Kirp123
@Kirp123@lemmy.world
- Comment on How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand? 37 minutes ago:
Everyone coming up with conspiratorial reasons why this is not the case but it’s much simple than that. It’s not feasible and it’s expensive and the returns aren’t really worth it.
Kids in school have a bunch of other subjects they have to learn besides foreign languages. You can add one or two languages but then at some point you will need to remove other subjects to add more or you need to keep kids in school even more. Both are not really feasible. Then you need to hire teachers for all these new languages which most places won’t do.
Another issue is with the way they teach languages in schools. They expect you to pass a test and not actually learn the language so a lot of the languages will not “stick” as the students lack immersion and practice with that language. I can speak for myself, I have learned two languages besides my native language in school: French and English. I had French since 2nd grade, which is 10 years of French classes and English since 5th grade which is 7 years of English classes. Today I can speak English fluently and like 3 words of French. The difference was that I was always immersed in English, though video games, movies, songs and so on. Not so much with French. I have noticed the same pattern with most of my friends and family members.
- Comment on Double standards 6 days ago:
No. It doesn’t really matter if the animals are wild or in captivity.
Under the ESA, it is unlawful to “take” any endangered or threatened animal species, which is broadly defined to include harassing, harming, pursuing, hunting, shooting, wounding, or killing.
- Comment on Double standards 6 days ago:
People get tigers and lions so I don’t think a peacock is much harder to acquire. Also according to Wikipedia:
The green peafowl is in demand for private and home aviculture and threatened by the pet trade, feather collectors and hunters for meat and targeted.
- Comment on Double standards 6 days ago:
Huh, apparently peacocks are endangered. So probably that’s why?
I honestly thought they were quite common as livestock but I guess I was wrong.
- Comment on Anon changes his strategy 1 week ago:
It is an elaborate ruse. But not to reduce competition, it’s to just turn young men into angry unstable individuals which can be used for nefarious purposes. We have literal evidence of it happening with Gamergate and there’s some evidence those young men may have just helped get Donald Trump elected in his first term.
When people are angry and lonely they can be easily coopted for stuff, you just offer them a community and an outlet for their rage and they are yours to do as you want.
- Comment on what a drag 1 week ago:
You know they will never let him live that down.
- Comment on Advertisements 1 week ago:
Also you can get sponsor block for youtube and it auto skips sponsored segments.
- Comment on A Playthrough Reborn: Rediscovering Final Fantasy XIV 1 week ago:
Yeah they changed it a lot in the past few years or so. They removed a lot of the filler quests and remade the final dungeons and raids (they split the huge final AAR dungeon into three smaller ones for example). They also made it possible to do all the main quest dungeons with bots so if you don’t want to play with real people or can’t you can still go through it. The bots are the characters that appear in the story so it’s quite lore friendly too.
Though there still are some hiccups in ARR, the biggest one being the Crystal Tower raids which are required to progress the story and can’t be done with bots as they require 24 people total. New players have a lot of issues with the queues for that one, sometimes waiting for an hour or more in queue from what I’ve seen.
But yeah I recommend anyone that likes story games and Final Fantasy games to give it a go, it starts fairly slow but the story is amazing when it gets going. Also the game is filled to the brim with references to other Final Fantasy games, it’s a love letter to the franchise. Oh also the music is outstanding, one of the best music in any video game.
- Comment on Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN 2 weeks ago:
I feel that the game would have been fine if it was an actually game worth playing. The first game already was kinda meh and I don’t even know who demanded a sequel. Nobody is going to pay 80 Euro for a mediocre game when they could get a bunch of indie games with that money.
- Comment on ICE Supreme Commander spotted in Minneapolis 4 weeks ago:
They are just trying to intimidate the protesters. They are a bunch of cowards walking in a herd to feel safe.
- Comment on The new owner of GOG discusses taking on Steam, the devil of DRM, and following in Nightdive's footsteps 1 month ago:
It’s just a picture for me as well.
- Comment on Steam adds official support for game version-specific Workshop mods 1 month ago:
Yeah but that’s on game devs to enable it. A lot of devs don’t want to because they have deal with people complaining about bugs and issues on older versions that are already fixed in newer versions.
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 1 month ago:
Some European countries have banned them already. Belgium and the Netherlands as an example.
- Comment on Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025 1 month ago:
I honestly don’t know anyone who has enjoyed Civ VII and my sample group is made up of people that really love strategy games. It’s such a mess compared to past entries in the series. I am surprised to see it in a top 20.
- Comment on In 2015, the Fortingall Yew, one of the oldest trees in Europe, decided trans rights are tree rights and switched its sex to female 🏳️⚧️ eat shit transphobes 2 months ago:
People have no idea what is or isn’t natural. A lot of animals and plants change sex due to various factors during their life.
- 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? 3 months ago:
It was a process. They started by forbidding Jews from holding certain jobs like doctors, judges, lawyers and and also public jobs. They then pass the Nuremberg Laws that restricted citizenship to Germans and made it mandatory for Jews to wear specific marks on their clothes that marked them as Jewish (the yellow Star of David was one but there were others). Then they required Jews to live only in specific parts of cities, the ghettos. The last step just consisted of them coming and grabbing everyone from the ghettos and everyone that was wearing the marks, the groundwork had been already set.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Please make a report. Even if he had a previous case that was closed it will still show up and can help establish a pattern of behaviour which can make it easier to obtain stuff like restraining orders.
And make sure to talk to a lawyer, they can advise you much better than any answer you can get online. You can also ask the lawyer to make sure that any photos he may have uploaded to porn sites or watever are taken down.
Stay safe and make sure to tell the kid that she did the right thing speaking out. Hope it works out for you both.
- Comment on Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins 4 months ago:
Damn, I didn’t realize our comments on a random lemmy instance have the same power as Elon Musk’s billions.
- Comment on US presidents are getting younger over time 4 months ago:
They did. It said so in the Bible.
- Comment on QUACK QUACK QUACK 5 months ago:
So are they going to ban Tylenol? Isn’t it one of the most common OTC painkillers?
- Comment on What's going on with imgur right now? 5 months ago:
Not anymore. They turned it into it’s own social media. They have comments and stuff and apparently a lot of them really hate reddit lol.
- Comment on I can see the confusion tbh 5 months ago:
Those are ROMAN numerals.
- Comment on Are you winning? 5 months ago:
Having actual people read your chats is so 2015. They probably have some shitty LLM doing it now, Grok probably.
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 6 months ago:
Where do you think Trump makes his hats? Also China can make good quality stuff but you have to pay for it. If you cheap out you get what you pay for.
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 6 months ago:
We truly are in the worst timeline.
- Comment on What's your thoughts on this? 6 months ago:
Fruits? Wood? Oxygen? Soil Fixation? Spices? Truffles? Shade?
Ok, but besides fruits, wood, oxygen, soil fixation, spice truffles and shade, what have the trees ever did for us?
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Some traditions also hold that a vampire cannot enter a house unless invited by the owner; after the first invitation they can come and go as they please.
Depends who you ask.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Eminent Domain can’t be declared by some random police officer, it’s a complex process that takes years and it needs a specific valid public purpose. Some countries require the government to publish a declaration that specifies what public utility the project that will be built on that land will bring.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
When you have a mortgage you still are the owner of the house. You just owe the bank money and the house is just a collateral for that money. If you default on your loan then the bank can take possession of the house to cover the loan and then would become the owners, but only in that case.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
It wouldn’t work. The vampire needs the permission of the owner to enter the house. The person who issued the warrant is not the owner of the house.