makeitshine

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by makeitshine 3y ago
What I've learned from teaching is exactly what these comments exhibit, a hundred different solutions. For me the best teaching tool has been being able to read the room. If you can do that, then you can figure out which of the hundred
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by makeitshine 3y ago
How else do you judge a religion/philosophy/way of life except by the people, societies and actions it produces?
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by makeitshine 3y ago
Seems fine to me. In fact, it seems way better than most docs. I don't get the issue you're having with this.
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by makeitshine 3y ago
Bao (包子) is usually referencing a steamed bun, for those interested.
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by makeitshine 3y ago
Yet the rapid spread and destruction is often from build up of undergrowth.
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by makeitshine 3y ago
Taipei has an ugly beauty to it. Individually, the typical concrete, tiled covered buildings, are ugly, but cram them together, throw up some neon lights, a tiny park with a Daoist temple crammed in the mix, add a few street vendors and th
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by makeitshine 3y ago
There are no signs that intelligent people are not procreating. More affluent countries are not procreating, but that does not correlate with intelligence.
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by makeitshine 3y ago
Maybe, but our lifestyles are not sustainable.
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by makeitshine 3y ago
Given that we're quickly destroying the environment we need to survive and have enough nuclear weapons pointed at one another to annihilate civilization multiple times over, it seems that a lot of people thousands of years ago didn&#x2
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by makeitshine 3y ago
We have to give up a lot of our modern conveniences, diet, and way of life. It's not going to happen by choice.
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by makeitshine 3y ago
That's pretty opposite of what most dictatorships do, though, right? Usually they want to seem to be more than they are. If it's originating from N. Korea it could be Chinese organized crime working through the country or it could
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by makeitshine 3y ago
Many people prefer the long conversational walks with detours and such, as opposed to efficient consumption. You can run the YT subtitles an LLM to get a summary if you don't have the time.
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by makeitshine 3y ago
People behaving in non-predictable ways is a bug is such an odd notion considering so much is created by people doing just that.
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by makeitshine 3y ago
Which is why I specified for older people who lived through the early scene. Kids today will create their own unique scenes while others will milk the nostalgia of past ones.
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by makeitshine 3y ago
Some things do change for the worse, others for the better. Smaller, more tight knit communities, like raves were in the 80s and early 90s were, in my mind, better than the predominately business-oriented DJ-festishization parties of today.
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by makeitshine 3y ago
And if you can't find community, create one. Start a club and people will join. It might seem silly, but if you're doing something, get others to join. Lots of people are looking for something, anything, to feel connected.
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by makeitshine 3y ago
For many older people it died in the 90s. When people stopped dancing and treated the DJ like it was a concert I felt it had changed into something else. I watch some of the old VHS I took and people are crowding the speakers and the floor
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by makeitshine 3y ago
I really like this translation for the feeling it gives. It leans more poetic, and is less accurate than other translations, but it's quite good.