of the time? ;-p
Sorry. Much like Berlin, I'm a classical liberal. Kennan was right about USSR... but then he no longer was about America (founded CIA). He became a "spook's spook". Open warfare moved from the open into the shadows. It became "plausibly deniable". Like a blown-up undersea gas pipeline.
...or a colour revolution in Kyev.
I walk away from Omelas.
...about spintronics? It's the corallary. Making the objects acted upon less massive so as to make the energy densities required to move them require less density.
...and so Byzantium survived another day.
The formerly Christian (conquered Byzantines) Jannisarries gained their revenge. Their legions became hereditary and eventually led to the overthrow the Ottomans.
Google AI:
The Janissary corps was originally a tightly controlled elite infantry recruited through the devshirme (blood tax) system, making them loyal "slaves of the Sultan". However, as the system decayed, heredity and corruption took over, transforming the Janissaries into a politically stagnant force that violently opposed modernization and orchestrated multiple palace coups.
Their drift toward heredity and entrenched political power overthrew or doomed the Ottomans in several key ways:
The Coup of 1807: When Sultan Selim III attempted to establish a modern, European-style military (the Nizam-i Cedid), the Janissaries revolted, deposed the Sultan, and forced the empire to abandon military reforms.
Stifled Modernization: Because Janissaries were permitted to marry, pass their elite military status to their children, and engage in trades, the corps became bloated, undisciplined, and technologically obsolete compared to Western Europe.
The "Auspicious Incident": After decades of interference, Sultan Mahmud II succeeded in creating a new artillery corps. When the Janissaries rebelled against him in 1826, Mahmud II heavily bombarded their barracks in Istanbul in an event known as the Auspicious Incident.
The suppression and execution of the Janissaries dissolved the military elite but arrived too late to fully catch up to Western military technology. For more on how these entrenched troops shifted from the Sultan's greatest asset to his biggest threat.
The groundwork for feudalism well laid... let the game of thrones begin!
Where's my Secretary of Defense/ War?
in shame. Yawn.
Do you know that anekdote?
About Uncatchable Joe?
Yawn
"Adolf... get back in your bunker!"
And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? - Archilochus
\\...or a colour revolution in Kyev.
Not desire of people?
So maybe current war is also evil trick of CIA??? That tricked Ukrainians into valiantly fight for own independence??? %^P
Oh, wait, but war for Independence of USA -- was CIA trick too??? ;-p
Some mighty CIA from the Future... with Time Machine... they built on my tier 3 tech base ;-p
You don't really believe all that "ἢ τὰν ἢ ἐπὶ τᾶς " sh*t, do you?
only viable tech can day -- possible that "spinyronics" or not
yawn
Have fun with Leonidas at the Hot Gates to Kyev!
Not on the battle field.
On battlefields such a scarredy mice -- die first.
Because of their mind dumbed down by f#ars.
Progress towards what end? "Immanentize the Eschaton!"
..."Manifest Destiny!" @@
"Between war and shame,.. you did choose shame, and you'll have a war(as nevessary freebie, yawn)"(c)
...pass me another beer!
Do I have to keep building her new/ more boxes to open? "New and Improved" Pandora's boxes?
there's no tech/strategies to win all games/wars
everuthing that makes you stronger in something -- same time makes you weaker
yaaaaawn
dunno how it relates... yawn
Do I look like "The Little Prince" or a guy with a drawing of a hat?
//Progress towards what end?
Still... you militantly DO NOT want to define your own Future
so be it -- it will be defined for you by somebody else -- like, extinction
yawn
//Do I have to keep building...
You have NO power to choose.
Golem XIV's words -- humans are under power of Evolution
And need to became free from it -- "Freedom as hardest task" -- BEFORE you'd have any word to say about it.
Caesar was never "Emperor" (Tsar). He was "Dictator for Life" (which wasn't long)
Augustus (his nephew) was a military commander, but he was not a skilled battlefield general. Unlike his great-uncle Julius Caesar, Augustus (originally named Octavian) suffered from poor health and possessed little tactical talent, relying instead on his brilliant military commander and lifelong friend, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, to win his most critical battles..
George R.R. Martin "Game of Thrones"
"Tell me something, do you still believe good soldiers make good kings?"
"Great warriors don't make great kings. Wisdom makes a good King."
So when an army of archers invades... attack them in the forest with a gladius!
Xenophon, "Cyropedia"
The Western Roman Empire died gloriously a thousand years before the Eastern ended in ignominy. Where would you have preferred to raise you family? In the "free" East or the enslaved West?
I have defined mine. A life of retired ease. If I'm alive 10 years from now (unlikely) it will will have been a god run. If not, my worries will all be over.
Pyrrhus wasn't a very good king.
//Caesar was never "Emperor" (Tsar). He was "Dictator for Life" (which wasn't long)
yeah-yeah-yeah
and it eas not herediary %^)))))
Zelinskyy takes after him...
Yep.
Wisdom to not ask general to fly like a butter fly. ;-p
Yawn.
Zelinskyy... dictator for life. Who needs elections when you just need to keep the war going?
Yeah.
It's always easy to win against army of fools... imaginary.
Yaaaawn.
Also.
Borrowed wisdom -- not wisdom.
Because?
One must be smart oneself... to listen to a smart advice.
Yawn.
Whatever.
Why should I care???
Happy ever after... in the oblivion, then.
Yawn.
lol! Farfala vendetta!
Ehm???
Enslaved?
Free?
Yawn.
Wisdom is a habit. Acta non verba!
Again.
Why Should *I* Care???)))))
The NASA habitus:
NASA’s foundational test philosophy is summarized by the mantra "Test Like You Fly, Test What You Fly." It dictates that space and ground hardware must be subjected to the exact operational environments they will face in space, applying strict safety margins to guarantee mission success and crew safety.
NASA (.gov)
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Core Philosophies & Approaches
Test Like You Fly (TLYF): Hardware and software are evaluated together under realistic operational loads to uncover hidden flaws, memory leaks, and timing errors.
Stimulate, Not Simulate: Physical tests (like thermal-vacuum chambers) are designed to physically stimulate the hardware rather than running purely software-simulated environments, ensuring workmanship screens and qualification levels.
Design Margins: Environmental tests push hardware beyond expected limits (e.g., thermal ranges or vibration forces) to provide a safety margin.
Validation of Models: Physical tests are vital to correlate and update thermal and mathematical models so that mission planners can make accurate, real-time decisions.
Data Packages: Comprehensive documentation of a component's or system's testing history ensures strict verification and validation (V&V) before it ever leaves the ground.
Definitely not.
As them mere donkeys would be the wisest. ;-p
What is every causes belli? The charm that accompanies the leaf (Plato, "Charmdes"). "Give me Liberty, or give me death" - Patrick Henry
aka - "Words, words, words" (c)
...greater energy densities viable, or not? Kardaschev Scale.
Before you leave, be sure to pass your army under my yoke! It will cancel that bent knee from yesterday.
Welcome to a new system of "general economy" (Baudrillard). Today's eschaton will involve sacrificing your children to Baal...
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
- Ambrose Bierce
...but I repeat myself...
In America they (Democrats) think that they are. Except they're not intelligent enough in the need to change their habits when blocked to meet their (intelligent) goals. They make lousy mountain climbers, as they can never retreat in elevation and discover/ try a new path.
Keep smoking those cigarettes, Democrats!
More of the same is always better! More of the different is always better! Meden agan!
Progress, don't consolidate (especially vis "technology")!
Don't standardize, innovate!
Stop communicating, redraw your Markov blanket, and self-replicate. Be cancerous... just spew more of "the same" and grow! Be like a sea chest on the ship of Theseus that gets replaced with a slightly thinner walled construction at each drydocking event.
I hear that Lavrov has told Rubio to get Americans out of Kyev in advance of immanent strikes.
Exactly!
As Bartleby famously said, "I would prefer NOT to". Such will be my contribution to La Part Maudite!
In other words, I choose not to accumulate, but to spend it.
A blog potlatch!
Whatever.
You are just a slave of Evolution, than.
Yawn.
/I would prefer that you do it for yourself. I'm not into altruistic suicide. I'm more into egoistic suicide (Durkheim).
No, but Trump has threatened it. And I have voted for him.
I deem it amoral -- to prevent people from death they choose to die... let em decide for at least one time, for themself.
Yawn.
And what answered that Rufio?
Yawn.
Google: President Donald Trump has repeatedly proposed heavily cutting or completely eliminating federal income taxes, and replacing that revenue with funds generated by aggressive new tariffs on imported goods. The administration aims to start by cutting taxes for Americans earning under $200,000 before expanding the plan.
//In America they (Democrats) think that they are. Except they're not intelligent enough in the need to change their habits when blocked to meet their (intelligent) goals.
And who said that they declaring em truthfooolly:
Yawn.
Breaks falling on a head? Words???
So, depleeted stockpiles of anti-balistic... is mere words too??? %^p
lol! Berlin letter to Kennan...
If pushed to the extreme, this doctrine would, of course, do away with all education, since when we send children to school or influence them in other ways without obtaining their approval for what we are doing, are we not "tampering" with them, "moulding" them like pieces of clay with no purpose of their own? Our answer has to be that certainly all "moulding" is evil, and that if human beings at birth had the power of choice and the means of understanding the world, it would be criminal; since they have not, we temporarily enslave them, for fear that, otherwise, they will suffer worse misfortunes from nature and from men, and this "temporary enslavement" is a necessary evil until such time as they are able to choose for themselves--the "enslavement" having as its purpose not an inculcation of obedience but its contrary, the development of power of free judgement and choice; still, evil it remains, even if necessary.
Communists and Fascists maintain that this kind of "education" is needed not only for children but for entire nations for long periods, the slow withering away of the State corresponding to immaturity in the lives of individuals. The analogy is specious because peoples, nations are not individuals and still less children; moreover in promising maturity their practice belies their professions; that is to say, they are lying, and for the most part know that they are. From a necessary evil in the case of the education of helpless children, this kind of practice becomes an evil on a much larger scale, and quite gratuitous, based either on utilitarianism, which misrepresents our moral values, or again on metaphors which misdescribe both what we call good and bad, and the nature of the world, the facts themselves. For we, i.e. those who join with us, are more concerned with making people free than making them happy; we would rather that they chose badly than not at all; because we believe that unless they choose they cannot be either happy or unhappy in any sense in which these conditions are worth having; the very notion of "worth having" presupposes the choice of ends, a system of free preferences; and an undermining of them is what strikes us with such cold terror, worse than the most unjust sufferings, which nevertheless leave the possibility of knowing them for what they are--of free judgement, which makes it possible to condemn them--still open.
only technologist can answer
yawn
yeah
you do
usually that means that you have no viable arguments
so you need to fallback to mere mantras
words, words, words
yawn
words, words, words...
Who picks the books available? Soros realism...
Soros Realism describes a type of post-socialist art. It was coined by Miško Šuvaković in "Ideologija izložbe: o ideologijama Manifeste" (2002) . The name comes from George Soros, who financed Soros centers for contemporary art in Eastern Europe.
Although Šuvaković did not originally use it pejoratively, its origin in Socialist Realism made it emblematic of the irony of renewed political funding of art, which censors by financing not forbidding.
Go work in the Ministry of Truth with Winston Smith and Julia.
words, words, words again
designed by Evolution humans need other humans... even if as enemies.
so, only th*ng you can do to override it -- speed up to your higher declared goal
bonker, yawn
whatever, yawn
homo sapiens are of that kind of chicks... who's progeny cannot self-sustain themself (unlike for example chicken chicks -- that start using their beaks right after hatching)
Your desire? ;-)
Protocols don't render/ submit peoples "Before the Law" (Kafka)? Rate and Categorize people and either admit them, or deny them access? That's a pretty high Pay Wall you have there before you, my friend.
Have I verified that you're a human lately? Over 30,000 hits from them yesterday scraping this website.
But hey, what I post is merely sunshine remnants from Zarathustra's mountaintop cave before the down-going.
//From a necessary evil in the case of the education of helpless children, this kind of practice becomes an evil on a much larger scale, and quite gratuitous, based either on utilitarianism,
What China do
And trying to expand around World
But dRump calling Xi dear friend
maybe he wanna adoption of it in USA too? ;-p
Zara-guy tout about becoming Super-Human
While you preaching "dust to dust"...
Hardly you are truthfool follower of that Zara-guy, just from this observation alone
Yawn
So they need others to sustain them indefinitely... which explains the Bronze Age collapse. Some people eventually become self-sustaining, believe it or not. They become pioneers, get in wagons, and travel West... and only circle their wagons at night to camp.
//Rate and Categorize people and either admit them, or deny them access?
Like it's possible to grant access without it???
%^))(
Cybernetics. Remember?
No, he simply stopped hoarding his part maudite and began sharing it freely. Man isn't a herd animal, he's a hoard animal (Freud).
did you tryed campling???
in a dangerous wilderness and not some campsite?
yaaaawn
ps u r saaaa civilized,dude
Verba non acta!
By eliminating the Department of Education?
President Trump signed an executive order to begin dismantling and abolishing the U.S. Department of Education. However, fully eliminating a Cabinet-level agency requires an act of Congress, making its complete statutory abolition highly difficult to achieve without a 60-vote majority in the Senate.
When you have a digital economy and can control the algorithms with your tech bros., why do you need a Dept. of Education? A department of redundancy department?
like I care
non verba about own true goals
basiest rule from Strategy 101 course ;-p
Course you gone through with all Fs, it seems. ;-p
whatevet
Or deny access? Remember. Before the Law.
Sound the shofar! Give me new Arts & Technologies
Sure "You've got yours!"
from Google AI:
At the United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) at Kings Point, the phrase "I've got mine" (along with "got mine") is famously associated with receiving the coveted Class Ring.
The ring tradition involves these specific details:
The Ring Dance: Traditionally, midshipmen receive their rings during the annual Ring Dance, held during First Class (senior) year.
The "Thump": True to the rugged, "Old Corps" traditions of the academy, receiving the ring often involves physical initiation. When a midshipman gets their ring, they and their classmates traditionally administer a "thump" (a punch to the chest where the ring is worn), symbolizing the hard work, sea time, and shared suffering endured to earn it.
The Meaning: The phrase "I've got mine" (or "I got mine") is used by upperclassmen who have finally survived the gauntlet of the academy and earned the right to wear the Kings Point crest.
...and "knock rings"
The phrase "knock rings"—more commonly known as "ring-knocking"—is a slang term used to describe graduates of U.S. military or maritime academies. It refers to the networking culture and the tendency of alumni to assert their academy identity, often humorously associated with tapping or knocking their distinct class rings on tables in social or professional settings.
While the term originated at the U.S. Naval Academy, it is frequently used to describe the close-knit, highly supportive alumni network (the "Long Gray Line" or "Kings Pointer" equivalent) of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) in Kings Point, New York.
Within the maritime industry, "ring knocker" often refers to USMMA alumni who leverage their tight alumni connections to secure leadership roles and career opportunities.
If you are looking into the traditions associated with the class rings themselves at Kings Point, the defining milestone is Ring Dipping, where the Second Class midshipmen dip their rings into water collected from the Seven Seas to formally mark their transition into their senior year.
btw - I never bought a ring. I "had" mine. ;p
I'm not Odysseus. I simply tie myself to the mast and plug my own ears with wax. ;p
It gives me "plausible deniability". "He CRA!"
You've surrendered yours? Somebody tear up the NDAs!
It's Ovo Shanzhai time!
No, Julia's! Do it to HER!
Cybernetics.
Would you enjoy your pee coming into your veins?
And vice versa.
yeah...
:-)
like I care
I'm a Boy Scout (US and Venezuela). I'm also a hunter - fisherman. We used to backpack into the Primitive Areas around Deer and Camp Lakes for a week at a time in the Sierra. Somtimes we took horses.
That's the SuperEgo talking! "Do it or else!"
No. But "we're close to a deal with Iran"? That keeps the DJIA at 50,000.
All the best science fiction is written by technologists!
"Miles to go before I sleep, for I have promises to keep..." - Robert Frost
...or G_d's voice, in a Bicameral mind (Right hemisphere).
Yes, the U.S. Department of State maintains a strict Level 4 Travel Advisory warning Americans not to travel to Ukraine and urging those currently there to depart.
U.S. Department of State (.gov)
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The standing advisory is as follows:
Travel Advisory: Level 4 - Do Not Travel.
Current Posture: Following recent Russian threats and calls for foreign embassies to evacuate, the State Department confirmed that operations at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv are continuing without changes or plans for evacuation.
Safety Instructions: Americans are instructed to exercise increased caution due to ongoing missile and drone threats, monitor a reliable "air alert" app, and immediately seek shelter when an alert is sounded.
U.S. Department of State (.gov)
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You can track real-time security updates for the region directly on the U.S. Department of State Ukraine Travel Advisory page.
In other words, the CIA is staying, but everyone else should get out.
So anomie, not altruism in the end. Got it.
And you're not?
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