Author Archives: Raoul Pop

This marks (the end of?) a particularly prolonged pause in my posts. No guarantee of timely future posts though. I’ve been busy with other projects.

I was tempted to set an AI-generated featured image for this post. It’s getting so good it makes me feel superfluous. These three are my own photographs, for what it’s worth.

Also, no thanks to WordPress for continually changing the design and the options on the edit page. I wasted half an hour fiddling with the new nonsense till I finally switched to the classic editor. A word of advice to them: just because you can dazzle with more options, bells and whistles, it doesn’t mean they’re needed, particularly when the publish button is nowhere to be found. (I believe this is an issue that occurs on Firefox ESR.) When a longtime user has to check the forums just to publish a post on a platform that made its name for its simplicity and ease of use, that’s when you ought to know you’ve taken a wrong turn somewhere. I’ve been using WordPress since 2004, so my critique ought to hold some value.

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A Guide To A Good Life

A new video

After more than a year’s pause and in answer to your requests for a new video on the subjects discussed previously in the playlist entitled “A Guide to a Good Life“, here is a new video.

(Note: this post is published with a backdate that corresponds with the video’s publish date of 7/15/24, but it’s going out to the site subscribers on 2/19/25.)

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De Vorba cu Ligia

De Vorba cu Ligia – 1 May 2023

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Here’s the 21st episode of our talk show, De Vorba cu Ligia. In this episode, we talk about our current personal and professional endeavors after a hiatus in the show’s episodes, and we give an update on Raw Vegan Mall, our online store where we list quality products from our partner stores in Romania. Enjoy!

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Released 01.05.2023

A Guide To A Good Life, Video Log

Re-creating a connection to your soul

I tried to keep this as simple as I could. I did not oversimplify it. All of the ingredients are there, the main one being “nature”. But I wanted the message to be easily understood by those who needed to hear it.

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Thoughts

What I think about these days…

Here’s a new video for my playlist entitled “Thoughts on Current Affairs“. It’s an admittedly dim view of the world, perhaps for the right reasons. I offer clarifications on extra-terrestrials (spoiler alert, I think they’re bullshit), on where we are and where we might be headed. The take-away message here is that none of us really knows what’s going on and those who say they do are selling something. The more I learn, the less I know. As I’ve said in previous videos, we should all become more cynical and keep our bullshit meters on high alert.

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