I actually agree with this attitude - do what you’re good at and not what you’re bad at - but it isn’t very popular in America where “everybody can make it”. I guess it has something to do with an Eastern/Western divide in mindset, where the eastern mindset is more “know where your place/position in society is and stick with it”.
wait until they self-destruct, mostly.
i say this as an european
at one point, microsoft will put all of their software into a VM and ship that on a linux platform. that will do.
look what they have to do to mimic a fraction of our power
lol good story, that stuff sometimes happens, don’t think too much about it
i was in a similar story once, but i didn’t do something, which was the bad part, i guess
i was walking with a friend through a park once, and we were talking casually, when suddenly, she stumbled about a root of some tree and was about to fall. i saw it and thought “oh wait i have to catch her”, but then i thought “if i do i must touch her, and you can’t touch a girl without asking her permission first”, and so i let her fall. i’m pretty sure she didn’t like that and was a bit angry at me afterwards. but such is life.
Thanks, i’ll get to it as soon as i have the time.
It’s surprising there’s not more hallucinations to be honest.
If you wanna hear about my personal belief system:
The world is all magic. Magic is older than science or rational thinking. However, science is a special product of magic. Think of Magic as a factory that just randomly produces one special object, and that is science.
Science is like a stable island, which spans the whole Earth in space, and approximately 400 years in time, starting somewhere in the 17th century and extending through the 21st century. Where the rational laws of physics prevail. Outside of that, you might as well stop rational thinking, because it’s not gonna help you. It’s all schamanic, right-brain-half thinking outside of that. And the incantations that we call language are a part of that.
funnily enough i came up with the exact same thing.
Also it’s worth pointing out that children don’t have an “innate” language. Then, how do they first learn their first language? It must be through some other mechanism than through language itself.
This implies that meaning can exist outside of words and language. In case you didn’t realize this before.
I understand your viewpoint, and that you see words as a database that maps sequences of sounds to meaning.
However, as a funny side note, i’d like to point out that that’s not what i’m doing when i’m trying to decipher the meaning of a word. If i’m unsure, i will extract the root of the word (only look at the consonants in the core part of the word), and then try to reconstruct the meaning from there. In that way, i have more of a “root of sequence of sounds” <–> meaning mapping in my language processing part of the nervous system.
From a technical perspective, you might wanna look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noisy-channel_coding_theorem
It basically says, that even when your channel over which you’re transmitting the data is noisy (i.e. does not transport the information exactly as you want it), you can still establish a clear communication over it. It’s fascinating, and i highly suspect that something similar is happening in our spoken language. The words in itself are ambiguous, but through relentless redundancy, somehow, the information still comes through clearly.
It is probably one of the reason why i have a habit of always saying the same sentence 2 or 3 times in a row, with slightly different wordings. I guess it is because i’m utterly aware of that information can get lost during talking, especially in a noisy situation, and that repeating the information helps splendidly with making it more clear. Other people, however, seem to be a bit annoyed by it :p
Yeah, i’m reading theory alright, i’m studying physics, if that’s what you mean, or what?
I’m really struggling to find a party that i fully agree with.
For one, i like true leftist ideals, but i don’t like guns, so i guess the left parts of the image doesn’t apply to me.
On the other side, i think the long-standing support for Ukraine is an atrocious mistake, because it prolongs the suffering unnecessarily (after all, the uproar in Ukraine is mostly an CIA-inspired action after all i believe, and diplomatic solutions were not sought). But shitting on that pink hat (which is clearly a symbol for queer/trans people) is just unacceptable. just leave the people live their own private life as they want. What’s so difficult about that?
Edit: as per the comments, i stand corrected and am sorry for my half-assed take. i’ll leave it up anyways, because i guess it’s a chance to learn for any reader.
nothing, it’s just anti-trans, anti-queer bullshitting.
Edit: after looking it up, if i understand it correctly, it’s misogynistic bullshit? maybe? maybe not? idk
Also you can read this link if you accept a more opinionated article:
Did a Trump executive order just cripple the global US regime change network?
and where you make the most impact for the future generations or am I missing something?
Yeah you definitely make an impact, if by making an impact you mean flooding the future labor market with quasi-slaves.
I’m sorry to tell you this but there will be fewer workplaces in the future.
There have been three significant developments throughout human history:
I’m afraid there won’t be a third wave, and technological progress will slow down. I’m sure it will lead to a decline in well-paying employments, and wages will go down. An effective counter-measure would be if the number of workers in the country would also drop, as that would lower supply in workforce and increase prices for labor (a.k.a. wages).
Finally you can buy a house for an apple and an egg again.
No, i disagree. Imagine a jungle, you might have a computer, but you can’t lay out cables due to lack of free space/straight lines. You would have to run the cables in such convoluted directions, that they might end up running in circles. Or the roots of the trees might hinder the cables, or destroy them over time.
The internet transports information. Roads transport goods and people. Both require straight lines from origin to destination, otherwise they’re inefficient.
Yeah, once you start getting good at something, it’s often faster to just do it yourself. That’s how you know you’re good at something.