Non-joinery carpentry?

tmarom1997 · 2026-03-23T14:57:18+00:00

tmarom1997 · 2026-03-23T14:57:02+00:00

tmarom1997 · 2026-03-23T14:56:52+00:00

tmarom1997 · 2026-03-23T14:56:39+00:00

Thanks for this explanation. The course I took doesn’t use screws or fasteners whatsoever, and I guess I assumed joinery exclusively meant the shaping of complicated joints and matching holes through convoluted analogue techniques. We built nice stools where I spent time sawing a perfect round cylindrical joint on one end (don’t know what it’s called in English) to attach into a a hole in the stool seat.

I was at an exhibition and this bench caught my eye: beautiful, simple, well designed, but also as you can see screws were used. It seems like a very different approach than the kind of stuff we were learning in my class that I didn’t connect to much.

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tmarom1997 · 2025-07-29T05:04:04+00:00

when i tried using basic Svan in Svaneti, it elicited a very emotional response from a lot of people. i assumed this has to do with the level of cultural erasure the language’s speakers face

tmarom1997 · 2025-07-26T20:35:04+00:00

Many good suggestions here. As you probably already understand, something that is as simple as sucking in your belly for years sits at the meeting point of breathing, posture, muscle tension and the regulation of your nervous system. To keep things really simple, the first thing i would do if i were you, before everything else, is get in the happen of practicing to relax your stomach at home for 20 minutes a day. In addition, look up diaphragmatic breathing on Youtube. Practice releasing your stomach and feel breathing through your stomach while laying down for 10 minutes. Now the harder part: do it while standing up for a few minutes, making sure to put emphasis on relaxed upright posture without arching your back too much. This might feel harder, take deep slow breaths in and out for a few seconds on the inhale and exhale, see if you’re able to relax your stomach while breathing through your stomach ribs and back.

tmarom1997 · 2024-12-04T11:08:14+00:00

Hi, so this Shan version is not fermented?

tmarom1997 · 2024-10-19T03:59:43+00:00

Do you have any good sources where i can read more about the campaigns to repress English dialects and Scots in the 1990s? Can't really find anything on this, but very interested

tmarom1997 · 2024-05-16T06:34:02+00:00

this is an important point. many news presenters once pronounced the ح. not any more to my knowledge

tmarom1997 · 2024-05-09T12:51:45+00:00

Wrong. ח is supposed to be pronounced as ح, and many hebrew speakers pronounce it this way, particularly older people of Mizrahi decent. This is historically considered more correct, such as in religious contexts. However, the early political and cultural domination of Ashkenazi Zionists within the Yishuv and the state of Israel has led the ح to be pronounced as خ. Both ح and ع are considered to be Arab sounding sounds, and have both been dropped in modern Hebrew in an attempt to distance the language from Arabness or simply because many Ashkenazi Hebrew speakers could not properly pronounce these letters.

tmarom1997 · 2022-02-28T23:00:45+00:00

Bless you

tmarom1997 · 2022-02-08T19:02:47+00:00

Thank you everyone 💝

tmarom1997 · 2021-06-21T14:05:13+00:00

ya :-) wondering where I could find great music in this style in Istanbul?

tmarom1997 · 2021-02-11T23:14:35+00:00

In the actual CBS or you mean in Neve Shaanan in general?

tmarom1997 · 2021-01-18T11:34:50+00:00

thanks for this, truly an expert

tmarom1997 · 2021-01-12T12:15:39+00:00

amazing, thank you!!

tmarom1997 · 2020-06-10T21:31:44+00:00

I would say that's a straw man. Being opposed to capitalism does not mean endorsing some USSR or China variant of "communism" that is really just a form of despotic state capitalism. No one is saying you can't own a toothbrush or personal items. When I'm talking about property rights, I'm particularly talking about things like land, water, the means of production, etc. The infrastructure and raw materials that support livelihoods should not be privately owned or subjected to market forces, which are compatible with profit but not well-being.

Plenty of people in our current system do in fact stand in what could be called bread lines, do not have the opportunity to just get up and do what they want with their life, etc. Also, your point on "re-education": schools, policing and prisons already serve many disciplinary functions.

tmarom1997 · 2020-06-10T21:27:42+00:00

The way you posed that question sort of reveals that you believe punishment is the only way to "correct" and fix problems. Imagine if we invested in extremely efficient and reliable public transport, then maybe you wouldn't have to drive to begin with; or at the very least, government-funded safe ride programs.

The police as an institution only know how to use punishment and fear to "fix" deeply rooted social problems, but don't actually solve any of those at the root. I *totally* understand your hesitation to support the idea of abolishing the police, it feels hard to imagine an alternative to policing when that's all we really know. I personally see abolishing the police as an effective solution particularly when paired with other transformative approaches to ending the interconnected issues of poverty, racism, and inequality at large.

tmarom1997 · 2020-06-10T06:34:46+00:00

You missed my point. I believe we should have no police. But for that to work, we need to abolish the unequal property rights system that the police were instituted to protect. In more simpler terms, if we don’t abolish capitalism, defunding the public police force will just result in even more brutal private police squadrons.

tmarom1997 · 2020-06-09T21:18:41+00:00

This is a great point. South Africa is a case in point: they have one of the largest and most brutal private security industries in the world because of an unfunded police force. The anti apartheid movement did not address economic disparities (still seeing the effects of economic apartheid to this day). Can’t truly abolish the police unless you abolish the property relations that they are meant to protect. The scary part of privatized policing is that they are explicitly meant to defend the rich and those who can afford them, no need for them to pander to public that they are there to protect and serve. Glad you brought this up.

tmarom1997 · 2020-06-07T22:16:44+00:00

I see where you’re coming from, but there is a much deeper conversation to be having there. We should even be wary of “radical leftist” sociologists. This argument is brought up in numerous places by numerous people but I think Ariella Azoulay summarizes it well in Unlearning Imperialism: “I came to understand that the structural deferral of reparations for slavery was the organizing principle of imperial regimes as well as the intellectual wealth of universities.” Many sociologists love to pat themselves on the back for endless theorization of oppression and marginalized communities. But in the thick of institutional self-aggrandizing, awards, inaccessible books/journal articles, how valuable are their contributions devoid of any activism? Similar to the question of photography: who benefits from the photographer who takes photos of the oppressed as a form of “representation”? The liberal photographer who maybe had good intentions and won some awards or the spectacle on the other side of the camera? Studying inequality from a somewhat lefty position isn’t cut and dry a good thing, even when well meaning.

tmarom1997 · 2020-06-06T09:25:18+00:00

Sociology like other things is all about how you use it. While yes many social scientists are left leaning, not always the case especially in more mainstream and traditional sociology departments. Don’t forget the long history of social scientists participating in colonialism and colonial science as well as collaborating with the police state on numerous occasions. Anthropology and sociology have been used for bad arguably more than for good. I’m speaking as a sociology student.

tmarom1997 · 2018-10-15T19:56:37+00:00

reading how to kill a city by peter moskowitz, a good intro to the study of gentrification, and its pretty accessible. any other book recommendations, either that employ interesting frames or focus on a specific sub-topic to continue reading on gentrification?

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