One of the main complaints I hear from Nastya is that sometimes I can say something that makes everyone feel awkward and embarrassed. And yes, it turns out that I end up hurting people for no reason, even though I never intended to attack them or show any aggression at Continue Reading
Delicacies
“What do we have today?” Zeph asked, pulling on his T-suit. Of course, he knew what “we have today,” and Gap knew that Zeph knew. But Zeph enjoyed asking the question, partly because, as an intern, he was interested in his senior partner’s perspective rather than just the dry lines Continue Reading
Law of Conservation of Information
(Written based on my theses by the GPT-4 system, because I’m lazy) At the quantum level, it is believed that information cannot be lost. One example that has made scientists ponder the preservation of information is black holes. For a long time, there was a contradiction in science, as it Continue Reading
Dogs and the Subjectivity of Justice
Table of Contents Toggle Case No. 1 Case No. 2 Case No. 1 We needed a shelf of a specific size. But they don’t sell those. There are some that are wider, shorter, or taller. Then I find the exact shelf on a second-hand site. Even two of them. And Continue Reading
The Dream of a Muscovite
If I were to ask you to list the characteristic elements of Ukrainian culture, the average Ukrainian would pause for a moment and come up with a list like this: The vyshyvanka, the kobzar, the Cossacks (with all their paraphernalia from the cradle, trousers, and curved sabers to the oselyets, Continue Reading
General Line
Table of Contents Toggle Part One. The Running Champion. Part Two. Capturing Attention. Part One. The Running Champion. Kostya was the champion of Kyiv in running. Just once. A tall, lanky, smart Jewish boy. He always boasted that he could run fast and even walked through the streets in a Continue Reading
Like flies
There is a newspaper called “Evening Kyiv.” Once, during the USSR era, it was a sort of social and Soviet evening paper featuring editorials, articles of interest to the locals, weather forecasts, and, of course, a TV guide. People mainly subscribed to it for the TV listings, to be honest. Continue Reading
Space of Freedom
(used LLM as a ghostwriter) In an era when democracy is proclaimed as the highest form of governance and a model to emulate, let’s take a moment to remove our rose-colored glasses and look behind the scenes of this magnificent theater of absurdity. On stage, we find not only highly Continue Reading
Kissing Hank’s ass
James Huber, trans. Kissing Hank’s Ass (jhuger.com) This morning, someone knocked on my door. When I opened it, I found a well-groomed, nicely dressed couple standing in front of me. The man spoke first: John: “Hi! I’m John, and this is Mary.”Mary: “Hi! We came to invite you to kiss Continue Reading