Numbers stay the same, but the words for “collection/group” change depending on the object. It goes [number] [measure word] [noun]

I’m not familiar with Japanese so I can’t say.

We can have the solace that the US empire cannot last forever, and with all the atrocities it has and continues to commit, in the long term its digging its own grave. The people of the world refuse to be kept in chains, they have risen up and will continue to do so. Class struggle will rear its head until class society is abolished, and the contradictions inherent to it are resolved.

Its about ~30m read.

This article is a good starting point: https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/16/the-u-s-did-not-defeat-fascism-in-wwii-it-discretely-internationalized-it/

Also read Paul L Williams - Operation gladio.

Oh and for how easy it is. If you’re coming from a germanic or a romance language, it shares almost no words and roots, which means its going to take overall its going to take longer. But in most ways its much easier and more logical. No verb conjugations, no weird plurals, easier tenses, logical word and character construction. I’d argue its even better constructed even than esperanto, which still kept the weird verb declinations.

The only extra annoyance is measure words (which english has also, ie a flock of birds, a pile of clothes).

I’ve just decided to postpone the writing for now. If you’re mainly going to be using a keyboard, then they convert pinyin into the correct characters anyway. When learning I turn pinyin off tho, so I can get used to fully recognizing the characters for reading, even if I couldn’t draw them from scratch.

2nd time I’ve had to post this today:

Red Phoenix - Pacifism - How to do the enemy’s job for them. Youtube Audiobook

Nice, seems really legit, especially since it works offline. Thx for that.

I’ve been trying to find a decent WYSIWYG android markdown editor (that’s not just a webview wrapper), but none exist yet. This should work in the time being.

Mandarin is the 2nd most spoken language in the world, only behind english. Its also the 2nd most important language for programming, and has the largest open-source community in the world, so that’ll be a plus for my work.

I’m also learning spanish, and am much further along there than I am in Chinese. I feel like with those 3 languages I’ll never be too far from someone who can understand me.

Red Phoenix - Pacifism - How to do the enemy’s job for them. Youtube Audiobook

I def like it, although I’ve been supplementing with comprehensible input platforms like https://www.vidioma.com/

These apps have their place, but they won’t get you fluent as quickly as listening to native speakers with context.

It always puts me to shame when I learn how many languages most communists spoke. Like Marx learned English and Russian to be able to study those country’s economics. Engels was apparently fluent in 12, and could read 20 languages.

Agree, we 100% need to push back against NATO’s tanks, bombing and encroachment. The US and Israel must be defeated at all costs.

Whatsapp and instagram are owned by facebook. Youtube is owned by google. Still US tech companies.

You can also find an audiobook of this on torrents and youtube.

You obviously didn’t look at even a few of these links either!

The fact that they get memory-holed or paywalled after a few years isn’t my fault, but I’d be happy to update any ones that aren’t working with archived links.

This not sharing information, this flooding. This is a way of shutting up any kind of disussion.

Just silly. For one person its “too much info”, for another its “not enough”. AI really broke people’s brains. If they actually have to read some things and can’t be given a short summary, they call it “shutting down discussion”.

Was summoned once, and ended up on the jury. It was a really sad case where the cops were trying to put an 80-something year old former convict back in prison, because his son in law had a gun in the house (that they searched because of something the son in law did, but no charges were brought against him), and that was a violation of the 80-year-old’s release conditions from like 40 years ago.

I really wanted to end up on the jury in order to keep this guy out of prison, which luckily we did. The defense was very smart in making his case sympathetic, even though legally the guy had no leg to stand on. There were a few jurors that wanted to imprison him, but we finally got them to go with the majority to ignore the law and keep him out of prison.

The easy rule of thumb if you do/don’t want to be on the jury: the less you talk, the more likely you are to end up on the jury. The more annoying you are, especially talking about how busy you are, or asking a lot of pointless questions: the less likely you are to end up on the jury.

Why does the country have private businessmen owning large companies at all? China has domestic billionaires. Billionaires that have grown fat on the backs of their workers. This is not socialism.

You’re right, you didn’t read even a few of the links, and you’re proving the post correct.

Most countries of the world are capitalist. Most of them are poor or middle income.

Only a tiny number of them are in the imperial core, and fit most modern definitions of imperialist. Russia is not among them.

Authoritarian in the modern day is only used by westerners to denigrate countries that build alternatives models outside the western order (Cuba, Vietnam, PRC, Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, etc), so much so that it basically means: “when you tell white people they can’t do imperialism”.

Somehow, this country is excluded from its definition: