i know english and spanish, tho my dream is to learn russian

English, Français, Português, 日本語 have been considering Korean for a while. it sounds incredibly fun to speak and read and I love the history and folklore, the latter mostly surrounding musok. however that'd be a bit of an endeavour in of itself, so I'm just pondering over it whilst sharpening japanese up to N2. I'm not a fan of credentialism in language learning. I think it's pointless. like doing the french DELF examen, for instance. no one in their quotidian affairs is going about writing overly formal letters to Monsieur le Maire. however I cannot lie I'd like to hang the diploma on my wall

То, что сами русскоязычные везде, ещё бог с ним, но нахуй этот язык сейчас кому надо?

Learning an endangered language of my country, have only just started. Barely any resources so it sucks, but I'm powering through for preservationist reasons and pride

>>555 What language is that? Very cool and noble of you, hikarin.

>>549 Of what I am, I am both sure and unsure. For one, I could, albeit without deep cognitive understanding, say what I am not , and through a certain enumeration arrive at a constraint of what I can be. Yet at the same time the circumstance often disrupts the chain of logical reasoning and imposes what seems to be an external definition of what I must be. If the circumstance would be such as to force me into being what I am not, then I would no longer be, even as my body would likely persist . From this follows , taking into consideration that the mind has its origins in the body, that the circumstance has the power to redefine you, if only it be strong enough. What am I, then, if my body is easily broken, and my inclination easily shifted another way ? I am compelled then to look at that part of being, which is free from the aforementioned affliction. Thus I seek the origin of all, and indeed, the body is the lowliest of all, and it moves nothing, but things both perishable and passive in their nature. The body, in its turn, is moved by the mind, which deals in things sublime, but yet is corrupted by both bodily influences and its own proneness to error. The mind is but a slave that would yield to everything in order to rest itself. What, then, governs, or shall I say compels, the movement of the mind? This substance we are used to call the will. This all encompassing concept is what rules over this Fight. You are neither what you think you are, nor what you feel you are, but you are an entity, no, an implement, the ultimate unit, who even in its incapacity to comprehend its own will is yet able to carry out the Fight. Hikarin! Do not be a dead leaf! Do not be a left-over! Thought we are not our own creation, it yet belongs to us to carry on! Do not let idle rumination eat up your mind! Gather your strength! Fill your lungs with fresh, virgin air! Join the Resistance! Join the Fight!

>>550 I gotchu, hikarin. But your text saying what you are, sounds like you're unsure about what you are. >but you are an entity Yes, all of us are an entity, specifically a spirit entity. And the real fight is in it - What is your purpose as a spirit entity? >What, then, governs, or shall I say compels, the movement of the mind? I'm governs the movement of my mind - and im not my mind, neither my body: i'm a soul, a spirit experiencing the human life; plus its up to you decide what governs your mind. Then, think more outside of material world, hikarin, dont think of life as a fight. As i said, we're neither our mind and yours bad throughs. Life is what you want it to be. You are who/what you want to be (and i hope that you want 'ur life to be filled with love and prosperity).

popabl something but 4gor already

internet so exhaust i froget and read agan over

>>550 I love you fighting hikarin

>>432 Read papers, interpolate a research project between the most recent papers, design an experiment, run the experiment, write up a paper, repeat.

>>410 The only time I was a part of a research group, I had to do everything myself.

>>482 iirc in elementary the kids in my group were never recognizing that there was an optimal way to work the given essay or whatever, so i would be doing my own while they fucked around, it might have been the main language class where i submitted my own thing (that was miles better than what the other retards made) and the teacher gave me my first non-passing grade because i didnt cooperate lol

My latest 485 research group meetings consistent just of me.

>>410 We used to have weekly research meetings where my senior went on and on about his research and i had pretty much no time to speak (not that i had much to talk about anyway) and after a while the professor stopped doing them altogether. Since we doing computers, we all work remote and I just message the professor every once in a while when i feel like i have progressed. I think it is better this way since I just do solo research anyway.

Currently in 2nd year of BS Information Technology; graduating by the end of 3rd Year. I only got 2 GitHub projects, both of which are crappy and nothing to show for. I don't know whether to apply for an internship early, or wait for the school to offer/assign one for us.

>>388 >I only got 2 GitHub projects i relate to this so so much. do companies usually want 5+?

>>335 My luck was against me when I picked my uni because they never told us we would need to grind certificates or show off some github as portfolio. I never had any well untill I finished my master's

>>389 Jobbing at a tech interview is a bigger concern and would invalidate even 10 projects

>>281 4th year PhD in CS here. What topic are you researching anon? Im working on video streaming.

We got you.

I couldn't get him

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>>520 so real

>>268 Soccer because its actually so fun to run after the ball, and i am 10 years too late...

What the fuck is up with the last 5 ones by the way, i think i got all of the ones i did right and skipped all the hard ones, gamed the test essentially

be glad you have a higher IQ than average, but be humbled in knowing there are many more intelligent than yourself.

Last time I tried it gave me 131. However, this is getting close to a decade ago and I don't feel like checking if I've degraded or no

actually i have nothing to be glad for >>530 iq tests are 90% reading comprehension and knowing the tricks beforehand, most people underperform, its all a scam, so i think you shouldnt feel guilty for not giving it a shot if you dont feel like it

Ravens are just too hard. I don't know how I end up scoring over 120. Memory tests, vocab tests, shape rotations, much easier for me and I score a lot higher.

>>512 i am the other inflammatory guy holy shit, did you make this? Because the guy who wrote that is a genius, I wish I could live at the bottom of the barrel, who gives a shit goddamnit, but I am from the west and I can only assume that I would be systematically oppressed even worse somewhere else (somehow, I will not get into my personal situation) It also seems like less of a choice that you can just make one day, and more of a choice that you make throughout your life and when it hits that you are at the bottom of the barrel, again, you are either swimming or drowning

>>512 >>513 It's not really that novel of an idea. there's this guy called Diogenes, and let's just say he encountered the same philosophical conundrum but he got over it.

>>512 Not meant to be taken literally i hope anarchists will often take an issue here "society is using search for meaning against you" and rail against it in a comically exaggerated way reminds me of bob blacks writing

>>517 its good that they do, accelerate.

>>512 There is way more non-material wonder to existence, all that phenomenology and ontology and metaphysics and truly paranormal phenomena - but, life is just like it's described in there. I do not agree with what the author is asking or proposing. Clean your room, wash yourself, give yourself the precise quality nutrition your brain deserves. It's always better to be an elite grade NEET. >>513 It's everyone's individual fault they're not being omnipotent, for sure, and I'm not being sarcastic. But what you'd be omnipotent for? Actually, don't answer that, I'm not a genie. The bigger premise is that there's a presumption that "anything is worth it and that living doesn't go on as inertia, with something like suicide takes too much experienced effort" (I call myself dumb cattle over being driven by inertia I do not identify with and disintest in the extreme effort needed to stop it completely). Choosing which hobby to take, which job to get, which city to move to is juggling the inertias. Actually, it sounds already great if you're not under risk of death, especially imminent death. This only says it's only as good as long as some urgency doesn't interrupt anything. With urgency of incoming death, I had seen that both surviving unscathed and instantly dying are win-win, and the gruesome death or disability are the complete failure of luck and fortune with only one way to deal with them for real. You can outplay any card hands you want, I don't see any value out of whatever good birthright opportunities and victories and rewards are possible in this world, or at least in this era.

>>277 I wish we knew more about pre-indo european europe

>>278 same. I'm obssesed what language albanians were talking before indo-europeans givong their language to albanians tribes

The late Chalcolithic (Copper age) is more interesting that it seems, related region but ~2000 years before. Before people settled down for tin as alloyant they were using arsenic, antimony, nothing (pure copper), silver-nickel-zinc (from ores that were smelted into natural "alloys") depending on the region and availability. Except for arsenic all of those became rare by the early bronze age despite being cheap or natural impurities that started thanks to widespread long distance trade of tin.

>>322 pretty sure they were talking albanian.

>>491 Exactly my point, Hikarin! It’d be crazy calling the French conservatives and reactionaries leftist, but the market definition (because it takes our current world and political problems for granted) makes it seem like monarchist traditionalism could be leftist. Another example (I got this from Racecraft too but it’s the book I’m reading right now so still on topic!) is the set of antebellum southern planters who argued slavery was better ethically than capitalism. Their argument was basically conservative and paternalist, but many of their descriptions of capitalism can read as surprisingly left wing if you ignore what they thought was better.

>>491 >>493 Isn't right-wing vs left-wing mostly about linking social hierarchy to property? Like rightists believe wealthy individuals and families have demonstrated their ability to preserve and grow value so it's fine if they run the show, but leftists believe this is an arbitrary and unethical way that leads to inefficiency and instability.

>>492 No idea. Presumably there is a point because they do it.

>>494 Well, there are many positions both on the left and on the right. If you go back to the early 19th century, the more abstract idea that seems to divide political discussions is the cardinality of history: does history have a "direction"? In other words, is there any degree of historical determinism? Rather than a straight yes or no, the answers were an spectrum, and there were positions on the more affirmative side, like Hegel and then Marx (but both from completely different angles) and there were positions more on the negative, like Kierkegaard. It is important to remark that this was a question about the facts, so it preceded moral judgement: before saying that X is good or bad, you have to know what X is, you have to determine the facts. That's why you're never going to read Marx saying "capitalists are bad because they mistreat workers" instead his point usually was "capitalists strive to make the most efficient use of their workers". I think the other anon was onto something with the individuals vs structure dichotomy: the first sentence is merely a matter of personal opinion on a group of individuals, the second makes a statement about the structure: that it incentivizes efficiency.

I have been reading a bunch of stuff recently because my new job involves a lot of just sitting and waiting. Most of it I wouldn't recommend, at least not to everyone, but here two books that I liked and I think they could be interesting to some of you. >From 'LUGAL.GAL' to 'Wanax' - Kingship and Political Organization in the Late Bronze Age Aegean It's a compilation of 5 papers on the modern theories and interpretations of the archaeological evidence, especially the written records of the time and the recent findings at sites like Agios Vasileios. Most of it is about how little is actually known about the people of that time and their societies, and how theories are mostly speculative because of the fragmentary nature of the materials found so far. It left me with questions about the parts that are known, like what can be inferred about the population size and the level of stratification from the numbers in those linear b ledges. Unfortunately, it's hard to find more recent papers on the internet, it's not like STEM where papers that are uploaded to libgen almost immediately after publication. >Propaganda in the Information Age - Still Manufacturing Consent Another compilation of papers, these focused on a modern reevaluation and development of the propaganda model described by Chomsky in the 80s. The main difference being that nowadays mass media is even more concentrated than it was back then. It's a really interesting read and it includes a summary of the points made by Chomsky in his book "Manufacturing Consent" so you can follow the texts even if you haven't read that.

>>112 Yes, but ovens take forever. I'm talking about a quick and convenient way of heating.

>>113 Use an air fryer

>>110 They should make an alternative way of heating Works similar to a microwave and is fast But is able to keep metal utensils inside

>>122 Just use plastic utensils, or take the metal utensils out..

There's this new thing called fire, check it out