I mean, I think it’s a cringe comic for sure. I agree with your other comment about it in this thread. But to dismiss it as a strawman, as if it were an argumentative essay instead of the cringy make-fun-of-morons comic – that smells more of fascist tears than it does of concerned leftist.

Hmmm…sounds like we’ve got a fascist sympathizer on our hands…

Or in other words, a fascist.

I choose I. Why? I-C-E-D. Free? Yessiree. Cold and totally bold. Aloned and totally stoned.

I is the place to be. I is the place for me. High is the state of me. I choose I.

I didn’t say that I agreed with them… You’re kinda being a dick dude, why? All I said was that just because English is popular, doesn’t mean it’s an inherently “good” language, whatever that means. There are external factors that, I think, have more to do with its popularity than its inherent and independent usability as a tool.

At first I just wanted to know if you didn’t think that that was the case? But it doesn’t seem like you actually want to converse and instead want an argument to win, so honestly I’m not really interested in what you have to say, now. Thanks for unmasking!

I’m not the OP, I’m just asking you a genuine question dude. Why are you so friggin hot.

I’m confused why you seem to think that because English is the most popular second language, that automatically means it is the best communication tool. Don’t you think the reason it is so well-known is more because the US (and UK, to a lesser extent) is such a dominant force economically and militarily? That non-English-speaking states consider it important to learn, so they teach it early in school – and then on top of that the largest film industry is in the US, so English content is pretty available?

I mean, there is a lot more external force going behind the dissemination of English than that of Toki Pona, so I dunno, seems pretty silly to attribute it’s “success” (popularity) to some internal aspect of the language.

Me too! I prune my yard of invasives and let the natives grow, cataloging with iNaturalist as I see new species. My yard was a dirt slope last summer, this summer it is full of a wonderful variety of plants! My crotchety gardener mother and aunt keep trying to offer me non-natives to transplant – I tell them I’ve got plants growing already but thank you – they say, “yeah, weeds.”

Funnily enough, my yard with milkweed, primrose, violets, tickseed flowers, black-eyed susans, a walnut sapling, pepperweed, and st johns wort (not actually native here but not as invasive as some other plants) looks better than theirs and probably requires way less maintenance.

There are a lot of language learning resources on the site i use. I did a whole Michel Thomas advanced audio course for portuguese that helped me learn the basics. What’s the title of the french book your friend is looking for?

Anarcho-bidenism is crazy

I do it with navidrome. Have been streaming my music from my desktop for the past 3 months. Pretty satisfying. I haven’t done the fancy lyric stuff yet though.

I used to think they didn’t listen, and I’d cite the same sort of studies. But honestly…I’ve had a few times in the last several months where a conversation I had with my GF triggered ads on our phones, when neither of us had done an internet search of that particular subject or any that were tangential. A couple times, now, I’ve been spooked. Could be some other data we put out there, or something we clicked, but I racked my brain and couldn’t think of any.

Maybe our phones aren’t listening to us all the time. But it’s already pretty fucking bad when lived experience makes us wonder whether they really are.

I really don’t think it is. For one thing, there’s texted added to it that certainly wasn’t part of the original. Then there’s the matter of multiple versions of a similar line-drawing with text in the center floating around. And then finally, no mainstream media has released the image. It seems like someone just mocked this up and posted it on twitter.

Although I’d be happy to be proven wrong.

Thats not the real thing though, is it?

I mean it in a most sincere and endearing way. Gave me a joy and chuckle.

good post, sounds like a copypasta

Honestly, I thought it was pretty underwhelming. I kinda grew out of superhero movies and star wars and such, but I get the itch every once in a while, when something good comes out. Andor did it for Star Wars, X-Men '97 did it for superheroes. Just solid writing and relevant to the modern day.

But idk, Superman just felt like another superhero movie to me. Didn’t really do anything special. Kinda bummed about it. Glad I didn’t pay to see it honestly

At my work, we maintain computers for a bio lab that use Nvidia glasses to view stereo images of cryogenically frozen protein structures.

Nvidia doesn’t support them anymore, and there was an email thread that was forwarded to us by the lab manager of some scientists discussing the issue. One of them suggested to the others that they could just cross their eyes and see the images that way instead of using the glasses. Funny stuff!

I use inaturalist. You essentially take a pic, upload it, add info about its location and stuff, and it goes into a feed where others will see suggest the scientific name.

Yeah. In middle school I was gonna be an NBA player 😂

I read all of almost all of David Graeber’s books, The Conquest of Bread and Mutual Aid by Pyotr Kropotkin, and Anarchism Works and The Solutions are Already Here by Peter Gelderloos.

But when I got to Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman, it really moved me in a different way. Totally worth checking out.

(It also led me to read Civil Disobedience by Thoreau and Self-Reliance by Emerson – both worth reading before Goldman because she references them a few times)