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Let them cook (themselves)

You still believe in human nature detached from material conditions, which is an idealist position. There’s nothing convincing anyone can say to you until you challenge this position.

I’m considering the classic too =P

Lol what’s Beijing bikini?

In some parts of Brazil, we drink hot black coffee even when the weather is scorching hot. Idk why we do that, even ourselves are aware that it doesn’t make much sense, but we keep doing it, myself included. I guess we just love coffee like that.

Please some examples 🙏

This is really a tail wagging the dog type of analysis. The US needs to leash their dog, not the other way around.

A medium has confirmed that Cowbee is Sankara reincarnated.

Only Yesterday (1991), despite being made by a legendary Studio and a legendary director, is a criminally underrated film. It doesn’t have anything that should prevent it from being watched by kids, yet it’s not a movie for kids.

I watched it last year. What an experience!

The films of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky are more like environments than entertainments. It’s often said they’re too long, but that’s missing the point: He uses length and depth to slow us down, to edge us out of the velocity of our lives, to enter a zone of reverie and meditation. When he allows a sequence to continue for what seems like an unreasonable length, we have a choice. We can be bored, or we can use the interlude as an opportunity to consolidate what has gone before, and process it in terms of our own reflections.

Roger Ebert’s review

You’re far stronger than most. You have all the reasons to feel overwhelmed. Keep in mind the most important thing right now, which is your well being. You’re not a veteran, grey-haired militant yet. You’re a kid. You must survive to fight another day.

You must trust your organisation. If the other students aren’t organised enough to be called an organisation yet, be patient. If no one steps up right now, be patient. You must learn that trying to do everything by yourself, putting the world on your shoulders, is a deviation. Let go of it. The fight must be collective. Don’t take individual responsibility for a collective fight.

You’ve done great. Be proud. You have a revolutionary duty to care for yourself right now. We’ll need you in the future.

(Also, as another tip: We don’t lie to fellow comrades or the masses. We absolutely may lie and deceive our adversaries. Evaluate whether this is useful.)

The only thing Duolingo was good for was helping people build consistent habits. Even then, it wasn’t very good at that.

I used to be fluent in three different languages, and only one of those I spoke as a kid. Due to the lack of use, I’ve mostly lost one of them, which is a very common ocurrence when you stop using a language. This context is just so you know I’m not a professional, just merely a fellow language learner.

A few directions: There are several “methods” to learn a second language as an adult. Some of those methods work well for some people, and not so well for others. People are different, and they learn languages in different way. You’re likely to be better off combining different strategies than following one specific study plan.

The most important thing, by far, is to be consistent. Studying 30 minutes every day is much better than doing 8 consecutive hours once in a blue moon. By far, the most important advice. Be consistent.

Studying a language and practicing a language are two distinct things. You study a language when you study grammar using a book, do your flashcards, watch a lesson, etc. You practice it when you actually use it, that is, when you read a fiction book in your target language, when you listen to live radio, when you talk to people, when you watch a travelling video, etc.

Some “methods” propose only practicing, with no study. As I said above, I don’t like it. It’s more productive to mix it up. However, the opposite is definitely detrimental. Studying a language and never actually using it is a terrible idea.

As for how to study, it comes down to personal preferences. Anki is a good flash card app to memorise some words/sentences at the beginning. For Mandarin, there are several YouTube videos explaining the tongue positions you need to produce those sounds. Some are damn difficult, but you gotta persist. On RedNote, you’re gonna find some videos with minimal pair tests. Those were extremely useful for me, personally, when I was first learning English. (Peach x pitch, ear x year, so on.)

The beginning is actually harder than the lower intermediate level, in my experience. Once you can use your target language, you can practice more and study less, and that’s when you start to really make progress.

My 3 cents =P

Correct me if I’m wrong. China acts in a way that’s coherent with an interest in de-escalating the conflict. Which is a rational position, why would China risk nuclear war?

But on r/TankieTheDeprogram some folks are like, China bad, China doesn’t do enough, where are the Chinese missiles???

Yeah… Let’s try to avoid a nuclear winter for now.

I’ve been terribly sick for over 10 days already. I’m taking antibiotics now, and mostly staying at home. But I keep getting out from time to time to bring food and other stuff to the indigenous occupation at the local headquarters of Cargill, the American company. The occupation is already 30 days strong with hundreds of people.

Besides that, I’ve been reading/watching stuff from Cowbee’s (now old) study guide. And coughing my lungs out, unfortunately.

I’m quite biased due to heavily disagreeing with him lately, but I’d just scrap Jones Manoel there and replace him with something from his actual sources. His video essays naturally end up being very verbose while saying very little, which is fine for daily youtube videos but not for theory learning. And this is not even close to being his best video essay, so I don’t understand why it got picked up so hard by the Anglosphere.

Tbh I’m also Brazilian, and I also often disagree with Jones, but it’s a pretty good essay. It’s short, clear, and gets the point across. He has way more verbose video essays lol