Your suggestion has been laid in my mind and hatched. I will do my best cde to make you proud 🫡

Yeah I read about importing soy from amerika. It seems it's really high quality and because the populace seems to like it more than domestic? Also amerika has very sophisticated machinery & production methods (for now).

huh, thanks for sharing! i learned something!

i think demon every time i read demonym and i'll never not see it

Ah ty, I'm learning spanish, is it supposed to be like the word "estadonidense"? i'm learning spanish from south america if that means anything in like word usage

Hey what is EEUU? I'm getting blanks on my search.

EDIT: It means amerika

Yeah, my b, I was a little provoked there, watching lectures is one of my favorite pastimes :3

I think that's fair, maybe if it is longer having 'chapters' and other ways to organize information topically would be best.

I do listen to or watch academic seminars and lectures, do you think the same criticisms apply? I have a sense it does for some of the humanities one's I've attended or watched, though much of that may be because I have no background and no idea what is being talked about.

This really sounds like a reformulation (with more accessible language and preferable IMO) of Popper's Paradox of Tolerance. I have it below for your convenience:

Less well known is the paradox of tolerance:

Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. (in note 4 to Chapter 7, The Open Society and Its Enemies, Vol. 1)

I'm more in the data analysis side. Bioinformatics and all that jazz, I have a bit if python and scripting under my belt and I've struggled to learn more.

My therapist said that it's possible our goals are unaligned. They suggested asking for consent which is kinda awkward but sorta works. I have less conversations where some are uncomfortable and only appear to be interested to be nice.

What's unfortunate is someone might feel bad and they will be given support (some of the time, other times chastised for their naïveté) while people connected to the affected are justifiably and rationally furious. The latter, whose likely material conditions are poor are verbally abused and their sentiments invalidated. Further justifying contempt and separation from the powers who allowed and did rectify the atrocious conduct.

As a result communities may become insular, which is a tragedy. Whatever cooperation or solidarity might have been possible withers away prematurely. And pointing any of this out to one of the majority never seems to be taken seriously. They don't have evidence on their side, only convenient sentiments which happen to aid them in their interests. It makes me question my sanity as at times I cannot tell if I am even in the same reality as others.

Would suggest Yi Yi if you liked this, both masterpieces in my opinion.

In the Mood for Love is incredible

So many, I'll lump in HK and Taiwanese films as well but note they are a bit distinct.

Yi Yi (masterpiece) In the Mood for Love (masterpiece) Infernal Affairs 1 & 2 (inspiration for Departed by Scorsese) Youth (2016, nostalgic, mainlander friend thought it was ok however I found the arc of the protagonist to be splendid) Chungking Express (really hits on vibes of solitude, connection, and moving on)

Those are the first that come to mind, there are many many more.

EDIT: Red Cliff is an epic, think historical Lord of The Rings set during a significant battle in the Three Kingdoms Period.

Nah, men are worse at risk management, we need to up our game to change our behaviours and habits.

With something like the Huawei Mate 60 Pro, you can run sandboxed Play Store apps using their GBox store. They also have their own app store, App Gallery (I think that's the name) which have quite a number of apps already.

There is another Play Store sandbox app store too, I think it works well enough from what I read.

I have a device I could run the dev version of HarmonyOS on, I was thinking about how it would be nice to develop for it.

I won't be able to though because I can't code :/

Hope you aren't doxxing yourself comrade, be safe.

I be hearin' talk of reactionaries lurkin' in these waters!

I like the pride flag with the chevron and circle more.

I read one of Neal Stephenson's more recent works, I forget which, in it he talks about a region near Washington State and the surrounding area which was called Ameristan. In it you need to wear clothing of one material, women need to cover themselves, etc. The people lived in an evangelical theocratic state which interpreted the Bible literally.

One interesting point was the interpretation of 'rocks' to be a coded message for 'bullets'. The idea was that 'bullets' would not have been understood in antiquity, in the contemporary era it could be understood as such and was awfully convenient for USians who fetishize firearms.

Seeing this kinda stuff makes me think Ameristan is not too far off.

It's the right kind of doctor, it checks out!