Southkraut
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I only pretend to speak English. Please excuse everything rude or dumb that I say as the unintelligible mutterings of an uncultured barbarian from the foggy woodlands of Swabia.
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Southkraut
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1hr ago
Peter Jackson's The Lord Of The Rings adaptation presenting in a positive light the struggle of white Middle-Eartheners agains the swarthy Orcen hordes attempting to immigrate to Gondor and Rohan.
Southkraut
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1hr ago
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I agree with your overall point and share your general sentiment. Which isn't to say that I think cjet is wrong; I respect his opinion as well.
But on the topic of doctors: German doctors aren't one whit better than the Indian doctors you describe. The doctors themselves blame the buerocracy, and I'm sympathetic to that complaint, but somehow it feels like they aren't all that unhappy to minimize their time with their annoying, idiotic patients.
Southkraut
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11hr ago
Not sure if joking. Please clarify.
Southkraut
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15hr ago
If so, then I think we should tread with some care. Stoicism is a worthwhile ability to keep around; I thoroughly despise the drama queens who will turn everything into an outburst worthy of being put on social media.
Obviously there are harmful extremes in both directions. But the happy medium is, IMO, a little towards the cool side. But of course I would say that.
Southkraut
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16hr ago
I'm not really up to date on your life story. I vaguely recall a mottizen telling of his dialysis struggles a few years ago, was that you? Or are you doing this out of altruism?
Southkraut
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19hr ago
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For practical writing, I stand by it - the quality metric is [information conveyed / effort spent to communicate by both parties].
For other writing, especially for entertainment - see my third paragraph above.
Southkraut
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20hr ago
I suppose it wouldn't be impossible to put a cage or net over the entirety of your backyard, would it? Aesthetics would suffer, of course.
Southkraut
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22hr ago
it might be too late on that front.
Careful when pushing people back into the water, lest the guy behind you decides that he would be safer yet were you too out of the boat?
Southkraut
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22hr ago
I've always had a sense that "stop illegal immigration" is the bailey while "stop all immigration" is the motte.
Yes it is.
Mostly ignoring the American context, I think it's important to be explicit about this so that nobody gets any funny ideas about calling the job done when illegal immigration is finally consider not-actually-OK again. Mass immigration is a problem in and of itself, illegal or not, and arguing that the problem is merely the legality of it just invites pro-immigration actors to game the system by changing or subverting the laws.
Trying to play cute motte-and-bailey-games by tactically condemning illegal immigration because you think it an easier target when what you really mean is to condemn mass immigration or even any kind of immigration just sets you up for failure further down the line.
Southkraut
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22hr ago
youre not an autistically-literal person by disposition
First time I have that said about me; usually it's the opposite. The problem may be that I'm not a native speaker and especially not fluent in legalese.
Southkraut
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23hr ago
In my last performance review I ended up letting slip how monotonous much of the work was to me. My managers seemed fairly defensive about that fact, and one of them said she had never been bored at the job. The amount of sheer disbelief I felt at that statement was so immense she may as well basically have said "It is not normal to sneeze. I never sneeze."
Reminds me a bit about how, in my first full-time job, we had some kind of introspection activity and were meant to enumerate our reasons for working at the company. I just went for honesty, "Because my friends work here and also it pays.", and the manager present practically jumped down my throat about how "you can earn money anywhere else, that's no reason to work here!". Some people either are true believers or consider it inacceptable to break the kayfabe.
Southkraut
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1d ago
20 millimorts
Not bad if true! I know plenty of people who would cringe and utterly refuse to engage with those odds.
Southkraut
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1d ago
The obvious next step seems to me to be removing those laws again before the next election.
Southkraut
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1d ago
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Know when to not even try.
- When you yourself aren't sure what exactly you're trying to express.
- When your audience is unlikely to understand your point, be that for a lack of contextual information or a lack of time or attention or interest.
- When your audience is unlikely to benefit from receiving your information, even if they understand it. Some things people would rather not hear.
- When it would take you more time and effort to successfully convey your idea than you have.
t. "90% of my comments don't get posted, 9% I regret posting, and the rest doesn't matter."
Southkraut
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1d ago
If this is a literary joke, I'll just skip past it.
The Brevity thing is the most important piece of advice about writing or speech. How much important information you can successfully convey in how little time is, IMO, the most important metric for the quality of any piece of language. Obviously a lot goes into it - how clear you yourself are on what you want to communicate, how well you understand your audience, and then your skill at composing the text itself.
And yes, there is some use for florid, extravagant language. It can entertain, for one. But if I had to choose between forever reading sweet nothings or just the briefest utilitarian messages - I could live with the latter.
Southkraut
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1d ago
Does anyone here listen to or has anyone here listened to the "Literature and History" podcast? I liked how it started out, explored the world-views of ancient authors and storytellers as glanced from the texts, and while the podcaster sometimes went out of his way to condemn the ancients for their unenlightened ways, it was generally limited and counterbalanced by his active attempts to understand them. Following his episodes on pre-biblical literature and Homer, I decided to back him on Patreon. The episodes on the Old Testament were a bit of a slog because of how repetitiously he called out the Hebrews for their lack of modern values. But by episode 25 or so it got out entirely of hand, and the entire 3 hours I spent expecting to have the first two parts of the Orestian trilogy laid out for me were one long feminist screed.
So my question is - does it get better or does it get worse in the following episodes? Or am I seeing it wrong altogether?
For anyone interested, you can listen to the (non-special) episodes or read the scripts here: https://literatureandhistory.com/
Southkraut
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1d ago
For what very little it is worth, especially coming from an unqualified outsider, I agree with you here. It really does seem very straightforward, and the counterarguments appear a lot like motivated reasoning.
Which isn't to say that this law is good or that it should remain unchanged.
Southkraut
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1d ago
Is there any downside to this idea?
Southkraut
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2d ago
It's also the pronounciation we use in the one true language, German.
Coincidentially, we'd appreciate if you anglo louts would also pronounce the word German itself correctly - with the hard G. And the a is an a, not an ä, so get your pronounciation of that in order as well.
Southkraut
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2d ago
No real progress this week. I got a miniscule amount of planning and research done, but it's barely worth mentioning. Please ask again next week.
Southkraut
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2d ago
We've been making the mistake of enabling drug addicts for a very long time, and IMO it's more than fair to err on the different side for a while before we determine that we need the addicts after all.
Southkraut
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3d ago
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WTF I love debt now.
Seriously though, this is...kinda convincing. I suppose I to need to decide whether to be single-issue on anti-buerocracy or on anti-immigration, and the latter seems more urgent. So you convinced me, for the time being.
Thanks for the detailed explanation.
Southkraut
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3d ago
Yes and yes. I probably would have given up on the whole mess a while ago if it weren't for our daughter, but it's not like my wife, for all that I complain about her (and I do so with good reason), is entirely without merit.
Southkraut
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3d ago
By normal standards I suppose so, but we are stubborn people.
What makes the standard of living? The people or the institutions? Which of the two are fungible? You and I probably share an opinion on this, but it is not the politically correct opinion.
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