Zompist Bboard Again

Has anyone heard of Chris chan?

https://www.ecosophia.net/that-untraversed-land/ Railing against universities: Universities are a great example. A century and a half ago most people didn’t go to university. Doctors and lawyers entered the field by apprenticeship—you went to work for an established practitioner, learned the ropes, ...

This is a more fleshed out version of the "Simplified English" in the thread NOTE: This is not a criticism of Reconstruction or an endorsement of white supremacy 1. Setting This isn't really plausible, but an US which underwent successful Reconstruction (1870s) under a Radical Republican a...

Re: posting in general
https://mobile.twitter.com/nicholatian/ ... 3656499203
Basically poasting can be opium—you drown yourself in online fantasies

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAz1FjSWYAEfCBT?format=jpg&name=medium There are advocates of “National Divorce” along red-blue/urban-rural lines The problem with that would be that it would allow the Republicans to lord over the red areas, when the real goal ought to be to exclude them from power ...

Ares Land wrote: ↑Fri Oct 08, 2021 3:34 am Why not any sooner?

As for adult skills, there are no deep mysteries and you'll learn soon enough.

I will stay at school for spring semester

Why aren’t there Latinizations of Islamic terms if “caliph” (Khalif) is latinized. E.g <ictihadus> for “ijtihad” or <fichus> for “fiqh”

Maybe a solution to incipient authoritarianism among the “anti wokes”, technocrats etc is to promote a sort of socially radical utilitarianism. Basically the state doesn’t care about your race/religion/gender/language group and enforces tolerance with an iron fist as long as you Serve the State - ki...

And from a cultural perspective, people who are usually on the left but dislike cities look pretty contradictory to me. I mean, I strongly disagree with right-wingers who dislike cities, but at least they have a certain internal consistency on that matter. People who are usually on the left but dis...

In the alternative history Separated at Birth: America and Drakia, the Geoists [socially conservative, religious anti-urban socialist-equivalents] seize control of Russia after their equivalent of WW1 and force tens of millions into random New Farms and New Towns as part of the Resettlement

Also, assuming you’re the government and you try to use eminent domain to seize a quarter of the country’s private land to build farms and small towns to redistribute urbanites to, what steps can you do to 1) prevent the formation of an aggrieved landowner class 2) convince most urbanites that life ...

What is the French Degrowth stance towards organic agriculture?

I really enjoyed that book -- much like the rest of Sack's books. I must say my mental image of him was very, very far removed from 'body building biker.' Judging from what your posts, it looks like your best bet is probably to move out as soon as possible. (Speaking as a parent, the two hours from...

Under a less racist early 20th century US society, the “Americanist” government could consider AAVE and Gullah as equal languages to base simplified English off of, e.g the preverbal aspect particles in place of -ed.

Some idiot supporting the “National Divorce” https://mobile.twitter.com/AdamasNemesi ... 7359030272

Also, mom criticized me for being too wanting to just go to sleep when I get back from co-op at 6 and not do responsibilities and said that “In the future, when you return from work and your wife is looking after the kids, you can’t just be lazy” which is true, but it’s been only 5 weeks of co-op an...

I am conflicted about my relations with Mom. On one hand she has poured lots of time and energy into me, and does want me to develop a business-acumen and learn practical living skills e.g driving, cooking On the other hand, she values hierarchy-humility-selfsacrifice a bit too much , the confluence...

An mythic animal:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnabo

How do you get poly synthesis out of an isolating language like English e.g poly personal agreement?

Just came back from a zoom lecture about Ancient Egypt papyri by a prof in Greek Studies for Anthropology club. Most of the folks there are anthro and study Greek/Roman stuff e.g Antigone