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- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 1 week ago:
I feel you, I still feel like I barely know how to speak English 🙃
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 1 week ago:
I definitely should’ve worded the post better but yeah I didn’t mean to imply that it’s never taught in the states. Just that my personal experience in the system (also southern but urban) didn’t really give me any chances 😕 But honestly a large reason for that probably just came from my particular setting (I’m NOT typing that whole thing out again but in one of my reply threads I go into more detail on the weird things I grew up learning)
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 1 week ago:
Ahhh I get it now. Thank you for clarifying 🙂
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 1 week ago:
Damn, I like your reply
Gee, thanks buddy 😁 As for the subconsciousness peeking through and being taken as conviction… yeah, there are pris and cons to either method. Overall though, to me, life is too short to worry about it too much. I hope you have a fantastic rest of your week 🙂
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 1 week ago:
Fair enough. Also thanks for not being one of the comments saying ‘they definitely exist in America how dare you’ 🙄 I could’ve worded it better but the goal of the post was to find edicational systems different than the one I personally went through, not to try to define all of America’s system in a few sentences. I put a fairly detailed description of that in one of my other replies if you’re curious but regardless, thanks for your time 🙂
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 1 week ago:
Follow-up question: business schools? As in, specialization before high school graduation? I know there are a handful of ‘premier’ schools here in the states but most of them are expensive, exclusionary, and focused on simply getting INTO a better university (prep schools). Most of us just go through general public education which can vary wildly and you definitely do not (in most cases) get to choose between the “business” branch or the “engineering” branch
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 1 week ago:
I mean, it felt pretty natural to me. None of that synthetic THC-A nonsense. I’m willing to admit it wasn’t my most intelligent moment though 🤣
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 1 week ago:
Idk that’s just, like, my opinion, man… But I think it opens up lots of possibilities for humanity long-term. But yeah no, I’m not AI, just awkward and forward
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough. Thanks for the input buddy 😁
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, a lot of these comments seem to think I meant “Mandarin isn’t taught anywhere in the US” when really my point was that the particular schools I attended did not have it available. But that’s on me as OP. Thanks for your input 😁
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, my main lesson I’ve learned here is to type the draft while high, but only press Send after I’ve come down 😅 I don’t think it is now or will be in our lifetimes, BUT I do think that if a universal human language were possible, it would be more beneficial to base it on a Tonal system than an Atonal one (sorry Esperanto). But that is just my opinion, feel free to disagree, and thank you for your input 😁
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 2 weeks ago:
Not gonna lie, I can understand the Mandarin since you are geographically neighborly, but the German is surprising. Was that just your high school?
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 2 weeks ago:
Valid points, I appreciate that 🙏 Most of your question can be answered by the fact that I was high when I wrote the post and am just tired of using my filter in real life and I feel safe here on Lemmy.
And honestly, my specific Elementary school was very… unique. Looked them up a few months ago and they’re a few degrees of separation from Reformed Calvinists. Like, more than half of the faculty come from 2 small Evangelical universities in the middle of the Great Plains. They taught some usual stuff like math and spelling, but then there was also lots of time dedicated to studying the Bible, learned two different songs to memorize the order of the books, we had a “Bring your Priest to School Day,” yeah it was just a liiiiiiitle off.
I see your point in my (unintentional) divide into “christian/religios vs chinese” and nowadays I would never try to imply anything resembling that. Now that you mention it though, I do remember one day in 1st(?) grade where they had all the students come and listen to a sermon by a guest preacher (this was fairly common) and somehow the topic of ‘Chinese water torture’ came up? (I don’t remember anything more specific than that, I was very young, but I think a connection was made that shouldn’t have been)
As for the paranoia (besides the above annecdote), that was also unintentional. I wish I understood more about
non-Americanculture and as an avid lover of history, I know a lot of times influence is not merely who won which battle and was curious to see if anyone else had more tangible examples than just theories or video game-logic.Overall, the whole point of this was just to talk to somebody so thank you for that 🥰
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 2 weeks ago:
Danke schön. This was basically the ‘format’ of answers I was expecting. I believe some language options existed earlier than this for my situation, but it was never a requirement until high school, and even then, a lot of students (around me/from my perspective) didn’t care about it all that much
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 2 weeks ago:
As OP, I have no problem with your critiques. And I wasn’t saying I think it will be like that at any point during OUR lifetimes. Like the post said, I was just curious because in my childhood (30 years ago), I knew more about the solar system than I did about China ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 2 weeks ago:
Whoa whoa whoa, I’m no AI troll, I was just high when I made it 🤪
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 2 weeks ago:
Whoa whoa whoa, I’m no AI troll, I was just high when I made it 🤪
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- Comment on The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation. 2 weeks ago:
20-30 yards
I think you’re confusing feet with yards. That’s like 10 yards max
- Comment on Mammal 2 weeks ago:
There it is!
- Comment on Zelensky slams Russia after three generations killed in drone strike 2 weeks ago:
Look, buddy, I’m no fan of western journalism either, but there’s a big difference between being skeptical/aware of its biases (me) and deciding that everything they say is the exact opposite of truth (you).
No, Ukraine is not made up of only the “Good Guys” and Russia is not only the “Bad Guys” like some CoD game from 2005. But just take a step back and look at the goals of each participant: one is trying to defend their homes and people while the other is trying to gobble up more territory simply because they think they deserve it more than the current owners
- Comment on Zelensky slams Russia after three generations killed in drone strike 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s important to note that Russia, the State, uses the Crimean bridge just as often as the local Russian People, possibly even more so due to the current situation. I would be extremely surprised if an ordinary citizen didn’t have to go through at least 1 security checkpoint to get anywhere close to that bridge. Whereas a residential building is…well, just that: a place where ordinary people live their ordinary lives. Ukraine “does not get a pass just because they are the ones who have been invaded.” Ukraine gets a pass because they are not actively aiming at civilian targets.
Ukraine is making the war more difficult for themselves to avoid wasting innocent lives; Russia doesn’t value their own innocents, much less those on the other side of the border
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 2 weeks ago:
Chapter Master: Adeptus Dominus
Essentially a free, fan-made 40k game originally made like 20 years ago by one guy who has since moved on. Now it’s a small team who drop semi-regular updates on github. Also, it runs on Linux
- Comment on 'Children handcuffed and shot' - ex-UK Special Forces break silence on war crime claims 4 weeks ago:
Special Forces were deployed to Afghanistan to protect British troops from Taliban fighters and bombmakers. The conflict was a deadly one for members of the UK’s armed forces – 457 lost their lives and thousands more were wounded.
I wonder how many unarmed children they murdered in return. Of course, nobody writes down those statistics
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 4 weeks ago:
Who would you rather have as a surgeon? The one who did all their coursework by hand and graduated with Bs or the straight-A superstar who got a full ride to John Hopkins by using ChatGPT and just hiding their tracks better than the rest of the class? I’m not saying those are the only two options, but there’s definitely a reason we shouldn’t be so cavalier with cheating
- Comment on Fujiwater 5 weeks ago:
This one time, I was getting ready to bone my girlfriend but then we had this drill and after that she said there was no way…
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 5 weeks ago:
You’ve given me a fair bit to think about, but looking at your responses to most of the other comments in this thread, it seems like you’re just out for a good argument. I have no problem with that (within reason) but I’ll be honest, I just don’t have the energy to engage with it today.
Again, you have given me a good amount to ponder, I hope there are no hard feelings. My apologies if I insulted or upset you in any way. I hope you have a good day
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 5 weeks ago:
1-You had to actually watch the full movie to get any of that context
2-It’s still Cruise’s face front and center on every piece of promotional art
3-As much as I hate that this is true, the vast majority of people who saw that movie did not do so because they heard Ken Watanabe was in it
- Comment on What is your favorite retro wargame? 1 month ago:
Empire Earth
- Comment on 4 fundamental forces 1 month ago:
I do