I wish to add the word 'post-human' to my description of computershit above.
Then, of course, there's the added problem of control-freakery, which we should remember is a human problem, but now exacerbated by Internet technology in the service of the Power-hierarchy....
(rant)
I have had problems with ExpressVPN for weeks now in have given up on it for the time being, but there's a good chance this has mostly had to with my own stupidity and impatience with having interactions with the pedantic A-hole unimaginative and rigid humorless character of computershit generally - 0/1 my ass...
I donn't know about prices, Elias, but I've heard all good things about the 1-on-1 for learning Chinese as Keats, and my experience several years ago there in a small class is that the teachers there know what they're doing, which may not be the case if you find someone randomly. You might check them out.
I thought this was gokunming feedback.
Lemon lover, my point was not about dolphin''s ideas, but about the way they should be treated and the way a poster and his/her posts should not be treated. It's about the posts, not about the poster, who exists outside the electronic machinery.
See the difference?
For that matter, I think it would help if posters ceased to imagine they are actually damaged in some way by posts, as well as that they can personally damage others in this way. I think this is a good reason why using avatar names is a good idea, I don't want to be jumped in the street by some guy who doesn't like what I say here. But I can imagine other arguments and I'm open to discussion about it - we don't have to be personally at war all the time, that's where reason itself is defeated. Force rules in the street, where the playing field is not level - the force here should be only that of the better argument or the more complete information - leave imagined personalities and egos and ego defense/aggression out of it, they only obscure.
Cloudtrapezer: see Jurgen Habermas, who has valid things to say about this - well, not all... okay.
As for conspiracies, I think we both understand that sometimes people actually do actually conspire, so 'conspiracy theory' should not amount to blanket condemnation.
Admire you for venturing into a land now more & more unknown - not Laos, but the land of no @##%& cellphones, wechats etc. - there's reality down beneath there somewhere, keep on digging!
@ tiger: 'people in the music scene' - yes, I agree, would be a good addition - but then many of such may have problems thanks to what they have to do to be musicians here while simultaneously maintaining visa status. Wish immigration policy would change to enable.
@ agree with cloudtrapezer - I wouldn't go as far as 'stuffy', and definitely not creepy, but lighten and liven it up sounds right. Personally I have no interest in the Sofitel etc. tendency - though I'm not suggesting that gokunming has bought into all that. I am suggesting that they shouldn't.
I like the surreal, wide-angle photo of the old Workers' Cultural Palace, nice photo - but it obscures the friendly funkiness of the place as it was in, say, 2003 when I first went there and I'm sorry it no longer exists, There were things about the atmosphere around it which pointed up, at least to me, that, despite plenty of negative things that one can think of that characterized former ideas of social engineering, that there were some good things about it too that are now gone. I'm referring, mostly, to the down-to-earth everyday ordinary humanity of the place as it was. Time marches on etc., but things get lost and sometimes babies are thrown out with the bath water. A lot of the recently-imposed slickness is, in my opinion, negative. Not in political terms, perhaps, but in social terms, the old Worker's Cultural Palace had a real feeling of social equality and fraternity about it that we could use more of now.
Thanks, bilingual, that is really far out! I've read a bit about this, thanks to a former student's study paper. I'm currently proposing, in a work of fiction, that, if & when the human species destroys itself, it could be the mycelia that develop consciousness and spread it throughout the universe.
I'm not a health foody but the few meals I've had here have been really good and, yeah, I'll be happy to go back alone to sample all the rest of them. It's also not a bad place from which to people-watch the street below.
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Accidentally celebrating the end of Buddhist Lent in Laos
Posted byAdmire you for venturing into a land now more & more unknown - not Laos, but the land of no @##%& cellphones, wechats etc. - there's reality down beneath there somewhere, keep on digging!
Exploring the curious world of Yunnan mushrooms
Posted by@ dolphin: what's' your implied objection?
Creating pub culture in Yunnan, an interview with Teddy Bowers
Posted by@ tiger: 'people in the music scene' - yes, I agree, would be a good addition - but then many of such may have problems thanks to what they have to do to be musicians here while simultaneously maintaining visa status. Wish immigration policy would change to enable.
@ agree with cloudtrapezer - I wouldn't go as far as 'stuffy', and definitely not creepy, but lighten and liven it up sounds right. Personally I have no interest in the Sofitel etc. tendency - though I'm not suggesting that gokunming has bought into all that. I am suggesting that they shouldn't.
The evolution of Chinese National Day in Kunming
Posted byI like the surreal, wide-angle photo of the old Workers' Cultural Palace, nice photo - but it obscures the friendly funkiness of the place as it was in, say, 2003 when I first went there and I'm sorry it no longer exists, There were things about the atmosphere around it which pointed up, at least to me, that, despite plenty of negative things that one can think of that characterized former ideas of social engineering, that there were some good things about it too that are now gone. I'm referring, mostly, to the down-to-earth everyday ordinary humanity of the place as it was. Time marches on etc., but things get lost and sometimes babies are thrown out with the bath water. A lot of the recently-imposed slickness is, in my opinion, negative. Not in political terms, perhaps, but in social terms, the old Worker's Cultural Palace had a real feeling of social equality and fraternity about it that we could use more of now.
Exploring the curious world of Yunnan mushrooms
Posted byThanks, bilingual, that is really far out! I've read a bit about this, thanks to a former student's study paper. I'm currently proposing, in a work of fiction, that, if & when the human species destroys itself, it could be the mycelia that develop consciousness and spread it throughout the universe.