Catoblepas
@Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on ??? 1 week ago:
EY! I’m WALKIN’ ova here!
- Comment on Why is having a lawyer present during police interviews "opt in" rather than "opt out"? 1 week ago:
The fact that in some instances the legal system does work according to the invocation of a magic phrase makes it so much harder to deal with the delusions of sovcits. The right to remain silent should be just that. You don’t have to say “I’m invoking my right to free speech” every time before opening your mouth for it to count.
- Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄 1 week ago:
This is just for the English speaker learning Spanish Duolingo course, which I’m told is one of the best ones, so it may not apply to other courses. But IMO it was easier to pick up the majority of the beginner vocabulary in Duolingo (they’ve got the drill aspect of language learning down pat) and then spread out to other sources. I especially needed outside help with grammar because (at least when I was doing the early parts) Duolingo didn’t explain grammar very much, so there was a bit of ramming my head against a brick wall.
How long an article takes me to read depends on how many colloquial phrases it has that Duolingo hasn’t introduced me to, if uncommon words or jargon are used, etc. The dictionary app I use is pretty good and includes slang, so when I do run into unknowns it only takes a few seconds to look it up. But overall I’d say I read maybe 1/2 to 2/3 the speed I read English, depending on all the above factors. It does fatigue me a lot faster than reading English, but I think that’s a normal thing for second languages you’re still learning.
- Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄 1 week ago:
I learned probably 90% of my Spanish through Duolingo. My reading is good enough that I can usually follow along with Spanish news articles and Spanish spoken at a moderate pace. (So almost none of it, haha) I have hearing comprehension problems with English as well though, so that’s not Duolingo’s fault.
I’m definitely not fluent, but it’s not like I wouldn’t know what to do if someone handed me a form in Spanish, either.
Overall it’s just the repetition that matters. I don’t think I would know any less Spanish if I’d spent 20-30 minutes every day for the past 2+ years using a different app to learn.
- Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄 1 week ago:
Mango Languages is available for free through many libraries and has an app.
- Comment on C.D.C. Contradicts Kennedy and Keeps Advice That Children May Get Covid Shots 2 weeks ago:
We need to be screaming praises from the rooftops for anyone and any organization that is telling Trumpublicans to get fucked.
- Comment on 250 Million Honeybees Escape After a Truck Rolls Over in Washington State 2 weeks ago:
Wow, even with an insurance payout I have to imagine that’s crippling for a beekeeper.
Also, escape is a weird way to spell ‘swarm because their homes were violently destroyed’.
- Comment on Owned (stocks) 2 weeks ago:
Do NOT leave that amount of cash on your PayPal if you draw porn, they might shut down your account and you can lose it with zero recourse.
- Comment on Wanna Ride This Bussy? 2 weeks ago:
I do love a bussy that’s not hiding anything
- Comment on yalls done seen any bugs round these' parts? 2 weeks ago:
I can smell this image, lol. Hope you didn’t get peed on!
- Comment on No looky for you! 2 weeks ago:
It’s because watching a bunch of food water swirl around for half an hour is gross.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 2 weeks ago:
Funny that they’re calling them AI haters when they’re specifically poisoning AI that ignores the do not enter sign. FAFO.
- Comment on Batterypunk 3 weeks ago:
Anyone who understands batteries want to tell me if this will eventually explode or something?
- Comment on There's a spider in my bathroom 3 weeks ago:
I feel so much more normal for just saying hello to my shower spider now.
- Comment on Just a reminder... (with thanks to Ice Cube) 3 weeks ago:
That reminds me, I keep forgetting to post this sticker I saw on a lamp post a few weeks ago:
- Comment on ‘The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie’ Sets HBO Max Premiere Date - 27th June 3 weeks ago:
It feels like Ren & Stimpy sometimes because one of the writers (Katie Rice) did work on Ren & Stimpy reboot! So you’re spot on with picking up on that. IMO that adds to it rather than detracts because so much of R&S was making references to or riffing off the ‘golden age’ of cartoons that Looney Tunes was part of, but if that style of humor is boring to you then I could see it detracting from the movie. I wasn’t constantly cracking up or anything, but I was smiling and laughing more than I was bored. Which honestly feels like a huge hurdle for movies now, lol.
- Comment on ‘The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie’ Sets HBO Max Premiere Date - 27th June 3 weeks ago:
I saw this during the theater run and it’s really funny, I recommend it if you like Looney Tunes even a little. I didn’t expect to enjoy it as much as I did!
- Comment on Yabba-dabba-doo! 3 weeks ago:
When you’re done with that, check out the Snagglepuss comic! The commenter that said if anything it was better was absolutely right.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
the statistic showing that the number of disabled adult middle aged “refugees” is double-digit higher that the same number for Danes
You know refugees aren’t a random sample of the population, right? Why tf wouldn’t there be more refugees from war zones, gang violence, etc with disabilities compared to some random Eestern European country with a population that for the most part deals with none of that? What brain trust managed to convince you that the only way to be a refugee is to like, win an Olympic sprint or something?
- Comment on Yabba-dabba-doo! 3 weeks ago:
You’re right, it is better, and the Flintstones comic was already really good! I went into it knowing a lot of the historical details of the time, but it was a fantastic and emotionally moving representation of it. 10/10.
- Comment on Yabba-dabba-doo! 4 weeks ago:
Just checked out a digital copy from the library 👍
- Comment on Yabba-dabba-doo! 4 weeks ago:
It fucking rules, I’m not kidding! It’s so worth a read. I need to see if the Snagglepuss comic they put out in the same style is also good.
- Comment on Yabba-dabba-doo! 4 weeks ago:
This comic fucking rips, if you’ve never seen or read it.
- Comment on The only way to be 4 weeks ago:
As soon as school lets out the ancaps are going to be very cranky about this!
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
This. A lot of ‘making everything about politics’ is the reaction of people whose very existence been politicized by those in power.
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 5 weeks ago:
Bud, you are the one that compared it to calling a woman a lesbian for not wanting to see tits everywhere. That comparison only works if the one complaining about it also has tits, ie is a furry.
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 5 weeks ago:
Are you the furry who doesn’t want to see fursonas everywhere in this analogy?
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 5 weeks ago:
We’re fucked if a plane headed to Anthrocon ever crashes.
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 5 weeks ago:
What is this, 2003? Furries run the internet.
- Comment on Generational differences 5 weeks ago:
Very glad that my dumb ass probably has like 10% less plastic in my brain than most people my age because I never smoked out of cans. Thanks, paranoid teen me!
