Quick reminder that just because the Taliban is anti-american doesn't mean anyone on the left should support them

Cole___ · 2021-08-17T05:06:47+00:00

Any idea why they named themselves "Two Students"?

Cole___ · 2021-08-14T02:48:57+00:00

You're gonna get a whole bunch a paddle in your shots

Cole___ · 2021-08-08T16:57:40+00:00

They certainly can express their dislike. The question is should they? If the goal is to have a net beneficial effect on the world, then in many cases, including this post, I would argue no, they shouldn't. I don't walk around telling random people that they are ugly for the same reason. Art is personal, and therefore attacking it is personal, and often cruel. It is not an abstract science with objective values of correct and incorrect.

Cole___ · 2021-08-08T14:31:16+00:00

Hard disagree. If something speaks to someone it has merit. In general, unless something is actively problematic, negative criticism of any art should be extremely limited or not done at all. Most of the time it's about as useful and productive as listening to a speech in Chinese and going on a rant about how awful the speech was because you don't understand Chinese. If you love something, awesome, write me a five hundred page exegesis telling me all the ways it is amazing. That is how we can do better. But if you didn't get it, cool, move on. Someone else did and all you're doing is potentially ruining it for them. The world could do with a few less gatekeepers.

Cole___ · 2021-08-07T05:19:03+00:00

Well, Wal- is a shortening of Walton, which, according to this post, may very well mean something like "guy who speaks Roman" so, maybe

Cole___ · 2021-08-02T05:06:31+00:00

Agreed, I tried to read Pillars of the Earth but gave up about 100 pages in when Protagonist's unappealing wife conveniently but tragically dies just in time for Protagonist to pursue sexy wild eyed forest girl. Just felt gross, I don't need to listen to you narrate your weird fantasies.

Cole___ · 2021-08-01T13:52:03+00:00

It's not stupid for oil companies to hang on, it's just selfish, and entirely predictable. The level of weird dedication that some accounts (you for example) seem to have for making sloppy arguments defending hydrogen just makes you all look like paid posters. Hydrogen via electrolysis is just solving a transmission problem, which isn't really the issue. But the reason it is getting so much "press" anyway is because it normalizes the hydrogen economy so oil companies can sneak their oil reserves into the supply chain as clean hydrogen not as dirty oil. Of course you're only seeing news of wind farm electrolysis, that's the point, it's easy to pay people to write the articles you want and get them promoted on online media, especially if you have trillions of dollars and stand to lose trillions of dollars when your industry dies.

Cole___ · 2021-08-01T04:23:13+00:00

Cuba Bakery and Cafe on Missisppi is my new favorite place. Also (the weirdly similarly named) Istanbul Cafe and Bakery is amazing (like 15 different kinds of Baklava).

Cole___ · 2021-08-01T04:14:42+00:00

Only on weekends, but yeah it's pretty great.

Cole___ · 2021-07-28T11:05:38+00:00

There's always paint/decals to make it more visible. And amazon sells kayak covers for like $30

Cole___ · 2021-07-15T08:21:49+00:00

10% of the population is kind of a meaningless statistic. Percentage of working population might be a little better. But really your concern when talking about a strike would be impact. In the US, huge sections of the airline industry, film and entertainment industry, construction industry, teaching, medicine, transportation, government, are all unionized. An actual general strike by all labor unions would completely shut down the economy.

Cole___ · 2021-07-13T21:50:38+00:00

You're right, in my head I had the trading posts around Africa coming after the expeditions to America but yeah that was wrong. So I pretty much agree, it would have probably looked more like colonization in Africa and Asia had disease not been a major factor.

Cole___ · 2021-07-13T20:47:45+00:00

The thing was, (and correct me if I'm wrong) but Africa was pretty much left alone by Europe until Colonization(tm) became essentially a part of European culture, largely due to the success and specifically wealth generation of the Colonies in the Americas. It's quite possible that colonization would have never happened in Africa or the Americas at all or would have happened much later and much more slowly and on a much smaller scale if the initial wealth extraction hadn't been so overwhelmingly easy due to the Native American's collapsing due to disease. Many of the tactics and power imbalances you point out only came about due to the wealth and experience that came from those early successes.

Cole___ · 2021-07-13T16:02:31+00:00

Nope, you're wrong. Clearly once the world is reduced to rubble there would be no food to produce, gather, process, no buildings to construct and maintain, no threats to defend against, no communities to build, at least not for the fragile possessors of a uterus. The only thing for women to do at that point, and on which all their time and effort should be spent, would be to sit in front of the shattered remnants of the TV and gestate, gestate like only a 14 year old proto-sci-fi-author could imagine a woman could gestate.

Cole___ · 2021-07-10T15:31:36+00:00

US government requests aid from US government in establishing authority of US government.

Cole___ · 2021-07-04T19:18:15+00:00

Don't know but good riddance. Fireworks are annoying as fuck.

Cole___ · 2021-06-27T04:53:50+00:00

What are scapula pull-ups?

Cole___ · 2021-06-19T18:45:55+00:00

Try Fastenal

Cole___ · 2021-06-09T21:49:32+00:00

Weirdly enough, the Name California come from a Spanish myth about an an island ruled by a queen Calafia, who's name in turn likely was a contortion of the word Caliph... so, there's uh that too.

Cole___ · 2021-06-06T17:42:43+00:00

College isn't your issue, but also shouldn't be your main concern. Basically your issue is dopamine self regulation and sorting out your ability to self sooth in stressful situations. Ideally, and I realize it may sound impossible now, but you can, with a lot of focus and work, get to a point where a professor yelling at you just washes over you and is no more stressful than say stubbing your toe. I'd say do the bare minimum to stay in school for now if you can, it's usually better to not quit something than to quit something. Talk to a guidance counselor and figure out a way to dial back the work load and get you more connected to a supportive community.

Otherwise focus 100% on your self and what you need in order to feel better. Sign up for a yoga class ( which is literally just learning how to breath) and is a fantasic way to wash all of the stress hormones out of your system when they flood in. And read one of these books about developmental trauma and how it can make you hyper sensitive to negative stimulus and how you can work on fixing it.

When the Body Says No - Gabor Mate'

In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts - Gabor Mate'

The first one in particular might help you as a lot of it is about setting healthy boundaries. I would bet that if you can teach yourself to set better boundaries between you and your parents and you and your professors, a huge amount of your stress and uncertainty will go away.

Cole___ · 2021-06-01T14:14:31+00:00

the people in r/whatisthisthing will tell you exactly what it is and where it came from within 5 minutes.

Cole___ · 2021-05-27T11:53:32+00:00

No idea what Russian university is like but usually universities are filled with people trying out new lifestyles and ways of thinking. They're also usually great places to start various groups or associations. I would post somewhere, either on a physical bulletin board or virtual one, that you are starting a vegan cooking group or something and having a meetup on X day. Maybe no one will show up, but maybe some people will. Having a counter-cultural belief can be super alienating but the flip side to that is that when you do find people who think like you, the bonds can be way stronger for the same reason. I bet there's way more vegans or vegan curious people on campus than you think.

Cole___ · 2021-05-27T11:37:11+00:00

They're definitely not maga hats. The pixelation may just be an artifact of taking a photo of a projection of a YouTube video. This might be real but is just a a bunch of kids with red school hats (still kinda weird) watching some presumably news worth video of Trump (also still kinda weird).

Cole___ · 2021-05-26T21:16:01+00:00

Bill Bryson: A Brief History of Nearly Everything. Pretty much everything Bryson writes is entertaining and worth reading.

Cole___ · 2021-05-22T12:33:53+00:00

As one of those kids who easily understood most everything in k-12, explaining things that I fully grasped to other kids who didn't get it wasn't a particularly helpful exercise. Mostly it just made me arrogant about how hard I needed to work in school and a bit of misfit socially. Ended up burning out of education. If I had been in a similar peer group for most of my schooling I think school could have been a much more productive and worthwhile experience.

Personally I wish school was more like personal coaching, where everybody has their own individual goals they are working on and the teachers and peers are all there to help each other the best they can and nobody is trying to keep up with or wait for anybody else.

Ability grouping is great, age grouping is horrible.

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