And you’re pushing CIA supplied crisis actors in Iran of all places. I’m a trot, I’m an anarcho-bidenist, I’m a chauvinist, but at least I’m not on some Alex Jones level conspiracy bullshit.

Yeah, the young woman who died was Kurdish, the protests started in Kurdistan, and the Kurds will happily revolt against the Ayatollah without any help from the CIA. Frankly, the hexbear line that any antipathy towards a regime unfriendly to the US must be due to outside influence is pretty dismissive of the agency of oppressed people.

If you say anything negative about a country that hates the US you’re automatically branded :cia: by certain users of this this website.

Thanks. I don’t know any communists who would want that, though.

What is that thing on the far right?

Imagine believing that people are inherently greedy and selfish and believing an economic system that expressly wants to prohibit governments from limiting those behaviors is the way to go.

10k plus words to say, “people are alienated, society is crumbling, and the world has more mental health concerns than anyone realizes”.

The data is still a bit unclear on that. The best study was done at MIT and actually showed that there was little difference in language mastery ability from childhood until the age of around 20. Also, the top quartile of learners over 20 did just as well as the younger cohort, which could suggest an epiphenomenal explanation for the disparity. It may turn out to be a myth and the brain’s ability to assimilate a new language may be pretty consistent throughout the lifespan.

So I do appreciate you all taking effort to think something in your native language, translate it in your head, then type it up in English.

This isn’t really how speaking multiple languages works. The human brain is remarkably bad at parallel processing complex tasks. If you want to be proficient in another language you really have to learn to think in that language. It’s definitely a skill that can be learned and there’s an added bonus of becoming a better listener.

I mean he’s nuts, but he’s not entirely wrong. Mendellian genetics is to actual phenotype as the Bohr model of the atom is to actual electron configuration. It’s way more complicated than gene X expresses trait Y and actual geneticists know this. Shit, they teach you that in freshman biology. Also, what the hell do :reddit-logo: and capeshit have to do with any of this?