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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ESL homework⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
There’s more to a country than is in front of your nose, and for the third time, learning Welsh is compulsory in schools. You’re acting incredibly ignorant and you sound like you’re trying to be offensive deliberately.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I was going to guess that it was one of Trump’s idiot corrupt collaborators or AI, and here it is, Elon Musk’s idiot collaborators.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ESL homework⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Like I said,

Away from the south and the more touristy areas, you’re likely to find people speaking Welsh in everyday life (education, shopping, workplace), rather than just at home.

If the furthest north you went was Methryr Tydfil, you were never more than 15-20 miles from the M4 corridor, which is where the most strongly English speaking areas are, (apart from South Pembrokeshire and some more touristy bits).

I’m not surprised that you found mostly English speaking in the mostly English speaking parts of Wales. If you had stayed in East Anglia you might have concluded that England possessed no hills at all, but it might be worth admitting that there’s more to know than that.

So,

I just said that you could grow up in Wales never learning Welsh,

(apart from it being compulsory in Welsh schools)

because English is just as much (if not more) the language used in every-day dealings

in the South and more touristy areas, whereas Welsh is the main spoken language in much of the country further North.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ESL homework⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
My central point is just that Welsh is one of the languages of Wales and so can be third on your bullet points.
I think it’s at the very least rather undiplomatic to argue that it shouldn’t be called a national language of Wales.

I’ve had people swear blind to me that they visited Wales on holiday and Welsh people are rude because they speak English in the shop until an English person turns up and then they switch to Welsh to exclude the English. I think they were mistaken that English was being spoken before they went in (how would they know?) and just assumed they were speaking English until they started paying attention, when they realised it was Welsh. I’m willing to bet £10 that any such people cannot accurately tell me the content of the English that was being spoken until they “switched to Welsh”.

Culturally, ignoring Welsh or downplaying its relevance to real people’s lives is similar in offence to telling British people that they don’t speak American properly, that they spell words like colour incorrectly, and that they should stop putting on their absurd British accent and just speak normally.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ESL homework⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

If you are born in Wales and never moved away, it might look like this:

English English English Welsh

If you are born in Wales and never moved away, it might look like this:

English English Welsh Welsh

Welsh is an official language of the UK and most things in Wales are in Welsh first and English second.

Away from the south and the more touristy areas, you’re likely to find people speaking Welsh in everyday life (education, shopping, workplace), rather than just at home.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ESL homework⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Now EAL, English as an additional language.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨happy valentines day❤️⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Who says romance is dead!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨happy valentines day❤️⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’m hoping that I’m misinterpreting what you’re saying.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A succulent meal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I was a boy, and I appreciate it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Ah. I use regex replace every week with matching substrings a good few times a month. It’s not any slower to load than notepad and considerably less annoying.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The only time it’s ever in the least bit slow to load is when it’s on a onedrive folder at work and Microsoft don’t cache it locally so there’s a delay getting the thing in the first place.

Does metapad have regex find and replace? If so, smaller and even faster is appealing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
WordPad writes fairly clean rtf. Word writes incredibly bloated messy rtf. No, I don’t want to use a .docx or .pdf generating library, I just wanna slap some strings together and have it come out ready to print yet editable by non techy users. I use wordpad to write my templates.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I use EditPadLite and have done for a loong time. It has regex find and replace, is fast and you can tell it to display word wrapped or not, numbered lines or not, font, size, colours, syntax highlighting scheme, all based on file extensions. I have it as my default text editor and for all kinds of other files as well as text.

If I want to do major coding, I fire up the IDE and choose from my recent projects, but if I want to quickly edit some xml or a single source file, I double click it and edit it in EditPadLite.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
If you’re still on windows 10, now’s is fine, by you might not be getting security updates for the whole OS. If you’re on windows 11, notepad is annoying, bloated, has AI, and is a security risk. Also the OS updates you are getting might well be written by AI, and we all know how infallible AI is, right?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Braindead ruling. Not as braindead as “the equality act was not intended to protect trans people” which is about as stupid and fucked up as it gets, but still really pretty braindead.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Not if you’re selling it in shops.

I think you’re in the clear if you’re just giving it away to people you like.
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He looks great in them. Let him be.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump audibly loses control of his bowels during a press conference - via Forbes Breaking News⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Can confirm.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You’re right, of course, but I really enjoyed “fubuciary”. It’s a deliblicious misplomuncitation.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, the idea of Amazon running my home security did NOT appeal to me. I went with another brand.
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You get blowjobs from Lemmy users?! I gotta try changing my username!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pro choice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Then it’s not empty. If it were a union of empty sets, that would be empty.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huh?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Like my local pub, then. That’s how I like it. Spoiler: they’re not ranking it in and agent millionaires, though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨leg⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Oh.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Why would musk stop his pet ai doing what he programmed it for?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love science⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
If there’s advanced calculus, there’s presumably also regular calculus, so at what point does calculus start to be advanced?
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it’s so fucking awesome

That’s three words.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nigerian Village Bombed by Trump Has 'No Known History' of Anti-Christian Terrorism, Locals Say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
What? People are still looking for a reason for this happening other than to distract the media from how much trump is in the Epstein files despite being redacted from it in such vast quantities?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
What happened?