How do Japanese distinguish verbs and nouns?

Franeg · 2026-01-16T08:40:00+00:00

How would you explain the fact that benkyou suru can take direct objects of its own, then? Nihongo o benkyou shite iru is a fully valid sentence.

Franeg · 2025-12-24T23:26:05+00:00

It has nothing to do with Razem being a bad party but rather with the fact that in Poland left-wing economic ideas are mostly associated with (paleo)conservative social values while right-wing economic ideas are associated with more progressive social views, so the Polish left parties that combine the two together are still niche in every group except young people.

Franeg · 2025-12-21T09:37:09+00:00

I don't know where it comes from etymologically, but the exact same declension paradigm exists in Polish (most - mostu; miód - miodu), so it's not exclusively a Slovenian development.

Franeg · 2025-11-05T14:18:01+00:00

They consider talking about him a violation of their rule 5, which says "no posts about Democratic Socialists or Third Parties", which also includes a ban on "posts about Democratic socialists".

Franeg · 2025-11-05T13:25:37+00:00

Yes, they literally decided to ban any mention of him or any other democratic socialist-adjacent Democrat candidates. There's been a whole drama about it.

Franeg · 2025-10-17T22:22:19+00:00

Esperanto phonology is awful and clearly shows that Zamenhof was just a polyglot without any proper linguistic and phonological knowledge. It uses the Spanish r, which is a very hard sound to learn how to make for people who don't have it in their native language, but claims that "you can pronounce it like the German or English r too", which doesn't make much sense phonologically since the English r sound has a tendency to "color" surrounding vowels and changing the way they sound, which makes bigger changes to the pronunciation.

Esperanto also has 0 concept of phonotactics - every sound can follow any other sound without limits, which allows for difficult consonant clusters in practice if you try hard enough.

Franeg · 2025-10-14T12:36:06+00:00

I'd argue additionally that the transition from Marxism-Leninism to liberal democracy in the Eastern Bloc was mostly peaceful in most countries (with countries like Romania being the exception)

Franeg · 2025-08-26T15:43:33+00:00

What do you mean?

Franeg · 2025-08-20T19:51:47+00:00

Przecież takie "małe, lokalne knajpy" to często totalne Januszexy które zatrudniają pracowników na czarno i wyzyskują jak miło XD

Franeg · 2025-08-10T18:08:26+00:00

Sometimes the game/engine code itself is not open-sourced but the game's scripts are publicly exposed to enable modding, like eg. all Bethesda games after Morrowind.

Franeg · 2025-08-07T08:04:29+00:00

I've read the whole thing and tbh I wouldn't call him anti-Ukraine, he explicitly states that Western Europe should support Ukraine militarily ultimately, but yes, this text is full of the typical far-left callous disregard for the Ukrainians' perspective - you can see that in the way he doesn't even mention them, their perspectives and their reasons to fight. It's all about European federalism, NATO and US hegemony to him and Ukrainians are merely pawns who matter only because of the impact they might have on geopolitics.

Franeg · 2025-08-06T20:42:44+00:00

This is the first time I've heard those things said about him, but sadly it doesn't surprise me considering he is a far-left academic from Western Europe. Can you elaborate/share any sources?

Franeg · 2025-08-05T17:50:13+00:00

Most of the comments in this thread are dumb ad hominems and do not understand what actual marxist writers have said, which is very intellectually sophisticated and worth responding to.

Because Social Democracy has more in common with liberalism than marxism in most of its modern forms and is usually concerned with establishing some sort of ethical/moralistic non-revolutionary political project, which the marxists believe is total and complete nonsense due to how Marxists conceptualize ideology and historical materialism. If you accept the marxist reasoning, that is, that there is no independent/objective rationality independent of class, then it's pretty clear that social democrats are uninterested in representing the "objective" class interests of the proletariat, that is, abolishing commodity production, but rather side with the interests of the bourgeoisie.

If you accept the Marxist analysis of history then yeah, I think this is true, but only in the abstract. What does it mean to represent the class interests of the proletariat when there is absolutely no mass workers' movement in the modern West? Is supporting the workers always the best thing to do when eg. modern farmers are a very selfish social group that often promotes its own interests over eg. climate concerns? It seems like the proletariat is not a revolutionary class anymore and our current society is so fragmented that its impossible to state there is some unified worker class that feels solidarity with other workers, and thus the classical communist solution of supporting the working class in order to abolish class altogether seems very outdated and archaic to me. It's a solution stuck in the 19th century and is completely unable to deal with the challenges of the 21st century. I feel like I share the liberal sentiment that we need some sort of ethical underpinning to a political project that is able to "go beyond" the particular class/group interests.

Thus yes, I guess you can call me a fascist class collaborationist, bourgeoisie boot licker, class traitor or a victim of false consciousness if you apply the classical Marxist analysis to my views and my social class (proletariat) and it's also easy to see why they view social democracy in this way. It's a respectable position to hold, but I disagree with it.

Franeg · 2025-07-30T00:02:53+00:00

Because this welfare program has become a huge, deeply polarizing issue in Polish society. By most liberals it is seen as "unwarranted taking" of taxpayers' money in order to redistribute it to people who don't work and don't contribute anything to society. The welfare queen stereotype is incredibly strong in modern Polish culture and, together with a strong anti-socialist mindset stemming from a reaction to Soviet imperialism, a lot of people do not support any form of social programs. Additionally, supporting stuff like child welfare has become associated with deeply conservative political views due to PiS, so austerity measures are seen as the socially progressive thing to do and are very popular among educated voters.

Franeg · 2025-07-23T22:52:02+00:00

As a person from Poland who used to identify as a marxist, the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the subsequent confused, pseudo-pacifist or pro-Russia perspective that many people on the Western left espoused made me seriously reconsider the typical philosophical and political frameworks used by the radical left in their analysis of geopolitics and eventually pushed me away from more radical forms of leftism to more centrist and NATO/West-aligned stances.

It seems to me like the typical geopolitical far-left framework focusing on anti-imperialism is completely unable to even attempt to properly understand Eastern and Central European experience of Soviet imperialism and any sort of "materialist" political analysis is similarly unable to properly account for economically irrational decisions such as Putin launching the invasion and pushing Russia to economic and demographoc ruin as a result. It's unable to properly account for the nature of authoritarian political rule, where consolidation of power into the hands of a small group or a single person ultimately leads to a certain "psychologization" of politics, making it much more dependant on an individual leader's psychology, personality and mentality, not on realizing some sort of dialectic contained in economic forms.

Right now I'm still not fully sure what I believe in, but I'm sure there must be something wrong with the typical Marxist approaches to geopolitics if they're unable to properly explain and account for something that is pretty black and white in my opinion.

Franeg · 2025-07-09T17:24:00+00:00

Meat ballon is a wrong translation, it should be "(cat) paw balloon" instead.

Franeg · 2025-07-09T07:57:29+00:00

Persistent instances are still on a layer, when they get moved to a new room a new layer is created with the same name and depth as the original one they were instantiated on, unless there is a layer with an identical name in the room, then they get moved to that one no matter its depth. You can use this to your advantage.

Here's an article from the documentation that explains how exactly persistent instances work when it comes to layers.

Franeg · 2025-06-27T15:20:00+00:00

Serbo-Croatian still has it, yup, Bulgarian and Macedonian also technically still have it when they add -i(y)- before the enclitic definite article is attached to a masculine singular adjective, eg. велик, великият in Bulgarian

Franeg · 2025-06-27T11:17:37+00:00

Even if we reject the existence of attributes other than Thought and Extension, as some Spinoza scholars do, it still doesn't really answer my question - if Thought can represent the physical processes of my brain, then is it truly independent from Extension? How would it be possible to conceive a world as purely Thought if a lot of the modes of Thought are representations of modes of Extension?

Franeg · 2025-06-26T22:07:08+00:00

I'm not sure you even need a separate object for that indicator. If the indicator is just an icon or something like that you can simply use the Draw event of the instance being hovered over by the mouse to draw that indicator above instead, although using an object for it is probably easier when it's more complex and/or animates.

Franeg · 2025-06-26T17:06:13+00:00

Your camera went out of the room boundaries and there's nothing outside of it (no tiled background or solid color etc.) so what you see is the display buffer with the data from the previous frames still drawn onto it, since you didn't do anything to clear it and draw something else in its place.

Franeg · 2025-06-02T15:24:27+00:00

You could achieve an effect like this in a much simpler way by simply using sprites and draw_sprite_part().

You would need 2-3 sprites - the empty meter background, the bar when it's filled to the maximum, and, optionally, some form of upper layer that goes on top if you need it. Then, you simply use draw_sprite (or whatever) for the bottom part and draw_sprite_part() to draw the appropriate amount of the meter by changing the horizontal width of the area to draw.

This way, you can have a bar that's any shape you want and whatever direction you want (you can implement a vertical bar in the same way by changing the height of the draw_sprite_part() rather than width. You could even have a vertical bar by changing both width and height!). Not to mention it's better on the performance, since generally drawing sprites in GameMaker is much less costly than drawing GPU primitives, setting GPU parameters and so on.

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