I really don’t know about English in Austria, Poland or Italy. My experience with English in Italy is 30 years ago, but it comes to: nobody speaks English, and very few people tries.

If you want an open minded population, you’re way better off going for a large city, than a specific country. Last time I was in Berlin I found what was described as an English language feminist queer bookstore. I doubt that you’d find that in a picture-esque Toscan town.

Be aware that you’ll need to have some formal training in English grammar and language theory, in order to teach in most cases. You can’t just drop in with a high school diploma and teach English.

Imagine any European suggesting that states seceding from the union be rewarded and the rest punished. It would be so bizarre.

They gave him a peace prize. The FIFA Peace Prize smh

Maybe we should have some people from SI give him something, so that the US will ditch those stupid units. He’s got a peace prize and a jet, so something else… How about a gold helicopter with AI in it? We could have the tail rotor fitted with LEDs some it’ll spell out TRUMP when flying. If we better make it good enough, maybe he’ll have ICE pickup anybody using feet or fahrenheit.

I can do you one even better. I am full time employed, I train IT supporters. Which means, that my job is to enable people to waste their time, in order to make you be able to waste yours. Just taking another trip round the wast-o-time-ception merry-go-round: my school employs IT staff as well.

Life is hard, pointless, and full of injustice. But at least in the end you get to die a meaningless death while alone and afraid.

This got dark, remember that you need to pretend to be happy again come Monday morning. Otherwise starvation will get you before the tumor, that you didn’t know you were to going to get 5 years before “retirement”. Here’s a little inspiration “Pretend You’re Happy” by Jay Forman recorded in the luxury of what appears to be a 2000s 3 door citroën saxo https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PeCrnbJHJeY

If I didn’t have a mortgage, kids, and obligations, then I might just be walking the earth myself.

Why is the stone groove on the curved side of the avocado? Am I wrong in thinking the groove left behind the stone should be on a flat surface?

Nope, but she might if the offer in the table with Trump was “resign now so we can have a special election and you don’t have a voice, or we’ll destroy you so hard that you’ll never even win an election for town cryer of Bumfuck, Arizona”

Or maybe whoever pressured MTG actually threatened physical damage like “you know Marge, you have seemed more and more erratic lately, even for a Jewish space laser weirdo. You better resign now so you don’t risk committing suicide”

I don’t think that any language is generally worse for emotions than others.

Ruling something out though, without having anything but your own opinions to justify it, seems like scientific misconduct.

But in writing that, I had to search my vocabulary for 15 seconds for “opinion”, and I spend considerably longer to translate “scientific misconduct” without being satisfied.

So I will maintain my hypothesis that speaking a second language, adds an emotional shield by distancing the speaker.

Jokes on you, they’re hiring for “World’s sexiest Lemmy user”

I found myself writing an email to a Norwegian recipient the other day. I wrote in English, despite Danish and Norwegian bokmål being >95% the same.

It waters out our native languages when we do this, and it is, as you say, in favour of bad English. I find even the most English proficient Danish teens lacking in their vocabulary. Pronunciation is good, but they can express themselves.

I’ve given it a fair bit of thought. I think that the kids choose English, because it’s emotionally distancing. Saying something in English doesn’t carry the same weight, as using their mother’s tongue. Simply because they don’t feel the words the same. Occasionally I will catch myself using English for my internal dialogue, especially when I’m thinking about something that causes me emotional distress.

Is this officially the first bad thing to happen to Iceland that isn’t attributed to Denmark? I knew AI was coming to takes all of our jobs, but this is some black mirror level stuff.

And while you’re at it, put handles on pudding cups so I can steer and hold my snack. I need my right hand for the spoon and scrolling Youtube,

I thought the updated standard was adjusted for daylight savings time, making it 2100 and 0300.

Urban legend https://m.youtube.com/results?search_query=MythBusters+airbag+thumbs

Nebula as well

I didn’t notice the USB port on the right, I was so focused on the shitty alignments. Like how can you fuck up only some of the 'S’s? I get that the ports are a result of the outline of the parts soldered to the board. And getting the HDMI vertically centered, or having the single USB port not turned 180°, would require both effort and a bit pricier BOM … But! The engraving? It’s the one thing that’s not relying on external factors.

I teach various certification exams, from what I’ve seen so far, you shouldn’t need to worry. Not if the exams are administered properly that is.

Don’t forget to ban renting servers, vps and cloud services by individuals.

I think Microsoft and Adobe might lobby against the latter… But if they could expand the ban to AI, I’d be in favor of banning all the other stuff as well. I mean, what good is banning and blocking smut, when you can just ask an LLM to generate whatever your perverted 13yo heart desires?

Shoulda done that with Vance

And even if you sampled at 10 sps, and did 50 sensors at 10b, you would still only be looking 5000bps or 5.8x10^-7 GBps, meaning that it would take roughly 26 years to fill up a 512GB SD card.

While I don’t know for how long the sub had been submerged, I doubt it was close to a quarter of a century. If that was the case, I believe that we would have been talking about that as well. Even if it was 500 sensors, at 100sps at 12b we’d be looking at 79days.

IMHO there’s only a few things a 512GB SD card would be used for. And I hope it was music, because I don’t think we should watch the final moments of these people’s lives.

Which will be a year with time served. Down to 6 months before work release. 6 months which will be served in a minimum security celebrity resort rehabilitation farm.

Feels like I’ve wasted all this time not doing drugs, exploiting models and forcing people to rape eachother. I’ve been such a sucker…

So anyway, anybody here want to party? I have already ordered oil and bulls for 50 people.