I'm against having wild animals as pets, since they are not domesticated. But if you really have to choose one, I'd say the capybara because they're the closest to domesticated out of all of those. Some cultures even keep and breed them for meat. But you'll have to keep in mind that they hate cramped spaces and rely a lot on lakes or other large bodies of water to regulate their temperature.
All others are a big no as pets, specially the first three. You can befriend some in the wild maybe, but unless you're rescuing them and they're unable to live in the wild, it'd be needless cruelty to keep them. I guess frogs are too inert to care, but you're still going to have to keep it trapped otherwise they'll either die or flee very quickly.
It's a bad idea, get something domesticated like a goat or chicken.
Edit: that's not an ostrich btw, but from my experience with actual ostriches in farms, they are incredibly aggressive and territorial. I'm not sure how the smaller relative behaves, but I wouldn't keep any of those near children or other smaller animals.
On the second point it does make sense. I just don't think it can work as the sole encouragement, happy incentives are kind of a must too. Those are harder to find and depend on their interests, but movies and stuff like that can work.
But I have very little experience with actually running the classes rather than just assisting, so take that bit with a pinch of salt.
One particular thing about the Yankee "love" for indigenous people is that they effectively believe that indigenous people are dead or aren't part of their country any more. That means they can go on and on about how much they care about indigenous history, say they want to protect indigenous landmarks but don't ever talk about the currently living indigenous people fighting for their land and rights, or their many imprisoned comrades. This is true for other American settler states too.
This is why they'll post black and white pictures of long dead leaders (challenge: have them name those leaders and their nations), but if you ask them about AIM or even living leaders like Peltier they'll think you're making things up. If Israel manages to somehow stablish themselves in the Middle-East to the level the the US did in North America (highly doubtful), they'll celebrate "Palestinian Peoples' Day" the exact same way.
Can't help with all the other stuff because teenagers are complex. But on the specific point of using the native language, from my experience this could be a sign that they're not confident enough in their English.
Unlike one on one tutoring, students can get very self-conscious about mistakes or "having accents" with other students, specially when they're so young. Instead of insisting they speak in English at all times, try to be lenient when they chat among themselves, but ask them to try and repeat their native language questions in English specifically when addressing you.
And when doing group exercises, what worked in the past was letting them sort it out privately in whichever language, but then having them taking turns at a "for real" part of the exercise to the whole class. Your mileage may vary.
I don't think bad grades as punishment work, specially for homework, but I have no experience in grading. And don't feel bad for not being "intimidating" or commanding discipline, teenagers in groups are basically immune to that (unless there's some form of severe punishment which you obviously shouldn't do) and kids nowadays are even harder to control.
Disclaimer, in case you're not in on the joke of Ask Lemmygrad; If you want a serious answer, you should probably pose this question in a more serious Ask Lemmy.
I like how you realised your answer was useless to a serious thread, but still went ahead with it. You might want to consider for a second why people would be less willing to post questions such as these in "ask dotworld" if that's the general attitude there.
Sorry, yeah the Haddad thing was meant as a (bad) joke. It's usually a good idea for coordinated action like strikes to have your own publicity section, to help fight back against misinformation from bourgeois media, like the wgacontract2023.org website. It doesn't need to be anything to fancy, but I think your local DCE cell could organise something simple like a wordpress blog, porkbun sells some really cheap domains too. Urgency dictates that getting something out there is more important than having something perfect, and word of mouth can only get so far.
Usually they stick to Instagram, which is a pretty big beef I have with them over it because IG and other recommendation-based networks are entirely unreliable to get information across.
As for the governor and dean partnership, that is a bit of the norm. One thing to keep in mind is that the most prestigious and possibly lucrative portion of these universities is not the teaching, but the all the research (specially private research), so by impeding that somehow it'll put them in a worse position for negotiation. If the post-grad (just grad for English speakers) students are onboard too that'll be a good sign.
Uncritical solidarity to student strikes. Sadly they are not such a clear threat to industry (compared to, for example, a bus strike), so y'all will have an even tougher fight ahead you.
The demands seem on point. I know that it's on the state level rather than federal, but I can't help but feel that Haddad's fiscal austerity is to blame somehow. Leave a note on his office.
By the way, this came out of left field for me, do y'all have some public relations website or something we other Brazilians could stay tuned to?
I've been jumping around between a bunch of books because ADHD is a vibe, but here's the list:
Bullshit Jobs
Pretty cool book but way less data dense than I expected. Graeber has some random anarchist moments in there but it doesn't negatively impact the thesis.
Move Fast and Break Things, Taplin
Documents the rise of the big techs (specially Amazon, Google, Meta and PayPal) through a critical lense, from the active recruitment of people who actively disregard the law (Napster) to intentionally targeting markets that are easy to consolidate while using every resource on earth to avoid even paying basic taxes their competitors had to deal with. For example, Amazon had a lot of success specifically because during its formative years it had to pay zero sales taxes due to loopholes about selling out of state.
Author really likes copyright, and really hates piracy.
Chokepoint Capitalism, Doctorow
Haven't got too far into this one but so far it's really good at documenting the active and intentional anti-competitive practices and smoke and mirrors, specially of Google, and demystifying some self-important myths of theirs. Worthy of note is how they show how, in many cases, Google's ad business has basically no effect on new costumers, and how it's built on a mountain of fraud.
Author really could use a read of Imperialism.
Vidas Secas, Grasciliano Ramos
Fictional story about a small poor family living in the Sertão region of Brazil in the 1930s through the long dry seasons. It's incredibly melancholic and introspective, and the author has a very good way with words. Since it uses a lot of the local dialect, even most Brazilians would probably have a hard time reading it, so I doubt a translation would do it justice.
It was partially written while the author was in jail after a failed communist revolution against the fascistic government.
Las Venas Abiertas de América Latina, Eduardo Galeano
I'm actually re-reading (listening) in Spanish this time.
It is a broad socio-economic history review of Latin America, beginning from the colonisation by Spain and Portugal, and following it through to the insertion of British and then Estadunidense capital. It goes into a lot of depth about the extractive economies, from minerals to sugar, oil, cotton or wood, and the impacts of colonisation and imperialism on both the original people, the settlers and the enslaved Africans and their descendants.
It is a must read if you want to understand Latin America through a Marxist perspective, and also makes for great Spanish practice while you're at it. The audiobook on the audiobookbay is pretty good too.
I was also reading Assassination of Julius Caesar by Parenti, which is very good, but decided to put that one on hold until I get the other ones (and my life) under control.
I'd probably only do it for survival reasons or temporarily for learning. I've considered moving a lot in my life (specially fooled by brain drain Western propaganda), but the whole process is too costly and risky, and doesn't help make my country a better place.
If I get the conditions to afford moving elsewhere, I would also likely have the conditions to live a comfortable life or try to make a change here.
But it's always good to learn some Chinese and Spanish as backup ;)
Yes, it'd possibly help make older historical materials more accessible to modern audiences and also avoid issues with hosting texts which have severe errors in them, but are overall useful for other reasons.
Definitely! It'd be a great advantage over the MIA for example, which does barely any effort to contextualise their texts. We also have a problem with internet archives where a ton of older texts have some 4 "prefaces to the German edition of 19xx," all of which with a lot of historical context mostly relevant only for the time of those prefaces, and it seems fair that we have some for our times and context as well.
It'd be hard to separate this, but one thing I've found in some publications was to have a preface for context and a postface for opinions and analysis. But I believe different users will have at least slightly different opinions and interpretations over the material and how it applies to their context of interest, so (resources willing) this could be its own section if there's a lot of interest from the editorship.
I wouldn't personally due to trusting the wiki given my experience so far. And since the PW is openly ML less trusting users would at least see those biases up front rather than hidden.
From the ones I read there, Harman's "How Marxism Works" really could use one, and the Maidan Trials one seems too topical to not do one too, specially with the knowledge of later developments. The Little Red Book is broken right now, but that one is basically a bunch of context-less quotations that are ripe for misinterpretation, so that'd be interesting too after it gets fixed. And one that took me quite a while to get through due to all the historical context I was missing was Lenin's "What is to be done?" which I've read in Portuguese somewhere else.
"Preface to the ProleWiki Edition" sounds nice, maybe add a date.
If footnotes are to be implemented and if it's feasible, I'd really like if y'all somehow adapted the Wikipedia footnote hover popups, as going to the bottom of the webpage and then back can be really frustrating. And not exactly a suggestion, but I'm curious how this will be applied to large books when compared with small pamphlets. It's one thing to do a single preface for the Manifesto, quite another to a longer book like Imperialism, so it may or may not be interesting to provide a
Do you have any quick resources to read more on Ba'athism for people who don't know much about current day MENA? I was interested on learning about it a while back, but NATOpedia was not helpful and doing full research looks a bit daunting.
I believe it should be enforced only in certain specific cases that pose large scale societal harm. One thing reactionaries always jump to when talking about the death penalty is murderers and rapists, and one can argue how much the harm of those crimes is large-scale or societal, but I think they pose way less threat in the abstract to society than, for example, a pogrom inciter. Specially since those usually get barely any punishment because they "personally didn't kill anybody."
I also see the "punishment" aspect of the death penalty to be completely moot. Even just a life sentence in solitary can be a way more harrowing and punishing experience than however long the death can be extended to, so focusing on the broader social impact of either a deterrent or a "permanent removal from society" is the way to go. This is not a moral stance, though, and different societies with different moral and cultural values will have to take those into account too.
Yet another interesting movement to be crushed by third world infighting led by the USA and their puppet UN. I can't even see a positive outcome out of this, let's just hope this isn't as brutal as the Brazilian one. Maybe the Bwa Kale movement and FRG9 can pull out an actual revolution even then, but that'd probably only prompt an even worse intervention.
I'm against having wild animals as pets, since they are not domesticated. But if you really have to choose one, I'd say the capybara because they're the closest to domesticated out of all of those. Some cultures even keep and breed them for meat. But you'll have to keep in mind that they hate cramped spaces and rely a lot on lakes or other large bodies of water to regulate their temperature.
All others are a big no as pets, specially the first three. You can befriend some in the wild maybe, but unless you're rescuing them and they're unable to live in the wild, it'd be needless cruelty to keep them. I guess frogs are too inert to care, but you're still going to have to keep it trapped otherwise they'll either die or flee very quickly.
It's a bad idea, get something domesticated like a goat or chicken.
Edit: that's not an ostrich btw, but from my experience with actual ostriches in farms, they are incredibly aggressive and territorial. I'm not sure how the smaller relative behaves, but I wouldn't keep any of those near children or other smaller animals.
On the second point it does make sense. I just don't think it can work as the sole encouragement, happy incentives are kind of a must too. Those are harder to find and depend on their interests, but movies and stuff like that can work.
But I have very little experience with actually running the classes rather than just assisting, so take that bit with a pinch of salt.
Ewoks shouldn't have fought back, they should've led peaceful protests to vote the Emperor out.
One particular thing about the Yankee "love" for indigenous people is that they effectively believe that indigenous people are dead or aren't part of their country any more. That means they can go on and on about how much they care about indigenous history, say they want to protect indigenous landmarks but don't ever talk about the currently living indigenous people fighting for their land and rights, or their many imprisoned comrades. This is true for other American settler states too.
This is why they'll post black and white pictures of long dead leaders (challenge: have them name those leaders and their nations), but if you ask them about AIM or even living leaders like Peltier they'll think you're making things up. If Israel manages to somehow stablish themselves in the Middle-East to the level the the US did in North America (highly doubtful), they'll celebrate "Palestinian Peoples' Day" the exact same way.
Can't help with all the other stuff because teenagers are complex. But on the specific point of using the native language, from my experience this could be a sign that they're not confident enough in their English.
Unlike one on one tutoring, students can get very self-conscious about mistakes or "having accents" with other students, specially when they're so young. Instead of insisting they speak in English at all times, try to be lenient when they chat among themselves, but ask them to try and repeat their native language questions in English specifically when addressing you.
And when doing group exercises, what worked in the past was letting them sort it out privately in whichever language, but then having them taking turns at a "for real" part of the exercise to the whole class. Your mileage may vary.
I don't think bad grades as punishment work, specially for homework, but I have no experience in grading. And don't feel bad for not being "intimidating" or commanding discipline, teenagers in groups are basically immune to that (unless there's some form of severe punishment which you obviously shouldn't do) and kids nowadays are even harder to control.
I like how you realised your answer was useless to a serious thread, but still went ahead with it. You might want to consider for a second why people would be less willing to post questions such as these in "ask dotworld" if that's the general attitude there.
full response from the organisation behind the protest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJQycp1H5sQ
If anybody is getting paid for this please DM me. Gotta pay rent, so might as well do it while doing something good for society.
I'll take a look at those, thanks! If you know somebody from the orgs, tell them about the awesomeness of email lists for me.
This classic.
Sorry, yeah the Haddad thing was meant as a (bad) joke. It's usually a good idea for coordinated action like strikes to have your own publicity section, to help fight back against misinformation from bourgeois media, like the wgacontract2023.org website. It doesn't need to be anything to fancy, but I think your local DCE cell could organise something simple like a wordpress blog, porkbun sells some really cheap domains too. Urgency dictates that getting something out there is more important than having something perfect, and word of mouth can only get so far.
Usually they stick to Instagram, which is a pretty big beef I have with them over it because IG and other recommendation-based networks are entirely unreliable to get information across.
As for the governor and dean partnership, that is a bit of the norm. One thing to keep in mind is that the most prestigious and possibly lucrative portion of these universities is not the teaching, but the all the research (specially private research), so by impeding that somehow it'll put them in a worse position for negotiation. If the post-grad (just grad for English speakers) students are onboard too that'll be a good sign.
This could be on the dictionary definition of orientalism. You might want to rethink this statement.
Uncritical solidarity to student strikes. Sadly they are not such a clear threat to industry (compared to, for example, a bus strike), so y'all will have an even tougher fight ahead you.
The demands seem on point. I know that it's on the state level rather than federal, but I can't help but feel that Haddad's fiscal austerity is to blame somehow. Leave a note on his office.
By the way, this came out of left field for me, do y'all have some public relations website or something we other Brazilians could stay tuned to?
I've been jumping around between a bunch of books because ADHD is a vibe, but here's the list:
Bullshit Jobs
Pretty cool book but way less data dense than I expected. Graeber has some random anarchist moments in there but it doesn't negatively impact the thesis.
Move Fast and Break Things, Taplin
Documents the rise of the big techs (specially Amazon, Google, Meta and PayPal) through a critical lense, from the active recruitment of people who actively disregard the law (Napster) to intentionally targeting markets that are easy to consolidate while using every resource on earth to avoid even paying basic taxes their competitors had to deal with. For example, Amazon had a lot of success specifically because during its formative years it had to pay zero sales taxes due to loopholes about selling out of state.
Author really likes copyright, and really hates piracy.
Chokepoint Capitalism, Doctorow
Haven't got too far into this one but so far it's really good at documenting the active and intentional anti-competitive practices and smoke and mirrors, specially of Google, and demystifying some self-important myths of theirs. Worthy of note is how they show how, in many cases, Google's ad business has basically no effect on new costumers, and how it's built on a mountain of fraud.
Author really could use a read of Imperialism.
Vidas Secas, Grasciliano Ramos
Fictional story about a small poor family living in the Sertão region of Brazil in the 1930s through the long dry seasons. It's incredibly melancholic and introspective, and the author has a very good way with words. Since it uses a lot of the local dialect, even most Brazilians would probably have a hard time reading it, so I doubt a translation would do it justice.
It was partially written while the author was in jail after a failed communist revolution against the fascistic government.
Las Venas Abiertas de América Latina, Eduardo Galeano
I'm actually re-reading (listening) in Spanish this time.
It is a broad socio-economic history review of Latin America, beginning from the colonisation by Spain and Portugal, and following it through to the insertion of British and then Estadunidense capital. It goes into a lot of depth about the extractive economies, from minerals to sugar, oil, cotton or wood, and the impacts of colonisation and imperialism on both the original people, the settlers and the enslaved Africans and their descendants.
It is a must read if you want to understand Latin America through a Marxist perspective, and also makes for great Spanish practice while you're at it. The audiobook on the audiobookbay is pretty good too.
I was also reading Assassination of Julius Caesar by Parenti, which is very good, but decided to put that one on hold until I get the other ones (and my life) under control.
I'd probably only do it for survival reasons or temporarily for learning. I've considered moving a lot in my life (specially fooled by brain drain Western propaganda), but the whole process is too costly and risky, and doesn't help make my country a better place.
If I get the conditions to afford moving elsewhere, I would also likely have the conditions to live a comfortable life or try to make a change here.
But it's always good to learn some Chinese and Spanish as backup ;)
Yes, it'd possibly help make older historical materials more accessible to modern audiences and also avoid issues with hosting texts which have severe errors in them, but are overall useful for other reasons.
Definitely! It'd be a great advantage over the MIA for example, which does barely any effort to contextualise their texts. We also have a problem with internet archives where a ton of older texts have some 4 "prefaces to the German edition of 19xx," all of which with a lot of historical context mostly relevant only for the time of those prefaces, and it seems fair that we have some for our times and context as well.
It'd be hard to separate this, but one thing I've found in some publications was to have a preface for context and a postface for opinions and analysis. But I believe different users will have at least slightly different opinions and interpretations over the material and how it applies to their context of interest, so (resources willing) this could be its own section if there's a lot of interest from the editorship.
I wouldn't personally due to trusting the wiki given my experience so far. And since the PW is openly ML less trusting users would at least see those biases up front rather than hidden.
From the ones I read there, Harman's "How Marxism Works" really could use one, and the Maidan Trials one seems too topical to not do one too, specially with the knowledge of later developments. The Little Red Book is broken right now, but that one is basically a bunch of context-less quotations that are ripe for misinterpretation, so that'd be interesting too after it gets fixed. And one that took me quite a while to get through due to all the historical context I was missing was Lenin's "What is to be done?" which I've read in Portuguese somewhere else.
"Preface to the ProleWiki Edition" sounds nice, maybe add a date.
If footnotes are to be implemented and if it's feasible, I'd really like if y'all somehow adapted the Wikipedia footnote hover popups, as going to the bottom of the webpage and then back can be really frustrating. And not exactly a suggestion, but I'm curious how this will be applied to large books when compared with small pamphlets. It's one thing to do a single preface for the Manifesto, quite another to a longer book like Imperialism, so it may or may not be interesting to provide a
Do you have any quick resources to read more on Ba'athism for people who don't know much about current day MENA? I was interested on learning about it a while back, but NATOpedia was not helpful and doing full research looks a bit daunting.
I believe it should be enforced only in certain specific cases that pose large scale societal harm. One thing reactionaries always jump to when talking about the death penalty is murderers and rapists, and one can argue how much the harm of those crimes is large-scale or societal, but I think they pose way less threat in the abstract to society than, for example, a pogrom inciter. Specially since those usually get barely any punishment because they "personally didn't kill anybody."
I also see the "punishment" aspect of the death penalty to be completely moot. Even just a life sentence in solitary can be a way more harrowing and punishing experience than however long the death can be extended to, so focusing on the broader social impact of either a deterrent or a "permanent removal from society" is the way to go. This is not a moral stance, though, and different societies with different moral and cultural values will have to take those into account too.
Perfection!
Yet another interesting movement to be crushed by third world infighting led by the USA and their puppet UN. I can't even see a positive outcome out of this, let's just hope this isn't as brutal as the Brazilian one. Maybe the Bwa Kale movement and FRG9 can pull out an actual revolution even then, but that'd probably only prompt an even worse intervention.