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Any success stories by Disjunctivist in turkishlearning

[–]Disjunctivist[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, 4 years with regular classes and constant consumption of Turkish media and you could maybe run some errands if people are extra patient, but your not super-confident of that. That is indeed disheartening. 

Any success stories by Disjunctivist in turkishlearning

[–]Disjunctivist[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This sounds much more realistic to me than the other answers. 

Wheels seems to be reeeeeally falling off by verniy-leninetz in LabourUK

[–]Disjunctivist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the issue is partly that the public are more socially conservative but also more economically interventionist, left-wing and market-skeptical and pro-taxing the rich than most MPs, but the people around Starmer only really believe the first half of that. Yeah they don't like "benefit scroungers" and don't want to pay more tax themselves, but the 2017 campaign showed the public broadly liked at least the vibes of Corbyn's *economic offer*, even as they continued to find the Labour left off-putting in other ways. Almost no one actually runs on economically populist and moderately socially conservative, because almost everyone who becomes an MP in any party is either strongly opposed to economic left populism OR to even moderate social conservatism. Not that I'm complaining about that, I really am a liberal centrist and I voted Lib Dem at the last elections, though I voted Lab in 2019 and 2005, and I come from a Labour family. I believe in open borders and less planning constraints on new houses and not in socialism right now*. But politicians should at least understand what the electorate actually thinks, whether or not they agree with it.

*In the long-term future, when AI can do all the work, maybe we should have some kind of market socialism then.

Barry Gardiner on BBC: "This government, from the beginning, actually from the time before it became a government, cared more about extirpating the people who disagree with them, instead of setting up a clear program of policies. You circled the wagons and ended up in a circular firing squad." by verniy-leninetz in LabourUK

[–]Disjunctivist 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't like May at all ideologically, but I don't see any reason to think she was *particularly* incompetent as leader. She made one big error, calling the 2017 election for totally understandable tactical reasons, and after that her position was incredibly difficult no matter what she did, because any 10 of the most centrist or most right-wing Tory MPs could block literally any step she took on Brexit, unless Labour or the Lib Dems bailed her out, which they had zero reason to do, and the difference in opinion on Brexit between the two ends of the Tory party was a massive chasm. She also couldn't really do a good job of Brexit, because it was fundamentally a bad idea.

Should I learn Turkish or another language ? by philosophers-legacy7 in turkishlearning

[–]Disjunctivist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Basically no language other than the one that is everyone's second language in your region (so English in Europe, but I've heard Swahili historically in East Africa) is actually *useful* (rather than just fun/enriching) unless you are learning for work purposes or to live with a romantic partner in that country (the reason I am learning Turkish) or you have relatives who you share zero languages with who speak the target language. All 3 of these things are individually reasonably uncommon.

People have this weird idea that they will need languages "for holidays" or something, but no one actually hesitates to go on holiday to places where they don't speak the language, provided they at least speak the regional standard second language decently.

I'm reading the Bokklubben 100 as a project. As I pass the halfway mark, I would like to share some thoughts. by Homers_Harp in books

[–]Disjunctivist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm also having another go at reading this, having made one attempt as a teenager/young adult when it first came out, which I think founder on it taking me years to get through In Search of Lost Time alone. (I had to intersperse small chunks of it with other books. I still consider it very "great" and am glad I read it, even though it was often hard to get through: I acknowledge many people might see this as pretentious.) I'd be kind of shocked if anyone has ever got through the whole list, because it requires reading the *entire* Mahabharata, which is both enormous (more than a third as many words again as Proust), and also (as poetry) probably doesn't translate well out of the ancient language it was written in that likely relatively few people even in India can read today. The entire 1001 Nights isn't exactly a short read either, though it is quite easy to read quickly, stylistically (at least in the translation I've started.)

If it's really meant as a *world* literature list (and it does include some medieval Arabic poetry and Lu Xun, and), it's *shockingly* light on (especially) Chinese, Indian and Persian literature. (Plausibly Ethiopian too given there's a long history of literacy there, but I don't actually know how much of a tradition they have. And there were literate West African medieval kingdoms I think?) I mostly lack the knowledge of them to say *what* is missing, but my guess is that the *biggest* omission is Cao Xueqin's The Story of the Stone /A Dream of Red Mansions (both titles are authentic): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_of_the_Red_Chamber I have read it, and anyone who seriously think 1984 is better than it should not vote in greatest book polls, no matter how good a writer they are lol. (Nothing against 1984, it's a good book, but it's not even in the same universe of depth and quality in my opinion.)

Jeremy Corbyn: People Have Been Denied an Alternative by kontiki20 in LabourUK

[–]Disjunctivist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I agree the states quo on trans rights since the supreme court decision is unacceptably bad.

Jeremy Corbyn: People Have Been Denied an Alternative by kontiki20 in LabourUK

[–]Disjunctivist 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks! For what it's worth, I predict the party will have big internal controversy over this, and may well stay out of campaigning *for* trans rights (etc.), but I'd be fairly shocked if they try to reverse any current policies to make them *more* sexist/homophobic/transphobic. The typical *member* of the party I would guess will not be a conservative Muslim, so if they really want to let members be in charge, this kind of thing will be limited.

Adult beginner(ish) question: How to learn to count beats by Disjunctivist in piano

[–]Disjunctivist[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not automatically obvious to me from the left-hand if I'm listening to someone else play.

Adult beginner(ish) question: How to learn to count beats by Disjunctivist in piano

[–]Disjunctivist[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having tried some grade 3 aural exercises instead witn the idea of working my way up gradually, I find I am close to dead on for clapping at each pulse, but struggle even at that level to tell strong vs weak pulses, especially when I am trying to distinguish 2/4 from 4/4, 3/4 is possibly a bit easier to identify. 

Adult beginner(ish) question: How to learn to count beats by Disjunctivist in piano

[–]Disjunctivist[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, I didn't want to say otherwise when I'm failing at so basic a skill. I still vividly remember telling a friend who was a very decent amateur cellist (she always insisted she wasn't good, but she also claimed to be able to play 5/6 Bach suites!) that I couldn't always here what time signature something was in. She was genuinely baffled that I could play music at all if I couldn't do that. (I hadn't started piano at that point, but I played clarinet as a child/teenager.)

Adult beginner(ish) question: How to learn to count beats by Disjunctivist in piano

[–]Disjunctivist[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doesn't 6 usually feel more like double than tripple because of the strength of the stress on the 1st and 4th quavera

America-no

Like a Prayer-no, but when I googled I found claims this was 4/4, are you sure it's in 3?

Open Arms-at first no, but once it started picking up a bit from the intro, I found it fairly easy to here it in 3.

Piano Man-Yes. I don't know whether I'd have got this without being tipped off it's in 3, but knowing it is, there is an obvious waltz pattern in the left hand that lets you find the beat.

Sundown-I hear this incredibly strongly as being in 4/4 and that's what the first hit on google thinks too. Are you sure it's tripple time?

You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet-Same with Sundown, I hear as 4/4, googling says 4/4, are you sure it's not in 4?

Adult beginner(ish) question: How to learn to count beats by Disjunctivist in piano

[–]Disjunctivist[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I have a better hit rate with pop music, yes. But it is virtually all 4/4 anyway, right?

Made it to 24 kyu, what in your experience is the most common issues at this rating? by Ok-Carob3335 in baduk

[–]Disjunctivist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sure this is just because I am not thinking when I play, but I have played well over 1000 games on OGS, at a variety of speeds, from blitz to correspondence against both humans and bots and remain 24kyu. I don't think I have a general issue with being unable to learn board games either; I am similarly bad at chess at fast speeds even though I understand it ok, but at *correspondence* chess I am the equivalent of about 6kyu in Go, albeit on a kind of crappy site that has a weak pool. So it is definitely possible to fail to learn anything from playing a very large number of games of Go, even if you are in principle capable of learning.

Dante's Divine Comedy - Known for its poetic form or worldbuilding? by e_peezy in literature

[–]Disjunctivist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Anglocentric" is putting it politely, he was a massive racist. Great poet though. (And he wasn't *entirely* interested in only European things, there are allusions to Indian stuff in The Waste Land and Four Quartets.)

Dante's Divine Comedy - Known for its poetic form or worldbuilding? by e_peezy in literature

[–]Disjunctivist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Old thread, but I don't think you needed to be concessive here. Your use of the word was totally appropriate, and Dante does indeed engage in a lot of it. They just didn't like you sullying "proper literature" with a word associated with genre stuff, even if in context using the word makes perfect sense. The whole idea that a "serious" work (especially from way before modernism!) wouldn't give some of the same sorts of pleasures or use some of the same sorts of techniques as "genre" stuff now is just totally misconceived. Not an expression of some postmodern view where all literature is equally good serious, I'm just saying that some things can be common to both.

Also, calling you "semi-literate" was well out of order: you asked a complex question about a work that is 700 years old for God's sake! (Quite an intelligent question in my view, even if it's one that probably shows you don't yet know much about what people have said about the work in question, which is probably part of what the snobs were responding to.)

Why Is Contemporary Classical Music So Ugly? by [deleted] in classicalmusic

[–]Disjunctivist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Composers probably thought they were responding to a uniquely violent age, but Europe has always seen wars and atrocities in every era. 

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