u/fadinglightsRfading

I have a Ukrainian friend who says this. it is clear that it is (at least partially) ideologically driven -- they are the type to habitually employ the word 'colonialism' at any given chance -- but I want to know the basis of this, considering that conventional linguistic grouping dictates Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian are closest relating to each other than to those other ones, being in their own group.

apparently most of the research on this is in the Ukrainian language, which I don't speak nor write... so I am wondering if anyone else here has come across this notion or has anything to say about it?

so I know that 's'il vous plait' sort of translates to 'if it pleases you', but I am wondering whether french speakers perceive it in sentiment more like a regular 'please' or actually like 'if it pleases you'.

this question came to me when I was watching The Boys, during a part where the french character Serge (or Frenchie) and his friend are being tortured, and he desperately begs for it to stop, going 'noo! please stop! stop, s'il vous plait!!'

I thought to myself how bizarre it would be in english to say something to the effect of 'stop! if it pleases you!' while being tortured, vs. 'stop! please!', being more natural and less formal

I dunno if this makes sense, but let me know if it does!

in other words, what does physicalism use as a substitute for that transcendent entity which is supposed to have animated reality? does it have an explanation that is as coherent as the existence of a metaphysical substrate subsisting prior to the cosmos, which accounts for our material cosmos' being set into motion? this involves the commencement of the motions and the motions themselves being undergone in and by the physical cosmos.

and since the universe, being in motion, in this way requires a commencement (so as not to logically fail at infinite regression), and, thus, too requires an entity employed in such an activation or commencement (antecedent even to time, as it were); what does the physicalist use in order to replace such a prerequisite, to save reality from oblivion?

finally, is it that I'm missing the point, falsely believing that physicalism and cosmogony share respective terms and range? if it is so, please tell me how it is reconciled, physicalism producing these clear deficits and restraints for a coherent cosmogony.

I have reinstalled librewolf and turned off all extensions (including uBlock Origin), and these didn't work. I don't know what has caused it.

also, another thing, librewolf doesn't seem to want to open when I am running wayland (I normally use X11, Arch). maybe it's related, I don't know

hi. I literally don't care for maths in the slightest, besides what it might provide me in terms of expertise within computer science. I would like to see if there exists a good 'essential maths for computer science' textbook, I'm hoping that is fewer than 1000 pages. something more in the range of 500 pages is better for me, since I don't think I require such a sweeping, university-level account of it. some discrete maths textbooks w/o a CS focus, I would think, provide more than is necessary in this regard.

I only have highschool level maths (basic algebra, trig, basics of sets, other particles in my brain I dunno the names of)

is 'Concrete Mathematics' too high-level for me?

alternatively, I wonder if there is a way I can manoeuvre MIT's Mathematics for Computer Science lecture notes without having to complete the whole thing, which would be too much, and just complete select chapters instead. (I'm pretty sure it's more basic than Concrete Mathematics.) however, I really would just like a physical textbook; I don't want to watch video lectures and I do not want to read a textbook from a screen, and this book unfortunately doesn't look like it has a printed copy on sale.

another resource I found was 'Essential Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science' (possibly answering my very question) and wonder if anyone has anything to say about it, concerning how it might compare to the contents of MIT's MCS

also, please, don't suggest a book you haven't read and can't comment upon, that would be appreciated

thanks!

zde jsou dvě věty, které ilustrují, co myslím:

• Tyroxin je neaktivní forma hormonu štítné žlázy, která se v těle konvertuje na aktivní formu T3.
• Zkusil změnit olovo ve zlato.

kdy mám použít to první, a kdy to druhé? vypadá to, že hrají identickou gramatickou roli, ale nevím jestli tam existuje nějaká nuance, kterou jsem ještě nepoznal. díky!

hi, I've been looking through using the 'rock' search term and am finding bands that are rock, but not my particular cuppa (punk, garage, pop, etc), and I'm wondering if there are any good experimental or art rock artists? it's broad I know but it tends to include my favourites.

some examples of what I like would be: late Talk Talk, Bowie (Berlin albums), Godspeed You! Black Emperor / Silver Mt. Zion, Daughters, This Heat, Have a Nice Life, Swans, La Dispute, Animal Collective, Mars Volta, Ween, Black Country New Road.

I like artistic, unusual, experimental rock compositions. it doesn't necessarily even have to be rock, but could still have these qualities (e.g. Tindersticks, Grouper, Bjork, late Kate Bush)

thank you! I know it's so specific but I wanna see what I can find!

for instance, for «τί δ' ἐνέχουσιν οἱ σάκοι;», which of these are the most accurate with regard to pronouncing the contraction?

«τίδ' - ἐνέχουσιν ...»

«τί - δἐνέχουσιν...»

«τί - δə - ἐνέχουσιν...»

«τίδἐνέχουσιν...»

the way I've been doing it was the third way, but a part of me thinks it's wrong because it's weird having a single consonant stand as its own syllable

I often hear this is a good book for beginners (of DSAs, not programming) but skimming through my copy I am seeing a lot of mathematics related things I do not recognise. like capital sigma with the little i's beside it. the only capital sigma I know is the one that makes the S sound in greek. so is it rather more for people with maths backgrounds instead? does there exist some special resource just for this?

if you don't want to read a vent that's direly pathetic, please skip along

as a four I just cannot help but strongly identify with my profound sense of lack. I feel that I have nothing in my life that's worthwhile, no friends, no one who understands me, nothing like that, since I was about 12 or so (I'm 21 now). the things I am lacking cause me to wake up and just lie in bed for up to an hour, just thinking about the past and how unfair it was to me. it's an extremely specific unique case I'm sure only few could really empathise with, but that's not the problem. sometimes in the morning I go back to bed in order to just think or daydream about 'good things' for another half an hour (I am in control of when I daydream, so it's not MA).

because of being an outsider for all of high school, seriously unable to make friends, I find it impossible to make friends and maintain friendship even now. I have no idea how to do it.

(I have ruled out autism. I might have traits, but it was always mostly a language problem. the country I live in's language is not my native one, and is known by learners to be extremely challenging. the language thing doesn't pose a problem to me anymore, but what I failed to develop then just lingered on to now.)

on days I am feeling exceptionally well and confident (rare and spontaneous), I can maintain charm, wittiness and personality for the public. but most days aren't like that for me, and instead I make bare minimum conversation in order to steer clear of any bad judgement. I KNOW it's all in my head, but years of being left out and not cared for by any of my peers has simply left me this way. my lack of human connection is most probably the thing that constantly drives me back towards porn (ugh here we go now), I hate with the utmost passion how much I love submitting myself, heart-eyed and blushing, to mere pixels on a stupid screen. it makes me hate myself, how low it makes me feel. (other people might have it fine, the porn thing, but they have different life situations to me, and don't persistently default to shame when they suffer their unique existential agitations.) (I hold my dominant social instinct at fault for perceiving sex as this highest social achievement, driving the illusory desire to see people do things on a stupid screen. stupid caveman brain is incompatible with this world.)

the worst things I have to think about is how fond I was of my classmates. I sometimes see on instagram for instance stories from my former gymnasium classmates. they're still, even after a year, at each other's house, having a reunion or just hanging out with other former classmates. it pains me so fucking much. because I knew them for so long, watching them change, I just grew fond of them all as people but never felt particularly like a friend to anyone. the later years made it clear no one cared about me at all, which makes sense given what I've mentioned above about the language thing. (speaking it badly made me felt ashamed, so I mostly remained quiet except when spoken to.) god it was so alienating. I'm so embarrassed about the fact that on the off-set of graduation, it was clear and obvious that I everyone I knew would never care to ever contact me again. it's so depressing and disappointing being nobody's anything

I hate just waiting, and waiting, and waiting. I had probably the most wonderful night the whole last decade of my existence a few weeks ago because I got manifest, positive reception from the opposite sex. (my god, and such a sweetheart.) now it just stupidly makes me feel like a cold blooded mechanism. it's so pathological that I try so hard to deny myself the good things that I might be able to grow out of it because of how low-hanging-fruit it feels to me, and how little I feel I deserve it. I am extremely desperate for love and romance and intimacy, but I feel a serious, (maybe pathological) duty to earn it or prove myself. clearly I have things to sort out anyways. but the fact of that night still lingers strongly in my mind

the only thing that keeps me going is progressing in my 5-wing related hobbies. I love my philosophy books and they keep me sane (enough), plus learning languages. god knows I love putting myself through mentally stimulating challenges like that, because it keeps my mind occupied. everything else, just void and numbness, little enjoyment, because it lacks people's ideas and heart. most TV and vidya is boring. I like listening to people and their ideas.

I have absolutely no one to tell these things to, I apologise if some people take a disliking to it for whatever reason. my sibling makes 'suffering' a competition, I always listen to them speak about their problems, but when I bring mine up, it's 'well at least you don't have to deal with xyz', and my dad just gives me more 'pragmatic' advice when I open up to him (compare to how girls complain when their guy friends give logical advice when all they want to it be heard/emotionally understood).

I'm so sorry for yapping. I think I'm just in need of being heard by someone, gain some perspective. and a lot of you can come out with clever things💛

I met a girl yesterday at a bar (21m, 25f). first bar we were at was a special social function and we are both part of the same 'school', she just comes at the same time or after I leave, so I'd never seen her before then.

I think it went well because we talked quite a bit, and when we left the bar to go to a different place she was holding my arm and even lent me her scarf because it was cold. at the second place she got more touchy with me (just on arms and leg, for example when pressing me to go dance, which for the record I didn't cuz I was so drained) and there were moments of longer-than-usual, smiling eye-contact. both of us were wavering between tipsy and drunk the whole time though. and then as we were leaving that second place she took my hand and held it interlocking fingers with mine. and she walked me home holding hands like that, then she got an uber to go home herself.

we hugged but I guess I made a blunder because I also asked 'should we kiss' before she left, and she said no or something to the effect of 'hm no not tonight' and straight away we said goodnight and she left in her uber

the only reason why I was able to be so chill or wutever is because, lo, alcohol. I am also under the impression that a lot of it was purely just an alcohol thing. I sometimes become temporary besties with people on it (but then off it things go back to normal and they continue not caring about me, which is my fault because I am bad at friendship maintenance plus don't act the same: more shy, timid, etc.).

so I have either the next Friday to see her again to speak in person (which I prefer, as I hate texting; but it would be in a week's time, and maybe it would signal that I don't mean to be insistent in any sort of way, esp after the dumb kiss thing), or I can try msg her on instagram now, which I got. should I? I can freestyle it or just talk about our work/projects we have to do.

maybe these are dumb questions or long for such a simple question but I've literally not had a friend since I was like 13 and so I am afraid of effing something up. general advice is appreciated. thanks!

hello. in the morning I like to have a cup of coffee and a glass of orange juice; or if I run out of that then a glass of cola. however, I am trying to also eat other things, especially easily digestible things. the thing is I feel very full even with just the cup of coffee (1/2 coffee 1/2 milk, few tsps sugar/honey), and even drinking the OJ afterwards makes me feel kind of bloated, let alone other foods such as eggs, after which I always feel mild nausea (but only in the morning). (I usually have 3 to 6 raw eggs in the morning when I have to eat the times I have to leave soon. otherwise it's just coffee + OJ.)

yet I am perfectly fine eating normal meal portions later in the day.

what gives?