droning_in_my_ears

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What's your default pocket loadout? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 22 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Nice try, pickpocket

Who would win - all the lions or all the blobfish? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What about all the lions vs all the lionfish?

Are you happy with your username? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Can't get rid of it if I tried

Any dude that had experience with sex workers here?... How was it? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Get ready for the next battle

How did you acquire the first 1000 words? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

That's perfectly fine. Don't worry about forgetting words. You will forget them, look them up again, forget them look them up again, eventually they'll stick. Focus on the reading. Don't treat it like a vocabulary lesson. Every day you're here to read, as long as you reach the end you're good, over months you'll realize you learned a lot of vocabs.

At first because the text will be so dense with new words yes it will take a long time to read, that's why I typically only read a short maybe half a page per day. Then gradually increase that as your vocabulary grows over months. The goal should be to encounter say 50-100 new words a day. Notice I said encounter not learn.

Those websites where you look up words are really useful. Make sure they have text to speech and read out loud in the language not in English even if you see the translation in English that's fine.

Also do a lot of listening along with the reading. I usually get myself an audio book and its corresponding text, chop it up into 1 minute and half a page segments, for each segment listen once, then read looking new words up, then listen while reading at the same time a few times, trying to follow a long, looking up any words I forgot, then listen without reading a dozen or so times until I can follow along. Then movd on to the next segment.

How did you acquire the first 1000 words? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Do a lot of reading and listening to material you find interesting. The learning happens in the background.

If your mind got transported back 10 years right now with no time to prepare, how could you exploit your knowledge for personal gain? in c/[email protected]
Do you recognise any usernames on Lemmy? in c/[email protected]
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You ever recover a lost memory? (lemmy.world)
 

So one time, I was on a bus and this guy next to me was very bored and said "When the bell rings, the time will be 10:30 am...DING!", "When the bell rings, the time will be 10:31 am...DING!", in a robotic voice.

At first I was confused. I didn't know what he was talking about. Then I stared at him and I could just feel a wave of nostalgia. A very distant memory almost forgotten came back. I'm 7 years old, bored at home with nothing to do pre-internet. I call a landline number that has a service that tells you the time and just listen in... that's exactly what the telephone lady would say. OMG he's imitating the landline time service lol

It felt very satisfying too. It's like a eureka moment but for memory rather than thought.

Anything similar happen to you?

Is it just me or do Lemmy communities tend to skew left wing? Why might this be? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Because demographics

Which is more ram efficient Lemmy or Reddit? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

You can probably check that out in the performance section of your browser dev tools

A normal person is merely someone who has not been diagnosed properly. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 months ago (5 children)

No

Don't you all get tired of the constant negativity? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I think the cgp grey video about thought germs gives a high level overview

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Can installing an open source os on a pixel phone count as de-googling? (lemmy.world)
 

I mean they're still the ones who made the hardware

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Doesn't each community being local to each instance split the audience? (lemmy.world)
 

I'm a reddit refugee trying to figure this out. It seems to me like it's a decent idea to break up countrol like this, but unfortunately there are some inherent problems that mean it might not work in the real world.

The biggest in my view is that communities are scoped to the instance they started in. You could have 2 different communities with the same niche and the same or similar name but different insurances and the subscriber numbers will be split across them. I think this is damaging to growth because it spreads active users.

Eventually if the niche grows one of the communities of the niche will be the biggest and most active. So generally users will consolidate around the instances with the most active communities thus making those instances have a lot of control and defeating the purpose of federation.

Is there something I'm missing here? Because currently I'm not convinced this can both grow and keep things decentralized.

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