matlag

joined 2 years ago
[–] matlag 11 points 4 days ago

You should be more undersantding. Since Trump is now enraged because people call Musk the President, Musk needs to find a backup country where he'll be called the leader before Trump kicks him out. That's all just risk mitigation!

[–] matlag 1 points 1 week ago

I was more thinking about the day they take the containers out, and the trucks rotation. If they do it once a week, imagine the smell and how many trucks they need...

[–] matlag 16 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Am I the only one who worries first about trash collection day than pizza delivery (wildly unpopular in China btw)?

[–] matlag 49 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I usually feel so immersed when playing white haired super-ripped giants with magic powers. It's as if they were a second me, except for the hair, size, muscles, facial traits, strength and magic powers.

[–] matlag 4 points 2 weeks ago

All inventions being based on some previous work, is it not the Wright who invented the airplane, and Lilienthal who invented the glider?

[–] matlag 12 points 2 weeks ago

This is obviously fake. That's what other CEOs think, not Musk.

The only duty of CEO Musk is to himself!

[–] matlag 49 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I buy social medias and news outlets. Then I weaponize them to support a clueless gullible idiot candidate for POTUS.

I use my influence on him to get a position that will allow me to get grossly richer by favoring my own businesses, including crushing unions and force my employees to work to death on low wages.

When I reach 1 trillion $, I'll have much more resources to improve the planet and living conditions of my fellow humans.

But wait! Maybe I could do even more for humankind with 2 trillions $??

[–] matlag 6 points 3 weeks ago

That would be such an unexpected plot twist! (No)

[–] matlag 54 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Since they're about to let go all of these gov employees, they will need a lot of money to hire consulting companies for pretty much everything. That's what started happening in France and Canada already.

These private companies consultants are so much more efficient and cheaper than low paid gov employees who've been running the ship for decades. You totally believe it, right?

[–] matlag 12 points 1 month ago

If these tracks are in the US, so I am. So I shoot the other guy with the gun(s) I usually carry around when I go out and then pull the lever.

[–] matlag 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So you admit that Israel just carried out a terrorist attack in Lebanon? Or is bombing and killing citizens is terrorism when "they" do it, not when "we" do it?

[–] matlag 2 points 3 months ago

Too bad he failed that close to getting a Darwin award!

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Reading material for learners? (self.languagelearning)
 

I'm using Duolingo to improve my Mandarin and learn to read, and to learn Spanish.

Does anyone have some recommendations of texts for learners to practice reading?

My wife suggested me to use kids books, but I'd like a more motivating content than teddy bear's adventures...

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Match Madness only (self.duolingo)
 

So it's been a while now since the leaderboard's challenge is Match Madness every day except on Saturday, when it's the Ramp Up.

I don't know if it's just me but that's getting me pretty disengaged. I quickly hit my limit on the Match Madness, then it has no interest to me.

Previously, I would use these challenges on a daily basis, as a way to review past lessons. Damned, I would use them over and over to score high in the leaderboard too.

Now I've completely lost interest in the leaderboard, but worse: I'm wondering if I'm moving back by lack of practice on past lessons vocabulary and grammar.

I don't feel like going through some past lessons and pick some randomly. How do you make sure you do pick randomly?

Am I the only one who thinks that "all Match Madness" thing is a regression?

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