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Babel is my Duolingo replacement. The lessons are better, not AI, with more actual teaching than Duolingo. I'm learning things Duolingo glazed over or didn't fully explain most lessons. Definitely recommend. Keep and eye on stack social too, I got my lifetime subscription to all languages for $140.

My wife is fluent in the language I'm learning and noted my improvement in 2 weeks of using babel. Granted I'm still an A1 but that's a complement I'll gladly accept.

Define soon. Their progress per language is around 10%, with the highest completion percentage being Czech at 20%.

Funnily enough, porn is sort of the canary in the coalmine for free speech. Their use of banning it will be through defining what is and is not obscene. If they can get a case run up to the supreme court, who then confirm that this self expression is obscene, that opens the flood gates for them to freely define what self expression is obscene and ban it or send people to jail.

From there it's a small step to calling something like a dissenting political opinion obscene.

That pun blew my mind.

I ended up falling into using a surface for my travel and it's been surprisingly good. I have surface pro 7+, and it's small enough to use on an airplane seat, has good battery life, a great screen, and can do some limited gaming. With an upgraded drive (1TB for $100) for movies and low end games it's a great little computer. They also run for 200-400 dollars on eBay.

These sorts of programs still exist. I use Nictotine, which is based on Medusa, but basically works like a better version of the old MP3 download programs. Good for finding obscure artists.

The trick is not to just remove the stem. That's noticable and will be immediately fixed. Instead, just loosen it a turns. It causes a slow leak they will keep pumping the tire and get the tire itself looked at before they realize their mistake.

Your 3d printer doesn't have other utilities to accommodate. The printing is basically just the walls. Every other utility (Power, water, sanitary, HVAC, foundations, windows, doors, metal fabrications, networking etc) are all still done by people, all made with options made by other manufacturers.

Your printer also uses quick setting thermoplastic, not a concrete slurry that needs to set over the course of days instead of fractions of a second.

This and typical FDM printing are related, but truths about printing out a plastic trinket don't necessarily translate to large concrete structures.

It disappeared now. When COVID hit I upped my contribution just to max out when the market was at a low.

The only way for the 401k to disappear entirely is if the entire economy is royally, never before seen fucked and completely collapses. At that point retirement if probably not a possibility anyways.

Any other situation you're essentially 'buying the dip' and will see the returns years from now. Although if you're looking to retire anytime in the near future it will likely be a huge hit on what you can take out.

It gets better. The cops didn't receive any punishment because the judge said the cops were scared and that it was OK for them to shoot up the car that didn't match the description (Blue truck versus white / grey, different manufacturer) and contained people who didn't match the description (Asian women versus black man).

It gets even BETTERER though. That wasn't the only vehicle they stopped that blatantly didn't match the description and they still used violence to stop.

It's just the default stance. Kind of like assuming everyone on the road is a bad driver and driving defensively as a result. It's safer to assume every cop you interact with is actively looking for a way to screw you over, will lie to you and will violate your rights given the opportunity. Even if it's just most, or hell even rare that cops are bastards it only takes one interaction with one to have life altering consequences.

That way you can defend your rights and be pleasantly surprised on the rare opportunity you encounter one who isn't a bastard, rather than be constantly disappointed (and possibly in jail or dead).

Stimulants. Where do you think Jr. gets it from?

I think it's simple enough without even using analogies to explain. The unit Watt is Joules per second. Multiply by units of time and you get the total units of energy in Joules. Watt and Watt Hour are just that with without the additional units showing or being simplified.

I mean, they exhausted all their options over the last 21 years and were told in 2018 they should get ready to depart. They then stayed another 4 years anyways after they exhausted all their options and knew if it was going to be enforced they were going to be deported.

The only reason they can claim about raising a family is specifically because the system gave them an huge amount of time to sort things out. But that doesn't mean the time is, or should be, indefinite.

For all the people literally being grabbed off the streets for a traffic ticket or an op ed article, a couple being given 21 years of litigation and almost 40 years of time here to sort out their status before ignoring the unfavorable outcome doesn't sound like this just dropped out of the sky.

So what should they have done in there intervening 25 years after receiving a voluntary departure order? Just hope it goes away or is never enforced?

"And so it seemed like the perfect time to allow packages to be delivered to my house, not ask what they are, and when I get the inkling they are illicit do and say absolutely nothing about. Nothing bad whatsoever could come from this"

This just in, 71% of people who voted for leopards eating their face are in fact against having leopards eat their face.

More at 11.

Well iif you're picky stay away from DuPont then. They provided Nazis with information and material during the second world way, all the way up until the Nazis took their assets in Germany.

Did you read the article or watch the video?

Of course deserts have low humidity, but there are areas where in the early morning winds from off shore bring in humid air for a small period of the day. This can be harvested now with nets, although the article and video cover using electrified mesh to increase the yield.

If you look up for harvesting the first photo in the link is from a desert in Chile. It's been studied since the late 60's.