Robert Blinov @robertblinov

🌻 Robert Blinov @robertblinov • @robertblinov

Studying information security at Financial University and fighting the Great Reset takeover of society

robertblinov.net ~ 18.1y old in Moscow

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🌲 Tho i think it's called open-mindedness. every other person, if not more, claims to be open-minded on social media. but who knows how it actually is

🌻 Robert Blinov "Have an open mind, but not an empty head" - Edward Tufte

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🏒 Lucian Marin You can't. Find people who think like you do.

🌻 Robert Blinov Find people who will change minds if their intuition does not find anything wrong with your reasoning. (I'm one of them.)

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🌻 Robert Blinov Writing is a form of thinking, and leads me to find new ways of looking at things. This means constant structural improvement and word changes - something that's much easier to do on a computer than with pen and paper.

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🌲 Tho i'm absolutely incapable of writing long posts. most of my thoughts are not longer than a few sentences, at best. i really struggle to squeeze long thoughts out of my brain :-(

🌻 Robert Blinov Being contrarian is valuable: improvement is possible only through questioning current best-practices and trying different approaches. And if a contrarian's approach ends up being the best, he will get quite a lot of demand for the little supply he has to offer.

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🏒 Lucian Marin Contrarians use inversion mental model: invert, always, invert. Lots of hard problems are solved following this approach.

☕ David Antoine For those who like sci-fi, "The Silent Sea" is a great watch ... It's Korean. There is an English dubbed version but I didn't liked it, so I watched it in Korean with English subtitles...

🌻 Robert Blinov Subtitles are always better than dubbing.

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👨‍💻 Matthieu V. With so much years and Windows then on Linux, I struggle with macOS keyboard layout, but the OS is so smoooth compared to Linux !

🌻 Robert Blinov If you're struggling with the character placement, you might like Ilya Birman's Typography Layout: ilyabirman.net/typ...

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🏒 Lucian Marin I want to get an M1 MacBook Air if M2 version has white screen borders. I can wait until WWDC 2022. An OLED laptop with Linux would be nice, but macOS just works.

🌻 Robert Blinov Why white?

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🏒 Lucian Marin The new profile summary block fixes this issue.

🌻 Robert Blinov It looks like an input field :-(

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Novichok Maybe I wasn't aware of this part of the internet before but especially in the past few years I have noticed more and more spaces like this. Simple, text-based thought exchange with like-minded people from around the globe.

🌻 Robert Blinov Welcome to the small web. We have our own search engine too: wiby.me

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🏒 Lucian Marin Previously it looked busier, but I reduced it to bare minimum. There are some cool people around this part of the internet.

🌻 Robert Blinov I like the new aesthetic! But I would add a little more space between Joined/Seen/Logout and the feed.

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🌲 Tho such as?

🌻 Robert Blinov A different store, a different cafe, a different metro station.

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🌻 Robert Blinov Instead of wasting time in a queue, I spend the same time walking to a queue-free place.

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🌲 Tho such as?

🌻 Robert Blinov Arno Wellens about the overarching EU: iteroni.com/watch?...

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🌻 Robert Blinov In Russia, a person does not break the law. The law breaks the person.

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🌻 Robert Blinov Nature is much more beautiful in real life than in photos.

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Novichok agreed. possibly because "beauty" is not only related to the object displayed but also the subject experiencing it.

🌻 Robert Blinov Knowing Italian gives me insight into Latin roots. And that helps with understanding what words *really* mean.

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