Who else is gonna run cover for the awps / scouts camping that door?

I recently learned about this. I wonder if ppl also tell you to drink hot water when its really hot outside?

I didn’t watch that video, but I can say it’s working for me. I’ve tried to do classroom learning (grammar exercises, vocab memorization), and flash card method, and it’s not as fast or enjoyabe as this. I can actually stand in a group of spanish speakers and understand most of what’s being said, which wasn’t something I could do for years of study in other ways.

Also if some random youtuber is blanket demonizing CI, that’s entirely anecdotal, because there have been many studies comparing its performance to other learning methods.

I’m also learning mandarin (and spanish). The comprehensible input method I’ve found is really the best and simplest way. You can read about it and why it works from the ppl over at dreamingspanish.

For Mandarin I highly recommend https://www.vidioma.com/ . Videos are categorized by difficulty, and it keeps track of what ones you’ve already watched.

For Spanish, dreamingspanish.com . They do a phenomenal job and have hundreds of entertaining videos on so many topics and difficulties.

Sweet dreams

That sounds like my jam, thx. Almost like walden

Thx, I’ll check them out.

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Downloaded. It looks interesting, thx.

Thx, i’ll check it out!

I checked the DB, and we’re sending to them fine, but they aren’t to us.

They might need to reset the fail_count for our server in their DB to start sending again: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/troubleshooting.html#reset-federation-fail-count-for-instance

I found aberration as a youtube audiobook, I’ll check it out.

I do enjoy a good disaster book, last one I read was Krakauer’s into thin air, which was really entertaining. I’ll check some of these out.

Ya that does sound pretty dope.

Good call, I’ll add it to my list.

Thx, I’ll check it out.

RIP to one of the greatest.

He fearlessly taught audiences and readers, during the fiercely anti-communist Reagan era, that class struggle is very much alive.

His critiques on western media, revolutionary history and the events of his era, are invaluable.

He articulated Marxism in a clear and understandable way not for other professors, but for the general public, to awaken our class conciousness, and become fighters for a better world.

We’ll miss you comrade.

I can’t recommend highly enough Losurdo - Western Marxism, audiobook here, for the basis of all these “euro-communist” / western chauvinist marxists.

The concept of falsification is a really good one, and we should apply it and other scientifically rigorous tests to our materialist analyses of history, and tactics. Marxism is a science, dedicated to uplifting the working class, and we should take inspiration from scientific concepts and methods to acheive that aim.

But hilariously Popper was so completely blinded by western-supremacy and cold-war propaganda, that you can ignore and easily debunk everything he says about socialism and the USSR. Pretty much every major Marxist tenet (class struggle, surplus value, TRPF) is falsifiable, so he has to do some incredible logic-twisting to get around that fact. Goes to show that even very smart people can be blinded by ideology.

Tangentially related, but I also recently watched a documentary about Oppenheimer called “the day after trinity”. Oppenheimer, despite being politically literate (he read das Kapital, as well as everything Lenin ever wrote), still thought that the US regime wouldn’t use weapons in a nefarious way, and thought he could use his scientific status and brilliance to influence US leaders to change the system from the inside. That also had to take some incredible logic-twisting to reach that conclusion given the US’s history, which he wasn’t ignorant of.

He got a dose of reality when he learned after the fact that they used the labor of him and hundreds of others to murder a bunch of innocent civilians.

2nding this. All socialists countries went and still do go hard on dismantling the drug trade, not from the bottom up by criminalizing and imprisoning poor ppl, but from the top down by imprisoning the capitalist drug kingpins, and tearing down drug markets. Capitalist countries prop up the drug trade by using it to impoverish and decimate poor and minority communities, and take a cut of the proceeds.

Ppl are usually staunchly for legalization because they’ve only experienced how capitalist countries like the US use the drug war as a tool. They don’t know what an earnest dismantling of the drug trade, done for the betterment of communities, looks like.

Weed specifically tho i’m ambivalent about… outside of medical use, the weed industry serves little to no societal value, but it’s a pretty minor vice, maybe along the same level as unhealthy food.