>90% is played in Ireland, but there’s also some presence overseas, especially among the diaspora

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_(Gaelic_games)#County_boards_outside_of_Ireland

people think “oh that language will be hard because there’s a whole new alphabet to learn!”

but actually alphabets are fairly easy to learn. It takes a few weeks at most. One day in the case of Hangul.

Gaelic football

the Australian monk Bhante Sujato consistently translates the Pali word ‘bhariyā’ as ‘wife or partner’… it means ‘wife’

They should pass a law enshrining the legal equality of all ethnicities, and forbidding ethnic discrimination or oppression.

Tibet has money?

Never heard of any of this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation

those goals conflict with each other

how do you handle situations and outcomes beyond your control?

obviously if they’re situations that I’m not personally handling, then I do not handle them. Simple.

I assume you are also financially comfortable

I have €8 in my bank account lol

analyses like these make it clear to me that class consciousness is gonna appear in the anglosphere long after it appears everywhere else, because it gets so close to the mark but never quite reaches it.

I don’t get how you went from the talk of stress/overwhelm to ‘the Anglosphere’ and ‘class consciousness’

Averages are not very useful for making sweeping generalizations.

Workweek statistics aren’t just mean/average. There’s also regulated maximum working hours (48 hours a week here)

This is like a Reddit comment; all they talk about is that fat lad.

There’s no way the constant discourse about ‘stress’ and ‘overwhelm’ that’s been going on most of the 21st century is because of one politician.

I had cancer last year and lost 25 years of life expectancy

What I’m talking about is the stuff like, “Life today is so busy and hectic! How can we cope with the stress? We are all under constant pressure!” – but are we really? People watch 78,000 hours of telly

Health problems, sure, they’re an adversity, but they’re also very normal, that’s the standard package of human life.

Has the ectopic pregnancy issue you mentioned touched your life?

during WHAT?

thanks for sharing

I spend about 3-4 months a year in African LDCs (Least developed countries) (not gonna say which ones coz it identifies me) and people there are oppressed by poverty, but not hectic. Actually they’re very bored and unemployed.

The ‘poor people are happy’ narrative doesn’t square with my experiences, but neither does the ‘everyone is busy’ narrative.

I worked 80 hour weeks for a few years, and yeah I’d feel it then, but that’s not mainstream. And friends in Shenzhen yes they feel it, but it seems far from universal.

being normal today I see