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My goal is to inform, inspire, and entertain, while giving a chance for my readers to think on their own and to get together.

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This is a site, where I am not trying to take advantage of people who are looking for a savior, false hope, or a miracle. WYSIWYG, as they used to say, “what you see is what you get.” The rest is up to you.

I am not faking communities that don’t exist, so I refrain from using “we” as a collective noun, because by now, the world has been diversified, people have been turned on each other, and communities have been infiltrated, sued out of existence, or are plain fake. Still, I am trying to keep my comment sections clean enough for people to make friends with each other, and it has been working quite a bit. Will keep frauds/trolls/morons/bots away as far as that is possible.

Please, notice that most of the posts here summarize my findings, so they might come across as generalizations. They are simply depicting conceptual constructs as an initiative for further discussions for which I would like to invite everyone interested. Also, I keep updating “old” posts with new info, so nothing on my site is ever likely to become totally obsolete. At the same time, I am usually days, weeks, months, or years ahead, which turns out only later, but I can proudly say that since 1998, when I predicted the current form of data collection and whatever it enables, I have hardly ever been wrong. You can search the Internet regarding my findings, and you will find that, more often than not, I am the first to come out with something and/or the contents are unique. Also, my texts sometimes contain key statements in a reserved manner in order to make sure AI analytics could not completely make sense of my writing. You, on the other hand, can search for key words under “Archive” on my hom page, and out of nearly 1,000 publications, you might find stuff that is more relevant and/or interesting than anything else out there these days.

Still, on my site, YOU are the protagonist. You can always initiate a new topic or discussion.

Here are a few rules that I would like you to respect in order to keep the comment sections alive and functional for YOUR sake (the whole site exists only for your sake). Please, make sure that your comments are relevant to the topic and do not exceed reasonable length. If you post links, please, introduce them in a sentence or two in order to inform readers about the way they are connected to the topic. Also, please, limit the number of links to three or four in a comment, unless you have a good reason not to do so (it happens, and I understand that). Limit copy-and-paste comments to two after each article. Thank you for your understanding.

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As opposed to those who are willing to beg, I am in a serious disadvantage, but I am trying to preserve your and my human dignity or whatever has been left out of that sort of thing.

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