I'm not sure if the prospect of him dying one day is any consolation. I mean, Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il died at some point, but nothing really changed for ordinary North Koreans.
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I'm in the same boat as you (currently reading Lemmy/Kbin to avoid having to get out of bed), but occasionally I get bored of YouTube and similar instant gratifications too, and then I make a more concerted effort to do something more productive. This isn't easy and often doesn't last very long, but — as you correctly pointed out — it's starting the hard part. Once you've started something you know you'll enjoy, you can sink time into it.
Ich biete hiermit eine Revanche()!
(Für die nicht-Englischsprecher: Revanche heißt auf Englisch rematch)
I assume that banning all robocalls requires new legislation, whereas the regulation mentioned here didn't.
Don't be too hard on yourself. English spelling is not exactly cooperative.
That assumes that they could have voted for anyone, when in fact the ruling elite preselects which candidates are even allowed to run, plus the media (also controlled by the ruling elite) make sure that you get no access to high-quality information about any candidate (least of all the “undesirable” ones).
No, but it makes us feel like we're contributing to the conversation.
That's still rein.
Right! So the two questions this raises to me are:
- How does our own current crisis compare to those crises that caused those systemic shifts? Are we there yet?
- When our own crisis come to a head and shit goes down fast, what will the next system be?
This is referencing the constellation of the eagle, or aquila in Latin. The names of the stars in each constellation are referred to by a Greek letter plus the genitive (possessive) form of the constellation name, in the order of apparent brightness. Thus, the brightest star in the constellation of Aquila is Alpha Aquilae, or “alpha [star] of the eagle” (but it is also known by its Arabic name, Altair). The brightest in the constellation of Taurus (the bull) is Alpha Tauri, which also bears the Arabic name Aldebaran.
Without anything for it to modify, aquilae is also the nominative plural form of the word (i.e., eagles).
The same word is also found in the taxonomic names of some eagle species. The Golden Eagle, for instance, is Aquila chrysaetos. The first word, the genus, is just Latin for eagle. The second part, the species, is classical Greek for “golden eagle”. The “golden” part (chrys-) is also responsible for the name of the chrysanthemum, Greek for “golden flower”.
Because without it, the DOJ would have no control over you, duh