Ополчение древнего Рима

Допустим, у мужчины есть дом, семья, жена, дети, работа, еще одна работа, плавание в бассейне, шабат шалом и несколько единиц оружия, включая автоматы калашникова. Есть ли у него при этом свободное время на то, чтобы регулярно тренироваться стрелять, особенно в стрессовой ситуации? Или учиться теории категорий охотиться на оленей?

Свободного времени нет. Нет и необходимости уметь стрелять, зато есть необходимость считать себя мужчиной и постить фоточки с оружием.

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“At this point, although the battle was not at all the kind to be bitter and lasting, Fortune intervened so as to bring about remarkable losses on both sides, including the glorious deaths of the commanders themselves. ”

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“but because the attack was made in the absence of the commanders, there was no limit to the bloodshed, and the Ausonian people were wiped out as if they had been fighting a war to the death, although it was not even quite certain that they were guilty of revolt.”

--- Titus Livy. “Rome and Italy.”

TIL: learning from experience

... rats could develop an aversion to drinking harmless colored water in a single exposure, if the experimenters induced nausea afterward, but would not associate drinking colored water and electric shock after any number of tries.

quoted from Brian Boyd, "On the origins.."

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Если лживое хуйло утверждает, что борется за правду, не верь ушам своим.

TIL

in 2017 Chinese people were the top tourism spenders. They shelled out US$258 billion, nearly double the US$135 billion spent by Americans.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2168174-tourism-is-four-times-worse-for-the-climate-than-we-thought/

Acceptance of AliPay is going to grow around the world, esp. in Europe.