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  • This is sort of the way ::: spoiler spoiler The Wrath of Becky ends. After exacting her revenge for the second time, she gets approached by a CIA person who basically offers her a job as a field agent/professional killer and she ends up getting support ro take out one final bad guy with a flipping tank. It's a satisfying ending for the movie and for Becky. :::

    If you haven't seen those movies, they're worth checking out. They're like 2 hours of revenge/justice porn, very violent and gory but entertaining.

  • Here's the main one I used to get started.

    https://www.udemy.com/share/101Yfa3@8XPxXbG1DlivBLYGDQBz4q_2ELh5RBS7IxJQFAsw6_JZaeTT-te7EdqUz3kcjiTo/

    I've started one on creating abstract art in Affinity that seems pretty good and I have a few others in my learning queue from him on specific parts of affinity that look really good but I haven't done yet.

    Him and Lindsey Marsh have a bunch of content out there on the whole suite. I took Lindsey's course on graphic design theory that was pretty good but that course used adobe so i used it more for general concepts. I think either of them would be a good place to start.

  • Also udemy has some fantastic courses to learn the whole suite, each can be purchased for lifetime access for $10-15 USD. The instructors I bought from are still actively updating their courses and I get all the new stuff, even though I bought when AD was still on v1.3.

    If you're looking to learn it's a really affordable way to do it.

  • Ditto on Dreaming Spanish. It's fantastic. I'm trying to pull together a program of it and keep duolingo in while we have a subscription, but I'm hoping to switch to a service with personal conversation training or something once we finish the year.

    I would also recommend Butterfly Spanish (also on YT), if you want some variety.

    Another one I'm hoping to use more is Yabla. Its a site that hosts tv shows, movies, documentaries, songs in different languages and turns them into lessons and you can speed up, slow down and watch with or without english or Spanish subtitles. You can also select media from different countries so you can start learning accents and dialects.

  • These researchers conducted research in a manner that was totally unethical and they deserve to be stripped of tenure and lose any research funding they have.

    It already sounds like the university is preparing to just protect them and act like it's no big deal, which is discouraging but I suppose not surprising.

  • I'm working on Spanish now with it and I have to admit it's significantly improved from the last time I used it a few years back. Fewer nonsense sentences to translate like "My bear loves your house", which was frustrating and felt so useless. There's way more listening and speaking modules, they are generally decent at speech to text, and the language pronunciation sounds more realistic with multiple very different voices.

    However, I never know why I got a question wrong, and can't do anything to rectify that other than report that the AI made a mistake, which helps with their model training, but does absolutely squat for my learning. Even the more gamified exercises are just fancy tests, where you are expected to 'learn' by getting things wrong, seeing the correct answer and regurgitating it. The community forums and explanations are gone, and each module has maybe one or two example sentences that typically don't even cover the full range of content in the module.

    My husband and I have a family plan, and he is a much more dedicated user than me, but I would never pay for duolingo on my own.

  • I don't get the fascination with AR glasses. It feels sometimes like these tech guys just watched Bladerunner or even Demolition Man and thought "there's some good ideas in there".

    I don't think this is a build it and they will come situation. I'm sure Apple will continue pushing it but I don't know how it makes financial sense.

  • Way back when Inconvenient truth came out Al Gore come to my university to do his lecture on it. I was on the fence at the time about kids, but came out of there thinking there was no point to having kids who may not survive or have to live some post-apocalyptic underground bunker nonsense.

    My sister works in environmental policy and I called to tell her about the lecture and told her i don't know why anyone should even bother having kids. She was more optimistic than I expected and said there's a lot of good work going on to fix things and that I shouldn't give up hope. She went on to have two kids of her own and still works in the field. But about 15 years since we first talked about it, things are considerably more bleak and when Trump won she thought about getting out entirely.

    I never had kids and have no regrets (for multiple reasons). But especially now I could not fathom having the level of optimism about the future I would need to feel secure in having kids.

  • AMEN. I'm sure many women will agree with me that getting hit on in a linkedin dm is so demoralizing.

    I've had men as me if I did sex documentaries (?), just tell me I'm hot, and ask to connect because I look like I'm nice, all sorts of creepy stuff. These guys have impressive profiles and look like they're doing well, but they are slimeballs and it made me not want to use LinkedIn at all, which is hard when you're on the job Markey.

  • Oh my God this is so f-ing true. It makes me think a lot of sociology classes I took in college where we'd talk about the artificiality of money how it's only meaningful because we have collectively decided it is. The folks who try to make it all scientific with lots of elaborate analytics and complex charts are basically just engaging a social math exercise.

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  • Having lived in STL for about 10 years now, I know a ton of Boeing people. Every single one of them who's still there hates it, and the others got away as quickly as they could. It's somewhat universally known as a shit show in town, but I'm confident that info doesn't make it to college students or new grads. The universities benefit too much from Boeing.

  • Fun fact: historians think she never actually said the famous line attributed to her ("let them eat cake"), which was supposedly evidence used to show her indifference to economic troubles in France at the time. It's believed that the line was crafted to feed anti-nobility sentiment among the working class that ultimately led to the French Revolution. (Here's a source, but there's many put there)

    It's a good thing that we've progressed to the point that nobody uses false information to drive political narratives anymore. /s

  • News @lemmy.world

    Rental property billionaire says buying a home (with a mortgage) is "fancy bullshit" and you should rent instead

    politics @lemmy.world

    Sen. Joe Manchin says he 'absolutely' would consider a presidential run

    Technology @lemmy.world

    Google emails revealing disagreements b/w Product and Advertising teams about manipulating search to drive ad revenue

    Games @sh.itjust.works

    Just finished my first playthrough of Prey by Arkane Studios and WOW.