@Lone_Ranger by sheer coincidence

how far we have fallen as a society.

@polishknight

Employers have, and did, short change me for decades.

Interesting story Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED - and at the end of video follow up on the story of inventor and his relation with company in which he worked.

30min but v concise. For full exp big chunks have to be watched.

youtube com/watch?v=AF8d72mA41M

@SeasonedRP

to provoke Russia and expand NATO. The Russian people viewed that as a slap in the face

I think it is too much of extrapolation. NaTO only endangers interests of top Russian oligarchs, common folks are convinced that Russia is strong, because this is what's on TV.

In book Dictator's Handbook is some analysis of what happened when USSR was falling.

PS. I just finished listening to interesting story about Barbaric states [called pirates] and its last few dozens of years before a fall. It explains how France found itself in Algieria, Spain in Morocco. Involving also weird beginnings of US navy. youtube com/watch?v=WSBmGaLt5OU