Posts by Klimsu@spinster.xyz
(DIR) Post #Aodmn5SdndKLHAn9Zg by Klimsu@spinster.xyz
2024-12-02T16:28:02.232974Z
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@polarisera @brendamccann Yeah! Kinda like this...
(DIR) Post #Aoe5Bzyf7f2CgRnX6W by Klimsu@spinster.xyz
2024-12-02T18:35:21.111028Z
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❤️ Many Brits here. When it's so easy to be mad at government... some vagaries of being a Canadian tourist in England. It's been quite some time since I've traveled. (Of course, it'll be another four years of not travelling to the states). But England? It's the only place I visited twice.I was with my fiancé the first time, as newlyweds the second. Our love was flourishing. Divorced now, but we'll always have Cricket. And London too.I was never more beautiful than in these photographs. When a woman is at that certain age. I realize now a lot was the rapport between the photographer and the subject. (Allow me to tell you this now without bragging, as, nowadays, it's like this: nothing seems to age worse than a once beautiful woman's EGO). 🙄 Of course, we saw the sites. I finally got to stand before my beloved Arnolfini Betrothal. But strange what you remember most...The cast room at the V&A. Empiricism at its finest.The biggest rat I ever saw - one night at Trafalgar Square. 🐀 Asking a barkeep if they had a lager. Hahaha. In England. Really. She knew what I wanted and managed to satisfy me with a light ale. Just chatting with people at the pub. Lovely!St. Paul's: if you seek a monument, look around you.Mis-taking the subway all the way to Brixton. (All new husband's fault).Clotted cream. My God! I swear I died!Somerset. Must be the most beautiful and wettest county in all of England. Those clouds just roll across that channel to fair Somerset. My dry hair and skin felt wonderful. Brag brag. We got to stay at Cricket St. Thomas. In the Manor! I know, crazy. My favourite britcom. Is Britain a nation of romantics? It simply must be true!Lastly, I saw the white cliffs of Dover on the way to Calais, imagining all those who've left England's green and pleasant land with a pang in their heart.❤️
(DIR) Post #Aoe7XCczU27luLtqkq by Klimsu@spinster.xyz
2024-12-02T19:48:42.688170Z
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@Gnomeshatecheese @FeartnTired Ya! Love! In Ukrainian, you omitAm, is, areSometimes you just omit or put in a pause instead ifAm, is, areMaybe it makes you look thoughtful to pause? So in writing you get it like this:Столиця України – Київ.Kyiv is the capital of Ukraine.I put too many dashes in my English writing. I wonder if it's because of these dashes (pauses) in Ukrainian.PS You can put IS in if you are emphasizing that something IS there.
(DIR) Post #AoeUPcyzuVKEH8YBSy by Klimsu@spinster.xyz
2024-12-02T23:40:13.340658Z
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The word of the year is actually a phrase. I still like it though.https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/oxford-word-of-the-year-2024-1.7398492
(DIR) Post #AokYfh0wFsnQB18LoW by Klimsu@spinster.xyz
2024-12-05T22:51:37.982929Z
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They should talk! Egypt condemns Israel. Ha! Why is no one mentioning Egypt's duty and failure to open up to Gaza's refugees? Anyone? No? Not one word? There is an African agreement that requires them to do so. Refugee is defined very broadly. Before anyone says so, no no no, it doesn't require Egypt to sign them up as citizens, feed them, etc. Unrwa takes care of Gaza education, inter alia, which indoctrinates children with concepts like: If you kill two jews and your friend kills two jews, how many is that?On a separate note,Hamas incentivizes its members, paying more money for more jews killed.So with these two "I"s it is difficult to see how we can ever get to people-to-people cooperation and economic ties between Palestine and Israel. The so-called two state solution. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/egypt-condemns-israel-s-withdrawal-from-unrwa-agreement-/3384146#
(DIR) Post #Aol1kF3aWZYzaTtVqK by Klimsu@spinster.xyz
2024-12-06T03:20:17.076693Z
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Well... I finally saw Incendies. I saw a recommendation here on Spinster. Heavy film. Apparently, I'm trying to give myself a nervous breakdown or something because I intend on watching Polytechnique soon. I was trying to listen with my now elementary French, but the film was so hard I just had to turn on the subtitles. The feel of the film was so real. Was it Lebanon? It was like it in time and place.What's the significance of the title?
(DIR) Post #AomZTEdKR9tQwzdLxA by Klimsu@spinster.xyz
2024-12-06T21:59:11.082167Z
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@Sherri_Ingrey @AnungIkwe https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/32132439/delay-deny-defend-author-bullets-kill-brian-thompson/
(DIR) Post #AomcpQBITzB6zznELA by Klimsu@spinster.xyz
2024-12-06T22:44:32.802586Z
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@Gnomeshatecheese @Flick @LostInCalifornia Expect for Finland, right? The only country to have fought Russia and not fallen to communism! Yeah! You go! 💪
(DIR) Post #AomjIsAA7rTNuCgmAa by Klimsu@spinster.xyz
2024-12-07T00:00:05.344242Z
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@Gnomeshatecheese @Flick @LostInCalifornia No doubt under the guise of a policy of neutrality. I swear I learn something new here everyday.
(DIR) Post #AomjwNAWmRuzMWh9FI by Klimsu@spinster.xyz
2024-12-07T00:02:45.697882Z
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@Gnomeshatecheese @Flick @LostInCalifornia Poor little Russia🎻 IndeedHa!
(DIR) Post #AomlA33KT642yvPeRE by Klimsu@spinster.xyz
2024-12-06T23:54:24.029579Z
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@Sherri_Ingrey @polarisera @AnungIkwe Secretly, so am I.
(DIR) Post #ApQoXdcJJ8GATfKaJ6 by Klimsu@spinster.xyz
2024-12-26T04:28:58.807329Z
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It's that time of year. To gather with family. To look around the table and say:These are my relatives!?! 😏 😛
(DIR) Post #ApVpf97ndEPpy90HE8 by Klimsu@spinster.xyz
2024-12-28T17:15:15.845330Z
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@LuvGreenTea2019 The piece says it was evacuated and then raided or searched. Doctors and patients are still seen in the video.You say it was "destroyed."My grade ten english teacher taught me that, if you're overly dogmatic, you tend to lose people in your argument.Arguably, the biggest problem in this war is that the media never states that certain info and images haven't been verified by them as they are forced to rely only on Hamas info/images.
(DIR) Post #ApWBkUyIrmQgOCzn7o by Klimsu@spinster.xyz
2024-12-28T21:37:25.203718Z
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The cat's pyjamas
(DIR) Post #ApWDWetVNSrF1BHOt6 by Klimsu@spinster.xyz
2024-12-28T22:28:22.536765Z
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@hearthmoon Not pure postmodernism. That was about dismantling discourses and identifying power-knowledge and so on. With postmodernism, that's all that could be done. Once you had the language, the discourses etc. on the floor, the philosophy offered no solution. To do something with it, well, that would create a discourse. It was a sort of playful philosophy in a way.But my understanding is that gender ideology came out of post-postmodernist thought. What some call post modernism "applied." Post-post took the concepts and applied them in various areas - post-colonial, gender, intersectionality, fat studies and so on.
(DIR) Post #ApWEv8ntvSNigXtdaK by Klimsu@spinster.xyz
2024-12-28T21:25:34.608026Z
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@LuvGreenTea2019 I think you provided this letter before, and I already commented some time ago. I said something like it's compelling but where's the food, medicine and other necessities of life provided by Israel going? Starts with an H.You lost me on the first post. "Children are universally considered innocents in armed conflict." Really? Aren't they innocent all the time? These platitudes aren't helping make the argument.Yes, the type of warfare that Israeli has been forced to engage in is called urban, destruction warfare. But still they exercise proportionality, hold back (attrition,) give warning, conduct evacuations.
(DIR) Post #ApWEvA4bCrKgcciUFc by Klimsu@spinster.xyz
2024-12-28T22:01:13.742549Z
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@LuvGreenTea2019 Millions of people? Haha! Sure, bring 'em around! ICC doesn't have jurisdiction and didn't not allow Israel to conduct their own investigation. The facts before that court are seriously in dispute.Genocide, apartheid, proportionality and so on - that's called "lawfare" - legal terms being to bandied about in an attempt to sway international opinion, which the media picks up and unthinkingly reports to those millions of people you referenced earlier!
(DIR) Post #ApWxKRrIH9oG0LR7lA by Klimsu@spinster.xyz
2024-12-29T03:02:08.241126Z
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(DIR) Post #ApaSCTbBbNXl8dScq0 by Klimsu@spinster.xyz
2024-12-30T21:15:39.472737Z
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nzqxjx5pgJI&pp=ygUlVGhpbmtpbmcgYWJvdXQgZXF1YWxpdHkgd3JvbmcgaGVhdGhlcg%3D%3DI recently got on to Heather, an evolutionary biologist, in the above video.Okay, I'm having a slight difficulty with this. Did we ever state that equality was exactly equal? What's the correct rad-fem analysis? Help me here.I do recall feminists trying at one point for "parity" too. For example, let's say almost all the nurses are female; almost all the pharmacy assistants are male. The males are making lots more money for a job that is on par with nursing. Let's fix this.I guess the issue might really be who is at the top. If there are more men in the math department at the top, does this matter? If there are more women in the english department at the top?And so what? Feminism is about women's lives. Let's say that men and women are massively overlapping populations with somewhat different distributions of average traits. What does that say about individuals and their lives?On the other hand, just because something is statistical and fuzzy, doesn't mean it's not real.On the other hand, I fear that, if the differences between men and women are biologically based and immutable, that would freeze into place certain differences in the opportunity structure for men and women.On the other hand, what if math is taught in some way that men really enjoy and women can't learn in? Say it's all shouty and assholey math teaching and women don't like that? Ha!
(DIR) Post #ApdGduVn23SiRz8DZY by Klimsu@spinster.xyz
2024-12-31T23:39:13.682306Z
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