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The first question is adressing the lives of everyone everywhere. But on this topic, I'm also curious about white people, who may feel like they have no racial identity. It is often said the white people have no culture. I feel like I agree that they don't when it comes to racially based things, but I also feel like they can have culture in other ways.

I've been trying to verify my phone number for about a week. I doubt it's an outage of a week. Am I crazy or is the Telecom monopoly blocking verification codes from RedNote?

My desire to leave has recently rapidly increased but I have a partner here and really close friends I want to be with as long as possible. I wish I could stay and establish roots but that was never an option given healthcare and the inevitably of the current downturn though I expected to have a lot more time before it got this bad tbh

I remember reading once about a movement trying to keep French from evolving (lol). And I’ve been thinking about how we have old English and Middle English and modern English, and how to someone living in the grey area they wouldn’t have known they were living in a time of their language being revolutionised (?). Or maybe people did? I’m not a linguist lol.

But yeh it got me thinking, is English a language that is particularly in flux compared to say, Korean? If it is, what makes a language more or less fast in its development over time? More or less insular/isolated societies of speakers must enter into it I guess?

I dunno I guess I’m just shooting the shit because I find language interesting. Let’s talk about interesting linguistic things. I swear I am not high.

Not Star Trek:

Kermit the Frog: a paragon of leadership, great outlook on life. My favorite celebrity

George Constanza: his wisdom has helped me through most professional environments. If you look annoyed people think you're busy etc is crucial life advice.

Columbo: An absolute icon of a human being. Everything I wanna be without being a cop.

Trek:

Plain Simple Garrak: great advice on how to bullshit and deal with bullshitters. It's all true, especially the lies

The Sisco: punch Q

I would assume living in more pleasant warm climates would incentive less dense planning since walking/travel between locations would be less unpleasant and also energy consumption for heating wouldn't be as in high demand. Meanwhile cities in colder climates would incentives dense planning that allowed for people to get what they needed without having to leave a building, or not having to walk far. Also housing more in less buildings could conserve heating energy.

Yet here is a picture of Rio Di Janeiro

And here is Nuuk Greenland

In fact looking at a lot of extreme north communities, it seems they prefer single family housing that's fairly spread out, this is the case in Scandinavia, Alaska, Greenland and Russia. Idk, just seems weird to me.

Most AES countries use a bench trial system for criminal law, but this seems like possibly taking power away from the workers in important matters. What was the thought process behind using bench trials for criminal court in AES nations?

(For reference, a bench trial is where one or more judges/magistrates decide the outcome of a trial as opposed to a jury of people)

I doubt I'll get many actual answers, but without doxing yourself, did you volunteer in any antifascist group abroad, or did you consider it?

If so, how did it go?

I'm asking because I know there are still places with important antifascist volunteer presence (Rojava, Myanmar...), and I thought maybe there's a fringe chance any of you has gone there.

Are they related to Gooners?

Is there going to be a Wankie/Gooner war?

Just asking really.

Pronunciation ain't that big of a problem because thank God, Serbian is a phonetic language so It's just variations of ч, ћ, џ and ђ for me lol.

So what insane shenanigans are gonna go down in the next week? Which hexbearian has the mandate of heaven?

Discuss

I know he's called himself a Sankarist, but is he a socialist? His actions would seem to align with what a socialist would do in his position. He recently talked about a "progressive people's revolution", if that means anything.

From an interview with Jon Stewart

Hihi

Has anyone had any success in mitigating/combating loneliness with online communities or friends?

I am stuck in an awful part of the US where community was already nonexistent, now with covid doing any actual activity with other people in public is not an option.

In the past this has sent me into severe depressive spirals and, while it isn't that bad currently, it is something i'd like to change.

but it seems like most people have migrated to reddit (which i dont like), discord (which i dont really get), and maybe a few random forums on the internet (which i dont know about).

So like is this doable/feasible? or is there no realistic option besides finding a coping mechanism?

Isn't it supposed to limit trade barriers between member-countries?

maybe im rambling but i see too much about how kids need to be beat to be disciplined. seeing vids of kids misbehaving and i see comments of how their parents would have them beat. wtf that is not normal at all why are we accepting this

She left town for the weekend like an hour ago and I’m already going crazy

Can I build a shed in your yard to live in? I'm sure we can find a way to use me as a tax write off/guard dog.

Who winz?

I'm playing minecraft, and some in-game fascists are planning to organize some music concerts in a nearby village.

Any (preferably non-pvp) ideas?

(This is all going to happen in minecraft and should not be interpreted as real life)

I click it and it goes to the post, but the link button already does that.

Like, are there any winners in this equation? I know we talk about money not being real, but like, how not real is it? Where do those trillions go?