ageedizzle
@ageedizzle@piefed.ca
- 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? 13 hours ago:
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- 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? 13 hours ago:
Do you guys not have any language classes in the public school system at all in the US? Not trying to be rude I just dont know how things work there
- 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? 13 hours ago:
Same experience for me. Once in highschool (at an English speaking school) you could choose to branch off from French and learn either Spanish or Japanese (or all the above) if you wanted 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? 13 hours ago:
Do Americans really not learn any other languages in school? I’m not trying to be rue I’m genuinely asking
- 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? 15 hours ago:
Well I think that would depend, right? If you’re from a region of the States where there’s more economic activity with Mexico, then sure it makes more sense to learn Spanish. But there are also areas in the States where you have comparatively more economic activity with Canada, then it makes more sense to learn French.
Can we at least agree that it makes more sense for an American to learn French than Portuguese, contrary to what was suggested earlier in the conversation?
- 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? 17 hours ago:
Quebec is one of the most economically active regions in Canada. But we can out that aside for now because, again, Quebec is not the only francophone region in Canada. The province I’m from doesn’t even recognize French as an official language, yet there are people who live here who are born here, are educated here, and work here, and die here, all without ever achieving more that basic English proficiency because they are so immersed in the Francophone subculture here.
So if what you are worried about is legal frameworks, then yes, you don’t need your lawyer to be bilingual to do business with Canada in some cases. But that doesn’t diminish the fact that the people who you hope to do business with, and your potential customer base, might not know anything beyond broken English (if they know any English at all).
- 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? 18 hours ago:
Quebec is in Canada, it’s also not the only Francophone region in Canada. There are also most certainly major economic zones in Canada where you would need to know French to conduct business. And I assume you could also hire a translator for Spanish, no?
- 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? 18 hours ago:
Is Canada not economically relevant to the continent? French is an official language of Canada, on equal footing as English. By law anything imported into Canada must include both English and French labelling, software, instruction manuals etc. For parts of the US that trade a lot with Canada, French is at least as economically relevant as Spanish.
- 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? 19 hours ago:
There is really only one major language which is relevant to neighbors
Spanish
French Canadians would like to habe a word with you
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 1 day ago:
You could argue that our way of life in wealthy countries is impossible without the exploitation of the third-world. Does that mean we are a higher class of humans? No.
Let’s just strive to be as harmless as possible and leave our grand philosophical ideas about who is better than who aside.
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 1 day ago:
Compare: it’s rape to have sex with someone underage, but two underage people can have sex with each other without it being rape.
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 1 day ago:
Not everything is black and white. You are painting a picture where we have two options: (1) cause as much harm as we please and not worry about the consequences, or (2) cause no harm at all by eradicating our species from the face of the Earth (which would actually cause a lot of harm to members of our species but we’ll sidestep that for now).
But this is of course a false dichotomy. Because there are degrees to this. A vegan diet is undoubtably less harmful, both in its carbon footprint and in the direct harm in causes to other species. So if someone wants to reduce the amount of harm they are causing it’s the way to go. So why try to diminish that with this ridiculous dichotomy between death to all humans or unmitigated animal torture? If someone wants to decrease of amount of harm they are causing shouldn’t we be encouraging this sort of prosocial mindset?
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 1 day ago:
Bro would rather exterminate all humans than admit that he should just go vegan
- Comment on Banned Mullvad VPN TV ad criticizing United Kingdom escalating censorship and mass surveillance “And Then?” 2 days ago:
Does this data take into account that any posts on Lemmy/Piefed are automatically also posts on Mastodon (and comments are replies) but this doesn’t necessarily happen the other way around?
- Comment on Banned Mullvad VPN TV ad criticizing United Kingdom escalating censorship and mass surveillance “And Then?” 2 days ago:
Is there anyway to post on Mastodon from your lemmy account or will everything just show up as a reply?
- Comment on Banned Mullvad VPN TV ad criticizing United Kingdom escalating censorship and mass surveillance “And Then?” 2 days ago:
I think the reason why people decided to go with Bluesky is because it’s easier to sign up for. Most people on here are pretty technically inclined, so its hard for them to understand, but the process of picking a server to make an account on is complicated enough to screen out a sizeable fraction of potential users (then waiting for your application for that server to be approved creates an other hurdle for certain people).
- Comment on Do smoke detectors have little speakers inside them? If yes, would it be possible to hack them to play a little jingle? 2 days ago:
Interesting thank you. The integrated drivers thing would make it difficult to hack but I guess its always possible to crack the smoke alarm and replace the drivers, if someone really wanted to get their hands dirty
- Comment on Do smoke detectors have little speakers inside them? If yes, would it be possible to hack them to play a little jingle? 2 days ago:
Interesting. I’ve never heard of a piezoelectric buzzer before. This is the answer I was looking for. Thanks!
- Comment on Do smoke detectors have little speakers inside them? If yes, would it be possible to hack them to play a little jingle? 2 days ago:
Linking to Reddit on Lemmy is blasphemy. (But thanks for the link lol its informative)
- Comment on Do smoke detectors have little speakers inside them? If yes, would it be possible to hack them to play a little jingle? 2 days ago:
You can also make hard drive heads play music.
How does this work?
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- Comment on Better be a sex offender registry on those damn space ships 4 days ago:
Right. But in this particular case it doesn’t make sense. If microbial life were found on, say, Mars then that would be a discovery by NASA, which is a civilian agency. As far as I’m aware you don’t need a security clearance to work at a civilian agency.
On the other hand if the US found some unknown craft flying in their sky that would immediately become a military matter and so be classified by default
- Comment on Better be a sex offender registry on those damn space ships 4 days ago:
Yeah. If they classify microbial life because it conflicts with religious dogma then you’d expect them to classify any scientific finding that conflicts with religious dogma, which doesn’t seem to be the case. Also I’m not really sure microbial life would really contradict any mainstream religious dogmas
- Comment on Better be a sex offender registry on those damn space ships 4 days ago:
Why would they classify that information if its just microbial? The motivation for classification is clear if the aliens are flying around in UFOs (so they can reverse engineer their tech without adversaries of the US finding out) but there is no realistic motivation for why they might classify microbial life
- Comment on Given the obviously wide reaching implications of the Epstein files why arent other world governments demanding access or copies? 1 week ago:
Trump was threatening too but I dont think he ever did.
- Comment on Can people irl be as mean as some people online? 1 week ago:
A similar phenomenon happens with road rage
- Comment on Given the obviously wide reaching implications of the Epstein files why arent other world governments demanding access or copies? 1 week ago:
You might be right. I really don’t know what would be included under their intelligence sharing agreements, I just know that an agreement exists
- Comment on Given the obviously wide reaching implications of the Epstein files why arent other world governments demanding access or copies? 1 week ago:
The US already has intelligence sharing programs with many of their Allies (eg the five eyes alliance, which includes Canada, Australia, the UK and NZ). So other nations very well may have copies
- Comment on Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance 1 week ago:
Technically in the ad it was the children’s pet. So they’ve managed to do a two-in-one and hit both demographics
- Comment on What is the best alternative to a "smart" cell phone today? 2 weeks ago:
Are you looking for a dumb phone? If so the best alternative on the market is probably the Light Phone III. It’s pricey though because its a niche product