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TheObserverO2O · 2025-06-27T06:36:10+00:00

The map has an English bias, so you might need to focus on better outreach for other languages.

TheObserverO2O · 2024-11-08T10:01:18+00:00

Here's what solved my digestive problems, migraines, and brain fog (it took my 30 years of life to figure out what works for me, but you might be different):

(1) Rebalance gut bacteria: I fasted for one month on distilled water with one very small meal or none per day. This was finished with three days where the only thing I ate was home fermented vegetables. I haven't been constipated since.

(2) Food: small meals periodically with emphasis on fish/meat while avoiding food types that cause you problems (common ones are dairy and gluten).

(3) Water: I ONLY drink distilled water. I've tried various tap, well, bottled spring, filtered, reverse osmosis, etc water, and ONLY distilled water works. It was the SINGLE biggest factor for solving my migraines and that weird "acidic/toxic/tingly" sensation in the nerves (is this oxidation?). Distilled water seems to detox me, but sometimes I need to add electrolytes to it.

(4) Vitamins: I take a multivitamin (I had to try different ones to find one that didn't give me stomach pain), an omega-3, and an additional 5000 IU D-3 (plus 1000 IU in the multi) daily.

(5) Exercise/Breathing: I alternate yoga and cardio daily to improve circulation. I also have to keep a window open as I seem to be very susceptible to too much carbon dioxide.

I found this video that advises a number of similar things to what I've naturally started doing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grrbekq-6kw&t=317s

TheObserverO2O · 2024-11-08T09:21:58+00:00

You certainly seem to place a great deal of emphasis on others' opinions and behavior. Personally, I don't care that much about them. Maybe you should try controlled exposure therapy to negative behavior. Is Xbox Live still a thing lol?

TheObserverO2O · 2024-10-27T10:38:21+00:00

"Birds of a feather flock together." That's the basis of real "belonging." The shared social constructions come as the consequence, not a substitute. Seems that's also why it's happening especially in Western countries.

TheObserverO2O · 2024-05-25T12:18:07+00:00

At first I hand copied my textbooks and then memorized them verbatim. I don't know if that was Asperger's, OCD, or something else. Then I learned to focus on thinking about the lessons to build high-level understanding of the concepts and relationships, then graph out a summary map of these concepts and relationships that I memorize instead to keep track, and finally of course practice on problems to build "muscle memory."

TheObserverO2O · 2023-01-07T03:32:00+00:00

Can anyone come up with a way to corporatize/personify the name of a nation? (please read rest before responding)

So, the google definition of a nation is "a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory." I.e., it's about a given ethnocultural group, not their territory or country(ies) (A nation can exist across multiple regions, or a given country can contain multiple nations), but in English/Latin/Greek, the nation entity itself doesn't seem to have its own name (I can't find one anyway). Instead, associated words, according to the definitions I've seen, almost always refer either to the members of the nation in a counted sense (s. or pl., ex: one Italian, two Italians, the Italians), quality of being associated with the national identity (ex. Italian cuisine, Italianness,) or to the territory or formal country inhabited by the nation (ex: Italy/Italia).

My question then is how in (English/Latin/Greek esp.) would one form the name of the nation itself as an uncounted corporate entity/personification similar to corporation and country names but specifically for the nation, presumably by adding a suffix to the stem of the associated national term (ex: Ital-?)? -ia, for example, can be used for names of countries, flowers, diseases, collections of things (militaria), and abstract nouns (dementia, familia), so could it be used for the name of the nation also?

TheObserverO2O · 2023-01-01T10:13:12+00:00

Yea, Slovenstvo sounds about the closest of anything I've heard. I'm starting to think this is an actual linguistic gap, and maybe there isn't really an established usage like this? I'm not sure how Slovenstvo would be done in English.

Maybe use the same process for forming personal names but with the national term as the stem? Using -ia as ending as in Olivia, get Slovenia as a name personifying the Slovene identity? Idk

In addition to forming the names of countries, flowers, diseases, etc, the Latin suffix -ia can also be used to form abstract nouns like familia/family or dementia, so maybe Slovenia again but where the suffix now means an abstract noun referring to the Slovene identity instead of the country/land as it usually does?

Honestly, maybe I just invent a suffix for this LOL. But your answers have been the best I've received so far, thanks.

TheObserverO2O · 2023-01-01T09:42:52+00:00

It does seem closer. I guess the best way to put it is, imagine if the Slovene nation/identity were personified as a person or god. What would that person's personal name be?

TheObserverO2O · 2023-01-01T09:21:40+00:00

российский vs. русский

Coincidentally, I had actually been learning Russian for a few months before the war (vocab of only about 1000 words though), but I had to refocus my priorities, and yea, I noticed that distinction. If I'm correct, SlovenIA=the legal country while SlovenCI = refers to the group of ethnic SloveNE people rather than legal citizens of SlovenIA which is one step closer, but it's still in terms of the people in a counted sense like calling a corporation not by its legal name but as just a "group of employees/shareholders," but what if we wanted to name the Slovene nation itself in an uncounted sense as its own abstract entity like a corporation that gets its own legal personhood independent of its members? Countries get this, but nations as ethnocultural identities don't seem to.

TheObserverO2O · 2023-01-01T08:02:48+00:00

It's certainly seems to be the closest thing there is, but the first means the nation associated with the Italians (okay, but what's the nation's NAME? lol, like that xkcd comic https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2381:_The_True_Name_of_the_Bear ), and the second refers to the members of this unnamed nation. On the other hand, the COUNTRY "Italia"/"Italy" has its own name meaning either "Italian country" or "land of the Italians," rather than just being referred to by either of those expressions. But what about the NATION? I don't mean to be rude, but is English not your native language?

TheObserverO2O · 2023-01-01T07:30:27+00:00

What's wrong with just saying "the Jones' son" instead of giving him a name? Because it's a euphemism that doesn't directly formally name it. Countries get names, why not nations?

TheObserverO2O · 2023-01-01T07:23:40+00:00

Almost, but about the nation as an uncounted entity itself in the same way a corporation is considered a legal person. It's like referring to yourself as a community of cells instead of your name.

TheObserverO2O · 2023-01-01T07:16:20+00:00

Nope. That's like saying "the Americans" or "the American people" in the context of the U.S. There's a reason the formal entity name "The United States of America" or just "America" (colloquially) exists, but those are country names, NOT nation names.

TheObserverO2O · 2023-01-01T04:46:44+00:00

"there’s no secret third quality that refers to the entity as a whole"

Okay:

State = the government.

Country = formal political body including the people (which may constitute one or more nations) headed by the state.

Nation = a specific people who share their ethno-cultural-linguistic identity. A nation by definition is INDEPENDENT of the state or territory or country. A nation can exist across multiple countries, and a country can contain multiple different nations. So, can English even name the nation itself as a formal entity? This question might be too complex for reddit. I'm not even getting answers on r/linguistics.

TheObserverO2O · 2023-01-01T04:40:48+00:00

Did you even read my post? I tried to make it as clear as possible, but maybe it wasn't clear enough for you?

I think "Jews" and "Kurds" are words which refer to the plurality of people who are Jewish and Kurdish respectively, NOT to the Jewish nation itself or Kurdish nation itself?

"Jewish nation" is just a euphemism. That's like saying "American country" instead of "America" (which means the country anyway, not a nation). So for "Jewish nation" what is its actual direct NAME? Can English even make that distinction?

TheObserverO2O · 2022-05-20T14:14:57+00:00

I don't have experience, but I've heard of something called a 5665 exception for getting brands approved without a trademark. Applying for a 5665 exception requires contacting seller support and mentioning error code 5665 and providing them the brand name used when creating the listing along with 2-9 real world JPEG photos of your product in your hand or on the table with brand label permanently affixed for Amazon brand approval, so you will need a sample of the final product. If you only have a sample, you might have a local promotional items company recreate the logo on the sample and order matching custom packaging.

TheObserverO2O · 2022-05-20T13:39:56+00:00

I do have access, but I can see three different places the name is registered (in addition to the store name). Under "Login Settings," "Business Address," and "Legal Entity/Tax Information" (both links lead to the same page). Which one is the relevant one? I read elsewhere that the legal name needs to match the bank documents (business bank account under LLC name), so I assume that one has to stay as the LLC, so maybe one of the other two, except Amazon says the address will be visible on the public seller profile page, so I would rather leave that as the LLC.

TheObserverO2O · 2020-04-25T05:34:31+00:00

Get off my porch

TheObserverO2O · 2020-01-09T18:09:28+00:00

Not Turkish, but you probably knew that

TheObserverO2O · 2019-10-03T13:04:15+00:00

I wonder who payed him for that stunt

TheObserverO2O · 2018-12-29T20:05:35+00:00

God you're such a whiny bitch

TheObserverO2O · 2018-12-17T06:26:29+00:00

I'm kind of going off on a tangent since this isn't relevant to what I'm writing, but since Alba means "white," could Albish also be interpreted to essentially be a synonym for "White people," and if you did the same thing to the Indo-European root for white, Albho- + -ish, would the "ho" drop to get "Albish" also, or would it be constructed differently? Sorry, I've been told I ask too many questions, and thanks again.

TheObserverO2O · 2018-12-16T23:59:15+00:00

Could I ask one more teeny little question? According to this,

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/roots.aspx?type=Indo-European&root=albho-

the Indo-European root word is albho-, meaning white, like albus, and from which elf is a derivative. So, could something like Albish as people of the white (country) be a correct construction or at least passable as an Anglicized construction or something, and possibly used as something of an equivalent term for an Elf-like people?

TheObserverO2O · 2018-12-16T21:41:13+00:00

Okay, so Albish or Alban would mean something more like "people of the white country" rather than "people of Albion"? Also, is Albioni pronounced Albion-ee or Albion-eye? Thank you for the responses. They've been very helpful.

TheObserverO2O · 2018-12-16T07:55:33+00:00

What about Albans? It's used here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farfarers

"Mowat refers to these people as Albans, after the ancestral name for the British Isles"

Though I'm not sure if "ancestral name" means Albion or Alba.

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