>>512 i am the other inflammatory guy holy shit, did you make this? Because the guy who wrote that is a genius, I wish I could live at the bottom of the barrel, who gives a shit goddamnit, but I am from the west and I can only assume that I would be systematically oppressed even worse somewhere else (somehow, I will not get into my personal situation) It also seems like less of a choice that you can just make one day, and more of a choice that you make throughout your life and when it hits that you are at the bottom of the barrel, again, you are either swimming or drowning

>>512 >>513 It's not really that novel of an idea. there's this guy called Diogenes, and let's just say he encountered the same philosophical conundrum but he got over it.

>>512 Not meant to be taken literally i hope anarchists will often take an issue here "society is using search for meaning against you" and rail against it in a comically exaggerated way reminds me of bob blacks writing

>>517 its good that they do, accelerate.

>>512 There is way more non-material wonder to existence, all that phenomenology and ontology and metaphysics and truly paranormal phenomena - but, life is just like it's described in there. I do not agree with what the author is asking or proposing. Clean your room, wash yourself, give yourself the precise quality nutrition your brain deserves. It's always better to be an elite grade NEET. >>513 It's everyone's individual fault they're not being omnipotent, for sure, and I'm not being sarcastic. But what you'd be omnipotent for? Actually, don't answer that, I'm not a genie. The bigger premise is that there's a presumption that "anything is worth it and that living doesn't go on as inertia, with something like suicide takes too much experienced effort" (I call myself dumb cattle over being driven by inertia I do not identify with and disintest in the extreme effort needed to stop it completely). Choosing which hobby to take, which job to get, which city to move to is juggling the inertias. Actually, it sounds already great if you're not under risk of death, especially imminent death. This only says it's only as good as long as some urgency doesn't interrupt anything. With urgency of incoming death, I had seen that both surviving unscathed and instantly dying are win-win, and the gruesome death or disability are the complete failure of luck and fortune with only one way to deal with them for real. You can outplay any card hands you want, I don't see any value out of whatever good birthright opportunities and victories and rewards are possible in this world, or at least in this era.

>>447 So that's how it started

I know a bunch, but right now I'm trying to learn Chinese, and it's weird. The grammar is easy, but the tones are griefing me, I think I can recognize them sometimes when listening but I don't feel like I'm pronouncing them right, and I don't have anyone to practice. And then there is the obvious issue of hanzi (the symbols), you can infer a lot from the radicals, but it is still pretty hard. I'm using anki right now and the hsk textbooks, but if anyone has resources like other books or tools, games, books for children and beginners, anything really, I would appreciate some pointers.

>>508 idk board games and ingredient lists in chinese grocery stores I guess? also really pay attention in chinese book stores for random stuff, not books, but uhhhh, idk, reading the covers of stationary tools count as immersion, no?

>>508 In theory it's considerably simpler than English or other European languages, but the Hanzi makes impossible to brute force a basic understanding (at least reading) in 1 month as is possible with English/others.

>>502 It's не сдавайся. Sounds like "з" but it's written with "с".

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.

>>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