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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @didiplaywell 15h \ parent \ on: Let’s Learn Chinese/Japanese with Sensei: 一歩一歩 ideasfromtheedge
Yea I'm curious too!
This topic never fails. I'm envious of japanese/chinese for having this beautiful forms. Thank you as always sensei :)
At your service sensei, a pleasure to introduce you to any spanish concept you may be interested in.
24 sats \ 2 replies \ @didiplaywell 4 Dec \ parent \ on: Learn Chinese with Sensei: 人山人海 ideasfromtheedge
It's really the same as in english! Same articulations of the same words for the same conceptual result. One of those rare literary 1-to-1 equivalences. We actually use the expression "sea of people" in it's literal translation almost as default, "mar de gente".
Interesting! I can infer now the logic. If the expression was only to use 人山 or 人海, it could not be understood as "a lot of people" because the immediate relation between the terms would be that of description, and since places are used for description the terms thus would come to mean "belonging". That is, 人山 would mean "mountain people" as in "people of the mountains", and 人海 would mean "sea people" as in "people of the sea". But by coupling both the association to the places is broken and can now only be that of what the mountain and the sea have in common which is the notion of vastness. So the literal description comes to be "vast people", which can only mean "a lot of people". Critical is the use of 海 which leads to the idea of "vastness", for other word coupled with 山 could lead to the idea of "size", which can be then used to imply that the people one is referring to are of formidable size or "formidable" in itself.
A pleasure to the mind as always sensei, thank you and I await for the next :)
It's entirely possible depending on where she was and who she had to deal with:
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Right from the airport she may have been mistreated by employees, which are all state employees still (Milei is currently in the process of dismantling that). The airport mob obliges you to their shitty services at ridiculous costs, so they treat you like their bitch. Because you (we) are.
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Making the first step out from the airport gets you in the next trap which is the cab mob. Again, Milei is in the process of dismantling that too. The cab mob obliges you to their shitty services at ridiculous costs, so they treat you like their bitch. Because you (we) are.
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Right after surviving that you are now in the Capital, where you are likely to encounter the infamous stereotype of the locals, the "porteño". They are used to be treated like the center of the universe, because everything was structured so that the Capital centralized all economic flow and power. So they treat everyone like "inferiors". They are insufferable entitled jerks exactly as your cousin described. The "porteño" is the most indoctrinated unit inherited from the socialist regime, and one of the things they are instructed to believe is that all and every shortcomings the regime ever had were solely caused by "foreing intervention, specially from the USA". Because, of course, socialism can never fail. So it has to be the USA sabotaging everything. So many entitled jerks, armchair revolutionaries, might be bitter to USA and UK foreigners. But apart from that, they are default bitter to everyone, specially to other Argentines outside of the Capital.
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Then, if she visited mostly traditional tourist destinies, she might have been treated like shit again because people on those posts usually hold sole possession of whatever shitty service they give because they have a deal with the local govt. So it's a "tourism mob" that again, obliges you to their shitty services at ridiculous costs, so they treat you like their bitch. Because you (we) are.
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That said, she was also very unfortunate. It's not that common to find a majority of jerks. She had really bad luck. There's also a common trait of the Capital and its suburbs and it's that there's so much people and so much activity concentrated in that zone that people tend to be always in haste and they are so used to it that even among themselves they don't perceive hasteful manners as mistreatment. It's just normal to them. That also has lead to a culture of hasteful expression in which people sound like entitled jerks literally all the time because it became a cultural mannerism, and they will talk to you that way not meaning to offend you at all (and I know that first hand because I have family there that sound like that but they are sweet and mellow).
Thanks for such an elaborate explanation.
At your service.
I used to be feel quite insulted that the government can’t trust us to make our own choices
You feel the right way.
but I have since gone with the flow
It's the most common and natural reaction. Harmless for the case of Singapore. We actually use Singapore specifically as a gold standard reference of the economic freedom we want to achieve here.
BUT, beware of the "boiled frog" syndrome. That's what they did to us here. Slow, incremental regulations that people permanently felt immune to. Until no one was.
Hello Sr! Thank you for summoning me :)
There's not more to it than what k00b mentioned. It's as ridiculous as it sounds, yet of course as any government regulation the sole purpose of this one is to introduce new government dependencies that of course will require budget expansion and will require to hire conveniently selected partisan agents and etc.
In comparison to others, this is but one of the most harmless of the govt regulations still in existence, yet it makes more noise for it's more visual. Strictly speaking, the "Law of Frontal Labels" establishes that what's said on the back of the product must also be said on the front of it but with those horrendous labels, because the citizen is judged to be incapable of realizing that candy as sugar, and even way less capable of reading it in the label the candy already comes with (yes, you read that right, socialism is all about the "dad state" and the "kids citizens"). So it must be repeated that way. Of course that implies that every package must go through govt approval, an extremely convenient position of power that also grants new offices, new state employees, and fresh funds to maintain partisan structures.
And yet this is laughable next to other regulations which are essentially war crimes, so that much that makes this one to be at the bottom of the priority list. All of these regulations of course where implemented by the previous socialist regimes, and Milei is dismantling them one by one. But there are critical priorities, this one can wait for long.
History is on the making, will share what shape this arrives to on 2027, when we will have elections again and the result of re-culturization will be revealed.
The leviathan can not but fail and only fail. His inherent collapse mechanism you are referring to was actually the first critique made to socialism by Mises.
That's not the problem, however. The problem is that it always comes back.
That's what we are trying to revert once and for all here in Argentina. Milei calls his strategy for this as "right wing gramscism".
i think he might be right
Oh, he is. I can tell you.
must be quite satisfying to watch him chainsaw the shit out of the parasites
Orgasmic, that's the word. It feels orgasmic.
It's quite divided here:
- There's an army of millions of state parasites who "work" for the state (all of them being progressively severed by Milei right now), who are in all aspects and senses a modern nobility, for the state grants them special economical and legal privileges. Those are the ones which hold a status quo, but are not a majority.
- There's a 10x bigger (hard numbers, 20 million indigents) army of parasites who live entirely out of pensions and state benefits, but dwell in cluttered slums. The trick there is to have them always on the edge, so that even if they despise socialism, they have to vote for it just to not to die from hunger.
- Then there's the other half of the population who works entirely just to keep the two groups above, but are so indoctrinated into socialism that despite of being humiliated and exploited by it (no wealth, no status quo), still will vote for it because is the only thing they can understand. When something is "private", is "evil", when something belongs to the state, is "holy". And all failures and shortcomings are due to the evil imperialist countries who permanently boycott the country to make socialism fail.
Here the boomers feel the exact same, except that their special cocktail of not having a clue on economic and political affairs, thus being solely responsible of the current economic and political distress, and on top of that, vehemently rejecting and ridiculing the one guy that came to fix it (Milei), made them a laughing stock for the youth. The teenagers are solely responsible for our current comeback from never-ending decadence. You have this kids explaining their fathers how reality works. It's to be recognized that, besides the blind pride of our boomers, which almost causes Milei to lose last year, most at least have a reluctant but noble inclination to hear their sons. Had this happened in previous generations, Milei would not exist for teens were culturally forbidden to raise up an opinion to their fathers.
I'm having an excellent experience so far. Content is good and informational. Just be diligent at muting bad quality authors and bad quality territories and you are good to go.
I have muted:
- Aliens and UFOs
- Conspiracy
- Dogs and Cats
- A tad lot of bad posters
I think I follow barely a couple of stackers, and I'm looking exclusively at the "hot" page to have a quick glance at SN. Simple and efficient. So far, no complaints!
Allow my autism to stretch this a bit further in regard to the phrasing we are using.
I understand from your phrasing that while you can supply what the market demands, you can't not take the word of the market on how to actually make it. This is a well known effect, traditionally illustrated by the Simpsons episode Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?.
But I would like to separate that from the demand itself. To "follow the market" is to hear and answer the overall demand of the people. That was my case: I was looking for something like Nostr and I was more than happy to find it. You saw the need and you provided a solution. Now if I demand that I want to be able to edit "tweets", you know that I actually don't want to, that what I want is a communication system that's not a walled garden. A similar effect happened to me when I was looking for note taking apps: I was looking for an app full of features I thought I needed, and when I found the apps that provided it, the experience ended up being a bloated, laggy, cluttered and unwieldy mess, and I found out that I was way better off with plain txt notes. Then I understood that I did not needed anything of what I thought I needed, and reasoned better my way towards obsidian and it ended up being absolute gold and never looked back: I did not needed complex mind-mapping graphs and integrations and etc. My overall demand was "I need a note-taking tool", but I didn't knew I only needed my file structure in the left, my content structure in the right, and my outlines in the middle, to get it. Simple, efficient. I vow for core Nostr to be the same.
Anything that mimics a real market (p2p, v4v) will work. Maybe the question is "where do SN differs from a real market, so that it provides undesirable incentives?". How will SN differ? In a real market every interaction is equilibrated, for you can only interact via v4v. So wherever there's no v4v, quality will degrade.
For example: low quality content in Nostr is being caused due to zero initial investment that can potentially lead to apparent effortless gains. But the risk to try is zero so even if it doesn't work it's a no-brainer to try just in case.
In social networks where there's no immediate economic revenue, there's nothing like "try just in case", and at most you have to spend great effort to attract a large enough audience to even start being able to make money. So at first zero risk is found with zero gains. This is a special case of v4v where costs are equally 0, so v4v transitions to content/reaction: you write to get a reaction you consider worthy. You give content to get content back.
In the case of SN, zap gains are equilibrated with the fact you have to spend to post. Having a high enough initial risk, the v4v in terms of money is equilibrated enough, so that v4v in terms of content/reaction is more independent of an imbalance in v4v in terms of money (Nostr is still imbalanced), prompting good quality content back again.
Follow the market. Exchange equilibrium is the maximum law. Anything else follows suit.