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- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s more about shifting what’s good enough and having empathy for those who struggle. A lot of racism in Europe is focused around immigrants “not trying hard enough”, like refusing to speak to people that have an accent. “Why can’t they just learn? It’s not that hard.” It actually is that hard, Cathrine. Try navigating Swedish bureaucracy with your Duolingo food-ordering skills and you’ll see. Some people won’t ever learn proper grammar and tiny nuances and that’s okay, you can have a full conversation anyway.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
“Dump 100 average 10-year-olds in Spain and most will be able to reach near-native fluency without much effort. Dump 100 average 35-year-olds in Spain and most won’t reach near-native fluency without struggling a great deal.”
is NOT saying
“Having an accent is bad; only perfect pronunciation is good enough.”
“Hard = impossible”
“There is no point in learning a language if you struggle.”
“35-year-olds shouldn’t even try.”
I got a bunch of downvotes for my comment. I guess you’re not the only one reading “it’s much harder” = “there is no point”. I did not say that. The article I linked did not say that. On the contrary, the article talks about hos the critical period seems to be logner than they previously thought.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
For near-native fluency, there is an age cap at around 10 years. It’s much harder for adults, as their critical learning period is closed: news.mit.edu/…/cognitive-scientists-define-critic…
However there is evidence that psychadelics can open up critical periods for social learning (www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06204-3) and ongoing research about other critical periods, language learning being one of them.
- Comment on I'm just a sleepy guy 2 weeks ago:
Herbal tea = nighttime
Nighttime = vampires
Vampires = sparkles
This meme = sparkles
Coincidence??? I THINK NOT!!!
- Comment on Going on a rampage 3 weeks ago:
Crab is the ultimate form
- Comment on What are your favorite metroidvanias? 5 weeks ago:
Animal Well.
Little to no combat, big emphasis on (hard) puzzles and exploration. Great athmosphere.
- Comment on Dr. Hanks the goat 3 months ago:
"How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense"
- Hanks (probably)
- Comment on Anon needs help to solve the mystery 4 months ago:
Literally.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Sounds like a Pokémon
- Comment on Anon cheats through college 5 months ago:
My first programming course (in Java) had a pen and paper exam. Minus points if you missed a bracket. :/
- Comment on If a child went into a coma and woke up as an adult what would happen ? 5 months ago:
Source?
- Comment on Birds with red eyes are coming 6 months ago:
The owls are not what they seem.
- Comment on What are your favorite ROM hacks? 7 months ago:
One big favourite is the fan translation of Mother 3 for GBA.
- Comment on Carcinisation? 7 months ago:
Even the slime mold knows it: nationalgeographic.com/…/slime-mould-attacks-simu…
- Comment on pump up the jamz 8 months ago:
Technotronic got their name by combining the word ‘techno’, meaning a sort of dance music, and ‘tronic’ meaning ‘tronic’.
The original 12-inch release of Pump Up The Jam came with a free horse.
At 7.16pm on December 28th 1879, Dundee’s Tay Bridge collapsed as a train passed over it. 60 passengers lost their lives.
Other musical acts whose names begin with ‘T’ include The Cure, The Isley Brothers, and The Velvet Underground.
- Comment on pump up the jamz 8 months ago:
Pump Up the Jam is an anagram of ‘Jump Up the Pump’.
This song was played five times in a row at the funeral of director Stanley Kubrick.
Techtronic’s home planet, Earth, consists of 70% water.
If you isolate the individual drumbeats from this song and arrange them in a circle, it unlocks a cheat mode that allows you to pass through solid surfaces at will.
- Comment on Firefox search box jumps focus to address bar 1 year ago:
Well … the box is just a remenant of the search web pages.
I think it does make sense to have a separate search box for web-only searches tough. Say you’re sitting next to a coworker and you’re talking about Anna Karenina and you want to look something up, but typing “an…” in the address bar will pull up “Anastasia likes it big and hard” from your bookmarks because you forgot to disable bookmark search
- Comment on Caption this. 1 year ago:
I too was amazed by how much muscle is on the backside of the thigh when I first saw it:
- Comment on Mixed signaller 1 year ago:
Aaahhhhh the IBM System/360
- Comment on Big ol Birch 1 year ago:
I’m your shade, I’m your fire
I’m always in the mire
You know you wouldn’t want it any other wayyyyyy
- Comment on Big ol Birch 1 year ago:
I’m a birch, I’m a grower I’m a plant, no lawnmowers I’m a sinner, I’m a saint I do not fear the rain…
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 1 year ago:
That day would be new year’s day, not an ordinary day. So those weeks would be
- Mon-Sun
- Leap day/international holiday, undated
- Mon-Sun
- Comment on So sad 1 year ago:
Oh lord, 2.4 kg in one sitting
- Comment on Are people in the stock photos real? 1 year ago:
Sure. For instance, Andras Arato (“Hide the Pain Harold”) regurarly interacts with his fans. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3WnvDtDD2M
- Comment on Has any of you ever tried the "Ragnok 2 gun mouse"? If so, how good is it? 1 year ago:
Lol. It does look great for carpal tunnel/RSI. I’d definitely buy it if it didn’t have such a 'murica gamer kiddo vibe.
- Comment on What's the point of American police saying "Show your hands" after they shot a man? 1 year ago:
…So if you use your hands to put pressure on the wound to stop the bleeding, you won’t get an ambulance?
- Comment on Is it safe to use pans with peeling nonstick coating? 1 year ago:
- Chunks of teflon are getting in your food
- The aluminium underneath, which was protected by the teflon, is getting into your food (especially true with acidic foods, since they will react with aluminium and erode it).
- Comment on has science gone too far? 1 year ago:
It certainly is an image
- Comment on Know you're character 1 year ago:
Even the post title. Good job I hate you
- Comment on What does .: come from / what does it mean? 1 year ago:
“R.:” looks like an appreviated form of “Reply:”/“Response:” but since “History” isn’t abbreviated it just looks like a typo to me.