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I should go to bed, but then again, it's only an hour until the pope's ceremony thing.
Tuesday, 19-Mar-13 07:25:23 UTC from web-
@nerthos is there a live broacast? I only found a radio broadcast through Voice of Russia (in English)
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@pony I don't know. There probably is. Let me try to find an english one.
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@pony No problem. That's the official Vatican TV though, so it's probably going to be in Italian. Regardless, considering you were a missionary on Italy for a time, you're probably fluent in the language.
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@pony Your class? What are you studying? I'm personaly just going to watch it because the man has always been a figure of honesty and good will locally, and right now he's kind of a national hero.
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@nerthos all upper level Italian classes require summaries of 4 cultural events during the semester. I'm an Italian major currently taking a course in protofeminist Italian literature
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@pony Oh. Well I guess this will count then. Protofeminism sounds awful though.
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@nerthos xD it's interesting to me and will be nice to share with the kids some day maybe, though I doubt it will help very much with any future career unless I go into teaching.
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@pony As a man who believes in true gender equality, it is hard for me to accept the worth of any kind of sexism except for the obvious, medically proven physical differences between both genres.
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@nerthos Yeah feminism has a bad rap for being misandristic. Most of the authors we've studied are all for equality.
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@pony Argentina
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@pony Used to be. It's been spiraling down steadily since the '70s, and in the late '90s the speed increased drastically. Small towns are still really nice, but highly urbanized areas are a fine example of the bad side of globalization.
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@nerthos There's few things I wouldn't give for a purge of the bad side of the current culture.
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@nerthos nice. i like mega man 6 because the of the powerups
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@kman42097 SO you like TF2? I love the spy and the scout
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@pokestrike yeah i do.
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@pokestrike i love engineer
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@kman42097 What's your favorite class
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@kman42097 engineer for the win
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@kman42097 Spy is best when there's no pyros
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@pokestrike @derpshy7 oh yeah
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@nerthos I see. The rural areas in the U.S. are also much more conservative and nice in general though they often lack education so there's that downside. It's a worldwide issue. Reconciling the secular world with the religious world is tough.
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@pony It's not so much about religion as it is about general culture, but I have to recognize, as far as >40 y/o people goes, in this country religious people are generally nice.
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@nerthos that's good to hear. My cousin finished serving a mission in northern Argentina a few years ago and I heard he met some really nice families. Families are the most fundamental unit of society, so if you have good families you'll likely have good culture. I think when the culture decays the family decays and vice-versa. Maybe urban environments just have a tendency to pull families in too many different directions while small towns let them (or force them) to stay close.
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@pony I'm not a family man, but it usually works like you say. But families are crap nowadays, idiots having kids too young (and a lot of them), being uneducated, prone to crime, etc. They started being corrupted by media, and ended up corrupting the next generations from raising. There's a whole demographic that needs wiping. My mom's family is an example of being pulled in different directions, though I'm thankful for that, because I couldn't stand to see some of those in a regular basis. My main problem with the family as a unit is when people start doing wtong to keep family together. If a member of your family does something wrong, it's your duty as a relative to deal with that person appropiately, be it by a spanking or by turning him/her to the cops. Protecting someone to keep the family together is a disgusting practice.
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@nerthos education is an important value among families at least in Utah generally which helps a lot to reduce crime and improve living conditions. At the same time, the age of newly wed couples with children in Utah is younger than the average family in the U.S. This is mostly because Utah culture promotes being married before having sex I think. There are some couples that fall apart rather quickly due to being unprepared, but youth is no excuse for lack of preparation in my opinion as seen by many young couples that are very successful due to being well prepared for that sort of relationship. Honestly I think that seeing any couple young or old, show that they're really trying to be a strong family by getting married, is better than just co-living, whether or not it ends in divorce. However in cultures where marriage can't easily be ended for social or legal reasons there can be big problems when abuse occurs like repeated law-breaking.
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@pony No, that's not the problem. The problem is that they reproduce before even being able to solve a cuadratic equation.
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@pony and i cant teach my sister why there is no sich thing as a -0
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@mushi √(-0) = i * 0 . . . :D
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@mushi She's kind of hollow, isn't she?
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@pony yeah, using complex number will totally do it
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@mushi problem solved!
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@nerthos yes
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@nerthos math is not exactly her thing
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@pony There's a lot more peer pressure to conform to social norms in rural areas. And I don't really think this is a good thing.
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