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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don;t most of us Americans only need like one foreign language to pass high school? Why not make it mandatory for like 3 or 4 languages?Would that not give us the upper hand when traveling?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not make it mandatory for 40 or 50 languages? Why not 100? Why not all languages?

  In my poor, rural school district (growing up), Spanish was taught starting in kindergarten. In high school, grades 9 - 12, two semesters of foreign language were required to graduate (or you had to demonstrate you qualified for an exception such as that you were already at least bilingual). The school offered French and Spanish. The only reason French was even an option is because of one special teacher, whom we were lucky to have, had a degree in French language arts or something like that. Other schools in the area only had Spanish.

  You’ll probably recognize this when you’re older, but nearly everything in life is a balance of constraints and concerns. Teaching languages costs money, often in short supply, and requires qualified educators, often in short supply.

  But also, what the hell do you even mean “upper hand when traveling”? I’d be shocked if most non-bilingual Americans who went through the education system in the USA spend more than 1 or 2 weeks in their entire lives some place where being bilingual would give them some kind of upper hand.

  One might argue that Spanish alone would probably cover an enormous amount of those who have spent more than 1 or 2 weeks outside of English speaking parts of the world. But it all seems like an enormous waste of time and energy and resources just to make sure the most privileged amongst us have “the upper hand” when they travel. That’s time and energy and resources that could probably be more wisely spent elsewhere to be honest, and for those privileged folks who have the luxury of traveling and need “the upper hand” – they can turn in their privilege bucks and pay for their own education to learn 3 or 4 languages, I would think? Perhaps they could cut back to only 4 trips to Italy this year and use the savings for some lessons on how to speak Italian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was the first game you ever bought ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t remember.

  However, I gave up gaming when I was around 18 and preparing to head off to college. Then after I graduated, I was at a store and saw Quake Arena on deep discount (b/c it was a very old game at that time) and based on the hardware requirements, it looked like my crumby ancient tower computer could play it. I don’t know why, but I decided to buy it, and I guess that sort of got me back into gaming (ish).

  I was in my 20s and although I barely remember the game now, yeah, it was worth it. The graphics and performance were far superior to anything I’d played up to that point. It had online play, which was entirely new to me at the time. And a few years later, I got major “friend points” when I gifted it to someone who was a game collector and had offered many times to buy the game from me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a tragic condition⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ain’t got no money. Ain’t got no heterosexuality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For the love of the game...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The lizards he’s wearing look like at least a couple different species of Basillisk (I’m thinking it’s a mix of Green and Brown Basilisks). They don’t make great pets, but they do show up in the pet trade (at least in the USA). I wanted one soooo bad back in the day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is AI so bad at coming up with dialogue?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Simple: People, in general, are terrible at coming up with dialog. And the machines are imitating us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cholesterol, perhaps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨send thoughts and peer review⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry, the religious people will find a way to make this about themselves and/or their religion!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This community in one meme⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some men are born into greatness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This community in one meme⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have we as a collective eaten every species of snake in the world to know that absolutely none of them are poisonous? Can we rule out genetically modified snakes that would make them so? Or maybe they are fed a diet of human flesh and a steadily increasing amount of some supplemental toxic substance such that they have become immune to the toxin as it slowly builds up in the snakes’ flesh causing them to also become poisonous? Is it possible most snakes are actually poisonous but only if consumed in sufficient quantity on Thursday November 18th, 2084 at 6:30 p.m.?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From my perspective, ghosts are basically the result of…

  1. Delirium / psychosis or similar mental illness.
  2. Attention seeking.
  3. People attempting to explain something they saw/heard/experienced but don’t understand and aren’t open minded or curious enough to explore real answers to.
• ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was a kid in public school, everybody had to take a foreign language, the elective part was that we had a choice as to which language we took. Some chose French. Some chose Spanish. If you came from money, you also had the option to take foreign language courses at participating colleges, which opened up a lot of other options like German, Japanese, and Latin, amongst others.

  Has that changed? Or perhaps it’s different in different jurisdictions?

  For me personally, I wish Latin had been an option for me, as it’s used extensively in biology and it would have been incredibly helpful. In terms of foreign language courses I’ve taken, I’ve had Spanish, French, and German. I don’t use any of them, except on rare occasion I’ll hear/see something in Spanish that I can vaguely understand the highlights of given enough time. French is pretty much 100% useless in my day to day life. German has been helpful once or twice when watching a movie or listening to music, but otherwise, useless as well.

  Keep in mind, however smart you are, most people are not that smart. They’ll never be curious enough or smart enough to learn another language. They don’t have enough exposure to another language to really remember it. It’s basically of waste of their time and educational money. I’m all for teaching these things in schools as electives, but forcing kids to learn multiple different languages? I think we should have universal/single payer healthcare, better medicare/medicaid, free school lunches (and breakfasts), true livable minimum wages, and a myriad other things first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For Americans, what do you really think of Latin Americans?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Latin Americans are Americans, last I checked.

  I know more low-information, backwoods, ignorant, redneck losers than I can possibly count, and I literally do not know anybody thinks Mexico is the only country that exists. It’s just that they don’t care to differentiate or acknowledge the difference when they refer to anybody and everybody with a “latino” appearance as “Mexicans”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I say kill 'em all.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta geek out a tiny bit.

  Assuming my uncited research from a decade+ ago is correct …

  Citronella was actually extracted from the “Lemon Eucalyptus / Lemon-scented Gum” tree, formerly known as Eucalyptus citriodora but more accurately known as Corymbia citriodora.

  The “Citronella Scented Geraniums” never worked much at all to repel mosquitoes. It was essentially the placebo effect. I’ve done really lame and totally non-scientific experiments myself. The geraniums simply do not work to any significant benefit. People will literally argue with you day and night about this, but it’s just not true.

  That being said, grow scented geraniums to your heart’s content. Burn citronella candles as if your life depended on it. They smell really good and olfactory cues like this will burn memories into your brain that you’ll treasure when you’re older and fading.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Send newts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Newts are underrated. Fight me, but I know you won’t because I know you know I’m right.

  They’re the geckos of the amphibian world. Infinitely more adorable than they have any right to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Depends what you're on.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure I get the sentiment, but I’m here for the cashew memes so I upvote and interact regardless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon disrespects their elders⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Andrew, Formerly Known as Prince, is that you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse - Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly what I was thinking, glad I saw your comment before making pretty much the same one. Granted, I also didn’t like the 3-D but 2-D style of Bloodstained, but this is orders of magnitude worse based on that youtube vid.

  Granted, the graphics aren’t the main draw to this type of Metroidvania, so long as the gameplay is good, I’ll be happy enough. But, I have serious reservations about the thought process that went into the approval of this design. I’m not usually so opinionated, so it has to the pretty awful for me to call it as much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got bad news for ya bud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it really matter either way? The Dow hit 50,000.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You earned some more dislikes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  With respect to Lemmy and Reddit (don’t have much experience with other social media platforms), it often just comes down to the audience.

  Some users and some subs are just so fragile and so propagandized that any tiny bit of resistance or any comment slightly against the standard is met with down votes and negativity.

  On Reddit, I think my most down voted comment that’s coming to mind was in an environmental sub. Someone mentioned that they didn’t see any “bugs” around their outdoor lights the night prior even though those lights would have been covered in bugs when that person was a kid.

  I acknowledged that I am fully aware that insect populations are in collapse/decline. However, what the person was witnessing wasn’t a fair comparison because it was currently winter time where they lived (which was obvious from their other comments) and because modern LED lights don’t produce as much heat or ultraviolet light (both things are highly attractive to nocturnal insects) as previous technology.

  I think I got something like -342 on my comment within a day or two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Smarter than my cousin Larry? Psht. There’s a boxwood bush outside my bedroom window that’s smarter than cousin Larry.

  But realistically, the machines might be smarter than the average poorly motivated human in certain criteria. Hard to take anybody seriously that disagrees with that position.

  On the other hand, an average human with sufficient and proper motivation? I’m still on team people in that case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nope, not visiting that⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because if were actually possible and they did it, then all of space and time would have collapsed into something akin to a giant black hole, obliterating everything, bringing a violent and inescapable end to it all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do it for your country's debt!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My favorite are the ones that complain about how nobody wants to work and everybody’s lazy. Yet, they themselves stopped working in their mid-50s after fighting for years to get on disability for their unhealthy lifestyles (obesity & cigarettes).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Napkin math: There are roughly 3,500 calories in 1 lb of fat. To lose 50lbs of fat, that’s 175000 calories.

  Let’s get an upper bound of 31 days per month, for 2 months, that’s 62 days. 175000 / 62 approximately 2822.5 calorie deficit per day required. The actual number would be higher.

  The other aspect of this is that, generally speaking, the majority of “quick” weight loss is pretty much always in the form of water loss. Water weighs around 8lbs a gallon. So, you’d need to drop about 6 gallons of water to achieve that kind of weight loss.

  Neither of these are safe, reasonable, or practical in that time frame, for the average person without medical supervision and/or other professionals supporting you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They are German, of course.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Used to be a program on the tv set called Lizard Lick Towing. Never watched it, myself, but now I’m kind of glad I missed it. So, thank you for that CERN. Money well spent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They are German, of course.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why ask why? Eins, zwei, drei.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨94.3° F⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I said what, what kitty butt. I said what, what kitty butt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Christmas Animals⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably Coca-cola and its legal teams have some degree of responsibility for the minimal polar bear association.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had one of the shimmering metalic emerald green species land on my shirt this summer and it was honestly one of the highlights of my year. “THAT FIGURES!” I thought, even the animal kingdom agrees I’m a piece of shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Christmas Animals⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Am I missing something? A few penguin references / associations with Christmas, sure I’ve seen that. But, at least in my part of the world, they’re not a major part of the lore – or am I having a moment?

  Either way, this can be easily explained: It’s called being inclusive. The last thing you want is a north pole versus south pole world wide Christmas turf war, best to extend an olive branch andlean into that diversity and inclusion metric for the good of the world’s children and the fate of humanity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨year-old road apples are epic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s poop. So please wash your hands with additional urgency when you’re done wrestling the turd out of its mouth.