chantelles

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by chantelles 7y ago
I've lived in various places in Europe (most recently Eindhoven) with large car-free areas. Car-free only applies to folks who have no mobility issues. The areas are all fully driveable (in the early mornings delivery vans and trucks a
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by chantelles 7y ago
"I believe too much in truth not to suppose that there are different truths and different ways of speaking the truth." -Foucault
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by chantelles 7y ago
The women were much more likely to turn down the opportunity: only 49 percent of them signed up for the competition, compared with 71 percent of the men. “That was a proxy for whether women might seek out certain opportunities,” Ehrlinger t
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by chantelles 7y ago
"over 60 percent of the Forbes richest 400 Americans grew up in substantial privilege" (wikipedia) and add in race and gender rigging of the system and IQ is a factor among others.
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by chantelles 7y ago
Confidence based upon comparison to others does not result in modesty. Confidence based upon continual self-work via the search for an aesthetics of existence creates modesty and a necessary humility in order to go a piece of the way with o
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by chantelles 7y ago
Yep. In Russia - now I can read the letters but only with concentration. I want to spend more time in Asia. It really helps me notice the space reading takes up in my seeing and also, how important wonder is in fun. I spend so much time won
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by chantelles 7y ago
Yep. Though I am gregarious, I grew up very isolated with very little interaction even with parents and my biggest problem as an adult is remembering to make time alone for myself because if I do not I grow less patient with people around m
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by chantelles 7y ago
In the Netherlands there is a chain called Brownies and Downies staffed by folks with Down Syndrome. The Dutch are v pragmatic. I went and was humbled - the staff spoke way more English than I spoke Dutch after living there (I'm Canadi
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by chantelles 7y ago
I lived in Taipei for a while - I am a white blonde woman - and everywhere I went kids yelled HEY WHITE LADY. It was, as you describe out of shock as there were few other white women there. I saw none in my time there. I have never felt so
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by chantelles 7y ago
modeling/growing cellulose for wound healing
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by chantelles 7y ago
I am reading it now - and it is fantastic. And because I cannot read in Russian but am learning it I see how much I am missing: eg: the word for Turnstyle in Russian is the same in meaning as tourniquet - which figures prominently in the be
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by chantelles 7y ago
Not all nations to QE - quantitative easing, some to QE- qualitative easing: https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/08/11/how-chinas-tr...
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by chantelles 7y ago
Living somewhere, and contextualizing geopoltics and the difference between a citystate like St. Petersburg and a nation state (Russia), is highly recommended before concluding from afar. Though, it is certainly the mindset of our culture t
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by chantelles 7y ago
I live in Canada. I have a graduate degree in Equity stuides and have spent my life writing and working to fight racism, sexism and homophobia. It's death by a thousand cuts in the West. I am currently in St. Petersburg Russia on an ar
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by chantelles 7y ago
Lack of competition and criticism is the foundation of Western democracy too. Polemics is not a space where actual meaning has ever sprung from; yet try to find anywhere here or in media or in real life discussions that are not that shape.
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by chantelles 7y ago
Distances between our limited repetitive Universe Origin Debates and meaning describe how our intellectual ecosystem interferes with knowing. That is something, at least.
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by chantelles 7y ago
Because there is not antitrust investigation there is only making the 4 pillars come to heal and become part of the NSA.