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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Carrot⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, that's reason to wash it, but I don't think there's a medical argument for peeling. Could be wrong though, but I've never heard of this being a problem ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UN experts say U.S. strikes against Venezuela in international waters amount to ‘extrajudicial executions’⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Carrot⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You peel carrots? Why‽

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How, and why, are there so many AI-generated videos of incredibly obscure/niche topics?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Now I wanna learn how to teach crabs to read classical Latin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you quickly describe Lemmy to a non-fediverse person?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you had a hundred small Reddits talking to each other like one big Reddit, oh and with fewer fascists and no ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any advice for me a guy turning 18 yo old??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Upload posts to appropriate communities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in June, Trump quietly shuttered the only federal agency that investigates industrial chemical explosions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Quietly? Now that's just slander! When Great Leader President God-King Trump needlessly endangers Americans, he does it with gusto!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British citizens serving in the IDF can now be tried for war crimes in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It's not like the ones fighting in Lebanon were charged with anything, so yeah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If evil, then why hot tasty?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keep scrolling, guys⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Please put an NSFW tag on this. I was on the train and when I read this I had to start furiously masturbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like "what the fuck" and "call the police". I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this story. Now there is a whole train of men masturbating together at this post. This is your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just tagged this post NSFW.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brits Serving in Israeli Military Could Get Prison Time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This just in: UK declares war on Palestine. More seriously, where was this law when Israel was invading Lebanon?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely not, but Marxist-Leninist states like China tend to have collective leadership such that one-party authoritarianism doesn't collapse into one-man authoritarianism. Neither is especially egalitarian, but there is a difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually hear occasional similarities between Japanese and Cantonese. For example: "world" is "世界", "Sai Gai" in Cantonese, and its "Sekai" in Japanese.

  Wow, that's a lot closer than the Mandarin Shi Jie. Anyway that's one of those Sino-Japanese words; they're kind of like the English equivalent of French loanwords so there's a whole lot of them. Also I guess I have to take back my "it won't help you with listening" bit if Sino-Japanese words are that close to their Cantonese counterparts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Minor nitpick: While Chinese fluency will put you in a marginally better position when learning Japanese compared to a monolingual English speaker, it's really nothing significant. Doesn't really go into the same category as Korean, which is indeed very similar to Japanese. Additionally the only famous language that substantially helps with Japanese learning is Korean, with an honorable mention going to Turkish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For which there are two systems, one of which stops at ten, and the other is highly irregular in its forms.

  I think you mean Wago and Kango counting, in which case Kango isn't irregular at all. There are sound changes, but they almost all follow a handful of basic rules. Wago is plenty irregular, but it also stops at ten and is only used for a handful of things.

  And don't get me started on the calendar.

  The calendar? Their months are literally just firstmonth, secondmonth, thirdmonth, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My weeb ass: My time has come.

  I did it, and for the record my native language has absolutely nothing in common with Japanese. I started with Duolingo and kept at it until I could power through easy manga, at which point and I started doing that. The good news is that if you can power through the early bits, your entertainment (assuming it's in Japanese) will supplement and eventually replace Here are the things I think I did right:

  1. Be willing to invest serious time into studying and/or consuming comprehensible material (also known as immersion). At what point it becomes "not worth it" is up to you, but I'd aim for at least an hour a day.

  2. Watch anime often and attempt to understand what you're hearing (this is separate from studying). You'll fail most of the time at first, but this keeps your ear open so you improve your listening without doing much if any extra work. It also helps you keep track of your progress, since the better you get the more you'll understand. I took a half-year break and when I came back I found my Japanese had improved at least in part because I was watching anime in the interim.

  3. Don't fall for the studying trap. At some point, and probably earlier than you expect, you'll have to drop actual studying material and focus your efforts on immersion. I started by reading a manga called Yotsubato after getting to conditoinals on Duolingo, but really any manga with furigana works. If you find something other than manga you like better then go for that, but you need something and it needs to at least keep you on your toes language-wise and still be ultimately comprehensible. Humans learn language by recognizing patterns within copious volumes of content, not by rationally analyzing those patterns; that latter stuff is for linguists.

  4. Keep challenging yourself. It's easy to think you're not ready to advance to the next level, but you should accept that the transition will be painful anyway and often try your hand at more advanced material (meaning immersion material here, as I said don't bother with advanced studying material). In my case, I thought my Japanese was plateauing after sticking with one thing for too long, but after I read my first light novel I improved ridiculously fast. We're talking serious improvement in a matter of weeks here. You're likely to underestimate the level of material you can digest, so you should take that into account when making decisions.

  Note regarding your native language: I speak basic Chinese and Chinese and Japanese are different enough that you'll be almost no better than an English native speaker when it comes to fundamentally understanding the language. However, the writing system and the prevalence of Sino-Japanese words mean that you'll have a leg up in guessing the meaning of words you don't know when reading, especially after you learn to reverse engineer character simplifications. For example, you'll see something like 解説 and be like "oh that's just 解说." At least coming from the other direction this is super convenient, but it's obviously no substitute for actually learning the language and it won't help you at all when it comes to listening. You also get the joy of seeing exactly how the Japanese butchered Chinese words, so... uh... good luck. You'll have fun with 样/様. So to directly answer your questions:

  YMMV, but I don't think it's hard at all. With the benefit of hindsight, it's no more or less difficult than English.

  If you can commit then no, but obviously yes if you give up in three weeks.

  This isn't as important a decision as you'd expect, but Duolingo will do fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Great Vowel Shift. English writing was sensible in the early 14th century around the time of Chaucer, but then shit got out of whack speaking-wise and the writing system was never adjusted to reconcile the difference. So you can blame the Black Death I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, us Eastern weebs do it too!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything about the language is needlessly complicated.

  I mean, there is no language that isn't needlessly complicated. At least Japanese doesn't have gendered nouns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers say Israeli government likely behind AI-generated disinfo campaign in Iran⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  America is terrible, but the brand of terribleness is different from that of Russia and Israel. The latter two are both fascist settler colonialist states, so there's plenty of similarity, while the US is a neoliberal neocolonial empire—an imperialist entity, yes, but of a completely different kind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think The Boys is an accurate representation if real people had superpowers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They become evil monsters.

  Most, sure, but far from all. The list of historical benevolent dictators isn't very long, but it's not short either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm looking for a particular community in Lemmy. It's kind of like ask Lemmy, But with really bad responses. It's more of a joke community. I've seen it in the past but can't find it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When asking a question like this, it's good form to edit the answer into the OP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers say Israeli government likely behind AI-generated disinfo campaign in Iran⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They're fundamentally the same kind of regime, so the math checks out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are plain old anime piracy sites, for both downloading and streaming, if you don't want the headache.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ireland poised to blunt sanctions on Israel under corporate pressure, say sources⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the Irish are more partial to car bombs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hamas says still needs time to study Trump's Gaza plan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing can be worse than the IDF in terms of sheer humanitarian damage, but the US army would be harder to get rid of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then you're legally obligated to give me half your earnings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If people on the top rail are equally spaced at a distance d from each other, then you'd need to go a distance nd to kill the nth person. For any number n, nd is just a number, so it'll never be infinity. Meanwhile the number of real numbers between 0 and 1 is infinite (for example you have 0.1, 0.01, 0.001, etc), so running a distance d will kill an infinite number of people. Think of it like this: The people on the top are blocks, so walking a finite distance you only step on a finite number of blocks. Meanwhile the people on the bottom are infinitely thin sheets. To even have a thickness you need an infinite number of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, maybe they're infinitely thin people, in which case you can have one for every real number.