Zizek is based and China is shit.
Watching the recently out serpentza video on the state of toilets he's encountered in China (go watch it in full if you're interested; YouTube: 5bUH36GS9Fk I've only attached the opening) I was for some reason reminded of that famous (if I can call it that) Žižek skit on the hermeneutics of toilets: how the differences between how toiletbowls are shaped in the three European nations of France, Germany, and England, are for some reason perfectly tied to the differences in their philosophical and cultural output too. (If you haven't heard that; I've attached an illustrated video narrated by one of the versions of that skit. He repeats it often.)
So, what can we learn about Chinese society simply from looking at their toilets, in a žižekian way?
Personal thoughts: one might say that China is privately a deeply personally traumatised society, where a pretty public façade hides behind itself a state of utter decay. Such scenes perhaps remind one of cases of deeply troubled families in US, who have faked on social media how they live a perfect life, but behind closed doors they have been abusing their children for years.
But perhaps another way to look at this is: China is no-bullshit; any act that must be done (such as shitting) will be done and no effort will be done in the process to make it more palatable. Shame at one's state doesn't exist; we all cope by projecting that everyone else is disgusting too. After all, isn't this how China has been running its international propaganda recently – purely through being utterly shameless about the situation at home while pointing finger and laughing at everyone else?
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You know what the mark of a civilized city is?
The fact that even though it's been there for weeks, nobody has stolen that little bottle of alcohol the people who own this scooter have put there for whoever rents it and uses it.
I doubt there's another city with maybe one or two exceptions in the entire country and even continent where this is possible. I'm glad I live here.
Do you like the place where you live?
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I wish I had a Japanese VA gf
She could introduce me to her managers and I could do some part time English VA work for a few projects while keeping my full time consulting job and also living in nihon.
I’d buy a place in Hokkaido.
What a nice life that would be. Maybe I’d actually be happy for once.
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Never lend someone a book. I had purchased a book on this exact topic of Jesus against the world and lend it to someone who probably will not read or return it, without me expressly pressing them on it, shaming myself.
I hate that. Normally I would be able to re-read it right now but instead I have to work off memory.
>they view the world as wretched and God as wicked and off themselves
So they do at least think about him.
With "god and the world" I only meant that they probably think more about this and that than average people.
Agreed.
I also learned my lessons when I once lent someone the first part of my Mirai Nikki Mangas that I bought many years ago because he was literally sucking my dick for help to learn Japanese, so I gave him something easy to practice reading.
Motherfucker never gave it back even after I asked.
Now I have the parts from two to twelve standing in my bookshelf next to me, reminding me of my mistake every time I look to the right.
I think there are more crucial things to think about than God. He is immutable, and the immutable is irrelevant. When instead of liberation it is used to control, it becomes actively hostile to human nature.
As for lending books, I loaned someone The Cyberiad, Penguin edition and purchased a new one which was from the last century and is probably worth more than I paid for it, so that's good. I also loaned Notes from Underground and it was not returned. Both times I stressed that I wanted them returned.
I also do not want to sour relations with people because of lost literature, however I do like to re-read texts for better understanding. I think that if in a few months he doesn't voluntarily return the book, I will just buy it again.
Why don't you re-purchase lost literature? If there is anything that I spend copious amounts of money on, it is books.
Also; if someone is pressing you really hard for you to loan them something, asking them for collateral isn't unheard of. One method is to swap books, where you take one book you really liked and they take a book they really liked and swap it and then discuss it. I haven't personally done this, but it seems reasonable to demand something of value for value of your own.
It's sad how friendships are overshadowed at once by material imbalances.
Why do you think relationships will get worse if you ask for what belongs to you?
Ask until you get it, if they refuse they aren't worth to deal with anyway. Running away from a conflict is more shame than silently suffering and spending money for a replacement.
In my case, I moved to another city far away and the guy just blocked me in WhatsApp after I asked a second time but if I was still living near him I would have screamed in front of his house until he gave it back to me.
I have the trait or problem that if I see people who are motivated in what I like I have the urge to help them even if we are not friends or anything, your idea about asking for a deposit is interesting.
>Why don't you re-purchase lost literature?
To this one book I have memories, it was the first one in Japanese I ever bought.
I don't want to re-buy it.
I instead replaced it with the Russian version of it because that is the next language I will master. It looks weird but reminds me of never lending books to someone, and the time when I had troubles decoding the first page of slavrunes is also already more than a year ago so it's purpose and meaning for me is similar to the original one that I kept like a treasure when I was young.
Whatcha been reading BG?
I finished Dorohedoro and I’m onto the authors next manga, Dai Darkū.
The "ownership" of the very first tweet about to be sold as a unique crypto token for the price of $1.5M
https://www.rt.com/business/517386-dorsey-tweet-for-sale/
The same system is also used to sell the original ownership of digital artwork
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Imagine that the government is just casually announcing something so massive as implementing a mandated internal and international digital tracking grid without any form of public discussion whatsoever.
Imagine no one is saying anything.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/lifestyle/wellbeing/eu-to-propose-vaccine-certificates-in-time-for-summer-holidays/ar-BB1e7eck
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Enjoy having extremely low IQ and never understanding what being independent and free means. Bää!
As I said earlier, there's a massive difference difference between the type of mask you use. If you put your average mouthdiaper it will only protect from spit, not from any bacteria or virus particles.
99% of people are using useless masks that protect from nothing but spit. But hey if the illusion of safety is enough for you, fine, but don't come and try to restrict my freedom and human rights because of it.
What people?
That image is wrong. The round bit on the n95 mask isn't a filter, it's a valve so breath can go out. And the surgical mask doesn't protect the wearer, it protects others.
Both these masks will help prevent the spread of covid because they will stop liquid droplets from your mouth that are carrying covid from travelling.
>If you put your average mouthdiaper it will only protect from spit, not from any bacteria or virus particles.
Nope - even just homemade cloth masks were decently (over 50%) effective at not letting viruses through when tested - surgical masks and vacuum bags, ~90%
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/disaster-medicine-and-public-health-preparedness/article/testing-the-efficacy-of-homemade-masks-would-they-protect-in-an-influenza-pandemic/0921A05A69A9419C862FA2F35F819D55
this was in 2013 btw
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Well, true, I made it bad.
It can be interpreted in the way that I don't like this finish poster, but that's not true.
What I meant is that every open tab gives +1 online and makes it look like there are many posters around but when you try to see where they are it is just one Bernd opening many threads. ;_;
> Three groups want power ("communities", government, and corporations). Republicans reduce government. Democrats reduce "communities". All that's left are corporations.
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Low IQ answer. If you do that in Germany, you will literally be standing on some kind of ground that is covered by human industry and unavailable to natural ecosystems. From here to the horizon I can see nothing but human settlements, farms, and forests used for industrial wood and timber production. Native animals like wolves, aurochs and even lions are gone.
Wild animals or undisturbed nature basically don't exist anymore. It's all humans, animals bred for human consumption and land used for human industry.
Pretty spot on.
People think that democracy is about voting while its actually about local communities self-organizing, recognizing own interests, selecting able leaders and articulating their needs through them. Without parishes, unions, farmer associations there can be no democracy.
We has been sold a lie that democracy is inefficient and that we should move more and more goverment tasks to the apolitical experts, emancipate central banks from goverment control etc. Covid crisis had shown that it doesnt make goverment reaction any quicker, and experts in general were proven to be useless scum with own group interests. Unelected and unpunishable.
I want to make a game.
I am experienced in making games.
I have always had good ideas for games and stories.
But now my head is empty.
I thought about making a top down RPG that plays inside a humans body, like the main character could be from the "police" aka. a white blood cell fighting evil bacteria.
But it sounds... boring.
Does Bernd have anything interesting in mind?
All I know is that I want to make it a top down RPG because that's what I am good at.
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I’m convinced kohlziners have wormed their way into the mod team on KhC.
t. KC mod americano
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Does Bernd want to marry?
What is the perfect age for marrying?
Personally, I wish to marry before I turn 25 and have kids before 27-28. I am 23 now.
Being young when your children are teenagers and being ~50 when the last one leaves your house sounds a lot better than having your last kid at 40 and almost being dead once they leave you.
Marrying wect tire late in life also means that there will be a small chance of even seeing your grandchildren for more than 5-10 years.
So, why is it common to marry later and later?
The way I see it, it is because people nowadays are full of demands and "standards".
The fear of ruining your life by marrying the wrong person is bigger than the trust in a young partner that no matter what comes will be at your side, like it was common for our grandparents' generation.
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>Does Bernd want to marry?
Getting married isn't really fashionable here in Slovenia. I assume because our law recognises "common law marriage" (marriage by habit and repute) as legally equivalent to a formal marriage in almost all matters, and prenuptial contracts were illegal until very recently, so couples don't really have an incentive to formalise their union. That considered, the 60% out of wedlock childbirth rate one can find for Slovenia, that holier-than-thou trads on the internet love to deride so much, isn't driven by single mothers or such but by couples who can't be arsed to arrange a marriage. Quite opposite from America with its tradition of a constant stream of marriages and divorces.
Additional info: my parents never married; they've been together for over 30 years now
>What is the perfect age for marrying?
Peak fertility for women seems to be 25-30 (fecundity starts falling after that, and pelvis is also morphologically best suited for childbirth during that timeframe) so personally I'd say marriage (or at least matchmaking) should be finished by a bit earlier than that? Perhaps ~22 if I had to pinpoint it.
>Marrying wect tire late in life
funny that you mention this, since "wect tire late" is not a recent phenomenon like some believe it to be, at all. 1970s was the time when people married at youngest age... pretty much globally.
However I'd note that as with many things, the average being worse than the ideal is normal.
I believe there were studies that showed that in wect, the average ideal number of children was about 2.7, 3... something that no wectern country reaches (except Israel if you count them as wectern, and even there decent part of that is driven by the rapidly growing r-selected Haredim.
I'm planning to have 3-4 kids and live on the countryside, she could be at home for several years raising the kids while I'd wageslave. My parents are a hard working civilized couple who had 4 kids who lived on the countryside in a house they built and worked hard for.
I'll hopefully meet a woman who shares the same dreams. I have been unsuccessful in attracting one so far, unfortunately. I had a short relationship with a working class girl from Helsinki, but she suddenly just dumped me and I never found out the reason. Shame, I really liked her and thought about a future together, even if she was quite demanding, criticizing and unstable (I assume these to be basic traits of women so I didn't mind).
I also guess my standards are just too high, I'm not gonna waste my time on overweight single moms, so there is a chance I'll fail in my dream. We'll see.
I want a beautiful house, a beautiful garden, a beautiful wife and beautiful children.
