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@jantarmat
refueling your car is crazy.
like, at no point do you actually see the gasoline. you’ve just got to trust the system.
Id like to think cars actually dont need fuel anymore but energy companies wanted us to stay on their subscription service so they designed modern cars to only drive when you go to the station and pay to put the placebo pump into the "gas tank."
You swipe your card, the pump makes a good few solid kerklunks, and everything suddenly works again.
a woman being feminine is right-wing coded which is masculine coded. a woman being masculine is left-wing coded which is feminine coded. this disproves the existence of women
I know it's axe-grinding season and all but it's still wild to watch the Substack crowd swear with rotation-of-the-earth level certainty that Harris lost because she ran too far to the left and voters punished her for that and everyone here is saying the exact opposite.
Harris would have won if she had endorsed the LIFE ENCOMPASSING 4–16 CUBE PRINCIPLE
Harris would have won if she had not endorsed the AXIOM OF CHOICE, this lost her Reinhardt-many voters.
Harris would have won if she had chosen Sergei Nikolaev as her running mate and endorsed the Nostratic hypothesis
Harris would have won if she had adopted the higher structures point of view with a sympathy towards the tools and perspectives of homotopy theory/algebraic topology, homotopy type theory, higher category theory and higher categorical algebra
I've spent my undergraduate experience studying linguistics, sure, but more importantly, honing my answers to the questions "oh, so what is that?" and "so how many languages do you know?" whenever I introduce myself with my major.
No state has a "right to exist". The purpose of institutions is to serve human beings, and if your institution is slaughtering human beings en masse then it must be stopped. The survival of the institution itself in this scenario is of almost no import.
@hospid0ll
In the crudest terms, yes, that is the take, but I consider this a very misleading way to describe my view.
In particular, my view is that authorities are beholden to all those they have authority over, no more and no fewer. Obviously, drawing the boundary between who is and is not subject to a given authority can be tricky, but in order to create a just world we have to do our best. In any case, if a group of Jewish people (or people of any other ethnicity) want to, you know, gather together somewhere and establish a government which only has authority in their community, whose members are all represented fairly, etc., then that's absolutely fine by me. In this sense, I consider all people to have the right to self-governance. The problem is that the state of Israel has authority over people who are not fairly represented in its processes of government, and therefore to whom it is not in practice beholden—namely, the Palestinians of the occupied West Bank, and, since the 2007 blockade of Gaza and especially with the current war in Gaza, the Palestinians of Gaza. These are people that the state of Israel is exercising its authority over, and therefore, they become part of the constituency whose needs, just treatment, and fair representation it is responsible for. And currently, it is not making good on that responsibility. There are many names for this arrangement—apartheid, colonialism, etc.—but they all describe the same thing in slightly different permutations.
What I want to stress is that, not just rhetorically but descriptively, when the Israeli state starts exercising itself as a state over Palestinians, it ceases to merely be an example of "Jewish self-government". It is, especially so long as Jews remains structurally the Israeli ruling class, an example of Jewish government of Palestinians at the expense of Palestinian self-government. That is what I object to.
In simpler terms: among those people that a state in fact governs, one does not get to pick and choose which among them the state has a responsibility to represent. You do not get to look at a state like Israel, which in fact exercises authority over everyone living in Palestine, and describe it as "Jewish self-governance". That's not what it is! The entirety of Israel/Palestine is either part of Israeli territory or under Israeli occupation, i.e. subject to the authority of Israel!
Of course, Israel apologists assert that this wholesale occupation, the until-future-notice exercise of Israeli authority over Palestinians without representation, is necessary to maintain the existence of Jewish self-government at all. But, if that's true (which in fact I don't think it is), all they've done is argue that Jewish self-government can't exist in a just world. That would be unfortunate: I would like to see a world in which any community of people, with mutual bonds of whatever sort, can establish institutions that serve them and are responsive to their desires according to some fair process. If those people are Jewish and those institutions are state-like, then such an arrangement has a fair claim to be called "Jewish self-governance". But if those institutions come at the cost of other people being able to do the same, if they "require" the exercise of authority over millions of other people, without equal and fair representation, for a seemingly indefinite period of time, then no, they cannot justly exist.
Institutions are beholden to everyone over whom they exercise authority. They do not get to pick and choose who among these people they must represent the interests of.
JD Vance pulled a MASTERFUL use of one of the oldest tricks in the conservative's toolkit: The Euphemism.
Last night at the VP debate, he wanted to make a point about bringing energy production and manufacturing jobs back from overseas (and avoid confronting the question about climate change head-on) so he followed the line of argumentation that the US is "the cleanest economy in the entire world" in terms of carbon emmissions per economic output, and condemned the Biden/Harris administration for causing "more energy production in China, more manufacturing overseas, more doing business in some of the dirtiest parts of the entire world."
Do you see what he did there?
He called Chinese people dirty! And the best part is he retains plausible deniability if anyone were to investigate, because he meant "dirty" in terms of carbon emmissions. This way, he can lock down the right-wing extremist vote (See! He's racist like me! I like this guy.) without stranding his moderate voters (No, I'm not racist; it's about carbon emmissions).
Techniques like The Euphemism have been used by conservatives for decades to doublespeak their way into legitimacy. Stay vigilant. Many thanks to Innuendo Studios on youtube and their series "The Alt-Right Playbook" for putting me onto this type of thinking. I highly recommend you watch every video in that series, and the rest of their content too of course.
Some studies of Vi from last year! Sorry that I didn’t add her tattoos… my focus was. elsewhere
tenpo mute la mi wile sona e ni: nimi nasin suli pi toki pona li seme?
nasin suno open (anu nasin open) en nasin suno pini (anu nasin pini) li nimi pona pi kon sama e toki mute · nimi ante la ijo li ante
nasin sewi (N) en nasin anpa (S) li kama wawa tawa jan mute taso mun li jo ala e sewi e anpa (kin la ni li ken tawa e toki ni: ma ni li sewi li pona la ma ni li sewi ala li ike)
taso la mi kute kin e "nasin lete" e "nasin suli"
nimi ni li ante tawa jan ante, mi lon ma Oselija la nasin ni li ante tawa jan ma Asija tawa jan ma Elopa tawa jan ma Amelika (lete)
sina tawa ma pini pi mun ni la sina kama lete · sina tawa ma meso li kama seli · nasin toki ni li ante tawa toki mute
tawa mi la nasin ni li pona a
nasin sewi li "nasin pi kiwen pi kama wan"
nasin anpa li "nasin pi weka pi kiwen pi kama wan"
North should be "the way of the come-one rocks," which would signify magnets, i.e. magnetic north, and South would be "the way of awayness of the come-one rocks" because it is the opposite of magnetic north.
Every time I get the urge to make a conlang it falls apart once I realize I just want to remake Korean.
Aspiration and fortis/lenis distinction with intervocalic voicing of lenis consonants?
Korean.
SOV with free word order and case marking?
Korean.
Complex style/aspect/mood morphology?
Korean.
Featural writing system AND historical ideographic system (hanja)?
Korean.
My conlanging prowess has faltered ever since I got a taste of it. Every new thing I learn about how it works reminds me of my own conlanging touch. I'm jealous of John Korean for their contribution to the linguisphere.
If you approach the trans girl with a pure soul and positive karma, you CAN get her pregnant
Affirming this🙏
Trump knows that Sanskrit is the most ancient and holy of all languages whereas if Harris wins they're going to declare Tamil more ancient and holy and mandate Tamil only education in all schools. Like and reblog to fight the woke agenda.
'Mid' autumn festival? I find it quite based actually.
based on what?
