Kirp123
@Kirp123@lemmy.world
- Comment on How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand? 2 days ago:
Everyone coming up with conspiratorial reasons why this is not the case but it’s much simple than that. It’s not feasible and it’s expensive and the returns aren’t really worth it.
Kids in school have a bunch of other subjects they have to learn besides foreign languages. You can add one or two languages but then at some point you will need to remove other subjects to add more or you need to keep kids in school even more. Both are not really feasible. Then you need to hire teachers for all these new languages which most places won’t do.
Another issue is with the way they teach languages in schools. They expect you to pass a test and not actually learn the language so a lot of the languages will not “stick” as the students lack immersion and practice with that language. I can speak for myself, I have learned two languages besides my native language in school: French and English. I had French since 2nd grade, which is 10 years of French classes and English since 5th grade which is 7 years of English classes. Today I can speak English fluently and like 3 words of French. The difference was that I was always immersed in English, though video games, movies, songs and so on. Not so much with French. I have noticed the same pattern with most of my friends and family members.
- Comment on Double standards 1 week ago:
No. It doesn’t really matter if the animals are wild or in captivity.
Under the ESA, it is unlawful to “take” any endangered or threatened animal species, which is broadly defined to include harassing, harming, pursuing, hunting, shooting, wounding, or killing.
- Comment on Double standards 1 week ago:
People get tigers and lions so I don’t think a peacock is much harder to acquire. Also according to Wikipedia:
The green peafowl is in demand for private and home aviculture and threatened by the pet trade, feather collectors and hunters for meat and targeted.
- Comment on Double standards 1 week ago:
Huh, apparently peacocks are endangered. So probably that’s why?
I honestly thought they were quite common as livestock but I guess I was wrong.
- Comment on what a drag 2 weeks ago:
You know they will never let him live that down.
- Comment on Advertisements 2 weeks ago:
Also you can get sponsor block for youtube and it auto skips sponsored segments.
- Comment on A Playthrough Reborn: Rediscovering Final Fantasy XIV 2 weeks ago:
Yeah they changed it a lot in the past few years or so. They removed a lot of the filler quests and remade the final dungeons and raids (they split the huge final AAR dungeon into three smaller ones for example). They also made it possible to do all the main quest dungeons with bots so if you don’t want to play with real people or can’t you can still go through it. The bots are the characters that appear in the story so it’s quite lore friendly too.
Though there still are some hiccups in ARR, the biggest one being the Crystal Tower raids which are required to progress the story and can’t be done with bots as they require 24 people total. New players have a lot of issues with the queues for that one, sometimes waiting for an hour or more in queue from what I’ve seen.
But yeah I recommend anyone that likes story games and Final Fantasy games to give it a go, it starts fairly slow but the story is amazing when it gets going. Also the game is filled to the brim with references to other Final Fantasy games, it’s a love letter to the franchise. Oh also the music is outstanding, one of the best music in any video game.
- Comment on Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN 3 weeks ago:
I feel that the game would have been fine if it was an actually game worth playing. The first game already was kinda meh and I don’t even know who demanded a sequel. Nobody is going to pay 80 Euro for a mediocre game when they could get a bunch of indie games with that money.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
They seem so bad for factory work though? One of those robot arms would work so much better than some shitty humanoid robot.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Who the hell is going to buy his stupid robots?
- Comment on French IT giant Capgemini is selling its subsidiary working for US ICE amid international controversy over the deaths of two people in ICE operations 3 weeks ago:
While I’m glad that people are finally taking action it does expose how American society still works. It took the deaths of two white people for the country to mobilize even though there were over 20 deaths related to ICE in 2025 alone.
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 4 weeks ago:
I’m not a lawyer but I think they could.
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 4 weeks ago:
They were sued by Epic Games for the same shit and Epic won on one count which allows them to put links to alternative payment methods and go around Apple.
- Comment on See for yourself just how massive Meta’s Hyperion data center is 5 weeks ago:
I was watching Some More News segment on it today. Those fuckers are loud.
- Comment on The new owner of GOG discusses taking on Steam, the devil of DRM, and following in Nightdive's footsteps 1 month ago:
It’s just a picture for me as well.
- Comment on we need more users 1 month ago:
To be completely honest, Lemmy is kinda dead outside the politics subs and some of the tech ones. When I deleted my reddit account I came here and joined some of the communities I was using reddit for: Pathfinder 2e, RPG, memes, anime. Out of all of them I only see an occasional post from memes while the other ones are literal ghost towns.
- Comment on Steam adds official support for game version-specific Workshop mods 1 month ago:
Yeah but that’s on game devs to enable it. A lot of devs don’t want to because they have deal with people complaining about bugs and issues on older versions that are already fixed in newer versions.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 1 month ago:
Well here you can get a SIM for very cheap or free if you’re a new signup. No idea about getting a replacement but I assume it’s not as cheap.
- Comment on Made in space? Start-up brings factory in orbit one step closer to reality 1 month ago:
The only ones that junk is a danger to is ourselves. Kessler syndrome is no joke.
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 1 month ago:
Some European countries have banned them already. Belgium and the Netherlands as an example.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 1 month ago:
Really? In Europe you can get one for free from some providers. And the vast majority offer one for under 15 dollars. And if you pay for it, it already comes with some preloaded data and calls so you can start using it right away.
- Comment on Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025 1 month ago:
I honestly don’t know anyone who has enjoyed Civ VII and my sample group is made up of people that really love strategy games. It’s such a mess compared to past entries in the series. I am surprised to see it in a top 20.
- Comment on Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI 1 month ago:
A lot of these companies chase short term gains to look good on their quarterly report. These CEOs were most likely lauded when they presented the lowered costs on that quarterly and most likely got some fat bonuses out of it too. Now that the chickens have come to roost they are scrambling but they can still get away by blaming it on other shit. Even if they do get removes they already made their money through they bonuses and they can find a different position where to fail upwards.
- Comment on Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI 1 month ago:
It’s because companies have tricked them into thinking that joining unions means they wouldn’t get paid as well or would restrict their promotions. Also they had it pretty good for a long time as their jobs were in demand which gave them more negotiating power so they got paid better and had more benefits. But now that their jobs are put in danger by AI they are kinda fucked since they individually don’t have the same power anymore, power which they would have as a unionized block.
- Comment on China Has Reportedly Built Its First EUV Machine Prototype, Marking a Semiconductor Breakthrough the U.S. Has Feared All Along 2 months ago:
I assume they will move from UV to X-rays.
- Comment on In 2015, the Fortingall Yew, one of the oldest trees in Europe, decided trans rights are tree rights and switched its sex to female 🏳️⚧️ eat shit transphobes 2 months ago:
People have no idea what is or isn’t natural. A lot of animals and plants change sex due to various factors during their life.
- Comment on Maybe most of society doesn't have much critical thinking because those who get those "critical thinking" genes go crazy from overthinking things and therefore fail to pass on the genes. 3 months ago:
Also critical thinking is not equivalent with overthinking.
- Comment on Reddit’s CEO Debuts As A Billionaire 20 Years After Cofounding The Company 3 months ago:
It was a subreddit where redditors would post pictures of underage girls. The images weren’t outright pornographic, they were images some of the members took of unsuspecting girls in public or other locations(I remember there was a teacher posting pictures of his students) or images the girls posted themselves on various social media. Some were suggestive some weren’t but all of them were leered over and discussed by creeps with language that should never used towards minors.
At some point the subreddit came into the attention of Anderson Cooper which run a segment on CNN about it. Even then Reddit refused to ban the subreddit citing “free speech”. Eventually one of the people on the subreddit posted a picture of a minor and said he had naked pictures of her which created a feeding frenzy of creeps asking him for those pictures. This finally made Reddit ban the subreddit.
The guy that created the subreddit, Violentacrez, was also the “victim” of an expose by Gawker who found out his real life identity. Reddit tried protecting him by banning links to Gawker when the article came out. Before all that Reddit gave him an award and various redditors voted him as the best moderator or some shit like that. Besides /r/jailbait he was running a lot of other questionable subreddits.
- Comment on During the lead up to the Holocaust did the N... regime just kidnap people who they even thought were Jews? Kind of like ICE is doing to citizens today? 3 months ago:
It was a process. They started by forbidding Jews from holding certain jobs like doctors, judges, lawyers and and also public jobs. They then pass the Nuremberg Laws that restricted citizenship to Germans and made it mandatory for Jews to wear specific marks on their clothes that marked them as Jewish (the yellow Star of David was one but there were others). Then they required Jews to live only in specific parts of cities, the ghettos. The last step just consisted of them coming and grabbing everyone from the ghettos and everyone that was wearing the marks, the groundwork had been already set.
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 3 months ago:
If OpenAI goes down then it will start a domino effect as people lose confidence in AI and AI companies. That’s how the bubble pops.