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Cake day: December 9th, 2023

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  • IIRC, Frank Herbert very explicitly described how Leto II was applying homosexuality to his Fish Speakers in order to keep control over the violent traits common for any army. Luckily, it was just a few pages of it.
    Then in the last book he started writing about Space Jews and I got a little frightened where that might end up…


  • Google improved regarding Russian, it seems.

    Comparison:

    Just never again tell your soldiers before battle “You won’t change anything!” tell them what John Connor asked Kyle Reese to tell his mother - “There is no destiny but the one we make for ourselves.” As they say, let’s personally thank Jim Cameron for this fine movie, right in Hollywood. If I succeed in “making a difference” - cite me to the soldiers as an example.

    The samurai code “Bushido”, which was put down on paper at a time when samurai began to forget it, says, among other things:

    Revenge is often simply to break into an enemy’s house and die.

    Translated with DeepL.com (free version)