Bartsbigbugbag @ Bartsbigbugbag @lemmy.ml

Posts

2

Comments

522

Joined

2 yr. ago

Wow, thanks again, this is really helpful! 谢谢你！I definitely don’t know some of those words, but I’m gonna save your comment for reference as I continue learning.

Man, I forget how shitty most peoples gas cars are sometimes. 260 miles from a full tank? That’s like 26mpg if you have a 10gallon tank, which is unlikely. My car is 15 years old and gets 40mpg, the hybrids in my household get 50+. How tf do you afford to drive getting mileage like that?

I was just listening to a Parenti lecture where he talked about an interaction he had with someone who had been in high up in East Germany. He basically asked, “why did you put out those crappy little two cylinder engine cars?” And the ex-officials response was essentially, “we didn’t want to put them into cars at all, we thought if we provided an adequate public transportation system, that people would be satisfied, but they weren’t so we had to do what we could.”

I agree with you fully, that public transport would be the ideal solution, far and away above electric vehicles, which just providing one for every household in the US would require such s massive amount of material extraction that it by itself will cause significant climate outcomes, but, we must find a way around the impulse for private personal transportation that exists within people, and I don’t know how to do so. Moving without the mass of people could lead to rejection and reactionary movements. Moving with the mass will lead to climate destruction. How do we work with the masses to come to a compromise that allows the support of the masses, while reducing the number of private vehicles to nearly zero?

Yes, it was explicitly part of American culture, and is written into our very foundational documents.

Beat Saber on PC so you can add basically any track you want is the way to go.

Wow, this is awesome! Thank you so much! I finally understand why some questions have 吗ma and others don’t need it.

Duolingo is great because it’s free, but I don’t think it replaces talking to actual native speakers.

Can I ask you something? In duolingo, it rarely “tells” you the definitions of things, and leaves you to suss it out from context, but one I’ve been struggling with is duoshao多少.

In context it also appears to signify a question, but only questions regarding numbers. I think I’m missing something in my understanding of it though.
An example it gives is 他的电话号码是多少，which, to my understanding is like, “your phone number is what?” Or “What is your phone number?”

Is my understanding correct? If I wanted to ask how many apples you have, would I use 多少？

You’re right, but it’s not because of anything innate, but because of particular choices made by your(and my) governments. There are plenty of countries on the planet with 90%+ homeownership, they’re just not typically Free Market Liberal Democracies.

I can’t imagine Google doesn’t have such functionality, since Apple has had it for years and they’re nearly never first to market with a feature.

Everyone does the shitty jobs is the best solution I’ve seen. If we’re working 20 hours a week because we no longer have 80% of our value stolen, then some of that free time should be dedicated to ensuring society continues running and improving. In essence, mandatory community service according to one’s ability.

The fastest way to automate a task that no one wants to do is to make everyone do it.

你们 = you（plural).
吗 = indicates a question.

So “Do you something something something?”

That’s about as far as I got with my two weeks of duolingo lmao.

Edit:
的 means “of”, so my guess is that the phrase before it says pronouns, and after it says gendered. So like

“Do you use pronouns with/of genders?”
Or arranged more for English speakers:
“Do you use gendered pronouns?”

Edit 2:
Looks like I got it backwards. It’s “Do you use Gender with/of pronouns?” So immediately preceding 的 is likely to be the symbols for “gender/gendered”.

I guess I’ll find out when I get to those symbols and learn what they mean!

Butter doesn’t get wet.

My top result is tasteofhome.com.

I feel that, but also, the content I am looking for is indeed typically posted on regular websites without walled gardens, and Google still seems to want to show me a whole page of garbage before the site I’m looking for, whereas on DuckDuckGo(bing), my desired sites are usually the first or second result. Google is better if I’m looking to buy something, or find local restaurants etc, but ddg gives me better results in my academic and flight of fancy searches.

I don’t have an Instagram, a YouTube, Facebook, or Twitter account, and I still hate Google search. It’s nearly useless unless I’m specifically trying to find something to purchase.

Even then. My Corolla cost under $15k brand new off the lot. It’s not the base model either. The base model for the 23 Corolla is almost $22k. Car prices are insane.

As someone with a manual and bad knees, I feel for your mom. One day I’ll probably have to do the same, thankfully that day hasn’t come yet.

The U.S. military is the largest single producer of emissions on the planet.

Consumption driven by advertising based on Edward Bernays work, which explicitly intends to create fissures within people and then sell them cures to the fissures they created,m. Just disallowing advertising would have a substantial effect on consumption.

I’m going through this after my work was bought out. They forced us onto their locked down computers, and they’re so locked down we literally can’t do our work on it. Execs are trying to come up with a solution, thankfully at least for now they’ve gotten corporate to agree to let us use our old laptops until they do. I think mostly because we’re extremely high value low cost, so if we’re not working, they’re losing a lot of money.

I appreciate the recommendation. I’ll put it on tonight when I do my exercises. I respect your position, it’s more nuanced than most people I’ve had similar discussions with. I hope whatever happens, peace comes sooner than later.