ALoafOfBread
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- Comment on ‘The Wheel Of Time’ Canceled By Prime Video After 3 Seasons 5 days ago:
I only watched the first season (big fan of the books as a kid). Imo, it is not worth your time. They took out what makes WoT special and produced some extremely generic, bland fantasy.
- Comment on what language would be best for me to learn? 5 days ago:
Depends on your goals. I’d say learn the one you have the most use for personally. If you don’t have a use and are just learning for fun, then pick the most interesting one. If you’re learning intending to acquire the language as quickly as possible, then either Italian or French would be good choices.
I am learning Chinese (mandarin, aka 汉语, aka 普通话) and I personally find it very logical, interesting, and fun as a native english speaker who used to be conversationally fluent in Spanish. There are definite difficulties with the language (soooooo many homonyms, characters (汉子) take some getting used to, tones, etc) but if you learn it, there is a lot of reading material and media that will become accessible to you. Also, I think that it provides more cognitive benefits necause of how different it is to romance languages (for native speakers of romance languages).
汉语是很酷。我推荐你！
- Comment on Got any grapes? 1 week ago:
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- Comment on quick health tip 2 weeks ago:
Pro-tip: if you replace the water in your instant ramen with coffee, it’ll have coffee in it.
- Comment on In the United States; is it illegal to use a single serve wrapped slice of Kraft cheese as a postcard? 4 weeks ago:
AFAIK you can literally mail anything (except these things) as long as you pay the right postage and address it.
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 5 weeks ago:
I largely analyze data and create software to automate business tasks. This allows people in my company to make informed decisions about the business, how money is or should be spent, who & where to hire people, etc. And then I present that data in a way they can understand.
This might mean creating forecasts. Automating data analysis with reports. Building data sources (gathering and manipulating data from different places and compiling it). Building interactive software or excel sheets for non-technical users.
I use excel, google sheets, google app script (basically javascript), tableau, python, and SQL.
- Comment on What's a highly-rated, critically acclaimed TV series that you couldn't get into, or have no interest in? 5 weeks ago:
Some of the early episodes really show their age. It’s definitely still worth watching in 2025, but it is an old show at this point.
- Comment on I dont know where to put this, no 5 weeks ago:
Yee
- Comment on Anon finally finds a girlfriend 5 weeks ago:
Fake and gay but also🥚
- Comment on Tesla Stock Price Reaches 'Death Cross' Status 1 month ago:
Basically it is a “technical analysis” thing. Which basically means divination based on the “shapes the stonk line make and other line you draw on stonk too”.
Death cross scary shape when stonk line cross other line you draw
- Comment on What TV show were you highly excited for, but ended up quickly disappointing you? 1 month ago:
Oh yeah. One of the biggest falls from grace in TV imo.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 month ago:
Recorded music from radio to cassette
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 month ago:
1 reporting in 👨🦳
- Comment on >meme arrows 1 month ago:
> thank you
> for your service
- Comment on Anon is waiting for Japan 2 months ago:
They have impure silicon there so their software dev practices had to become way more advanced to compensate
- Comment on They are lying to us 2 months ago:
Science is proof that 99/100 people who think that if there was a knowledge-based magic system irl, then they’d learn it and be a mage is in denial.
We legit have magic that you just have to learn & then can do all sorts of cool stuff, be it chemistry or computer science, and people pretty routinely do not give a shit about learning it themselves.
- Comment on Cathy, do the math. 2 months ago:
Fuckin Thomas Sowell. Unlearning Economics has many hours of content on why that guy is such a blight on economics and the world
- Comment on Which game is it? 2 months ago:
“Worst”. Idk, Satisfactory is pretty great.
- Comment on I put lots of effort into my attempt at protest art and someone defaced it 2 months ago:
Damn it’s a shame they drew that hand over your cock and balls
- Comment on I'll stop 2 months ago:
Oh that guy? That’s just a normal picture of US vice president JD Vance.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 months ago:
I don’t even think the majority of American conservatives are on board with most of what’s happening. Some are, but they’re especially stupid and usually ideologically oriented to Trump rather than to the traditional brand of US conservatism.
- Comment on A funny thing in Iran is how they repackage old PlayStation consoles 2 months ago:
I kinda like it. Brutalist console
- Comment on Sun God 2 months ago:
Too autistic for this. Why would it be unsettling? Mercury is much smaller than the sun. If it was suddenly bigger in proportion to the sun, then I’d be unsettled.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Цанк йоу, Доналд. Веру коол!
- Comment on Anon envies the boomers 2 months ago:
Oh, totally. Just like to bring up that our grandparents/great grandparents were getting nasty even before widespread use of birth control, etc. Young folks today are having a lot less sex, or so I’ve heard, largely due to difficulties finding partners, stress, etc.
- Comment on Anon envies the boomers 2 months ago:
And yet they had more premarital sex than millenials/gen z
- Comment on Average Australian place names 3 months ago:
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 3 months ago:
It’s exhausting. And trying to convince someone like that of anything is basically impossible. I have had painstaking, well-reasoned and well-sourced political discussions with many people like that. Funny thing is, I can almost always get the to agree to progressive or socialist policy goals. But, there are all these ideological land mines and, if you trip one, then they fall back into their defensive web of miscellaneous falsehoods and conspiracies.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 3 months ago:
Validation for their feelings and a return to a mythologized past. Try having a reasoned political discussion with someone like this:
Well back in my day things were just better. America was the best and we didn’t have to apologize for that. And the blacks and mexicans and what not didn’t complain so damn much because folks were wired different back then and there wasn’t nothin to complain about. Chuck Berry. You know Chuck Berry? Greatest rock and roller of all time and he was colored. Didn’t nobody have anything to say about it, he was just damned good at guitar. Now the kids - black kids - listen to all sorts of damnable noise and them from the cities in gangs shooting each other up and corrupting good old white kids in the small towns and suburbs getting them into drugs. And they whine and complain about racism and get the white college kids to whine and complain too, but we had a black president and look how that turned out. Granted he was a muslim and not even a citizen, but try tellin them that. I mean hell look at what Hillary did to all them folks at Benghazi - just let them muslims kill all of em , probably wouldn’t have been politically correct to fight back. And those democrat cities just keep letting illegals stay because they know they’ll vote democrat - they don’t care how many of them are raping and murdering women and kids long as they get their votes. Not even just the mexicans anymore, you got those communists gangs from venezuela taking over whole apartment complexes and the defunded police cann’t do anything about it. You know something was wrong with that Biden election - not just illegals voting but I saw on Fox that they were sending out dozens of mail-in ballots to blacks and college kids and what have you. Maybe Elon’s going to fix it now since he knows all about those voting machines. Liberals voting for dead people too, but that’s been on the news since Bush - I don’t know why nobody does anything about that. And you know what? We knew which bathroom tonuse too - we figured out a genius method. I’ll tell you: drop your drawers and look down. Then you’ll know. And you’ll know if you should be on a mens or womens track team, too. It’s probably because all the kids have autism from the vaccines these days - now I guess they’re mutants because of that COVID mRNA vaccine too - but not me. No sir. I’ll stick with the DNA god gave me. That’s probably why all the boys think they’re girls now. Or cats and try to piss in litterboxes at school. People knew who and what they were once. They knew their place, worked hard, and didn’t complain. Now if we can just get Trump in for a few more terms then he’ll set everything straight and get rid of all those regulations so.I can afford eggs again.
These folks are genuinely operating on an entirely separate set of facts and assumptions to us. They have decades of counterfactual propagandized conspiracy theories, which are too numerous and ingrained to easily disabuse them of.
- Comment on Anon is dangerous 3 months ago:
Surely they mean that they fear they will fall in love with someone only to find out that they’re the infamous hacker known as 4chan