the war between the lakota and the absaroka was started because lakota tribes tried to violently seize absaroka territory in response to their own territory being violently seized by american settlers. not a contradiction there, just a long sad story.

probably a half-remembered reference to heraclitus, or cribbed from something of eliot's without understanding the reference. very silly

really strong challenge to my initial sense of cartesian dualism on that, but the facts are just the facts.

but it's true! reading is a completely physically controlled process! we can increase ability to do it with exercises and consistent effort, but there is a literal physical process in the brain that controls our ability to associate between letters and sounds. it feels crazy, but it's true!

i think this is also what can be structurally difficult to understand about disabilities. when i first started working with kids, it was hard to accept that reading is actually a physical process in the brain and they do not have the same capacity for automatic connection of phonemes

i mean, i don't think it's necessarily incorrect to say that dreams, interests, memory, context, etc. are actually physical things. otherwise, physical changes wouldn't be able to impact them!

I'll have to see if I can find it but part of what it pointed out was that Chinese language prevalence was way lower in Thailand than in the Phillipines.

i have read elsewhere that ethnic Chinese in Thailand have been way more integrated into Thai culture than most other ethnic Chinese groups in the neighborhood. I remember reading a book about the distinction between Filipino Chinese relations and Thai Chinese ones that was really interesting

people out here truly think the main thing the ussr did wrong was building commie block public housing instead of the everything else. genuinely amazing what american strains of leftism will embrace in the name of vibe.

you're literally the one making modern moral judgements about long-dead cultures and their interactions with each other? i'm not the incurious one here hahaha, but yeah if you're annoyed feel free to block me

really every one of these guys deserves to get the death penalty. not sure how we'll manage it but i bet there's a way!

you're right, we need to make sure that we haul these guys in before the icc. can't believe they've gone uncaught for so long without being brought to justice. this type of moral judgement is obviously appropriate to apply to a long dead culture.

the nobel peace prize is a cursed artifact destined to wreak blood and havoc in the wake of its awarding. it and the economic one (which isn't even managed by the nobel organization!) are both talismans of evil

inshallah the island will be sent underneath the sea