<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 19:10:34 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@armenarmen/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Trump, the Left and the NRA's missed opportunity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trump is literally Hitler; give him your guns When Trump was elected I, like huge swaths of the country, was quite surprised. I didn't have a dog in the race mind you. Hated both major candidates. Interpret]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/news/@armenarmen/trump-the-left-and-the-nra-s-missed-opportunity</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/news/@armenarmen/trump-the-left-and-the-nra-s-missed-opportunity</guid><category><![CDATA[news]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[armenarmen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2018 16:09:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[28th Birthday and I finished my first novel!]]></title><description><![CDATA[It has been a painful process, editing is hell. And I'm finally done! It's a story about startup dudes who can't raise any money for their redundant app, so they start selling cocaine to self fund. Then]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/drugs/@armenarmen/28th-birthday-and-i-finished-my-first-novel</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/drugs/@armenarmen/28th-birthday-and-i-finished-my-first-novel</guid><category><![CDATA[drugs]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[armenarmen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2017 21:50:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXZAb9wkUMpzsHFJYQtwSnw3zuntqsF9DfiN38eZdunDZfwGGK9BdSj3xoDCDR5fwnXMwPRchoXt?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Orwell's Politics and the English Language: The Most Powerful Essay Ever Written]]></title><description><![CDATA[Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. This is the most important essay on politics ever written. It influenced]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@armenarmen/orwell-s-politics-and-the-english-language-the-most-powerful-essay-ever-written</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@armenarmen/orwell-s-politics-and-the-english-language-the-most-powerful-essay-ever-written</guid><category><![CDATA[politics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[armenarmen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2016 02:01:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2YRZBhvniUtx2c558wTPm35chX356eiqP1SnwyQFEyvN5dKB8LubFYqVLmFTiFuAsJ82YXqkK3PukHC58nnQuJjyXKUB5qKxeir?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunter S. Thompson on finding your purpose.]]></title><description><![CDATA[“I was not proud of what I had learned, but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.” – Hunter S. Thompson Around the same time my father was born a young Hunter S. Thompson penned a letter to a friend.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@armenarmen/hunter-s-thompson-on-finding-your-purpose</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@armenarmen/hunter-s-thompson-on-finding-your-purpose</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[armenarmen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2016 06:39:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/4HFqJusxWiQSgKxLcEUMAR8vDkwegWgKdTLeki1wphvZrEK11SEYvEdLSgSpVmMNvggLabsQjEZgmhHiEbXxZy9U5WBumaC64nwcMZdx3qa2rxhtGyZ1FMSKkq36bRYteBCrqEC5nRu7BZzsqk3C8nL8N7MDUYL6DWE?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bought facebook.ky  what should I do with it?]]></title><description><![CDATA[As of now, I have the domain pointing to this article that I am currently writing. What should I do with it?]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/facebook/@armenarmen/i-bought-facebook-ky-what-should-i-do-with-it</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/facebook/@armenarmen/i-bought-facebook-ky-what-should-i-do-with-it</guid><category><![CDATA[facebook]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[armenarmen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2016 21:00:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[my coffee maker is my alarm clock: trying to be a morning person]]></title><description><![CDATA[It’s never been hard for me to make an excuse to drink coffee. After rent, coffee is probably my biggest expense. But getting out of bed and making it in the morning? A while back I read an article called]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@armenarmen/my-coffee-maker-is-my-alarm-clock-trying-to-be-a-morning-person</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@armenarmen/my-coffee-maker-is-my-alarm-clock-trying-to-be-a-morning-person</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[armenarmen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2016 01:50:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/EfcLDDAkyqgqyc52TdHnx88BjGJXpnzxmEnB8yNLCo37xWGfMtGtRsLqSfdhzGUaPctoBZEHagNMrfYpSNGdyzBYxh5fj?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Stubborn Minorities Can Make Decisions For The Flexible Majority]]></title><description><![CDATA[What happens if a minority group is hard headed? What if it is their way or the highway? Most of us here live in democracies of some form or another. Democracy is founded on the idea of letting the people]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@armenarmen/how-stubborn-minorities-can-make-decisions-for-the-flexible-majority</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@armenarmen/how-stubborn-minorities-can-make-decisions-for-the-flexible-majority</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[armenarmen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2016 19:42:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/EEEoA7hJqJdsHSF8yPsCXxopb6tW899dH3yqD7kc4hszc9MHmuACTSLfJTb16yNDR7PLL3RH7kvBaXwWdkorcH6NLjc5kF9ckJN7bzXxPVC3fA7cnSAkFBKnnuoKuU2te1mz7JLzKeyiid3xWjg8N?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PIÑAZIS (An Original Short Story - Part 1)]]></title><description><![CDATA[The dance anthems of three years ago played in the auditorium. It was the last day of Strocher Energy Services’ annual weekend sales retreat. There is a foot locker in the middle of the room, beside it]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/story/@armenarmen/the-pinazis-an-original-short-story-part-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/story/@armenarmen/the-pinazis-an-original-short-story-part-1</guid><category><![CDATA[story]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[armenarmen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2016 19:27:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/eAyTuUW97jcDNyLgzrg9Bcq1dZ3fWcG8NEyGZydHnRPKBvQUS7nBagkMQaaVzQ9G91ENPp7kAHC?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stoic Bro: converting Marcus Aurelius' Meditations into Bro-speak]]></title><description><![CDATA[There has been a huge uptake in the past year of mainstream 'bro science' types adopting stoicism and stoic outlooks. Over all I think that this is a great thing for the world, the inward looking ness]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@armenarmen/stoic-bro-converting-marcus-aurelius-meditations-into-bro-speak</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@armenarmen/stoic-bro-converting-marcus-aurelius-meditations-into-bro-speak</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[armenarmen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2016 20:35:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/BRWJ2XuBRXQxQtwjkpK59RMNMgNesVPLySvcJiVbJkP1kd8A?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Introducing myself, I'm the founder of Winulu and I write about money laundering in tech]]></title><description><![CDATA[I just signed up today, and this is awesome! Thanks @wesam for the heads up! Right now I'm working on getting winulu up off the ground. Winulu is a bastardization of Kickstarter; a competitive crowdfund]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/introduceyourself/@armenarmen/introducing-myself-i-m-the-founder-of-winulu-and-i-write-about-money-laundering-in-tech</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/introduceyourself/@armenarmen/introducing-myself-i-m-the-founder-of-winulu-and-i-write-about-money-laundering-in-tech</guid><category><![CDATA[introduceyourself]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[armenarmen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2016 01:56:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/MvwLKy3SfvJwXFKCRMDAFrt961GKcp71eyzujVSzz?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guys Can’t get funding, so they sell coke. 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