DonAntonioMagino

@DonAntonioMagino@feddit.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real and True⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  All monitors at the office I work at are in the #3 position, and everyone uses them like that. The first thing I do when I get there (there are no fixed desks, and I’m only there on Mondays) is move one screen to the left and one screen to the center. Then I use my laptop as a third screen, but pretty much only to display my todo list.

  I also think it’s weird, but everyone here does it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s still interesting to analyse them like the cultural products they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This doesn’t have anything to do with language acquisition by babies, though. Spelling is a completely different subject than natural, spoken, language, and obviously not something babies will come into contact with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No language is easy to learn for people who never grew up with it, and every language has quirks. You’re arguing for it being hard to learn a language - this is true - not for English being uniquely hard.

  Whether a language is easy or hard to learn largely depends on the languages you know already, especially as your mother tongue. Dutch is very close to English, and bas borrowed a lot of French vocabulary, so if you know those languages you will not have too hard of a time learning English. Relatively speaking, of course - to someone who only knows Mandarin, English (and French, and Dutch) will obviously be completely foreign, in everything: grammar, vocabulary and syntax.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luigi Mangione, accused of US CEO murder, depicted in London mural⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Speaking as a Dutchie, I hope the big American middle finger (and Hitler salute) will at least lead to their culture not being so omnipresent in European countries anymore.

  I’d like that for Feddit too, actually…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options!⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When it comes to nostalgia, my favourite game is a 90’s German demo of the DOS version of the original Command & Conquer.

  „Jawohl, Sir!”; „Bestätigt!”.

  The soldiers were still robots there, too, because of German law forbidding a realistic depiction of war.

  The best game I’ve ever played is without a doubt Red Dead Redemption 2. I’ve never cried over a game, and with RDR2 a cried when I finished it myself, then I cried again when I watched it being played in a let’s play series on YouTube. RDR2 is a masterpiece, plain and simple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New fediverse chick just dropped⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Got my first Nicole this time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is it, and we (in the west) have gone so far to the right that the richest man of the world, with a powerful position (formally) near government can do the Hitler salute and the established media just shrugs.

  Doing the Hitler salute used to make you a pariah. Now, it’s just a thing the extreme right does to ‘provoke’ (that word I saw used to describe Bannon’s salute in a German newspaper title). In a couple of years, it is normal that the right does this, and the established media doesn’t bat an eye anymore.

  It’s clear that you still can’t trust established media to be a force against nazism. They’ll start analysing the nazi takeover as nazi only when it’s much too late, out of fear of not being ‘neutral’.