The thing is that I needed to learn a language but that duolingo motivated me to learn a language in the first place. It sadly never made me dig much deeper. Nothing else I’ve tried ever stuck. So for me it’s not duolingo or learn a language seriously but duolingo or candy crush (never actually played that game but you get the point)
Is this about the anomaly of water? I vaguely remember it from school
“It’s all you can eat until you bite into the table, then it’s what’s wrong with you. Hypercriticals.”
I get the waffle vs pancake debate but who doesn’t like ice cream?
They can’t just filter this out or something?
I have seen it before and I still laughed out again. And will do next time.
No, fucking moron spoke Fr*nch
Maybe insects turning from larvae to imago is a better metaphor
I mean I had an existential crisis if I were to wear this hat and I’m not even a dog
Progress will never fail landlords
I mean back when duolingo has discussions or what they called it, you might write nasty stuff. But now, imagine being banned for the wrong translation.
I haven’t used duolingo for a few weeks because my hack to have infinite hearts broke again and I’m too lazy to put in the effort even tho it’s not that difficult actually
I think all nation states have stories like this to a degree which doesn’t make it ok obviously. Some argue that nation states are internalized colonialism. But the real reason I stick to my version is that it’s more catchy. We need narratives to boil things down for the beginning and later we can say “actually it’s even worse”
As a child, I had to super power to fall asleep on the couch and wake up in bed the next morning
You shouldn’t believe governmental drones anyway
c/birdsarentreal
Russia is the only colonial power that never even formally gave independence to its colonies. They are still officially part of Russia and have always been exploited even tho in different ways under the tsar, the bolsheviks and now in post bolshevik times.
Never forget that Russia ends at the Ural, everything east of it are land colonies. Oppressed too much to fight for independence.
What’s the difference between an entomologist and an etymologist? The etymologist knows the difference
I know this is just a meme but I do actually know quite some humans and might some of them