agamemnonymous
@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on [deleted] 13 hours ago:
It’s funny you mention the math because i hear english is bizarrely efficient as a language
Maybe, but I think it’s mostly just that it’s my native language and I was a voracious reader in my childhood so I got really good at it. I do appreciate the Germanic composite nature, but I didn’t, like, actively choose English.
Given how long it takes you might want to get started tomorrow!
Eh, like I said, that’s a future me problem. I think the “fun” way is going to be learning along with my kids. Start with the basics, consume simple media, immersion, all that. I’m not too worried about it, if I need to supplement with other methods I’ll supplement. But I think the time it takes the kids to become fluent will be long and gradual enough to work for me.
- Comment on [deleted] 14 hours ago:
English, and quite well.
I’ve tried Spanish, German, Japanese, Esperanto, and a smattering of others. I just don’t have the mental temperament for language learning, I’m a math guy. I’m already very proficient in arguably the most useful one, and I just can’t justify the time and effort that I could be using to learn other more broadly useful topics.
I promised my wife I’d learn her native language alongside our future children, but that’s a future me problem.
- Comment on It is time to dispel all of the disinformation surrounding the life & death of Charlie Kirk. 16 hours ago:
Heads of state actually just do that, and in the process eject projectiles which look just like bullets into the muzzles of nearby firearms. It truly is crazy how nature do that.
- Comment on Gaysadilla 1 day ago:
As long as he’s shaking his speare
- Comment on Gaysadilla 1 day ago:
I am pretty hard now that you’re asking the tuff questions, if that counts.
- Comment on Gaysadilla 1 day ago:
The only ones I found wouldn’t do anything off-menu :'(
- Comment on Gaysadilla 1 day ago:
Quinoa sounds awful on a sandwich, it’s gonna be all over the floor. Why not queso?
- Comment on With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake? 1 day ago:
People who prefer using a spoon for (non ice cream) cake are the type of people who make a song and dance out of succumbing to temptation when they order it.
- Comment on the no state solution 2 days ago:
Oh, I got mixed up in the comment chain, I was talking about OP
- Comment on the no state solution 2 days ago:
I think she said Swiss in another post? There’s a lot of cultural cross-pollination
- Comment on stages of mitosis 2 days ago:
Is it gay if it’s cytokinesis?
- Comment on oh shit waddup 4 days ago:
Old? It’s only a couple years old.
-Checks - 2015
Ah.
- Comment on Can't get better than this 5 days ago:
That’s a lot of empty wall space that could be used to mount swords
- Comment on What does the acronym MAGA stand for? (wrong answers only) 5 days ago:
Make Anonymous Gay Accounts
- Comment on Fascism bad. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Are you pissed? 1 week ago:
His son actually further developed the experimental dance therapy into the practice of mental karate.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 1 week ago:
The Apollo missions were staged, that’s 100% a fact.
Jokes aside, yeah Soviets are the answer. If there was the slightest inkling that we faked it, they wouldn’t have come out to congratulate us.
- Comment on the world 1 week ago:
Publication order is probably fine, though it takes a few books for him to settle into his general story structure. It’s not the only way, and unless you’re going to sprint through them in relatively quick succession it’s probably not the best way, as you may get lost in some of the focused character development.
This is a bit of an open question****. Most of the books center around one or another subgroup of characters (City Watch, the wizards, the witches, Death, etc.), although there’s some overlap. The way I’ve been going through seems to be roughly the agreed upon “best” way: choose one of these sub-groups and read all the books that center around them in order, then move on to another.
Those sub-series are relatively self-contained, so I think you get more from exploring a theme from beginning to end than jumping from theme to theme. There are several tie-ins, but I don’t think they’re substantial enough to agonize over missing context.
Personally, I’d either start with Guards! Guards! or Going Postal, as they’re the beginnings of the more grounded sub-series and give you a good foundation of the world in general, and Ankh-Morpork in particular. But as long as you’re not skipping ahead in a sub-series, you should be fine.
- Comment on Spange 1 week ago:
I was gonna make a joke, but then I read the article and
After serving enlisted in the United States Air Force, Eiffel entered the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1993. In her first year, she was sexually assaulted by another cadet, but thwarted the attack with a training sword. She was subsequently dismissed from the Academy with a personality disorder: “I really felt that the only way for me to sleep is if I was holding onto something, like my sword, because that was the one thing that protected me. And it just got worse,” she said.
kinda takes the fun out of it
- Comment on Just one more square bro 2 weeks ago:
TIHI
- Comment on long live my iud🫶 2 weeks ago:
This is a horrible policy, the consequences of imperceptible yaks are disastrous to our economy and public safety. Recriminalize it.
- Comment on Honk 2 weeks ago:
Llama, bonobo, elephant(it ate some of my mail)
- Comment on ancient wisdom 2 weeks ago:
Life has many doors, Ed-boy
- Comment on Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates? 2 weeks ago:
Do you not even remember your own point?
If Democrats would stop voting for what they thought was the lesser evil things wouldn’t keep getting worse
That’s precisely splitting the vote.
- Comment on Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates? 2 weeks ago:
So then you admit that it’s a useless hypothetical, and your proposed strategy doesn’t actually accomplish anything except splitting the vote to let the far right win more?
- Comment on Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates? 2 weeks ago:
When did I “shit on” it? I’m just saying it’s a complicated undertaking with practical concerns that require consideration.
- Comment on Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates? 2 weeks ago:
When did I say that? I’m for a general strike, I’m just not for a half-assed general strike that’s doomed to fizzle out within a week.
- Comment on Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates? 2 weeks ago:
Successful strikes have had strike funds. Unfunded strikes fail.
I never said to do nothing. But action for action’s sake without setting the necessary foundation is foolish and counterproductive.
- Comment on Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates? 2 weeks ago:
Did you not read what I wrote? It doesn’t matter what “time” it is if you don’t have the necessary tools.
- Comment on Fat labrador topilogy 2 weeks ago:
All it takes is for them to shut your mouth.
