nikita

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[–] nikita 116 points 8 months ago (51 children)

Thats why I don’t do that shit to people.

Who am I to question someone’s spirituality if it makes them happpy and they practice in a healthy way and it doesn’t negatively affect the people around them?

[–] nikita 8 points 9 months ago (4 children)

This eclipse is only hitting eastern Canada correct?

[–] nikita -4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

More like Marx

[–] nikita 2 points 9 months ago

I don’t how popular it is but I’ve been playing Balatro. Excellent card game

[–] nikita 89 points 9 months ago (3 children)

This implies there was ever a time cops weren’t violent pieces of shit.

I’ve heard many stories of cops in the 80s regularly beating on people in my area.

In fact, sociologists like to say cops were invented in America specifically make sure slaves stayed indentured to their owners.

[–] nikita 14 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] nikita 18 points 10 months ago

In Greece it’s common for children to stay with their parents past 30. Your conflict is a cultural one.

My advice is to not worry about it and not feel ashamed. There are plenty of reasons to live with one’s parents, especially these days with the high cost of living. I’m sure your peers understand this.

In fact, the money you save on living expenses can potentially be used to buy yourself a home in the future, instead of perpetually paying rent like the rest of us.

[–] nikita 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Apt analysis. Your infatuation with Borges conforms with my own.

However I would interpret it this way: Spinoza was not wrong. You are a tiger made to act like a sheep. The sheep skin you don is society’s expectations of you, weighing you down, making you act a certain way. Eternally, you want to be a tiger like a stone wants to be a stone. You long to be Faust because you are Faust.

[–] nikita 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Good point. What I meant is that it’s different from grammatical gender typical of European languages as you defined it.

Grammatical gender is a bad name for such a general concept that goes beyond the social definition of gender. In fact, that term is a bit eurocentric.

[–] nikita 16 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Even cooler, in my opinion, are languages that are even further outside of common indo european language paradigms, such as Navajo which uses degrees of animacy instead of grammatical gender and Basque which uses ‘focus’ and ‘topic’ to determine word order rather than subjects and objects.

[–] nikita 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It’s derived from Irish, originally meaning thieves or bandits if I recall correctly.

[–] nikita 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I believe this change more so reflects a desire for Northern Ireland to be more independent from both the UK and the Republic of Ireland, rather than a desire to form a unified Ireland.

The trading border imposed by Britain has made Unionists feel like they are not treated fairly within the UK, yet at the same time unification is not desirable due to fears of the renewal of violence and terrorism.

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