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Comment · 7 months ago
Much simpler, IMHO

single letter = sound

letter + z = "hissing" version of the sound

letter + accent = soft version of the hissing sound

letter + i = same previous item, but caused by "i"

rz = legacy, czechs still pronounce it as a different letter

This is how I understand it as Ukrainian

Comment · 8 months ago
> and their land handed over to someone else

Well, they were offered a partition plan, and instead of further negotiations chose to start a war.

Multiple wars, in fact, and managed to fail all of them.

Comment · 8 months ago
I didn't want to spread the answer too much, bit if you're asking.

> of an inhabited nation

https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/nation

> a tribe of Native Americans or a group of Native American tribes that share the same history, traditions, or language

They're not native americans.

> a large area of land that is controlled by its _own_ government

Mandatory Palestine was controlled by British.

So it was not an inhabited nation, I guess.

Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
Yes, in Ukrainian/Russian PRQL can be easily read as "prikol" (joke/gag/quirk). But I guess the best name would be "perkele" (emotional, like "damn") in Finnish.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
besides porn, things like facebook, tiktok, instagram, reddit... generalising, it's everything that acts as a button "gib me more novelty" that one can press as much and as frequently as they want.

surely, not everybody is hooked by these things, and it's definitely possible to use them without harm, but sometimes it requires training and (self-)awareness.

Comment · 1 year ago
Well, doesn't porn-ish entertaiment fuck up ones reward system? I'm not talking of porn specificly, but about a range of products that turn people into "dopamine rats", constantly pressing a button for more bursts of novelty?
Comment · 1 year ago
Well, social networks and *-toks are also poisonous for your dopaminergic system. As well as certain classes of games, I guess here's a spectrum. But the best option I see is to educate _everyone_ including kids about mental hygiene. Rather than enforcing unenforceable restrictions.
Comment · 1 year ago
Lol. "Liberal" people create an echo chamber by eliminate opposing opinions and then are surprised that people elect far-right candidates.

> Until we can live in a world where fundamental rights are protected and respected

It wasn't hiding from uncomfortable things, opinions and people, that created the world where you can even think about women or minority rights, or even know how to write to express your opnions. So this approach will not create the world you described.

Comment · 1 year ago
> I don’t think my kids would be happy if I quit my high paying job to pursue my dreams or whatever

Wasting life on a lifestyle one doesn't enjoy, just to raise another generation of life-wasters? I don't get this ponzi scheme at all.

Comment · 1 year ago
Obviously. And much more leave on the previous stages.

Because academic science doesn't have scientific proof of existance. People shouldn't stay there, because there are no anthro-/psycho-/socio-/etc- reasoning that this way of organising people to seek new knowledge actually works, and it's efficient in any way.

Comment · 2 years ago
> CPS

> Child protective services (CPS) is the name of an agency responsible for providing child protection

> Child

(c) wiki

Well, if you compare them to kids, doesn't it mean that they don't have the right of self-governance, as kids don't have full legal rights/responsibilities?

Comment · 2 years ago
So you say that palestinians as a society are politically incapacitated like kids, and should be governed by some external authority until their society matures enough to self-govern?

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