Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev.

Could you share some interesting videos for the trip to NY and back?

I’m primarily interested in educational videos that are also good in audio-only mode (so I don’t have to look at the phone while driving). But generally, anything goes — interesting interviews, stories from fascinating people, even audiobooks are fine (but not too long, an hour or an hour and a half, otherwise it’s a pity to stop midway and unclear when to resume listening). Dovlatov was a good choice among audiobooks.

Also — any recommendations for interesting channels. If it’s not too much trouble, upload everything 🙂

Here are all my subscriptions on Youtube:

https://github.com/raliev/interestingyoutubesubscriptions

If anyone is not particularly shy about sharing their own, here’s a handy exporter for all subscriptions into a file (to clipboard): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-subscriptions-exp/dhpojdmnffaocepmljcdcongdmkjblan/related?hl=en

You can install it in Chrome, export subscriptions — it takes a couple of seconds, and then remove the extension.

Very interesting explanation of a well-known illusion

Today I discovered that the project vsenauka.ru, where a plethora of popular science books were officially available for free download, has been shut down. After some Googling, I found https://nauchpop.rusneb.ru/ Despite the 404 Not Found preview in FB, it opens successfully for me, and there is that very library. I randomly checked, the books are there, and downloadable.

SELECT NARCOTICS IN TIME-DELAY SAFE, says Walgreens. I’m like – 🤔. Went to Google it.

So, here’s the issue – junkie robbers raid pharmacies and wipe all opioid medications from the safes. The situation gets to a point where placing them in a regular safe proved ineffective, as no safe is immune to being cracked by thermorectal cryptoanalysis or, more likely in American circumstances, a gun to the head. So, they came up with a safe that unlocks after an indeterminate time (at least a few minutes) within enough time for police to arrive – usually just a few minutes. All law-abiding customers just wait a bit, while it becomes very unprofitable for robbers to play such Russian roulette.

My insurance is buying my blood for about $600. Just in time for Halloween, how fitting 🤔 It’s called biometric screening. They sent a “do it yourself” kit.

P.S. If anyone has piano sheets for nine fingers, share them, will be useful today.

In the end, I bought not a white book but a yellow one

Reading about the artist George Lax, I came across his painting “Czechoslovak Army Entering Vladivostok”. And I was like — 😳 Moreover, the flag in the painting is Polish!

I started to look into it. It’s known that Czechoslovakia didn’t exist until 1918, but there were Czechoslovaks. During World War I, Czech immigrants living in Russia organized themselves into national battalions in Kiev under the command of Russian officers. Additionally, captive Czechs and Slovaks who expressed a desire to fight against Germany and Austria-Hungary joined them. They fought successfully, but then the October Revolution of 1917 occurred, causing problems for the Czechs who supported the Provisional Government at that time. In France, plans were being made to create Czechoslovakia, and it was decided to help the Czechs in Russia reach France to form the Czechoslovak Legion. They then refused to help Kiev, and on January 26 (February 8), Kiev was captured by Soviet forces.

The Czechoslovaks were based in various places — Chelyabinsk, Penza, the Carpathians, Kemerovo, Irkutsk, Vladivostok. In addition to reaching France, they also faced problems moving west — an ideological conflict matured and the Red Guards began disarming the legionnaires. The direct path to France was blocked, and even the northern route through Murmansk and Arkhangelsk (and then by sea around Scandinavia) was very dangerous due to German submarines actively pirating in Soviet territorial waters. Ultimately, it was decided to send the legionnaires via the Trans-Siberian Railway to Vladivostok and further via the Pacific and Indian Oceans to Europe. Appreciate the scale!

From there, a lot happened that halted the Red expansion in the eastern territories, and our Czechoslovaks were very much involved. More details can be read through the link below.

The Czechoslovak Army and the Red Army were quite “at daggers drawn”, but money resolved everything: a truce was reached. The Czechs handed over gold to the Bolsheviks in exchange for unhindered departure to Vladivostok. The first ships with Czechoslovaks left in December 1919. In total, over 72,000 people were shipped to Europe on 42 ships. The last arrived in Czechoslovakia in November 1920, as the civil war in the European part of the former Russian Empire was coming to an end. More than 4,000 legionnaires died or went missing in Russia.

And the flag in the painting—a flag of the Bohemian Kingdom of the Czechs, which officially ceased to exist in 1918 by transforming into Czechoslovakia.

https://foma.ru/zalozhniki-chuzhoy-voynyi.html

We also watched it recently. Good review. I feel the same way. To my shame, I haven’t read Remarque at all. But in today’s realities, it’s better to watch. It seems that in a hundred years nothing has changed. Only, there is less courage in people. There’s more to lose now.

I think those drones were stuffed with Delirium (De). No other way about it. Delirium is five times heavier than uranium, with a density of 100 tons per cubic meter, which ultimately results in five hundred tons per drone.

The Ikea springbox manual starts with “first, find a friend”

(With a screw loose, as I understood it)