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The first time you try Linux, you will have to take a little time to learn something that is new and unfamiliar to you. But this was true of the first time you tried Windows too.

The point is that it really isn’t hard to learn, and today it absolutely is easier than ever.

Reddit’s enshittification has been steadily getting worse for years. I moderated a large sub that took part in the blackout protests over the API changes, until the admins threatened us into reopening the sub. That was the point at which I decided I was completely done with this garbage fire of a website.

We’re in an era where every large social media platform is becoming increasingly awful, and all of this can be attributed to corporate ownership of those platforms. I believe that the only way forward is federated platforms that no one CEO can control, putting power back into the hands of communities. The Fediverse is the only capitalism-proof solution to everything wrong with the internet today.

The only way it’ll ever come is if the userbase grows.

People who complain this loudly about mods tend to be living proof of why mods are important.

‘Civilized’ is definitely not the right way to describe less privileged nations. People there certainly aren’t ‘uncivilized’, and to describe them as such carries heavy colonialist overtones.

Though really you should’ve recognized the red flags from this person the moment they tried to justify the use of slurs.

It does take some dedicated study to get to a point where you can start to comprehend even the most basic content. If you just start reading/listening from zero, none of it will be comprehensible.

The goal for comprehensible input should be i+1, meaning you understand almost all of a sentence but one word or grammar point, which then allows you to work out the missing piece from context.

Look up community-made resources for the language you want to learn. Depends on the language, but you should be able to find plenty of great materials. Without knowing which language you’re trying to learn, it’s hard to give any better of a generic answer than that.

That said, flashcard apps like Anki are probably the single most powerful tool available, and vocab card decks will be the first thing you see at the top of those community resources. Any reason in particular you’re averse to something like that?

Sounds like you’re specifically describing battle shounen. Keep in mind that anime isn’t a genre, it’s a medium, and there’s such a wide variety of all kinds of shows and movies that happen to be animated.

This account is Mbin rather than Lemmy, and I’ve got another account on a Pleroma server for my microblogging. Thinking of trying Piefed, some of its features sound promising and it looks like development is going pretty rapidly, I may end up switching off Mbin.

I would say that 4chan’s influence is of negative value. Thankfully, that influence is gone now.

It’s unclear if they even can plug the many security vulnerabilities that are now public information. The leaked source code reveals that the site hasn’t been updated at all since the new owner took over.

As I said in another comment below

‘Containment’ doesn’t work. That was the reason /pol/ was created, but all that did was rapidly radicalize the userbase, which then spread back to the other boards.

Giving them a dedicated space to radicalize people doesn’t mean that the people who get radicalized will never leave that space. Because not only did it spread back to the other boards, it spread outside 4chan. The rise of the alt-right can be directly traced back to Steve Bannon recognizing 4chan as the ideal target to start radicalizing users there. And now look at where the alt-right is today. It’s not an exaggeration to say that this is a large part of how we got Trump.

‘Containment’ doesn’t work. That was the reason /pol/ was created, but all that did was rapidly radicalize the userbase, which then spread back to the other boards.

Outside, hopefully.

Snark aside, 4chan was once hugely influential to internet culture and humor, but that era was long, long, long ago. When 4chan became the breeding ground for the alt-right, that thoroughly infected the site so badly that everyone else was driven off. There is nothing of value left on that site, and its death is a net positive for the world.

Of course other imageboards still exist, but I don’t think any of them will ever be as big as 4chan was. I hope that none of them become that big.

That would depend on how long they’ve been studying the language for, and their goals/needs in language learning. Someone who needed to learn English and pass formal tests for the sake of employment or immigration will eventually reach that level, but someone who either hasn’t been studying that long or doesn’t consider it a critical priority because they’re just browsing English websites and media for fun might not.

I know I’ve heard it in memes before but I’ve forgotten what it sounds like. Though I’d probably recognize it if I heard it again, maybe?

There is far more to politics than just healthcare.

Please don’t. There’s a reason.

No one here is sending those PMs. This community was created in response to the spambots that have been going around, trying to investigate where this spam is coming from.

Problem is, it’s suspected that the Nicole in the photos isn’t the spammer, and the spammer may even be trying to stir up a mob to dox and harass whoever the real Nicole is. So people are concerned that this community may be putting that person at risk.

Nothing you’ve just described has anything to do with genetics. You’re talking about nurture, not nature.

The premise of Idiocracy, that this setting came about because dumb people had too much sex, is fundamentally flawed. That isn’t how genetics work and it isn’t how intelligence works.

And look, for a work of fiction I can suspend disbelief on the premise and still enjoy the story told in that setting, I’m not even saying it isn’t a funny movie, but realistic is not a word that can be applied to any part of the film.

Honestly, I think the movie would’ve been improved if you chopped off the intro and just reduced it to “Man gets isekai’d into a world where everyone’s stupid because that’s just what this fictional world is.”