People keep pointing out the contradictions in Nazi propaganda that simultaneously accuses Jews of promoting morality and degeneracy, Communism and Capitalism. Recently I came again across a video defending Nazi book burnings as a defense against the spreading of degenerate and Communist ideas. I didn't watch the video, but looking at the title and at the comments beneath the video, something clicked. I already knew that the Nazis hated the idea of morality. In Nazi thinking humanity is made up of distinct population groups that have shared hereditary characteristics, called races, and that all the races are in a constant struggle for survival against each other, and that there are superior races and inferior races. The moral imperative of the superior races is to exploit, abuse, and kill the inferior races for the benefit of the superior races, and to avoid polluting their genes with inferior genes, so that the superior can survive and thrive and humanity can improve. In Nazi thi...
It's been almost a year since I started my daily study of Japanese, and about 10 months since my previous post about it. So how's it going? Apps I ended up dropping almost all the apps due to them either being too restricted in the free tier, not fun enough, or not effective enough, or not having enough time and energy to do them in addition to the ones I felt to be part of my core routine. I'll focus here on the few that I do feel are part of the core routine, and the few extras that I feel are almost but not quite there. DuoLingo The main strong point with this app is how it gets me to consistently maintain my streak, which means maintaining a daily study habit. The way that it's gamified and the fact that it's very forgiving help me avoid falling off completely. It's also okay in terms of drills and introducing new vocabulary, but it feels very slow and based on doing repetitive exercises rather than giving instructions or moving forward with new material. ...