Daily Check-in
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fandom_checkinThis is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Tuesday, July 15, to midnight on Wednesday, July 16. (8pm Eastern Time).
Poll #33362 Daily Check-in
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 1
How are you doing?
I am OK.
1 (100.0%)
I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
0 (0.0%)
I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)
How many other humans live with you?
I am living single.
1 (100.0%)
One other person.
0 (0.0%)
More than one other person.
0 (0.0%)
Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
[Discussion] Philosophy books you think are worth reading
Jul. 15th, 2025 08:09 pmzenigotchas posting in booknookThis has been on my mind for a while since I've been slowly nibbling away at Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good And Evil over the present 3 months. I'm on the last chapter and have enjoyed it way more than I expected to, even if I think a lot of his conclusions are straight up intellectually or even morally wrong, it is good to see a very different perspective from my own. It has been helping me sharpen my OWN critical thinking skills and my own personal philosophy–Being the philosophy babey that I am, I am not as familiar with the fields of philosophy or how many other good and fun books are in there, but this has been giving me an appetite for this kind of book and to keep exploring.
For those reasons I would definitely say it is worth reading, but mostly because it's so fun.
What philosophy books have YOU utterly devoured or thought were things everyone should try?
For those reasons I would definitely say it is worth reading, but mostly because it's so fun.
What philosophy books have YOU utterly devoured or thought were things everyone should try?
Finished Dr. Stone: Science Future
Jul. 15th, 2025 06:33 pmfennectik posting in anime_mangaSo I caught up with Dr. Stone and made it through the first part of the Science Future ark and it was as expected, fully enjoyable and immersible. I don't think I could ever get bored of this series. Too bad the second part is yet to be available but I am willing to be patient till it is.
And Kohaku is still my favorite.
And Kohaku is still my favorite.
Something that's always interested me
Jul. 15th, 2025 07:27 pmconulyis when an organization feels the urgent need to say something both in officialese and also everyday talk. I can think of three very relevant examples in NYC:
1. Every time you do your taxes or do almost anything that involves interacting with the state government, you'll have to pick your county, and if you live in Brooklyn or Staten Island that means they list the county with the coterminous borough in parentheses.
2. If you have a kid in school, every year they send you a form reminding you to fill out your Emergency Contact Card, and every year they include the phrase "Blue Card" right afterwards. Because that's what we all call it. Because they're blue.
3. And here's one I haven't thought about much since adolescence, but if a job is apt to hire teens then they will ask for their Employment Certification and then, inevitably, add "Working Papers" right afterwards, again, because that's what everybody calls them.
There must be other examples I'm missing, as well as non-NY examples. I sometimes wonder if it'd be easier for them to just cave to the inevitable and start listing the everyday term first and then list the "real" term afterwards.
1. Every time you do your taxes or do almost anything that involves interacting with the state government, you'll have to pick your county, and if you live in Brooklyn or Staten Island that means they list the county with the coterminous borough in parentheses.
2. If you have a kid in school, every year they send you a form reminding you to fill out your Emergency Contact Card, and every year they include the phrase "Blue Card" right afterwards. Because that's what we all call it. Because they're blue.
3. And here's one I haven't thought about much since adolescence, but if a job is apt to hire teens then they will ask for their Employment Certification and then, inevitably, add "Working Papers" right afterwards, again, because that's what everybody calls them.
There must be other examples I'm missing, as well as non-NY examples. I sometimes wonder if it'd be easier for them to just cave to the inevitable and start listing the everyday term first and then list the "real" term afterwards.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S3
Jul. 15th, 2025 07:16 pmdewlineI may have been premature in assuming that Season 3 will not be available on CTV Sci-Fi Channel.
I may have misunderstood. I just checked the PVR's "Guide" function to look ahead to Thursday night. I saw short blurbs for "Hegemony II" and "Wedding Bell Blues".
I'll know for sure on Thursday night, it seems.
I may have misunderstood. I just checked the PVR's "Guide" function to look ahead to Thursday night. I saw short blurbs for "Hegemony II" and "Wedding Bell Blues".
I'll know for sure on Thursday night, it seems.
第四年第一百八十七天
Jul. 15th, 2025 07:10 pmnnozomi posting in guardian_learning部首
厶 sī
去, to go; 县, county; 参, to participate ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=28
词汇
武器, weapon; 武术, martial art ( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/
Guardian:
你这么忙，连参加孩子毕业典礼的时间都没有, you're so busy you don't even have the time to attend your child's graduation
我为你做了一个武器, I made you a weapon
Me:
他和我来自一样的县。
你学了武术吗？
厶 sī
去, to go; 县, county; 参, to participate ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=28
词汇
武器, weapon; 武术, martial art ( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/
Guardian:
你这么忙，连参加孩子毕业典礼的时间都没有, you're so busy you don't even have the time to attend your child's graduation
我为你做了一个武器, I made you a weapon
Me:
他和我来自一样的县。
你学了武术吗？
