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Weekly Improvement Thread - Mar 30th 2025 (hexbear.net)
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Hello comrades and welcome to the fifth improvement megathread of March! bonfire There's only one more day of March left, it's a good time to make some plans or intentions for April.

Some discussion ideas:

  • How was your March?
  • Do you have any plans for April?

Poster caption: "The victorious growth of Socialism in the USSR will find its expression in the great growth of socialist based national cultures."

spoilerThe woman illustrated on the poster is wearing an Uzbek costume, and she is a Soviet-era depiction of educational success. Her education came about through the campaign of Likbez (Liquidation of Illiteracy).

With Likbez, an individual became “semi-literate” after six to eight hours a week of study over three months. An additional six to eight months of study was then required to achieve full literacy. The Likbez Commission re-doubled its efforts among the population to reach the target of full, national literacy in time for the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution (1927).

Likbez withered after its commission missed the goal for October 1927. In time, the government closed the literacy centers and the resources once earmarked for them were put towards technical and higher education programs during Stalin’s First Five-Year Plan (1928–32).

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[-] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

I want to journal daily

It's really a cheat-code to discipline. I know it's a bit cliche, but just writing down your thoughts daily will really help you recalibrate somethings and it's one of those things that's truly zero cost (other than the time to do it and being honest with yourself if you count those as costs) and it's all benefit. You lose nothing and gain a lot by doing it.

keep up the language and exercise rigor

Which language are you learning? May I also ask for what reason? Just for fun? Or maybe to travel?

check some books off my reading list

I will always encourage everyone to hit up their local library and check out books. It gives a bit of an artificial time limit and for me at least it forces me to actually read the damn book.

find full time work.

Same brother. Same.

[-] NewOldGuard@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I’m learning French and Mandarin! French because i have familial ties, my grandparents spoke it and I knew little bits that were passed down to me. I would love to visit or live in France, I have plans around it but don’t want to get too specific here. But I’m at a CEFR B2 level there

Mandarin because we’re in the Chinese century and I’d love to have the opportunity to visit and maybe work or study in China one day. I just got through my HSK 1 curriculum in March

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