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Cake day: September 28th, 2023

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  • Destroying a system means there isn’t anything in place and also that you weaken the power of your own side because you had to go through all the violence needed.

    That’s obvious but it also explains why worse system can rise, but also that it’s not always a doomed endeavor. I think the context has a lot to do with what will occurs next.

    The best exemple i could give is the French Revolution. It was followed by the worst Napoleonic wars. But its philosophers founded the building block for the republic that’s still in place to this day.

    The red revolution against tsarist has brought a lot of positive foundation from which Russian could arguably have builded upon after the war, if not for Gorbachev.

    I’m not gonna go to much into any hypothetical but what Lenin created had a real and positive influence in the rest of Europe at least.

    At the worst end of the spectrum Iran really had nothing left to build upon, the situation there is catastrophic on all front. So if not for the US the country isn’t gonna stand on its legs any time soon.

    I think the evolution of the end of a system, even through those three exemple, can go into so many different path. It’s hard to really predict anything, especially without taking into account all the parameters and context.



  • The ideal solution you propose was often used when we used glass.

    The only reason we could have started throwing our containers is because plastic is so much cheaper.

    To be fair, when we used glass, fewer product were transported long distance.

    Nowadays we can do like Germany who incentives to bring back bottles for recycling.

    Or an even better alternative would be to use glass for individuals and another method for transportation.

    Although i’ve seen some bio stores starting to refill plastic containers, wich isn’t perfect but a nice middle ground to start changing habits.






  • Listening to the teacher is the willingness i’m speaking about, and taking it in require effort. That effort can technically be lessen by intelligence.

    However having a bad education system will drive intelligent people to drop it and be unwilling to learn in the first place. I guess that’s really what you meant.

    I didn’t go to school in the US so I can’t say if they are that terrible. Where I live they were always some teachers to raise the bar.

    That said if the richest didn’t finish school, those who haven’t finished school aren’t all rich. Plenty of them dropped for the wrong reasons.

    Furthermore getting rich isn’t always the goal, some smart people are passionate about subject that doesn’t pay as well but does require extensive study. For instance sciences are such fields.

    Unfortunately deciding if school is or isn’t for you isn’t much a matter of intelligence rather than wisdom.


  • That too, in some careers you have a chunk of memorizing like med school, but in school it’s just shouldn’t be an important part.

    Memorizing is an effort too, but usually smart kids memorize easier when there is interesting topic linked to it, like dates in history, authors etc…

    Honestly as a kid I wouldn’t have bothered to learn from just memorizing an exam.

    And yes, even though it wasn’t like that for me, internet has taught me a great deal still, what a time to be alive! (That’s the catch phrase of two minutes paper, great YouTuber to learn about computer sim / AI)


  • For good grades you need to be willing to learn and either put in some work or be intelligent.

    The kids with bad grades are often unwilling, few unintelligent.

    Intelligence can lead to be uninterested if the teacher is a bad one, but if the teacher is interesting the intelligent kid will do great without that much of an effort.

    Rewarding effort would be valuable for intelligent kid actually, since they often develop bad working habits because of it. But grades can never truly reflect it, and so no teacher is grading based on it.

    (except on high level studies were you need both intelligence and effort…)










  • Even better is, we casually drop the “Comment” and add the accent of a question instead, so it can go like : “Ça va?” “Ça va.”

    Note that in French we can make the meaning of it vary from roughly ‘not great’ to ‘good’ just by how enthusiastic we are. It’s really only when we want to express radical emotions that we might stop using it.

    (Although someone depressed might not want to express their distress and use it like the expressions in this meme…)


  • It is, and it doesn’t mean i don’t love them, i do.

    Cats are more manageable to love because they don’t lick you, their fur still triggers it but not as much.

    I think i got the allergy alongside my love of pets from growing up with the nicest cat ever.

    So i’m honestly thinking about trying something to lessen the allergy, that or a hairless cat.