quantumspiral

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    I just started learning Spanish. I'm mostly using Dreaming Spanish as it's a great source of comprehensive input.

    I'm only about 6 hours in, and it's really quite satisfying to be able to understand very (very) simple content in Spanish. Learning the English translation for some reggaeton tracks too for is quite a jarring experience too I must say.

    I see there's a pretty big community on YouTube around language learning- although there's a fair number of fake polyglots out there too.

    There have been studies proving language learning is associated with structural improvements in the brain- increases in white matter and executive function.

    Anybody else learn languages for a hobby? Or are you learning for a particular purpose?

  4. Posted · Edited by quantumspiral

     

    Owen Cook / RSD Tyler has his son Dylan run up and down the seminar room screaming in the face of the adult attendees.

    The point he's trying to prove is that when you start speaking louder and more authoritatively (and in this case, bordering on insulting) your brain opens up more and you become more comfortable expressing yourself and using all your faculties.

    Owen is clearly not only using his son as an illustration of his point for the seminar, but he's also trying to drill it through Dylan's head that he's high status and can act how he wants / express himself. I'd imagine this is something Owen does with Dylan very regularly, not just on this one occassion.

    It will be interesting how this turns out for Dylan. Hopefully well but I can see this backfiring in multiple ways.

    You can see Dylan have a meltdown from 6:00 onwards.

     

  10. Posted · Edited by quantumspiral

    I don't want to pick on people, but I feel like Leila Hormozi is the perfect representation of toxic stage orange. For anyone who doesn't know, she is the wife of Alex Hormozi, a pretty famous business influencer on social media and entrepreneur. Leila also teaches about success and business.

    However, there is something deeply hollow and disconcerting about her. I can't help but feel she represents the product of excessive stage orange success chasing which eventually self implodes:

    - Excessive plastic surgery which brings her into uncanny valley

    - Has taken testosterone / anabolics resulting in a masculine voice

    - Everything she says comes across as deeply hollow and inauthentic

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    4 hours ago, Ayham said:

    Hi from Iraq, I don't know about Latin America but it is red af here, but I would say more blue depending on the place.

    Some areas and settings are very red, some are very blue, and some are very orange, a green area is nonexistent for example.  

    BTW, in Iraq, lawyers are jobless (and also everyone lol) because most of the time, the "law" gets implemented by clans, like, your last name is your clan, each clan has a head chief or something, people use their clans to get back at people and stuff, either through taking money from people or sometimes it evolves into a gun fight.

    But actually Iraq is developing a lot recently, like in the last few years, it is becoming much more orange, these stuff are getting rare, I just hope nothing happens in Iraq because we are just getting ourselves together lol (since the tensions in the middle east are fire right now).

    Interesting, thanks for sharing!

  23. Posted · Edited by quantumspiral

    @PenguinPablo Yes. Of course, drugs and cartels play a (huge) role there- and there's geographic (being directly below the largest drug market in the world) and economic (poor kids from villages in the country see the only people who have money are the cartels who come through in their trucks and even tactical gear sometimes) In fact, I think the vast majority of homicides in Mexico are linked with organized crime.

    I have to ask myself, if in 1900 the entire population of Mexico was replaced with Finnish, Swiss, Singaporeans or Japanese, would we see as much brutality in narco trafficking as we do today?

     

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    On 12/12/2024 at 6:50 PM, EternalForest said:

    I'd rather be a dreamy "puer" and enjoy life than be a miserable old man with no imagination who's angry at the entire world, which is realistically the end result of someone who views everything through the lens of pure pragmatism. It's also a two way street. Although greatness oftentimes occurs in the process of creation, great ideas motivate great work. I guarantee you if they had the idea for a Game of Thrones or The Legend of Zelda in their head, even the laziest puer would be working on it day and night. Yet if they lived in pure pragmatism, they wouldn't even see themselves as having the potential to create such a thing. In other words, even if they had an idea so great, they wouldn't have the sense of wonder or freedom to recognize it.

    I think you're straw manning the argument. If you're not a puer aeturnus, that does not mean you automatically have the spirit of an overly pragmatic, bitter old man.

    The point is that the puer hides from the harshness of reality by clinging to their dreams as a sort of ideal future reality where there will be no suffering and everything will be perfect. They cannot actualize their dreams because they cannot even touch reality, since it's difficulties and discomforts are too much to bear. So instead, the puer hides in fantasy.

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    There seems to be an obsession with respect, domination and violence in Latin America that is rooted in the ancient cultures of the Americas, Spanish colonization and military dictatorships that goes beyond spiral dynamics.

    The highest homicide rate cities are always in Latin America (Tijuana, Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Obregón, Acapulco). 

    On a country wide level, the highest homicide rates have been found in Central America and the Carribean (Jamaica, El Salvador, Honduras).

    Is Latin America the most red region in the world?