-abolish English, replace with a constructed language such as Esperanto
-abolish the military, replace with a nonviolent peacekeeping force
Just after World War II, in 1947 - I was then 17 - by chance I discovered Esperanto and immediately began to learn it with great enthusiasm. The international language idea was for me splendid. In that same period I became a member of the local socialist youth movement. One day I met one of the national leaders of that movement, a cultured person with a good reputation. When he informed me about a coming international meeting of young socialists, with naive enthusiasm I exclaimed: ?Oh! That will be an excellent opportunity to promote Esperanto!?
How did he react? At first he laughed loudly. Then he answered very seriously: ?Esperanto is something bad!?
I remained mute. As if lightning had struck me. How could a language for international communication, a language to facilitate contacts between peoples, a language capable of educating the working class, a language to combat chauvinism - how could such a language, in the head of a serious and competent socialist, be ?something bad??
English is a terrible language. Our poetry is second rate. Spelling is inconsistent. The reason so many people around the world want to learn it is thanks to the British and American empires making English the language of commerce and entertainment.
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
Also if replacing fluorescent with led go with natural daylight ones.
man I hate LED daylight bulbs
gross blueish jarring light
give me nice yellowish 2700k bulbs
Really? They replaced all the Florescents with full spectrum daylight leds where I used to work and it was amazing the office was in a better mood within a week.
Also if replacing fluorescent with led go with natural daylight ones.
man I hate LED daylight bulbs
gross blueish jarring light
give me nice yellowish 2700k bulbs
Really? They replaced all the Florescents with full spectrum daylight leds where I used to work and it was amazing the office was in a better mood within a week.
I think they can make sense in an office where there's lots of space
but I wouldn't want them in my house
also now that you mention full spectrum I'm wondering about what exactly you got, since nobody is very consistent in terminology yet
like the spectrums in fluorescents are awful (just a few specific wavelength spikes) that's for sure
I've seen people use 'daylight' to mean 'spectrum closer to black-body radiation' and also 'color temperature more like the sun at noon' or both at once
full spectrum LEDs are nowhere near full spectrum but def better than a fluorescent
but you can also have a full spectrum LED that's 2700k
in the end everyone agrees tho FUCK fluorescents
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union:
- waiting years to receive a car you ordered, to find that it's of poor workmanship and quality
- promises of colonizing the solar system while you toil in drudgery day in, day out
- living five adults to a two room apartment
- 'totally not illegal taxi' taxis by private citizens moonlighting to make ends meet
- mandatory workplace political education
- Henry Kissinger visits sometimes for some reason
- the plight of the working class is discussed mainly by people who do no work
- the currency most people are talking about is fake and worthless
- the economy is centrally planned, using opaque algorithms not fully understood by their users
*looks at firemen who are specifically trained in such a way as to remove the "oh fuck run away" instinct when it comes to fire*
Soldiers are trained in a way that is meant to override certain basic instincts.
It doesn't mean the culture is perfect however.
As a person who did firefighting, this
It's basically a paramilitary organization where during academy they break you down and teach you to operate as part of a unit and to operate in high stress and life endangering environments.
The reason everyone does push-ups if one person fucks off or doesn't pay attention during boot or academy is because if it happens in the field, people will die
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe
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Also if replacing fluorescent with led go with natural daylight ones.
man I hate LED daylight bulbs
gross blueish jarring light
give me nice yellowish 2700k bulbs
Really? They replaced all the Florescents with full spectrum daylight leds where I used to work and it was amazing the office was in a better mood within a week.
I think they can make sense in an office where there's lots of space
but I wouldn't want them in my house
also now that you mention full spectrum I'm wondering about what exactly you got, since nobody is very consistent in terminology yet
like the spectrums in fluorescents are awful (just a few specific wavelength spikes) that's for sure
I've seen people use 'daylight' to mean 'spectrum closer to black-body radiation' and also 'color temperature more like the sun at noon' or both at once
full spectrum LEDs are nowhere near full spectrum but def better than a fluorescent
but you can also have a full spectrum LED that's 2700k
in the end everyone agrees tho FUCK fluorescents
I’m not sure honestly, when they switched out half of the lights it fucked with me cause I thought someone left the bay doors open and I was the only one on the office, and you could walk between the areas and watch something change color in your hands. They changed the rest of them next week.
Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union:
- waiting years to receive a car you ordered, to find that it's of poor workmanship and quality
- promises of colonizing the solar system while you toil in drudgery day in, day out
- living five adults to a two room apartment
- 'totally not illegal taxi' taxis by private citizens moonlighting to make ends meet
- mandatory workplace political education
- Henry Kissinger visits sometimes for some reason
- the plight of the working class is discussed mainly by people who do no work
- the currency most people are talking about is fake and worthless
- the economy is centrally planned, using opaque algorithms not fully understood by their users
- After it's collapse, a ton of people will be super nostalgic about it for some reason and empower a ruthless plutocrat in the process
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MrMisterJesus dying on the cross in pain? Morally better than us. One has to go "all in".Registered Userregular
Old world Latin script: This works pretty good, I don’t know why we need to change any—
German Sutterlin: GOD IS DEAD AND NOTHING MATTERS SO FUCK YOUR LETTERS
This joke is too intellectual for me to understand and therefore I am sending you to a re-education camp
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TTODewbackPuts the drawl in ya'llI think I'm in HellRegistered Userregular
the patch panel for this lab we're doing is at the top of a two post rack about 7ft up so i have to stand on a step ladder to punch cable down
I punched like 36 cables down and was using my left hand to keep the panel stable to make it easier to punch stuff down
i went to pick up something heavy later and my left hand just kinda collapsed and I couldn't hold anything with it
derp
guess it was in a terrible position for too long
one time i had this idea i would translate some 18th/19th century primary texts from german for a research project
and then i looked at the text and i couldn't make out the letters and immediately gave up
one time i had this idea i would translate some 18th/19th century primary texts from german for a research project
and then i looked at the text and i couldn't make out the letters and immediately gave up
While I was in college the Literature and Fiction sections of the English department were trying to sway students to either focus like fiends tallying souls for the Blood War.
My advisor impressed upon me that for my GE foreign language I should take German. Since Spanish is incredibly useful, because California, I asked him what good would learning German do for me and he said I'd be able to read original texts critical to the English language.
one little tilt in the wrong direction and your errors have compounded so far it irrecoverable
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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-abolish the military, replace with a nonviolent peacekeeping force
Just after World War II, in 1947 - I was then 17 - by chance I discovered Esperanto and immediately began to learn it with great enthusiasm. The international language idea was for me splendid. In that same period I became a member of the local socialist youth movement. One day I met one of the national leaders of that movement, a cultured person with a good reputation. When he informed me about a coming international meeting of young socialists, with naive enthusiasm I exclaimed: ?Oh! That will be an excellent opportunity to promote Esperanto!?
How did he react? At first he laughed loudly. Then he answered very seriously: ?Esperanto is something bad!?
I remained mute. As if lightning had struck me. How could a language for international communication, a language to facilitate contacts between peoples, a language capable of educating the working class, a language to combat chauvinism - how could such a language, in the head of a serious and competent socialist, be ?something bad??
we had a not-real-tiffany lamp in the kitchen when i was a kid and i loved it
My parents were at into that shit and one of the ways they make money is by hand making stained glass windows and lamps in similar styles
You want it too much. You're like the redneck who drives back country roads butt all greased up, they can sense it and stay away.
pleasepaypreacher.net
I had no idea that Tiffany Lamps were nice, or, at least, expensive
I always associated them with grandma's house, like tea cozies and nautical maps from WW2
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I think they can make sense in an office where there's lots of space
but I wouldn't want them in my house
also now that you mention full spectrum I'm wondering about what exactly you got, since nobody is very consistent in terminology yet
like the spectrums in fluorescents are awful (just a few specific wavelength spikes) that's for sure
I've seen people use 'daylight' to mean 'spectrum closer to black-body radiation' and also 'color temperature more like the sun at noon' or both at once
full spectrum LEDs are nowhere near full spectrum but def better than a fluorescent
but you can also have a full spectrum LED that's 2700k
in the end everyone agrees tho FUCK fluorescents
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
my highlights:
As a person who did firefighting, this
It's basically a paramilitary organization where during academy they break you down and teach you to operate as part of a unit and to operate in high stress and life endangering environments.
The reason everyone does push-ups if one person fucks off or doesn't pay attention during boot or academy is because if it happens in the field, people will die
OH SHIT
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
A GHOST
OH SHIT
German Sutterlin: GOD IS DEAD AND NOTHING MATTERS SO FUCK YOUR LETTERS
- After it's collapse, a ton of people will be super nostalgic about it for some reason and empower a ruthless plutocrat in the process
This joke is too intellectual for me to understand and therefore I am sending you to a re-education camp
I punched like 36 cables down and was using my left hand to keep the panel stable to make it easier to punch stuff down
i went to pick up something heavy later and my left hand just kinda collapsed and I couldn't hold anything with it
derp
guess it was in a terrible position for too long
and then i looked at the text and i couldn't make out the letters and immediately gave up
While I was in college the Literature and Fiction sections of the English department were trying to sway students to either focus like fiends tallying souls for the Blood War.
My advisor impressed upon me that for my GE foreign language I should take German. Since Spanish is incredibly useful, because California, I asked him what good would learning German do for me and he said I'd be able to read original texts critical to the English language.
So I ended up taking Sign Language
pleasepaypreacher.net
fucking rocket landings
one little tilt in the wrong direction and your errors have compounded so far it irrecoverable
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies