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My grandma is a very badass woman, and since I broke my cellphone we are only able to converse through email or in person interactions. She is confined to her home most of the time, and is dutiful to all household chores. She deserves a proper retirement of travel and joy.
yuri and yaoi are some of the best, most sacred things in the entire world
The sequence of these photos are phenomenological
obsessed with this baby hippo from thailand's khao khew zoo.. she has been so utterly betrayed by the world
My rage is calmed when I express myself. So, why do I not do so more often? A question I find the solution to whenever I clean a space I must move out of.
Delaying the gratification of becoming my full potential has led to poor personal politics; therefore, the thriving of the fascist regime is one I have become complicit to.
They asked if I had a hobby
A cousin asked if I had any hobbies. I said, "I got an $18 Ukulele." Now, I have to learn how to play the damn Portuguese Instrument from the free Ukulele lessons I signed up for about a month ago, but have yet to surpass the introductory phase.
Canadian Parliament e-petition Open for Signature
the most fun a girl can have is finding parallels, noticing patterns, making connections, contemplating
Oh project 2025 isn’t going to happen you’re being paranoid-
What the absolute fuck is this then? This country is so fucked.
the trump administration is already slowly taking away our rights, no longer legally recognizing us and only seeing two genders in america — male and female — and passports no longer taking new gender maker changes or x gender markers. this is just the start of it most likely
they've erased mentions of LGBTQ on government websites and removed pages related to honoring nex benedict and matthew shepard, like they never existed. we know they existed though and we need to keep both nex benedict and matthew shepard's names alive and remember what horrible violence and hate crime took them away from us.
this is not to scare anyone. this is to inform the masses on what our government is doing. censorship is actively happening around us. do you know the world is protesting for us? no? the united states have already started their censorship, their propaganda for this administration. do not let them censor us and hide us from the truth. speak up, learn, adapt, and inform others.
Five Timeless Techniques for Mastering Knowledge
1. Spaced Repetition
Steps:
Identify Key Information: Select the material you need to learn.
Create a Study Schedule: Space your study sessions over increasing intervals (e.g., 1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 2 weeks).
Review Regularly: Revisit the material at each scheduled session.
Scientific Basis: Spaced repetition leverages the spacing effect, a phenomenon where information is more easily recalled when study sessions are spaced out over time. Research shows this technique enhances long-term retention compared to cramming.
2. Cornell Method
Steps:
Prepare Your Paper: Divide your paper into three sections: a narrow left column for cues, a larger right column for notes, and a summary section at the bottom.
Take Notes: During lectures or readings, jot down key points in the right column.
Cue Column: After the session, fill in the left column with questions or keywords related to your notes.
Summarize: At the end of your notes, write a brief summary of the main points in the bottom section.
Review: Use the cues to test your recall and understanding.
Scientific Basis: The Cornell Method promotes active engagement with the material and encourages self-testing, which are both linked to improved memory and understanding through the retrieval practice effect.
3. SQ3R Method
Steps:
Survey: Quickly scan the material to get an overview.
Question: Formulate questions based on headings and subheadings.
Read: Read the material carefully to find answers to your questions.
Recite: Summarize the information in your own words.
Review: Go over the material again to reinforce learning.
Scientific Basis: SQ3R is based on principles of active reading and metacognition. By engaging with the material in multiple ways, learners can deepen their understanding and retention.
4. Priming
Steps:
Preview Material: Briefly look over the material before diving into a detailed study session.
Set Goals: Define what you want to achieve with your study session.
Contextual Exposure: Expose yourself to related concepts and ideas in everyday life.
Scientific Basis: Priming relies on the brain's ability to make connections between related pieces of information. It can enhance learning and recall by creating a mental framework that makes new information easier to integrate.
5. Metacognition
Steps:
Plan: Before starting, plan your approach to the study session.
Monitor: Keep track of your understanding and progress during study.
Evaluate: After the session, assess what you've learned and how well you understood it.
Scientific Basis: Metacognition involves thinking about one's own thinking processes. It encourages self-regulation and reflective practices, which research shows can significantly enhance learning outcomes by promoting deeper understanding and strategic use of cognitive resources.
Snowy stream, foraging fowl
Salmon hats: sweeping the nation by storm watercolor on paper, digitally overlaid on photo
Reminder to people upon gaining power it took Hitler only 57 days to dismantle German democracy and declare himself dictator and start purging the "undesirables"
Embarrassed myself a few days ago and since then I've been periodically going like this
Ignore the part where he gets naked that's not part of it.
i’m gonna be real i dont think we’re gonna community garden our way out of this one
A declassified World War II-era government guide to “simple sabotage” is currently one of the most popular open source books on the internet. The book, called “Simple Sabotage Field Manual,” was declassified in 2008 by the CIA and “describes ways to train normal people to be purposefully annoying telephone operators, dysfunctional train conductors, befuddling middle managers, blundering factory workers, unruly movie theater patrons, and so on. In other words, teaching people to do their jobs badly.” Over the last week, the guide has surged to become the 5th-most-accessed book on Project Gutenberg, an open source repository of free and public domain ebooks. It is also the fifth most popular ebook on the site over the last 30 days, having been accessed nearly 60,000 times over the last month (just behind Romeo and Juliet).
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Because it was written during active wartime, the book includes various suggestions for causing physical violence and destruction, such as starting fires, flooding warehouses, breaking tools, etc. But it also includes many suggestions for how to just generally be annoying within a bureaucracy or office setting. Simple sabotage ideas include: “Insist on doing everything through ‘channels.’ Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.” “Make ‘speeches.’ Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your ‘points’ by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate ‘patriotic’ comments.” “Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.” “Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.” “‘Misunderstand’ orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders. Quibble over them when you can.” “In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first. See that the important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers of poor machines.” “To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.” “Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.” “Multiply paperwork in plausible ways.” “Make mistakes in quantities of material when you are copying orders. Confuse similar names. Use wrong addresses.” “Work slowly. Think out ways to increase the number of movements necessary on your job” “Pretend that instructions are hard to understand, and ask to have them repeated more than once. Or pretend that you are particularly anxious to do your work, and pester the foreman with unnecessary questions.” “Snarl up administration in every possible way. Fill out forms illegibly so that they will have to be done over; make mistakes or omit requested information in forms.” The guide also suggests “general devices for lowering morale and creating confusion,” which include “Report imaginary spies or danger to the Gestapo or police,” “act stupid,” “Be as irritable and quarrelsome as possible without getting yourself into trouble,” “Stop all conversation when axis nationals or quislings enter a cafe,” “Cry and sob hysterically at every occasion, especially when confronted by government clerks.”
29 January 2025
There no shame in never becoming fluent in your target language(s). Learning a new language even a little bit is great. Having the ability to communicate even a little bit is great. Learning about the culture(s) is great. You're doing great. Enjoy the experience.
Trump is appointing three washed-up actors as "ambassador to Hollywood" in order to bring back the "Golden Age of Hollywood". Which has historical precedent: there was an ambassador to Hollywood in the Golden Age, too. His name was Georg Gyssling and he was sent by Hitler to monitor the activities of Hollywood studios. To make sure their films didn't say anything anti-Nazi, resulting in many attempts at anti-fascist films being shut down by the Hays Code. Just a fun historical Hollywood fact there
Arches, 11/24
REALLY tough photo conditions in Arches, but worth it to be nearly alone in the park most days! When else do you get Delicate Arch to yourself for like 45 minutes than when it's like 15F and windy. Wish I could have made better use of that time but whatever.
I do not know who James Burks is, but I was recommended an artistic post of a stop motion this James Burks made. When I looked at it, liked it, and his message to continue making art was meaningful. So, I thought to share it with you.