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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Honestly I think so ~~menu little~~ many people would be on board with something like this since so many people speak multiple languages. Unfortunately, I can't imagine a world where even 50% of Americans would even try to learn a second language. I think many would outright refuse as a matter of anti intellectual and xenophobic ideology.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's not really that diverse though. Overwhelmingly, the language of diplomacy and business currently is English.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

William Shatner made that movie though

Honestly I was trying to learn Esperanto for a while, it's very easy since it was constructed to not contain irregular conjugations or pronunciations. But getting everyone to learn Esperanto would never happen.

If the global language ever changes from English, I assume it will be to Chinese.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Dialect was probably the wrong word, because of course there's many different dialects in many countries. (In fact, your aside about "sounds very US American" is funny, since I guarantee the US has more dialects than Spain. Plenty to hate on the US for, but that ain't it.)

Anyway idk if there's a word for this but like, the intermediary level between a language and a dialect. There is a wide gulf between Spanish spoken in Spain vs Latin America the same way as English in the UK vs USA. That macro-level distinction breaks down into trees of further distinction in regions, cities, towns of course.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yes! It's easy to untie unlike a double knot. Unties fast but only if you do it intentionally.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

This is the GOAT shoelace knot. Especially for round laces that like to slip more than flat ones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah honestly, set up that minimum payment autopay and go buck wild. If you're broke enough to not afford groceries I'm assuming you don't have much of if any assets to will.

Make sure your family members know that if any credit card companies call them saying they are responsible for the payments that weren't covered by the estate, they are lying. If you never acknowledge responsibility for the debt and never make any payment (i.e. acknowledging responsibility for the debt) there ain't shit they can do. "The cardholder is deceased, you may file a claim against the estate. Do not call this number again."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Alone in my apartment and nobody checks on me for not responding, because I stopped responding long before.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Howling at the moon and buying a bike

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (3 children)

And babies who are too young to have gotten the vaccine yet. 😞

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

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