Today's mass media is full of articles on important subjects. Trans rights, racial discrimination, anthropogenic climate change, the virus (yes, corona virus, if you still remember it), hunger in Africa. All worthy themes for public discussions, my woke friends! After all, aren't we all in favour of rights and in preserving the precious human lives? Yes we are, my bleeding heart comrades! But it seems to me, no one really … more »

The problem with democracyDemocracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. Sounds familiar? This quote, attributed to the seasoned politician Sir Churchill, sounds true today more than ever, given that nowadays there are so many countries on this planet that call themselves democratic. And yet one must be blind not to notice huge problems in almost any single … more »

Elon Musk is a prolific man. There is no need to retell his glorious career here, the curious reader can always review the relevant Wikipedia page, which we will assume to be somewhat accurate. Important to bear in mind that the guy loves to innovate. Most of the time he doesn't really create a completely new products that no one has ever thought of before. On the contrary, he usually … more »

Humanity has come a long way in recent decades. We learned how to make a nuclear bomb and how to send messages almost instantaneously. We landed on the Moon and we put a mobile phone in almost every hand. We are almost done with communism, now that China is more capitalist than the US of A. We even haven't had a world war for the last 70 years - and … more »

Who said that the corporate world was soulless? Bullshit! The gods of the big business are also almost human. They laugh, they cry, they pooh (money and gold, of course) and they even text! So one day they scratched their collective heads with receding and pointy hair and decided, that what their minions really need was to do some corporate texting. Texting is in vogue. Texting is woke. Texting is … more »

We, humans, love exchanging presents. Even people with limited resources try to provide some gifts for their special ones on important occasions. Naturally, this can lead to some anxiety. How to arrange a nice present to your daughter on her 10th birthday, when you have barely enough money to feed the family? For the more affluent among us gift exchange is often a source of a different kind of stress … more »