“We no longer support inclusivity and science.”

Lately googles captcha photo thing goes on forever for me. I’ve tried selecting all squares that contain even a hint of a motorcycle/traffic light/bus/crosswalk, then tried just selecting the squares that contain most of it, and it’s satisfied with neither and will genuinely have me clicking for 5 minutes to submit a fucking form

Do you remember any source for Hitchens on that, like a book or speaking event? I’d enjoy hearing more about that specifically.

Surprised here too. Now I’m curious how prevalent English textbooks are, and how many country’s kids are studying in their non-native language.

When NE’s awful policies make national news, I like to remind myself that they contributed 1 electoral vote to Biden in 2020, due to them being 1 of only 2 states that split their (3) electoral votes. Doesn’t change the headlines, but helps me remain optimistic.

I’ve commented this sentiment on their videos. They put in so much research, and it’s good information on well-chosen topics. But having to always skip the beginnings and ends of videos, and not being able to recommend them to many people is a bummer. I get reporting on this stuff would make most people a little manic and bitter, but come on. Ad reads reach a new low there too, somehow scathing sarcasm just makes it all so much more annoying.

I hope not, beeper has worked great so far. I don’t use it for personal messaging, but requested that they allow multiple accounts of the same social network. It’d be a game changer for social media managers to have all DMs in one place.

So cool to learn about these, thanks! I've tried and failed to self-host Nextcloud in the past, but really need to give it another go. Their contacts app is also something I've wanted for a while now.

This looks promising, thank you! I'm a novice self-hoster and look forward to learning more about this one.

Almost certainly not, but good on WaPo for calling it out so well.

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For real. This one got me the best:

“We held a meeting and decided being radically open about gender while adopting a puritanical outlook on sex was the best way to shock Boomers to death.”

Amazing self-own admitting that the internet and public schools are your ideological enemies:

According to Boreing: “Kids go to school for 40 hours a week and then they engage in pop culture for 40 more hours every week. That means for 80 hours of a child’s week, you are turning them over to the left. A good parent might spend 15 minutes a day in meaningful conversation with their kids … A great parent might take their kid to church for one hour, or two hours, or three hours a week. The other 80, they’re watching Disney … they’re online … they’re in public schools.”

Even their non-political statements are political. I hate that some people don’t see through this shit:

In a video statement on Monday marking Bentkey’s launch, Boreing said: “Bentkey isn’t about teaching kids politics, it’s about childhood and wonder and adventure. It’s about values and all of the things on which politics are built later.”

For comprehensible input to be effective as a beginner, I think you just need to match your content to your language level. If it’s too difficult it all just washes over you and you don’t really take anything in.

I find covers of songs in my target language at first, that way ideally I already know what the lyrics should be. Or read the lyrics as you listen at first, translating as needed, then repeating the song often.

For videos at least on YouTube/Netflix, I really enjoy using a plugin called Language Reactor. It gives you the subtitles line by line, with dictionary translation on hover and with full-line translations. It does more if you pay I think. But the free version is better than Lingopie which does similar but with limited content.

Also lingQ can import subtitles from YouTube/Netflix I think, the only advantage there being that lingQ keeps a database of your known words in each language.

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The question everyone’s dying to know

Those are cool, never seen or heard of them before in my part of the US. We use reusable kcups, so we put a filter and grounds in mesh/plastic shell. We like them because we can choose single servings of anything, like our local beans or herbal stuff like teeccino. But yeah Senseo pads look pretty great.

Ooo I didn't know about muting boosts, thanks! It'll do for now.

And yeah I forget that the Fediverse still has many kinks with connections, great point. Even for your comment, it doesn't appear when I go to my post, only when I go to notifications. And trying to respond on the Memmy app repeatedly crashes, so I had to respond through browser instead.

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