On the way to the new hostel was this walled in river. It is quite big. Along this part a lot of construction going on past the old commieblocks on one side. On the other a minor rode with a lot of small industrial workshops and such. From the bridge behind the new hostel, looking north, and then to the south... And to the east, the botanical gardens, a very short walk away. I will be visiting it soon i am sure. Maybe after sunset for some night photos. The building containing the hostel. The stairwell goes to the half underground area where the Hostel Pro is found. My bed glows from the nice lamp inside it, this will probably be my work area for much of the next week. Pretty decent place, i like the coffin bed style with built in curtains, some sound isolation from the usual snoring bastids, and solid frames that don't make a lot of noise.

the music is quite fun but the video is hilarious Ummet Ozcan - Techno Shaman

something that is interesting to note is that the seemingly modern phenomenon of governments importing barbarians (open borders) and pandemic level money printing (formerly, increasing coin base metal content) are both coincident with the end of empires. empires expand, capturing the wealth of plunder from colonies, until they hit their boundaries (other empires, or impenetrable barriers be they mountains or implacably resistant territories at the margins of the empire) and then the plunder bonus stops flowing back, and the empire implodes, and two off the ways that happens is by deficit spending on the expeditionary forces (and increasingly bad conditions, like the long wait for shore leave of one of the ships in the persian gulf right now) and by importing cheap labor (modern equivalent is the welfare state lure and open borders policies). and i think even the anti-colonialist and reactionary responses to increased pressure (taxation, administrative burden) from the empires to their constituents are also historical patterns. the good news and the bad news: it means that the empire is about to collapse from its own centralization weight it can go on for quite a long time, and it's very bad to be within the borders of the empire the people who most reliably survive collapses are those like the monks who built meteora in greece, or other cultures who dug in high up in the mountains (notably, west asia and the caucasus are two regions that this has happened before), tend to have a better outcome than anyone else. everyone inside the empire is rolling a dice whether they are gonna be the victim of the forces of collapse. everyone who moves outside it and prepares to live entirely separate from it, does well. but it's happening. and there's nothing anyone can do about it. there is no reforming an empire that has grown fat on violence and corruption, it only gets more violent and more corrupt until the whole place burns down.

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