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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are physical mail generally not under surveillance? If everyone suddently ditched electronic communications and start writing letters, would governments be able to practically surveil everyone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, GDR is one tiny country but that goes for both sides of the equation. China would be able to surveil mail with the full resources of the Chinese government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One Of The Best Games Ever Turns 25, And You Still Can't Buy It⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, just pirate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In war, if it's not an ally it's an enemy.

  Uh... no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So the US is a threat because... it might not help Europe? That's not really how the word "threat" works, setting aside how Russia isn't even a military threat to non-Ukraine Europe in the first place assuming the EU's mutual defense mechanism holds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  US "allies" haven't gotten the memo yet, US enemies aren't going to interrupt America while it's killing itself and non-aligned nations don't give a shit. Human rights abuses are almost never the real reason for sanctions, just like the US didn't invade Iraq to spread democracy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  US "allies" haven't gotten the memo yet, US enemies aren't going to interrupt America while it's killing itself and non-aligned nations don't give a shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The US is an existential threat to Canada and countries in the Americas that MAGA has bones to pick with. Maybe also Iran. The vast majority of the world is mostly safe, because America has no interest and/or capability to start shit there. For your Germany example, Hitler made it clear exactly what he wanted to do in Mein Kampf.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨During the lead up to the Holocaust did the N... regime just kidnap people who they even thought were Jews? Kind of like ICE is doing to citizens today?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can say Nestle on Lemmy. That's what we're talking about right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You... uh... exist I guess? I'm not sure what you're getting at here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm... It's an adoptive family dynamic, but I think you'll like Anne Shirley. You can watch the recent remake or the original anime depending on preference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did and he's based as fuck. Your point?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mercy merci⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Killing spiders is a scam by big fly/mosquito/insert insect of choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there communities online where artists share their art for free / donation?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Presumably they'd just upload it on their social media platform of choice nowadays?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Carrot⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, that's reason to wash it, but I don't think there's a medical argument for peeling. Could be wrong though, but I've never heard of this being a problem ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Carrot⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You peel carrots? Why‽

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm just happy you thought it was funny, dear⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Enlighten me. Is it loss?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How, and why, are there so many AI-generated videos of incredibly obscure/niche topics?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now I wanna learn how to teach crabs to read classical Latin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you quickly describe Lemmy to a non-fediverse person?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you had a hundred small Reddits talking to each other like one big Reddit, oh and with fewer fascists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨... huh...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't think you should be delivering anything from your ass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British citizens serving in the IDF can now be tried for war crimes in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It's not like the ones fighting in Lebanon were charged with anything, so yeah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If evil, then why hot tasty?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keep scrolling, guys⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please put an NSFW tag on this. I was on the train and when I read this I had to start furiously masturbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like "what the fuck" and "call the police". I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this post. Now there is a whole train of men masturbating together at this post. This is your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just tagged this post NSFW.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brits Serving in Israeli Military Could Get Prison Time⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This just in: UK declares war on Palestine. More seriously, where was this law when Israel was invading Lebanon?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That or the F one⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nitrogen oxide? No matter how angry one is, wishing death on people is too much IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually hear occasional similarities between Japanese and Cantonese. For example: "world" is "世界", "Sai Gai" in Cantonese, and its "Sekai" in Japanese.

  Wow, that's a lot closer than the Mandarin Shi Jie. Anyway that's one of those Sino-Japanese words; they're kind of like the English equivalent of French loanwords so there's a whole lot of them. Also I guess I have to take back my "it won't help you with listening" bit if Sino-Japanese words are that close to their Cantonese counterparts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Minor nitpick: While Chinese fluency will put you in a marginally better position when learning Japanese compared to a monolingual English speaker, it's really nothing significant. Doesn't really go into the same category as Korean, which is indeed very similar to Japanese. Additionally the only famous language that substantially helps with Japanese learning is Korean, with an honorable mention going to Turkish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For which there are two systems, one of which stops at ten, and the other is highly irregular in its forms.

  I think you mean Wago and Kango counting, in which case Kango isn't irregular at all. There are sound changes, but they almost all follow a handful of basic rules. Wago is plenty irregular, but it also stops at ten and is only used for a handful of things.

  And don't get me started on the calendar.

  The calendar? Their months are literally just firstmonth, secondmonth, thirdmonth, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My weeb ass: My time has come.

  I did it, and for the record my native language has absolutely nothing in common with Japanese. I started with Duolingo and kept at it until I could power through easy manga, at which point and I started doing that. The good news is that if you can power through the early bits, your entertainment (assuming it's in Japanese) will supplement and eventually replace Here are the things I think I did right:

  1. Be willing to invest serious time into studying and/or consuming comprehensible material (also known as immersion). At what point it becomes "not worth it" is up to you, but I'd aim for at least an hour a day.

  2. Watch anime often and attempt to understand what you're hearing (this is separate from studying). You'll fail most of the time at first, but this keeps your ear open so you improve your listening without doing much if any extra work. It also helps you keep track of your progress, since the better you get the more you'll understand. I took a half-year break and when I came back I found my Japanese had improved at least in part because I was watching anime in the interim.

  3. Don't fall for the studying trap. At some point, and probably earlier than you expect, you'll have to drop actual studying material and focus your efforts on immersion. I started by reading a manga called Yotsubato after getting to conditoinals on Duolingo, but really any manga with furigana works. If you find something other than manga you like better then go for that, but you need something and it needs to at least keep you on your toes language-wise and still be ultimately comprehensible. Humans learn language by recognizing patterns within copious volumes of content, not by rationally analyzing those patterns; that latter stuff is for linguists.

  4. Keep challenging yourself. It's easy to think you're not ready to advance to the next level, but you should accept that the transition will be painful anyway and often try your hand at more advanced material (meaning immersion material here, as I said don't bother with advanced studying material). In my case, I thought my Japanese was plateauing after sticking with one thing for too long, but after I read my first light novel I improved ridiculously fast. We're talking serious improvement in a matter of weeks here. You're likely to underestimate the level of material you can digest, so you should take that into account when making decisions.

  Note regarding your native language: I speak basic Chinese and Chinese and Japanese are different enough that you'll be almost no better than an English native speaker when it comes to fundamentally understanding the language. However, the writing system and the prevalence of Sino-Japanese words mean that you'll have a leg up in guessing the meaning of words you don't know when reading, especially after you learn to reverse engineer character simplifications. For example, you'll see something like 解説 and be like "oh that's just 解说." At least coming from the other direction this is super convenient, but it's obviously no substitute for actually learning the language and it won't help you at all when it comes to listening. You also get the joy of seeing exactly how the Japanese butchered Chinese words, so... uh... good luck. You'll have fun with 样/様. So to directly answer your questions:

  YMMV, but I don't think it's hard at all. With the benefit of hindsight, it's no more or less difficult than English.

  If you can commit then no, but obviously yes if you give up in three weeks.

  This isn't as important a decision as you'd expect, but Duolingo will do fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Great Vowel Shift. English writing was sensible in the early 14th century around the time of Chaucer, but then shit got out of whack speaking-wise and the writing system was never adjusted to reconcile the difference. So you can blame the Black Death I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, us Eastern weebs do it too!