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ranfren updated world of randal and his friends

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my-web-diary 1 month ago

woo new log happy late birthday btw!!!

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mortesubitaesuja updated Morte Subita

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mortesubitaesuja 1 month ago

I also have a little otis now, sometime you will see him.

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faoggot 1 month ago

how fun

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faoggot updated hellscape

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mgearchive updated The web site of mgearchive

1 month ago

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1 month ago

I'm walking out of the woods, and my pants are soaking wet cold, and I try to the cross the road and my knees actually buckle under me and i can't stand anymore, and i have to crawl out the way of oncoming traffic. i think i fell down three times before I made it to the safe side of the road, which is especially funny because it was a really small road

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faoggot 1 month ago

I'm in the house with my brother holding out my phone like a flashlight. we spraypaint the back of the building using wall paint we found, rotten SpongeBob shampoo, and a windex bottle. I'm glad i did all of these things, but I'm too scared to do them again

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sillivis updated We Beg On Our Knees

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mortesubitaesuja

1 month ago

I don't know why but listening to psychedelic music to help write or draw chapters makes me feel like I'm high, it really helps.

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curate-of-the-curious updated Curate of Curiosities

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readbeyondthestars mrawakeys

1 month ago

HELLO! tysm for following my site! Ur the 1st person to do so without me following them first :D oh yeah and so far ur site looks rlly kewl :3

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mrawakeys 1 month ago

aaa tysm! your site looks so awesome (≧▽≦)

readbeyondthestars updated Beyond the Stars [星の彼方]

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sophistry updated "pop the bubble"

1 month ago

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faoggot

1 month ago

got cooked so hard my opps writing 2ar rn I totally lost T-T

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faoggot 1 month ago

c'est la vie maybe I can work on my math IA

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faoggot

1 month ago

since I mostly use mobile, compatibility is a huge issue for me. I think the site probably looks fine on desktop but i'll be working to expand and make it suck less ass on mobile. it's a relief that not a lot of other people are doing this, since it means the problem isn't so urgent

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faoggot 1 month ago

t minus two weeks until winter break. I know I previously said two, a week ago, but I was wrong, so we still have two weeks to go. I have the mental forditude to both continue caring about this project and also not work on it at all. because I'm not gonna kms if I get a B in history but I'm seriously going to consider it for like at least five minutes uninterrupted

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mortesubitaesuja 1 month ago

I only use mobile, but the site looks good on mobile too, I think you should just use the desktop option in the Chrome browser when on mobile.

faoggot updated hellscape

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saddleblasters iwillneverbehappy

1 month ago

responding a little late re: rote learning. a lot of the people in the classical chinese study discord i'm in, especially the ones that are most generally knowledgable, often post pictures of long texts they've copied, all with very careful and neat handwriting. i think copying, especially by hand, is very much a comprehensive learning method: you're not necessarily conscious of all the things you learn doing it

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saddleblasters 1 month ago

copying is essentially a very slow kind of reading. back when the literary language was often very different from the spoken language, comprehension wasn't some immediate thing that could be taken for granted. even the surface grammatical meaning of a sentence might not be obvious. struggling with all of that leads not just to the thoughts the author intended, but all sorts of other alternate possibilities

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saddleblasters 1 month ago

the same thing happens when i read mathematics (esp. research papers). for close readings, you treat the written proofs as a "cookbook recipe" for reproducing the argument in your own brain. often there are steps that are unclear at first and which require deep thought, but in the course of trying to understand those, you learn other things the author perhaps didn't intend, or didn't find worth writing

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saddleblasters 1 month ago

e.g. many of the developments in algebraic geometry up to the 80s or so could essentially be characterized as ideas people had while reading EGA and SGA.

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saddleblasters 1 month ago

I guess what I'm trying to say is simply that reading is a much slower and more complicated process than we might give it credit for, so rote methods of learning like copying and memorizing are ways to trick ourselves into slowing. of course this only works when one is doing it willingly. when forced to memorize or copy by a teacher, many people manage to learn to do so without actually paying attention to the text

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saddleblasters 1 month ago

(sorry for writing so much -- in retrospect this probably should have been an email...)

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saddleblasters 1 month ago

Also, rereading these now, I realize I was basically doing some version of "redoing" by writing these: taking the ideas you wrote about and reworking them into my own words. I guess this is the particular sort of "copying" that a modern university education generally trains it's students with (as you noted with your reference to "the last few hundred years of scholasticism")

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iwillneverbehappy 1 month ago

Thank you for the thoughtful comments and no need to apologize, these are all great. What is interesting to me is how pointless (close) reading is if you don't apply yourself to it 100%, yet how useful it is in learning something. And there's no external way to tell the two apart; it's even difficult for the learner themselves to tell if they are in fact learning something. The "inefficiency" of rote learning (1/2)

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iwillneverbehappy 1 month ago

and how easy it is to make it an utter waste of time, plus the fact that the yields aren't immediate or quantifiable, might all be part of the reason why it's looked at so negatively in American schools nowadays, but we lose a lot if we banish it entirely. (2/2)

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goose6000 ranfren

1 month ago

If you wash your hair with dog shampoo, it will have more volume.I ran out of money to buy human shampoo so I've been doing this for a week now

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poopley142 1 month ago

Interesting to let howdie know 🤔....

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iwillneverbehappy updated index

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mortesubitaesuja updated Morte Subita

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ranfren updated world of randal and his friends

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starlitseas updated starlit seas. a blue horizon info site by n...

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starlitseas 1 month ago

Notable changes: Added the primary light novel summary that will be on GR and Storygraph when I finally submit it in those places. Added two iconic Nightwish songs to the unofficial playlist.

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