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in reply to ViVerVo

Can someone explain? I just know the guy can shout at people
in reply to xavier666

he can see the future, at least somewhat.

in the movie he is hailed as a prophet

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I hate it when someone arbitrarily accuses my company of arbitrary slavery and arbitrarily exploiting arbitrary people!
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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Nobody is learning Mandarin. Not even the Chinese! LOL

They're all relying on automatic translation and even the Chinese are using speech recognition to enter characters on their phones. The written language is rapidly being forgotten.

...which is the destiny of all pictographic and logographic languages so it shouldn't be seen as a bad thing, necessarily 🤷

in reply to Riskable

I'm learning Mandarin, but do go on. Also, maybe talk to people actually living in China to find out how they do input lol.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Please do share/recommend some resources that you find useful. Especially for beginners.
in reply to Nemo's public admirer

I've mostly been using this app. It gameifies the lessons which makes it engaging, and you can set a daily target of say 20 min. It also has speech recognition and lets you practice pronunciation. After about a year of using it I got to the point where I can carry a basic conversation with people. superchinese.com/

Reading and writing is definitely the most challenging part, and I find actually practising drawing the characters repeatedly is really important for memorizing them. Good news is that there are a few basic strokes that just get reused in many different combinations. Once you learn those then you can see the patterns in the characters. One way to think about this is that western writing system is one dimensional where you string letters in a line, but Chinese system is two dimensional where each character is composed of a number of subcharacters.





in reply to Otter

Oh, yeah. I am happy my effort to convince them worked out.





Cool screen savers


I came across this old IBM screen saver on a old machine and thought it was pretty cool. I set it up on my work laptop, but not Im curious if there are any cool linux or other screen savers you guys know?

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in reply to MrPistachios

Honestly, play around with Xscreensaver - that's a fun collection. I've currently settled on the Apple II screensaver and have a custom Python script pip Star Trek scripts to it.

The Nakagin capsule tower one is awesome, too.


in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

I enthusiastically recomment africanstream.media/ for following the Sahel Alliance and panafricanist progress ✊

in reply to geneva_convenience

I don't think a blues man would ever lie, there is a code of honor among cats like him.
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in reply to Mazdak

I hate seeing Altmans jerkoff face in my feed. I think I gotta block this community
in reply to Mazdak

There's no such thing as politically unbiased AI. Apolitical AI was always a pie in the sky.