I hope it's true!!! This is an amazing news! Matrix was not just a movie it was a cultural phenomenon. They say it's not going to be reboot, but a continuation... I have not been this excited for upcoming movie for ages !!!

This is quite cool list of cognitive biases.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

What a pleasant suprise! One of my favorite Russian journalist has given an inteview in English!
If you want to know about the state of Russian politics right now just listen to this interview. You will get the most comprehensive picture from Julia Latynina. You will not regret it, I promise!
And if you decide to leave a comment under the video please credit my channel for sharing! 👏
https://youtu.be/c0bTck-0T64

All of my family members use Telegram. I convinced all of my friends to switch to Telegram. I actually feel uncomfortable talking through any other messaging app. #switch2telegram

my recipe: If you can't fix a problem, make fun of it. 😆

Looks like crysis between Iran and Arab world has escalated to next level. So far they'd been fighting a proxy war in Yemen, but it seems to be spilling up... This is doesn't look good.
https://youtu.be/F6TPYb7VpLE

New Ukrainean president - Vladimir Zelensky. His first order was to dismiss parliament, head of special services and head of prosecutor's office. So far I'm really liking this guy! I wish Ukraine only the best !!! 🇺🇦

Example. How to manipulate people into giving up their freedom and take their money.

1. Take a scientific reasearch or better order one. In this research(for example) we prove that a substance found in bread flour- we chose a weird short word like E66- can cause cancer;
2. Politicians say that "we are being killed by evil bread producers! research has proven that these evil capitalist are selling us bread with an evil substance - E66 that causes cancer!!! We must create new goverment agency to make sure that people do not eat poison!"
3. Hire media to promote that message;
4. People start to feak out- they've never read that scientific paper, they dont know that chance of E66 causing cancer is less than 1,3% in certain conditions. People demand goverment to take action, to save them from EVIL CAPITALISTS!!!
5. Goverment bravely passes the law and creates new agency, and those politicians who scared people into panic get seats in that agency.
6. All the bread producers understand that it's a bullshit, but they can't sell. So those who have connections go and bribe members of Agency designed to protect people " FROM EVIL CAPITALIST".
7. Those producers who didnt bribe - go out of business. Price goes up.
8. Since producers have to pay bribes they can't buy high quality raw material. - Quality goes down.
9. Final result- People are fucked, politicians made money.

But why did they take power away from people? Because the only thing that people need is an independant Judiciary system.
Producer sold u bad product- sue him! Producer lied about content of the package- sue him! Producer made false promises- sue him!
And get shitload of money from him, so he goes bankrupt. No one else will dare to cheat people and will heavily invest into quality.
But instead we choose to be dumb and believe into horror stories and trust goverment that will protect us.
We dont like to read scientific research papers to find out what really could kill us and how to avoid it, it's boring. It's easier to just think that Capitalists are evil and go watch Game ot Thrones or new memes.

Just watched Zelensky's speech!
FUCKING BRILLIANT !!! 👏👏👏👏

Finally head of Post-USSR country doesnt act like a God, but talks about everyone getting together to build a modern economy.
Talks about the fact that developed world has gone so far and Ukraine needs lots of catching up to do.
But just as Africa has jumped straight into wireless communication passing phone lines - Ukraine has a chance to jump straight into digital governance of the country.
"for every citizen to rule the country from mobile phone" -Zelensky.

On May 7 I wrote a post saying -"I think any country that decentralizes power further could become superpower of next generation."
It could very well be that Ukraine will become that superpower. 💪🇺🇦

Ukraine is the most exciting place in the world right now! I really wish them best of luck !!!

We, as telegram users know quite well who's Pavel Durov, but not everyone knows that Pavel actually has an older brother.
Not a simple older brother, but a genious brother.
Nikolai Durov has won 3 gold medals in every International Mathematical Olympiad he participated in.
He won one Gold and 3 silver medals in International Olympiad in Informatics.

He worked with Pavel in VK.com as a lead developer and still is the "brains" behind all Pavels projects.

Here's a video of the lecture by Nikolai. I'll be honest, I didnt understand anything in this lecture. I'm just posting it to intimidate you 😈
https://youtu.be/oCD2Ohfgklk

Just another day in Russia.

I have not watched Game of Thrones untill the last part came out, which I watched.
I've also seen planty of news titles saying that it was bad ending and people were unhappy.
Somehow I thought of my childhood, when I was a child(late USSR time), there was a Italian series on TV called "Comisar Cattani" about a brace police officer fighting Italian mafia. This series ended with Cattani being shot to death by italian mafia. Later I found out that real Italian mafia were so furious that they were beaten in the movie that they've threatened to kill an actor of the movie if they didnt kill Comisar Cattani in the movie.
I remember being heartbroken and crying all day, Comisar Cattani was my childhood hero! He had to beat the bad guys! Since then lot have changed, I've learned humerous times that things in life dont alway turn out the way you expect. And very often bad guys win, in fact bad guys win most of the time and after that force everyone to proclaim them as Good guys(winner writes history).

I dont blame people for being unhappy that they didnt see happy end, but I thought the ending was brutaly brilliant just like the ending of Comisar Cattani. Had Comisar Cattani won mafia, I'd never remember this movie and I'd not learn valuable lesson early on.
I've also loved the quote by the little guy(Tyrion Lannister) "A good story is the most powerful thing in the world".
https://youtu.be/kX035GiMuVM

stay away from negative people @talks