>>114 i know dutch, arabic (hassaniya) and am improving my MSA i have been wanting to learn thai but it's been an on and off relationship, the tones were fun to learn and surprisingly not difficult to master but am a lazy piece of shit

>>455 >>448 I'm back! Unfortunately, for now it's hosted on a free hosting . But that's just temporary! http://2chan.vip/

I was self-learning Russian for a bit but I am nowhere able to construct more than a few basic sentences. Now I'm unsure whether I want to continue or learn Spanish instead. I know some people close to me who speak Spanish themselves and it seems more practical with how widely spoken it is. I'm indecisive.

>>460 Unfortunately Russian is one of those very hard languages, you really need to keep at it for several years. The important thing is to not try to learn too many languages at once. Не здавайся, парень!

>>447 So that's how it started

Hikarin, nobody here is smart enough to be part of a research group.

>>432 Read papers, interpolate a research project between the most recent papers, design an experiment, run the experiment, write up a paper, repeat.

>>410 The only time I was a part of a research group, I had to do everything myself.

>>482 iirc in elementary the kids in my group were never recognizing that there was an optimal way to work the given essay or whatever, so i would be doing my own while they fucked around, it might have been the main language class where i submitted my own thing (that was miles better than what the other retards made) and the teacher gave me my first non-passing grade because i didnt cooperate lol

My latest 485 research group meetings consistent just of me.

>>277 I wish we knew more about pre-indo european europe

>>278 same. I'm obssesed what language albanians were talking before indo-europeans givong their language to albanians tribes

The late Chalcolithic (Copper age) is more interesting that it seems, related region but ~2000 years before. Before people settled down for tin as alloyant they were using arsenic, antimony, nothing (pure copper), silver-nickel-zinc (from ores that were smelted into natural "alloys") depending on the region and availability. Except for arsenic all of those became rare by the early bronze age despite being cheap or natural impurities that started thanks to widespread long distance trade of tin.

>>322 pretty sure they were talking albanian.

>>491 Exactly my point, Hikarin! It’d be crazy calling the French conservatives and reactionaries leftist, but the market definition (because it takes our current world and political problems for granted) makes it seem like monarchist traditionalism could be leftist. Another example (I got this from Racecraft too but it’s the book I’m reading right now so still on topic!) is the set of antebellum southern planters who argued slavery was better ethically than capitalism. Their argument was basically conservative and paternalist, but many of their descriptions of capitalism can read as surprisingly left wing if you ignore what they thought was better.

>>491 >>493 Isn't right-wing vs left-wing mostly about linking social hierarchy to property? Like rightists believe wealthy individuals and families have demonstrated their ability to preserve and grow value so it's fine if they run the show, but leftists believe this is an arbitrary and unethical way that leads to inefficiency and instability.

>>492 No idea. Presumably there is a point because they do it.

>>494 Well, there are many positions both on the left and on the right. If you go back to the early 19th century, the more abstract idea that seems to divide political discussions is the cardinality of history: does history have a "direction"? In other words, is there any degree of historical determinism? Rather than a straight yes or no, the answers were an spectrum, and there were positions on the more affirmative side, like Hegel and then Marx (but both from completely different angles) and there were positions more on the negative, like Kierkegaard. It is important to remark that this was a question about the facts, so it preceded moral judgement: before saying that X is good or bad, you have to know what X is, you have to determine the facts. That's why you're never going to read Marx saying "capitalists are bad because they mistreat workers" instead his point usually was "capitalists strive to make the most efficient use of their workers". I think the other anon was onto something with the individuals vs structure dichotomy: the first sentence is merely a matter of personal opinion on a group of individuals, the second makes a statement about the structure: that it incentivizes efficiency.

I have been reading a bunch of stuff recently because my new job involves a lot of just sitting and waiting. Most of it I wouldn't recommend, at least not to everyone, but here two books that I liked and I think they could be interesting to some of you. >From 'LUGAL.GAL' to 'Wanax' - Kingship and Political Organization in the Late Bronze Age Aegean It's a compilation of 5 papers on the modern theories and interpretations of the archaeological evidence, especially the written records of the time and the recent findings at sites like Agios Vasileios. Most of it is about how little is actually known about the people of that time and their societies, and how theories are mostly speculative because of the fragmentary nature of the materials found so far. It left me with questions about the parts that are known, like what can be inferred about the population size and the level of stratification from the numbers in those linear b ledges. Unfortunately, it's hard to find more recent papers on the internet, it's not like STEM where papers that are uploaded to libgen almost immediately after publication. >Propaganda in the Information Age - Still Manufacturing Consent Another compilation of papers, these focused on a modern reevaluation and development of the propaganda model described by Chomsky in the 80s. The main difference being that nowadays mass media is even more concentrated than it was back then. It's a really interesting read and it includes a summary of the points made by Chomsky in his book "Manufacturing Consent" so you can follow the texts even if you haven't read that.

so there's this funny DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4628(19981205)70:10<1939::aid-app8>3.0.co;2-g "Investigation of Alkaline Hydrolysis of polyethyelene terepthtalate by differential scanning calorimetry and thermogravimetric analysis" no idea how calorimetry works and why ppl use it but that's not what matters this paper was made by happas in the past century and can be summarized as "we tried to recycle plastics, it works" the plastic is called PET and it's basically 1,4 butanediol and terephthalic acid and 1,4 butanediol metabolizes into GHB inside of your body in a few minutes which makes GABA stuff in your brain spin right round insanely fast way better than alcohol and those red mushrooms so yeah if you don't like brewing or despise alcohol you can still easily fuck up your brain at home using plastics and toilet cleaners though hydrolysis takes a lot of time 10 grams of PET can take you like six or eight hours i recommend speeding things up by adding a bit of ethanol as a catalyst to your NaOH solution (KOH decomposes 1,4 into an unfunny glycol ) oh yeah there's also that terephtalic acid it's not "toxic" but there are lots of it you may want to remove it and most of the other nasty stuff by adding sulfuric or hydrochloric acid until the participate won't stop forming (stop as soon as it forms or you will burn your stomach) it also looks really cool you just one little drop and lots of crystals appear the participate is the nasty stuff just filter it out through a toilet paper and throw it away well it's kinda useful for other things maybe leave it 1,4 can be easily converted into GBL and then GHB but only the letters change effects are the same (and GHB is a salt while others are liquids) there was that one cool paper on dehydrogenation of 1,4 that yields GBL but i kinda lost it in my file directory labyrinth oh and yeah i just did some math 10 grams of pure PET will yield around 3/4 grams of 1,4 which is like two doses for non-tolerant people also some PETs have some brominated stuff that makes it hard to burn and that's really bad because ingestion of brominated things leads to a horrible death from cancer and it's almost impossible to filter those brominated things out so check how well your plastic burns before using it maybe i'll make a proper step by step guide later yeah i guess i will parody that asuka's meth lab webm someday too lazy rn

>PET >it's basically 1,4 butanediol and terephthalic acid oopsie woopsie i made a fucky wucky so yeah plastic that's actually a 1,4 butanediol and terephthalic acid is called PBT and you should use it instead PET will yield some 1,4 but most of it will be 1,2 and 1,3 fuck i should proof read what i write

>>157 Where can I find these drugs

Here's a cool study on the historically accurate passion of Christ. https://www.apu.edu/articles/the-science-of-the-crucifixion/

>>156 I knew PET was de-polymerized to regenerate the TA for new PET or alkyd resins (varnish), but that sounds like a too cumbersome way to make GBL (using "hot copper" like acetone to acetaldehyde) compared to just oxidizing THF (a common solvent).

>>112 Yes, but ovens take forever. I'm talking about a quick and convenient way of heating.

>>113 Use an air fryer

>>110 They should make an alternative way of heating Works similar to a microwave and is fast But is able to keep metal utensils inside

>>122 Just use plastic utensils, or take the metal utensils out..

There's this new thing called fire, check it out

I would study applied metaphysics aka magic been reading the traditionalist school guenon, schuon, coomaraswamy, evola and evola's books on magic seem pretty cool, buddhist magic also seems pretty cool

>>302 Buddhist magic?

>>302 >I would study applied metaphysics aka magic You know it takes alot of beleif and faith for atheism when all new atheists do even on imageboard boards is regurgitate what their group or favorite atheist says.

>>268 >what would you dedicate your life to studying? why does it fascinate you? Difficult question for me. I believe I'd like to just study anything like philosophy, mathematics, religion and new atheism (even if it's shallow minded anyways) ect. It would just be fun to play video games I suppose and programming if money wasn't a problem or really any academic field.

>>268 Same thing I'm studying now

>>23 Causing a little bit of paranoia here, aren't we?

absolutely nothing.

Today I learned how to use an impact drill and screw a TV mount into brick. Very dusty...

I learned about Misskey and Sharkey. It looks like Mastadon but with a cleaner UI and more functions.

>>464 No surprising Misskey was made by a nipponese man ww

>>42 an example: >while he did a thing, he(same person) did another thing vs >while he did a thing, he(different person) did another thing but imagine those parens were case markers

>>43 I see now thank you very much. very intresting

>>28 I'm too drunk to talk about linguistics but I dropped out of a masters in this so I know more about anyone else in this thread AMA

>>431 Are there features you think English is missing compared to other languages? What about features it could do without?

Wenis and Wagina Ex: My wagina is sore, my wenis is all flabby

i will be majoring in political science. i want to be one of those people who write papers all day

Currently in 2nd year of BS Information Technology; graduating by the end of 3rd Year. I only got 2 GitHub projects, both of which are crappy and nothing to show for. I don't know whether to apply for an internship early, or wait for the school to offer/assign one for us.

>>388 >I only got 2 GitHub projects i relate to this so so much. do companies usually want 5+?

>>335 My luck was against me when I picked my uni because they never told us we would need to grind certificates or show off some github as portfolio. I never had any well untill I finished my master's

>>389 Jobbing at a tech interview is a bigger concern and would invalidate even 10 projects