In this dynamic composition, a vast red triangle pierces into a white circle. It symbolically refers to the Red revolutionaries penetrating and prevailing over the White Army. The white background may represent a bright future ahead of the nation.
Well sure that's how you can get maximum benefit but personally for me it would be a lot more ideal if there were a default pathway available, or perhaps clearly defined units to pick and choose from, somewhere out there on the internet, that wasn't just the entire dictionary of words I could possibly encounter at each level of a language. I thought Clozemaster did really well with choosing key words and phrases to practice, for example.
If my goal is just vocabulary, I don't really care about encountering it in media first. I just want to jump into studying. Then, at the point where I'd really need to study, it wouldn't be realistic to stop and start media that I'm only comprehending 50% of what's said to make a whole card about it (admittedly this is where my own ADHD comes into play as, if I just write it down, the likelihood of me remembering where it came from and circling back to enter it in the app is nil). I would also miss a lot of context and subtler parts of language doing this, further exacerbating the issue. At the point that I need less study, well, why the heck would I pick up the app to study a deck of the like 10-20 less common words or phrases that made it onto cards?
It was also recommended to find an accompanying picture for each card which was frustrating in its own right try to find a good visual representation for everything and doing all of that entry on a mobile device.
These are just the reasons it hasn't worked for me, as a person that lives in constant struggle with executive function and has learned to accept that I cannot rely on my brain to automate much of anything in the background so that I can do certain tasks. Like I said, it's a barrier to entry but by no means are these insurmountable issues to someone who is serious about learning a language.
Yeah this is my thing with technological advancement for the sake of technological advancement. There are so many things that were already possible with the technology we've had for decades yet because more people have access to increasingly more resources, alongside the crunch that comes along with game development these days, there seems to be far less focus on resource management and compatibility when software is being developed. Less "engineering", less clean up, and more "just make it do the thing".
I also feel this way about modern browsing. No way a fucking webpage needs the same amount of memory as an entire OS did 20 years ago. But resources are plentiful, so why would the average web developer give a second thought to optimization?
A large part of me swears it's a racket to keep people buying the latest and greatest hardware but it very well could just be symptomatic of needing to pump out a usable/marketable/profitable product in as little time as it can possibly be done.
I found clozemaster was really helpful in grasping the flow of the language and practice recall. I will forever recommend this app. I got my grammar foundations from actual coursework though.
Lingo legend was a cute idea, haven't picked it up in a while so I don't know if it's changed but I'm pretty sure it's free.
Lingo deer is a pretty good clone of what Duolingo was trying to be when it first hit the scene. The app needed polishing last I used it but it definitely earned an honorable mention.
I've seen Anki highly recommended. Fair warning, it's not the most user friendly experience to a casual learner. People are snobs about building your own deck and shit but that barrier to entry is just not one I've been able to fully overcome, and the pre-made decks you can find were never appealing to me for one reason or another. You might have a better experience though if you're the type that can sit down and do the required data entry.
Yeah I'd almost call it reductio ad absurdum except used in a way that it becomes an ideological kind of gaslighting and protects the actually absurd end of the argument from being de-normalized.
I'd seen back in 2014 an image floating around of the one mattress with a bunch of channels to stick your arms in. Looks like a nightmare to put a sheet on though.
Now that I'm looking it up there's this sonu one that looks like a much better solution. It's got a hole in the middle like you said with four pillow-sized mattress inserts. Still not the most easy to find a sheet for but at least it would be much easier to DIY one with entry-level sewing machine skills.
Or heck, find a mattress made of a solid material and use those skills to DIY the whole thing. Who am I to tell you what to do.
It's even more silly when you realize the writers didn't even need to go this route to provoke this conflict. There's so many pesticides used in our food production, for example, that kill millions of insects and result in lost biodiversity. Retiring them all at once could very feasibly result in famine via pestilence.
But instead they went for "no can pick apple :(". This is just plain bad writing. Maybe that problem was too "solvable"?
Antibiotics are also a thing. Do we consider bacteria in this equation of life and death? Probably had to kill millions of bacteria to keep Zosia alive so, unless the bacteria has its own hivemind ability to clear out of its own volition (probably also resulting in its own die-off by declining access to resources. Huh... see, that would actually be an interesting analogy!!), I'm going to guess the answer is no. But plants? We couldn't pull a leaf from a branch to save our lives!
The more I sit with this the more I realize that so much is "morally" off limits and/or rendered null-and-void by the virus that it's questionable what the hivemind is even ultimately working towards besides spreading the virus and maybe conservation of the planet itself? Indeterminable joy? What are the other 7 billion plurbs even doing all day when they're not catering to the 12 survivors' every demand?
I demand world building !! Writing your main character as an incurious anti-social american chauvinist does not excuse you from world building !!
idk on further reflection, maybe this is the point? Poggy over on yt is doing some pretty compelling theorycrafting. Full vid's worth a watch but I timestamped his theory at the end.
I don't totally buy the "one body" thing; only one body would eventually mean death to the collective as a whole which contradicts the idea of consciousness being equivalent to life by the collective's logic. I do however think he's onto something with goal of the virus (which the hivemind isn't made aware of) being to vastly shrink the human population.
I think we're predisposed over here to wanting to see the plurbs as being overall well meaning, and they very well may be (as they cannot lie), but there's definitely gonna some sort of greater evil at play. I just don't think it is Vince's intention to prove Carol wrong. As cool as it would be to see a show where the plurbs really are just innocently wanting to build a better world for humanity and Carol is a critique on the brainworm'd American chauvinist (which I still believe she is, just not in a way that she ends up being totally wrong)
It's also clear to me that the "hivemind" isn't exactly a "hivemind" in the sense that it's a synthesis of all of human consciousness; the virus seems to appropriate each of the infected's skills and knowledge but ultimately exerts huge influence on the the collective's behavior and decision-making, if not total control. Choosing to put plant life over human life, for example, or to produce and consume HDP, is not something in line with the core beliefs of humanity; this is imposed by the virus.
It really bothers me that the plurbs can kill hundreds of millions of people for the sake of infecting the entire human race all at once (and it admits that this could have been done more slowly with fewer casualties), but preventing even more millions in its own collective from starving to death by harvesting (not even killing! Just harvesting! Plants don't die when they are harvested!) any plant life is off-limits. It really takes me out of it actually. Seems like taking over a species and then imposing rules on them (no way this was humanity's own idea) that don't permit them to fulfill such a basic biological imperative is, like, murder. Starving people to death by intentionally not producing food to feed them is murder.
Also don't we have lab grown meats in the present day???? I feel like the collective minds of all of humanity would pretty quickly have that production down to a science if all other motives were absent and the alternative was mass death. Idk this whole "we will literally starve ourselves to avoid harming a plant" thing is introducing a lot of logical silliness and seems more for the sake of creating drama than anything else.
Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge (Клином красным бей белых!) is a 1919 lithographic Soviet propaganda poster by artist Lazar Markovich Lissitzky, better known as El Lissitzky.