A guy I knows thinks ukraine could still win, if we only sent the right weapons and the right ammount. This is for him.

It is really nice to read, it’s characters have great dynamics. And the city it’s set in feels like a real place, and Thailand isn’t a common setting as well.

I really like black lagoon. It’s characters and setting are really well done. It also has a very class concious worldview. The main protagonist becomes a pirate because he was kidnapped and his company refused to pay ransom, to save money. It still releases a chapter every two months. One of the newest arcs was about french colonialism in west africa.

To be fair, my hair actually frizzes out when I don’t wash it (with conditioner). It’s fine for a day or two, but after that I should really get to it, because it also starts to itch.

You are right though, hygiene is a space of myth nowadays. Most info out there is bullshit.

PSN is not available globally. People can’t play the game, also suddenly altering a contract is garbage.

Because we live in a society and are social animals. The only way to achieve something big is by cooperating with other people. Big groups of people working together are able to achieve amazing things. Individuals cannot even really built a modern house,by themselves. It is a collective societal effort that allows for modern homes to be constructed( for example).

Yeah, I spent too many words to say “This is a bad idea, don’t do it” tbh

What tge person in the post there is doing isn’t working. Replacing the names in a way that still provides the same context(which is your proposal) would need you to understand exactly why each name is used each time, it is more exhausting than just learning the names. The translation also left the names in place, they didn’t try to translate it, because that is a ludicrous idea. I am not sure it is possible.

How are you going to edit the name usage out of a book exactly? It has a meaning, you can’t replace it at all, really. It’s not context you can provide otherwise.

Engaging with the cultural context of a classic novel is part of reading it. Of course it can be difficult, but it is a russian piece of literature. It is an integral part of what it is, on a conceptual level. If you take that away you have a fundamentally different work. What’s the poin then? This is not about ability, at least I don’t think so, there is a glossary is there after all(in the better translations at least).

Like, I agree, fuck the names of obscure political groups from a hundred years ago. Outside of specific contexts they are generally not needed for understanding the theory. But theory is not a narrative novel.

It’s nice for historical purposes though, exact sourcing is just very good praxis, when writing any theory.

A novel is not a piece of political theory. The aims are different, also russian naming conventions are more complex than english ones.

Also I believe on should try and actually engage with the cultural context of a piece of art(the novel) and not just to actively remove it. Why read russian literature then?

It is not that difficult, because there are contexts to each use, and they are consistent between characters as well. It is not always easy as well, but if you have the attention span to read Dosteyevski, you have it to remember some naming conventions as well.

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I would go by people that drink alcohol and people that don’t. Or how they eat their eggs. Or height, one room is comically large and one is very small.

Went underprepared into a mountain somewhere in the caucasus. Didn’t have the right shoes, no sticks, and didn’t expect big, sharp rocks hidden under a thin layer of snow. If I had injured my ankles(very possible) I would have had to crawl back to civilisation. There would have been no rescue. Also some local told us that the hike was very easy. In the end I let my companion finish the hardest part of the hike himself and waited for him, and got back without injury.

Another time I was on a short hike with some lowland people in Kyrgystan, and when the weather started to turn, and snow flurries started to appear. I almost begged them to turn around, we were at 3500 metres above sea level, and I knew enough to not risk anything. They laughed and went on. They thought that there was no danger, and that bothing could happen. We did turn back early at least, and 2 to 3 hours later the flurries turned into a storm, that would have been very dangerous if we had still been outside, especially for people with 0 hiking experience(like my two compagnions). Those two never realized the danger we were in and I hope they never go on a mountain again.

I did a lot of dangerous mountaineering stunts while foraging for mushrooms as a child. Falling to your death is a common end around here for people who collect mushrooms, so I am [n good company. Did teach me how to navigate horrible terrain tough.

Routine, it also helps prevent depressive episodes, if I take care of myself.

Why the fuck is the US still policing childrens hair? Just to be racist and enforce heteronormativity?

I mean if you want to abolish feudalism, it isn’t going to happen without a fight. No need to fix her, tbh.

You could like the Fear and Hunger series, the second obe is a bit easier from what I have heard.