froztbyte
joined 1 year ago
I guess both serious criticism and pointing and laughing are needed.
quite
the fundamental requirement of a counter-argument/-movement/-whatever is that one has to show that there are some that seriously believe these things, as absurd as they may be
the mockery can still happen separately as well (and always should, imo), but for the "but why should we listen to you" dimension the former is needed too
person who can barely brain themselves finds they have to engage with US postal system, hilarity ensues
(via friend who often sends me tweet-screenshots (one day I'll convince 'em to join here))
there's that (the high-trust vs low-trust designs), but also there's another dimension of it: cashier (and similar jobs) are one of the few low-end open to a lot of people in the US, which means this would kill yet another avenue of earning for many of them
(to which the fix is not a simple yes or no to whether self-checkout should be an option)
hmm yeah that's a good point. I wonder if they're planning to skirt that by capping the raised price, just plan to avoid places with that regulation entirely, or what else
probably it'll be some inventive new form of extremely-USAian fuckery that I'm not in a cynical mood to guess at in speculation right now
I have a memrise lifetime thing that I bought some years ago and occasionally use, but I've never done a comparative test so I can't tell you how much better/worse it is than anything else. they did try integrating some chatgpt-backed "have a conversation" junk a while back but it's optional (and when I asked support about it, as well as which data is used for training, the answer said it was optional. I have no measure to tell how true this was/is)
you don't say which you want to learn (except mentioning spanish) but best other addition I have is that languagejones (youtube channel) recently did a review of every language on duolingo, including some comparisons with how those languages were treated on other platforms. might be worth a look
bonus round: the most recent agma schwa cursed conlang circus featured some absolutely amazing entries (I watched part 3 last weekend while recuperating on the couch). some of the ones from it include goptjaam and seraphim and I promise you they may be the most cursed thing you see all day
I knew/understood what you meant
my position is "the hell with all this clown-ass bullshit"
gooooooood I wish ZA had better food truck culture :(
we have great food overall, but food truck culture just isn’t really a thing here. food trucks do exist but largely seen at festivals/gigs. at best you’ll usually get something like a parking lot braai, that some or other shop does every n days/week/whatever, as a way to try pull more customers.
you didn’t need to give random llms free advertising to make your point, y’know
whenever any of this dogshit comes up, I have immediately put my foot down and said no. occasionally I have also provided reasoning, where it may have been necessary/useful
(it’s easy to do this because making these calls is within my role, and I track the dodgy parts of shit more than anyone else in the company)
probably a couple of them, too :|
(I can speculate a few off the top of my head as-is, but not sure I want to enumerate them)