some places online listed deadlift as a back workout but it seems like more of a leg workout to me.

I agree with you. I would put the deadlift on the leg day.

Interesting that you picked up the micro tonal aspects of Non-Western music. Another aspect that’s very complex in Indian music is the rhythmic system.

On Chinese music I think you have oversimplified it somewhat. While it often uses the pentatonic scale, you do see 6 and seven note scales. Plus it actually has 5 different pentatonic scales. Similarly to Indian music there’s ornaments in Chinese musical notation to describe microtones and other effects. And another feature is Chinese traditional music is very elastic in the tempo speeding up or slowing to add emotions. A quick overview :https://youtu.be/sJdUugXLfWs?si=-GfHi0F1bn8b6SyC.

Concerning commodifiable modernization of traditional culture:

I don’t think the West has anything quite like the tv show Pili which is based on Chinese hand puppets but with a crap tonne of camerawork and special effects to added. The show has been around for decades. Only thing close is the Thunderbirds which never looked as crazy as this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGLKJ_S-iDU

I get what you’re saying but I don’t see how American mass media being dominant is a good thing.

A lot of it is just pumped out like widgets, created by a few big corporations, because of a modern appetite for shoving stuff in our eyeballs.

It places people into the role of just being passive consumers but they only have a few big fast food chains to pick from. Then it’s like just looking at the menu, seeing if they introduced a twist on their regular offering or a different sauce you can add to the same shit. An illusion of variety. They’ve gotten good at polishing the glass and wiping down the plastic furniture.

Then your life gets divided into portions that suit the mass media: movie duration, hourish long tv show, half hour show, 3 min pop song. These are formats they have worked out for you.

It’s all formulaic. I would hope that other cultures go BACK to before the formulas were so standardized and start developing from there. Change the formats so people aren’t so passive.

China is just copying the formula because the “demand for bland” is so pervasive.

I really hope they look to other countries for better inspiration. India for example has incredible music and movies.

After you buy a train ticket, you push the train the whole way to your destination.

then comes over to me, opens the bag, closes it, then leaves

That little brat boomed her good. Trolling IRL at its finest.

Get on the bicycle and explore.

You can also volunteer at neighborhood community services: e.g. a lot of older people need help with taking care of gardening or other strenuous chores.

19 Countries with the Most School Shootings (total incidents Jan 2009-May 2018 - CNN):

United States — 288

Mexico — 8

South Africa — 6

Nigeria & Pakistan — 4

Afghanistan — 3

Brazil, Canada, France — 2

Azerbaijan, China, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Kenya, Russia, & Turkey — 1

(https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/school-shootings-by-country)

One country seems a bit higher than the others 🤔

“Hype Loop go poof?” That’s all the inside story I need to hear from this douchebag.

I think the youth will take that, grumble about it, dislike it but still be too propagandized and not uncomfortable enough to actually revolt or do anything that threatens the western system or governments.

While I agree with this, the revolt is actually already taking place at the periphery of the US empire. It’s other countries that previously had no choice but to tow the line with US policy. Now they have alternatives. We see the rise of BRICS+ and their influence both politically and economically.

There won’t be a revolution inside the US because there is no political alternatives. The economic side could go to shit and there would still be no actual political change : Maybe the names of the politicians change but the policies are still controlled by corporations and capitalists.

Even if there was a US revolt, there’s no alternative organisation to take control.

But I reckon there’s more to it that I’m just failing to understand, and if I don’t even properly understand the problem, I won’t be able to come up with a proper solution.

Analyse why they are stuck. You already have the answers while they don’t. Hence you knew what to search for. This indicates your course work has gaps. Gaps that they can’t think their way out without your help.

Even young adults are building cognitive skills like abstract thinking, organisation of ideas, systematic problem solving, creative thinking etc. It’s more important they develop those higher cognitive skills rather than just solve a particular technical problem you have created. E.g. there should be multiple solutions or paths to getting to a particular solution. Going to internet search is only one path (that seems obvious to you but not them).

If you need them to do a search, then they have to be able to create that search phrase. That’s a skill in itself that possibly requires exercises.

The GTA games allow gamers to choose who they want to be in the game. Sometimes they can’t do that in real life so it is enjoyable to have that persona in the game world.

To use terms/phrases like bloat and too many wickets, downplays this as a fundamental feature of the games. And it treats this feature as something that should be de-prioritized because it’s not “fun” for the chuds and it’s even taking the fun away.

Part of anti-capitalism is the rejection of neoliberal ideology where people are voluntarily pursuing achievement and performance as expressions of personal freedom. Byung Chul Han wrote about these concepts in books like “The Burnout Society”, “Capitalism and the Death Drive”, etc

In our supposedly free society, the social pressure to “do well” creates the burnout. People work hard because of an illusion of scarcity rather than the boss exploiting them.

The comedy “Hi Mom” is on YouTube now with subtitles https://youtu.be/9hGNmRzZ5Qo?si=2hHyPb2HankkjOAq

It’s about a woman who time travels back to the 80s in China to meet her mom as a young woman. Don’t know if the humour translates to wypipo but I found it hilarious.

I made the mistake of turning on the car radio yesterday and hearing the news brief. Needless to say it was not news, just some “explanation” about how bombing hospitals is okay because Hamas was inside.🤮

Solar is WAY cheaper, quick to build and still decreasing in costs. Nuclear is expensive, slow to build and not appropriate for all terrains. Earthquake prone areas are bad as we can see from Fukushima nuclear plant. Nuclear also needs a source of water for cooling. It’s good in niche cases but getting less and less economically justifiable compared to renewables.

Dark army = typical racist bullshit stereotypes.

Yeah I agree. Games are just to de-stress their brains, especially at the end. As long as they are implementing the rules and spirit of the game, you’ve achieved your goal.

One tip I would give (as a kids sports coach): Instead of starting with every student doing a stand up activity simultaneously, start with nominating one student to do a part of the activity in front of everyone as a demonstration for the others to observe. Once they complete the task, you can give feedback to them or quiz the other students asking what feedback would appropriate.

Then you repeat with another few students until everyone understands what is expected. Once they understand, you set them off to try on their own and place a short time limit on it initially. Five minutes is fine because they need more guidance. Break the task up. Once they are familiar with the exercise structure, you can go longer time and more complex.

Don’t expect them to succeed. The point of exercises is to build up slowly from low ability. Give praise for what they got right and make a note of where they can improve.

At 13yo, kids are still learning how to study or apply their knowledge.

Just another instance of class mobility. If for instance this person has to rely on the rent for their main income but works a casual job to supplement it, then their interests lie in protecting that rent.

Don’t see any labor being done… Doesn’t matter where the home is. Same applies to shares.