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Having read the article it appears there's loads of grammatical errors and things like mistranslations of "gym" instead of "grammar school" so I doubt any real Gaelic speakers will take this seriously. The problem is that as time goes by they'll become more accurate and harder to discern as gibberish.

"This is a Christian nation"

Now I'm not American so I'm willing to be corrected here, but I'm pretty damn certain it's supposed to be a secular nation...

I wanted to know the same thing so this is what my searching has brought up, specifically for Scots Gaelic as that's what I've been learning.

Speak Gaelic - Gaelic only, government funded, free

IndyLan - for endangered European languages, made by Heriot-Watt University and EU funded, free

Mango Languages - appears to be the closest to a Duolingo replacement. Many languages, subscription.

Glossika - another Duo replacement however that URL doesn't fill me with confidence that they're not going down the same route... Subscription for most languages, endangered ones are free.

Apart from the first Mango lesson for free and a few IndyLan lessons I've not tried any of these so can't speak for their quality but thought a list might still be handy.

What I find interesting is all the blame appears to be getting laid at Toby's feet. They're not tree experts, why are the people that felled it not also under fire?

They of everyone involved should have known best to say "fuck no, I ain't cutting that down". But they were paid to cut down a tree so they took the money and cut down the tree.

That's not to say the carvery shouldn't be under fire, I just think the tree experts should be mostly held accountable rather than a pub manager.

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Will he ever leave office?

Also, Trump isn't the only reason all of this shit is going down. It's the entire Republican party. It's every ICE agent, it's the Supreme Court deciding a president is above the law, America is rotten to the core.

Richest country on the planet with plenty of land, many climates allowing a diverse range of crops, and various resources like oil and ores. And they've fucked it, just to get their hands on more and more dollars, to what purpose? Greedy fucks.

https://youtu.be/SfBd90OJwJs

Direct video link

On the sixth day of Hate Week, after the processions, the speeches, the shouting, the singing, the banners, the posters, the films, the waxworks, the rolling of drums and squealing of trumpets, the tramp of marching feet, the grinding of the caterpillars of tanks, the roar of massed planes, the booming of guns—after six days of this, when the great orgasm was quivering to its climax and the general hatred of Eurasia had boiled up into such delirium that if the crowd could have got their hands on the 2,000 Eurasian war-criminals who were to be publicly hanged on the last day of the proceedings, they would unquestionably have torn them to pieces—at just this moment it had been announced that Oceania was not after all at war with Eurasia. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an ally.

There was, of course, no admission that any change had taken place. Merely it became known, with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once, that Eastasia and not Eurasia was the enemy.

• 1984, George Orwell

In my eyes a mandatory read for anybody opposed to authoritarianism.

Available here: https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021h.html

All they've got is Diamonds And Rust

In an assumption that those reading the comments here are lawn cutting folks, please consider not cutting your lawn at all, or if that's not feasible at least reducing how often or how large an area you do it to. Nature cannot survive the onslaught of every home on the planet having a perfectly neat 10mm tall patch of grass and nothing else. We need diversity.

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I can see the Labour Party coming to power in the next election - maybe, maybe not - who knows? But it doesn't really make a difference who's in power - the State remains the same, the structure is still there, they just tinker with it a little here and there.

https://youtu.be/-1uSSRcn7UE

Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor, yeah

https://youtu.be/LQUXuQ6Zd9w

136 upvotes to 6 downvotes for a piece of shit like The Telegraph and a bullshit divisionary piece? I thought Lemmy was better than this

Just like this lovely story about a husband and wife living their best life.

When the Wind Blows trailer

Only if you blur all the boobs. Remember, grotesque violence is okay but the human body is an abomination never to be seen

He lost, it's been generating power since 2018! 😄

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Offshore_Wind_Deployment_Centre#Objections

I think you're forgetting the power of consumers. At work you might not be able to replace Photoshop or Microsoft but at home you certainly can. The more people that become familiar with alternative software the more likely professional environments are to adopt it.

Why would a company want to pay Adobe or Microsoft if their employees are more adept with free alternatives? Especially if those alternatives gain feature parity with the paid services while the paid services lock parts behind paywalls and subscriptions.

Don't let perfect get in the way of good!

Not totalitarian you say?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purges_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

My experience in Azerbaijan also included tales of when they were children passing curds to starving prisoners through chain fences in Kazakh gulags. The Soviet Union did more harm than good to the leftist movement and is used as the scary example every single time someone begins to think twice about the capitalist system they live under. Socialism is forever tainted by the USSR and severely struggles to remove that image. Fuck the USSR.

What do you mean provide credible sources? dO yOUr OWn reSeArcH!1!