It’s lib because the article’s gripe is how only the founders become millionaires, asking for mild reforms to the current system rather than a new one. The general message is arguing for other important startup employees to also get more venture capital funds. It’s less of “hey this whole startup scene is corrupt” and more of “hey it’s kind of shady that founders get this much money please also give engineers that much money”.

10% is fantastic in the imperial core. congratulations!

Idk apparently he’s being held at Rikers right now

学长别急。我相信有一天你会了解。加油！

哈哈大笑

我也拉了一泡屎。臭不臭?

here’s the old and new without distortion from the original platform. i think they look lighter, but this looks to be mostly just from simplifying the depiction to make it more cartoonish. now i’ve really read into this too much

I agree. they definitely just made these kids whiter lmao that’s why they are wearing long, sun-protecting clothes.

It’s funny how big the projection is on making this about sexuality. I think the real story is that they made these kids extremely pale and made them wear long sleeves and pants to avoid the sun. If there’s anything toxic here it’s East Asia’s obsession with paleness (and they are so good at it that they are often paler than euros at this point lmao). For this textbook it’s probably just to convey the innocence of the children, seeing that they’ve been protected from the aging rays of the sun. I’m not Chinese or even Asian for that matter so what do I know though.

不错! Comprehensible Chinese and Comprehensible Mandarin are great channels too

This is some disgustingly racist, classist slop. False Western narratives on China are at least good in the sense that such delusional thinking will lead the west to repeatedly make predictable mistakes that China can easily use to their advantage. At this point I'm just going to egg on the racist, narrow-minded liberals so they don't get wise that their hegemony is long gone lmao.

Paris is actually quite close to New Caledonia…provided you go through the center of the Earth. I’m sure controlling an island on the other side of the world is a trivial task that the French will surely succeed in! /s

Yeah, I’d venture to guess most people alive in China today spent their childhoods in rural areas based on the urbanization trend. There’s been a lot of recent progress in marriage law within the last year or so. The gist is something like for a woman to divorce her husband you needed evidence of him wronging you and had to wait a cooldown period. Those rules have been relaxed in a drive to combat domestic violence.

One thing people haven’t touched on is how socialism could be more effective at fighting obesity. At the end of the day, farmers produce surplus calories for the rich world far beyond the per-capita caloric needs. Sellers are able to create demand so farmers can get paid by making high calorie foods unsatiating and ubiquitous, which creates an energy surplus as the population level. An obesity epidemic is implicitly a policy decision.

Production could be planned to meet caloric and nutritional needs for the entire population if a society looks past the profit motive. Furthermore, certain food ultraprocessing methods could be better-controlled to contain foods that are basically poison for the body’s energy balance

Thanks for taking the time to write this out! I really appreciate it. Having secure physical resources that are immediately useful is a good idea, I’ll think of what I can do to that extent.

Imagine hoarding the entire world’s surplus value just to use it all up to build boats mcmansions and country clubs for the aristocracy. The faster such a grotesque society crumbles, the better for humanity and life itself. The perfidious yankees will pay the price.

That’s a great point, I hadn’t thought of that

What do you mean by dprk route with bitcoin?

Of course! Sorry to hear you had a rough time in the last 6 months. Pronunciation is good to get right from the beginning so it was probably worth it, or else you’ll encounter words like 出去 and be really lost.

SRS should help a lot at your level. Once your vocab surpasses the 1200 word/HSK 4/CEFR A2 level that’s when rote methods of vocab memorization alone for learning start to need supplementation with long-form Chinese to be effective. Until then, you basically have to just grind the 1200 most common words into your brain whatever way is most effective for you. That’s where all the apps like Duolingo, SuperChinese, and HelloChinese end their courses for the most part.

I thought this blog post was pretty great. I modified the SRS scoring to match Refold SRS. I’ve been going at 15 cards per day, learned threshold at 200 and it’s been pretty manageable.

Here are my tweaked scoring parameters for Pleco SRS: EASINESS CHANGE Incorrect -10 Correct 4 Tweak Parameters INITIAL CORRECT SCORE Correct 100 CORRECT SCALE SCORE INCREASE % Correct 100 INCORRECT SCORE DECREASE % Incorrect 50 SCORE LIMITS Minimum score 100 Maximum score 3650000 EASINESS Minimum easiness 50 Maximum easiness 200 Easiness divisor 40 Cushion new cards Yes

I think Pleco SRS is just one piece though. It’s a good way to expand the frontier of your knowledge, but bad at making sure you actually know the stuff you’re supposed to know really well. Furthermore, it can be hard to decide what definition for a word you should go with because the meanings are numerous and often don’t line up well with english semantics. For example, you’ll learn that 喂 is what people say to answer the phone or get your attention. But later you’ll learn this also means to feed, like feed your dog.

As a result, in my opinion, I think the real core of learning the language is reading a ton of Chinese that you can understand at least 90% but less than 100% of, preferably with audio. Listening is nice too but I think because Chinese has so many homophones, it’s hard to understand a lot of what people are saying until higher levels, and speech is synchronous, so it’s harder to scrub through and re-hear a sentence vs re-reading a sentence.

How much is a ton? This site has some answers. although it’s from english, the analogy is about the same for chinese, assuming about 1.6 characters per word. For CEFR C1 fluency you want to aim for something like >=10 exposures to the most common 10k words. That’s 6.3 million words. The Harry Potter series is ~1.0 million words for all 7 books. It’s a lot, but it’s doable. You can see the number of words per book gradually ramps up, and you’re only tasked with a book a week.

At typical reading speeds, if you spend somewhere between 30 minutes - 90 minutes a day reading Chinese, you’ll achieve a high level of fluency in a few years. Of course reading isn’t the only aspect of fluency but it’s the most important in the sense that it allows your internalized vocabulary to expand which is a hard ceiling on all your other skills in the language. DuChinese, Pleco graded readers, and Linq are good sites for this purpose, but they are paid. heavenly path is a free community resource but the content is higher level.

Best of luck 同志 I can elaborate or add to this if you have questions.

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