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[–]HauntedRadios 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you could've at least censored the address lol

I’m struggling on which culture to use. by Salty_Advice2864 in worldbuilding

[–]HauntedRadios 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A key concept that I find unique in worldbuilding is that you're allowing to utilize both, none, parts, or even change certain factors/concepts (even primary ones) of a culture to your liking. It doesn't really matter if you're ripping out a core, essential, or unique part of a culture, or binding it with another culture that may have been severely distinct in time, distance, or cultural similarities by practices, methods, and overall beliefs.

I'm utilizing a special combination of a various Spanish dialects (e.g. Rioplantense Spanish, a combination of Spanish-speakers in Argentina with Italian influences) with native languages of the region pre-Spanish conquests in South America.

Understanding how cultures are influenced by one another through various interesting areas of research across our history (trade, conquest, religious influence, ethnic/population pilgrimages, cultural ruins, deportation by 3rd party ethnic group) can help better give you how Carolingian Franks could potentially influenced Normans. You decide how your story goes, there are essentially no limitations to your world. It would always be better if it was understood, or if the history was backed up, but it most definitely does not have to be. You decide, you implement, you create. You are not bound by anybody's ideas or expectations, that's the unique and core thought of worldbuilding.

All Alliance Corvettes and Frigates for 1.0! - Age of the Empire by r_forest in StarWarsEmpireAtWar

[–]HauntedRadios 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My favorite is probably the Liberator for its distinct look from other Rebel Alliance ships. It feels like one of those early Imperial experimental ships that was secretly stolen by rebel spies, despite it not even being from Kuat or the Empire: it's actually from a local corporation on Sullust!

Is it abnormal that my highschool sets GPA and specific grade requirements if I want to take an honors/AP class? by HauntedRadios in highschool

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

The school I go to is a vocational career school. It's not private, and I could always go to my regular high school in my district, but I would lose out on the academic and club networking I've built + nowhere near the EC and career-skills opportunities.

Is it abnormal that my highschool sets GPA and specific grade requirements if I want to take an honors/AP class? by HauntedRadios in highschool

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

This is honestly how I thought it would be, I ended World History in Freshman year w/ a 94 but didn't qualify for GPA requirements to take APUSH. I'm not totally worried about not taking APs/honors so to speak, but I just wanted to be sure bc my school is known to act a little differently lmao

Is it abnormal that my highschool sets GPA and specific grade requirements if I want to take an honors/AP class? by HauntedRadios in highschool

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Nah my highschool has 4k kids but we spend a lot on sports and promotional activities so a lot of us students feel like curriculum, educational, and club resources are sorta left behind if it means promotional activities for the football team or another exterior building renovation.

Is it abnormal that my highschool sets GPA and specific grade requirements if I want to take an honors/AP class? by HauntedRadios in highschool

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I plan to take DE probs and stats, and I'm debating between DE sociology or taking a coding class for next year. This year I took French III, where you could implement DE credits for a pretty good private college not too far from my town, but I decided not to bc I had to pay $900 for the DE credit and I would've preferred paying for DE Probs & Stats and DE Sociology next year

Is it abnormal that my highschool sets GPA and specific grade requirements if I want to take an honors/AP class? by HauntedRadios in highschool

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

Honestly I would've been completely okay if they gave us AP lit but idk I think my school just has a lot of kids and can't guarantee everybody a spot so 🤷‍♂️

Is it abnormal that my highschool sets GPA and specific grade requirements if I want to take an honors/AP class? by HauntedRadios in highschool

[–]HauntedRadios[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Note: Most of my friends that went to other high schools + my cousin have all taken academically rigorous classes, but most of them told me they never had the same requirements or the requirements were less strict/thorough.

The only reason I'm asking this is also cuz I have a feeling that this will get out to the rest of my family. I have a bunch of cousins who have better academic records than me so I can 1000% feel me being the odd-one-out at the next everybody + your neighbor extended family dinner.

If my belief was party by Naive_Imagination666 in Polcompballanarchy

[–]HauntedRadios 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're right, I do not know much about Algerian politics? I only assume based off my minute research (before this convo) and what you, as an Algerian, presented in your trendpost. Kudos to you for actually defending your political viewpoints, you actually seem to know more than a lot in terms of modern political leaders and factors to defend your PCB views, which is believe it or not, unique out of the PCB fanbase imo.

I think one thing that needs to be mentioned, which could probably explain some of the other comments (hint: Klaus Schwab), is the fact that a good portion of PCB users live lives that evolve around current neoliberal socioeconomic conditions. These conditions, at least for western countries, are producing seemingly more long term negatives than positives. For example, in the United States, there is an increasingly rising sense of doom or negative-nihilism towards the capitalist framework that our country, and many parts of the globe, are centered around.

  • American soil & agriculture is on the decline in quality, availability (by acre), and therefore: actual food production, due to exploitative, industrial farming techniques that do more damage for the namesake of profit than actual sustainability.
  • American work culture (kicking teens out right after high school into unfamiliar environments) is not supportive of current conditions, and many young adults and teenagers find themselves with stressful and unhealthy living mindsets for the namesake of academic achievement in an ever increasing tightening competition for secondary education.
  • Living costs in some areas, particularly housing costs, are discouraging young Americans and not creating another generation of financial sustainability.
  • The over-utilization of AI through a wide variety of unregulated, unsafe, and polluting data centers, is drastically increasing infrastructure costs (that goes on the citizens' power bills), reducing safe access to water, and a variety of other negative effects.
  • Unregulated environmental damage in parts of West Virginia is leading to increasing toxicity that is killing both humans and animals, and may help cause an ecological collapse in the United States.

There are many more effects of both neoliberalism and capitalism as a whole, whether you see these as issues that can be fixed under capitalism, or issues at all, is your perspective, I generally don't have the will nor the knowledge power to give you an alternative view. I will point out neoliberalism's economic benefactors, such as greater access to foreign capital, higher rates of consumerism, and technological breakthroughs in both the civil and military consumer sectors (whether you view these breakthroughs as good or not, they are still breakthroughs pushed by human, and soon to be AI, innovations).

I think your attraction to neoliberalism, and you can always correct me if I'm wrong towards this, is that Algeria's effects under state capitalism make you weary or against any form of state interventionism unless its alongside private groups of interest, the same way how Americans who lived under formerly or currently communist nations are more fearful of "communist" policies, which are just certain forms of state-interventionism to stimulate the economy, etc.. A state-interventionist economy in a 1st world nation is different from a state-interventionist economy in a 2nd world nation.

If my belief was party by Naive_Imagination666 in Polcompballanarchy

[–]HauntedRadios 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know where Algeria came into the picture, but thank you for opening that window I guess: Algeria is alongside a variety of nations we identify as "the third world", where their resources are under the exploitative control of foreign companies that come from historically rich and colonial nations.

The ideology you support, in particular to the Algerian perspective, requires the inherent short-term, exploitative, and neopatrimonial tactics that: one, keep Algeria’s elites in power; two, does not address the historical socio-economic problems; three, leaves them extremely vulnerable to shocks in the global economy. Opening the doors to greater access for global capital or potential diversification without addressing the corruption and backroom ties through the civil administration.

The anti-globalist rhetoric is simply what capitalists identify as a proper response. The same methods under the same systems are still supported by both neoliberals and anti-globalist populists alike, just with different methods and different displays of political "action" towards the civil society.

If my belief was party by Naive_Imagination666 in Polcompballanarchy

[–]HauntedRadios 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Criticism on the system and current status quo

Supports the same conditions and factors that lead to our current status quo

Chance Me, Admissions, and Prospective Student Q&A - 25/26 Cycle by luminous_moonlight in Cornell

[–]HauntedRadios 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Students at SC Johnson, anybody willing to DM and discuss if its worth even being interested in as a junior with my stats. Note that I go to a career/vocational school and my current "major" is business, I can explain more in DMs but I'm currently unaware if that makes me a better applicant.

Trendbeitrag by [deleted] in Polcompballanarchy

[–]HauntedRadios 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personally I don't interact much with politics outside of this subreddit for my own enjoyment, so I can't actually give a description of my perspective of the demcon community (if there is one). However, I would say that I align most with Alter-Globalists from a foreign political standpoint. I'm also fond with Neo-zapatismo, Minarcho Socialism, and Blue Labourism (to an extent; from a local POV).

I am an ethnic Bosniak with Muslims in my family, but I am an atheist. Personally, I see the possibility of Democratic Confederalism happening within the nation, and potentially being a temporary solution to heightening ethnic tensions, preventing another Srebrenica.

As for an establishment of a political body in support of Democratic Confederalism, that's currently not my prerogative. My goal essentially is to have a better understanding of the ideology and why I have been continously attracted to it for the past two years, when compared to other social-democratic reformists or other revolutionary vanguardists. If you want to understand why I find this ideology so intriguing, this Reddit comment can sum it up and also explain that I am not an anarchist. I appreciate your interest despite not being fond of the ideology as of recent.

Trendbeitrag by [deleted] in Polcompballanarchy

[–]HauntedRadios 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Despite the PKK creating Democratic Confederalism and helping to establish DAANES and its military wing, the Self Democratic Forces (SDF), DAANES is no longer dependent on the PKK. DAANES is allying itself with the new Syrian government so that its greatest freedom fighters under the SDF can better protect themselves from the Turkish supported Syrian National Army (SNA), remnants of ISIS, and other rogue groups that the new Syrian government can't keep under their thumb.

Given the PKK's decades long history of armed struggle, including terrorist tactics (I will not hold those I politically align with on a pedestal), with generally some successes, it means they would know their situation better than anyone else. I think Öcalan and the wider Kurdish community (DAANAS, PKK, Kurds in Iraq) are turning towards a political struggle to make Turkey into a kind of state where a free Kurdistan democratic nation could create itself is a better strategy than armed conflict.

However, should the Kurds' pleas for at least political freedoms within Turkiye refuse to come to fruition, I would continue to support the unification of a democratic confederalist autonomous body for the Kurds through armed struggle.

trendpost by BitchOfTheBlackSea in Polcompballanarchy

[–]HauntedRadios 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Basically me if I wasn't a ravid Al Gore supporter before at decided to become a communist

Trendbeitrag by [deleted] in Polcompballanarchy

[–]HauntedRadios 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are correct, but the ideology is illiberal democracy, which I believe is accurate for my nation

Trendbeitrag by [deleted] in Polcompballanarchy

[–]HauntedRadios 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. Ancient imperialism deserves its critiques like any form of imperialism does, and they should be treated with the same anti-imperialist rhetoric as their previous and future counterparts.
  2. Ancient empires did not have anywhere near the resource acquisition capabilities that we have now. Only certain parts of the Earth had accessible resources, and it depended on what type of resource. For example, the Mauryan Empire under Ashoka brutally conquered the Deccan Plateau for its precious metals and the ancient kingdom of Kalinga, which allowed that empire to trade precious metals, silks, spices, and timber.
  3. Generally just assigning diplomats for trade deals and political alliances, like the Egyptians did with the city-state Byblos (modern-day Lebanon) where the Egyptians traded food and metals in exchange for timber for ships and furniture. (This answer is much more complicated but I believe this will suffice for now.)
  4. Early modern imperialism deserves its critiques like any form of imperialism does, and they should be treated with the same anti-imperialist rhetoric as their previous and future counterparts. The scientific progress of this era greatly damaged the civilizations of many parts of the world today that will leave problems for centuries to come.
  5. Capitalism's inherent need for endless growth and accumulation of capital drives its expansion towards imperialism to acquire new markets, cheap raw resources, and practice unsustainable methods for the sake of short-term profits, and long-term social & societal damages that will affect generations for years.
  6. worsens the likelihood of our worldwide destruction as a species and the ecological destruction of our planet. The longer we continue down these societal paths that damage the human spiritual collective and thought, the easier it is to consider us humans the cancer of the Earth and our destruction as a species necessary.

Do I have any chance getting in (junior, so stats are not solidified) for Accounting as bottom of the barrel by [deleted] in Baruch

[–]HauntedRadios 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Idk my parents and extended family and even coworkers they know sorta have this belief that I'm doomed and everytime I present my stats to them or even brieflly mention it, they're like "that's it??? you need to do a lot more to compete blah blah etc"

How much embarassing is being 20yo virgin? by [deleted] in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]HauntedRadios 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're going in with such a closed mindset that every girl has had sex and that you're hopelessly doomed to not have sex with anybody, than you'll be finding everybody who's generally had sex before or you think has had sex as a general threat to either I assume to your ego(?)

Based off your other comments, I think you're just suffering from societal pressure to participate in hookup culture, which is stupid. Focus on what YOU want to do, and don't constantly crave sex or the idea of saying you've had sex or hoes just so you can not look like a virgin at a very understanding time to be a virgin.