Learning for your own sake is good, continuing education requirements are Also Good (as much as some folks might hate them)

Bring back public lectures.

Universities still have them, but suck at actually promoting them.

Look at podcasts!
The people yearn for the oratory.

Really got to move the entire culture away from anti-intellectualism and idk how to even begin with that project.

at least it’s uniform with my twitter and weibo (i am annoyed i can’t change my rednote handle)

i should fix my tumblr theme and layout but i am busy with thesis zzzz

my thesis adviser is great thankfully and really helped me expand on my proposal, but my program adviser/department chair has been very tardy with enrollment announcements and scheduling my defense, and unfortunately i can’t request a change for the latter zzzz

"why do the Syrians hate us?"

And now here we are, the Israelis occupy roughly a fifth of the country and just killed over a dozen Syrias literally days ago and now they complain about flag burning. Shut the fuck up.

They have seemingly no object permanence and have totally bought into the idea that the problem is that it's a Jewish country doing any of it and not that doing any of it might engender resentment. Baby brain shit. And the US and Europe just totally coddle it & defend it nonstop, even lawyering it.