Spookykou
2d ago
The reading thing bothered me because the society did not adapt around it much. Men are still constantly sending critically important letters to each other all the time, they just also keep a woman with them at all time to draft and read letters. To be fair the time in the book could be seen as a transitional period, it is revealed that several important men can read, and the impression I got was that basically all important men can read, and just engage in performative illiteracy.
Mostly I don't like it because I think it speaks to a 'culture is arbitrary' progressive/feminist mindset that is born out of the insight that, actually pink could have just as easily been a boys color, and extrapolating that out to literally every gendered aspect of society and declaring that nothing is grounded in reality.
Spookykou
2d ago
I've long thought that all the bad things in Sandersons writing are not simply being overlooked by his fans, but are actually the secrets to his success. He is writing mid-wit slop for funko pop collectors who need their hands held in order to follow the story.
Spookykou
4d ago
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I didn't think the motte hide comments with lots of downvotes the way reddit does. Does this mean something else?
Spookykou
8d ago
Turnabout is fair play, the TV channels have been bullying Trump enthusiast for years.
Spookykou
9d ago
There are two sort of related conversations going on at the same time.
One is that leftist violence is out of control because a leftists killed Charlie Kirk.
The other is that in general the left is blood thirsty, as evidenced by the way leftists responded to the killing of Charlie Kirk.
These two points can stand independent of each other, and several people explicitly said as much when the political motivations of Charlie Kirk's killer were more nebulous. That, even if it was a random crazy or a groyper, the real problem was how so many leftists responded to it.
It is this second conversation, the group response thing, that was the focus here, as such, what matters is how the right as a group responded to Carson's death, not the motivations or political associations of his killer.
Spookykou
13d ago
Are you honestly not familiar with how clipping is used to take what people say out of context to villainize them?
Spookykou
13d ago
This really reads as a tongue in cheek gotcha, he can't stop smirking as he makes the argument. I don't think he takes the scripture literally, he immediately explains his personal interpretation of the 'love your neighbor' bit, and I think he is also explaining his interpretation of the myriad 'stone the gays' bits in the bible in the same moment.
I would imagine that his position, which he half states in the clip, is that homosexuality is a sin and as a good and loving Christian he has an obligation to help gay people understand that truth rather then just affirming their identity.
This is just based on the clip. I have seen very little Charlie Kirk content so he might in other places make claims that undermine this reading.
Spookykou
15d ago
Porn is far and away the best source for figure drawing references of hot women that exists in the world! I swear!!
Spookykou
16d ago
I lived in Beijing for a year. It could just be that my Chinese friends loved Sichuan, but outside of the foreign quarter I would constantly get taken to different Sichuan restaurants that all had basically the exact same menu. And for Breakfast I must have gone to twenty different places that all served zhou, Baozi and Youtiao.
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Although I have no idea what they are doing at night that would so disrupt their sleep, light is expensive.
Edit - I guess threshing, shouldn't skim so much.
Spookykou
16d ago
It doesn't need any difference between the labor pools. America has 1000 great workers (toy example), India has 3 times the population, same quality labor pool, so they have 3000 great workers (TOY EXAMPLE), then, assuming America can actually find a need for, say, 2000 great workers, then the only way we could fill those jobs is by importing great workers.
I don't agree with this and think the high-skill immigration argument is 99% fake, but the argument works even if the labor pools are exactly the same.
They even work if the labor pools are very different and the foreign country is way worse. Say the top 10% of American workers is the same as the top 1% of Indian workers, the US is still operating with a fundamentally limited pool of around 20 million top 10% workers, if we need/want more than that, we can import them from the 9 million top 1% of Indian workers.
Spookykou
16d ago
I thought that the hard working life of peasants was a bit overblown, that they would take long breaks, day drink, and get about half the year off. Based of vague half remembered scholarship, maybe Juliet Schor?
Spookykou
16d ago
I wonder with life satisfaction if the USA might be weird in terms of age cohorts, where old people are happy and young people are unhappy. A young person in another country with a more even distribution might then find that their fellow young people seem more satisfied. Total speculation on my part though.
Spookykou
16d ago
I've eaten abroad, in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Taipei, Beijing, Stockholm, Paris, Berlin, London, and quite a few other smaller cities in the respective countries listed. From home cooking to street vendors to Michelin-star restaurants, American food is great.
China was the big standout, with a very strange food culture. Every other restaurant has the exact same menu, and it was also the only place where I felt food quality was noticeably worse, especially the meat. Other than that, the big difference is that everyone else makes sugar-free desserts. I think the very light use of sugar in desserts and baking is probably the single biggest culinary divide between the U.S. and the rest of the world.
It is also always strange when I see discussions like this, because cuisine is so global now. It feels like something straight out of a time capsule from 30 years ago, and even then the person expressing it was visiting Illinois or something. That one restaurant that made up half the restaurants in Beijing, we have them here in the U.S. as well, and have for years. You might have to get a table at the back of an Asian market, but it is the exact same food, prepared the same way. And conversely, the best meat I had the whole time I was in China was at a Texan BBQ joint that was positively delicious.
While the above is mostly about restaurants, I stayed in all these places (except Taiwan) long enough to do a fair deal of grocery shopping and home cooking as well. H-E-B is the best grocery store I have ever been in, anywhere in the world, and their produce is fantastic.
I could be wrong, like I said it was an impression I got over the first 3.5 books. I can't remember specific details but I felt like every Kholin that we spent any time with could read, and maybe it was just vibes but I thought Sadeas probably could as well. All of the ones we know for sure can read, hide it and pretend to be illiterate publicly, so it seemed plausible to me that other characters that we don't know as well could be doing the same. Taravangian can read and write. I am not really sure of any important noble men who are ostensibly Vorin where we get any sort of firm confirmation that they can't read, like an internal monologue moment lamenting their illiteracy or something.
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