ArjinFerman
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I think some time ago I PMed you where I was at. It's not exactly rural, but my impression is it's still seen as relatively conservative. I think the girl's father lives in one of the wokest parts of the country though, so that could have contributed to the contagion.
ArjinFerman
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2hr ago
I kinda do.
Yup, €10K, thanks to the recently(ish) passed Selbstbestimmungsgesetz. It already resulted in a peak-Germany situation where a neonazi got jailed for neonazism, had a sudden sentencing-day transition, and started suing people for being referred to as anything other than a stunning and brave woman.
if "trans people" actually existed, outside of a few basement dwellers nobody ever sees in daylight.
Eh, much like everywhere else, the average transgender case changed from weird middle-aged dude that likes to throw on a dress, to autistic adolescent girl having trouble making sense of her place in the world.
It's common enough that I've actually seen the latter organically (i.e. not because I'm obsessed with the subject)
ArjinFerman
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3hr ago
Yeah, but over there misgendering is also punishable with rather large fines.
ArjinFerman
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3hr ago
And we know for a fact that they share your assessment of the threat the Somalis represent? Also "sworn enemies" seems like a stretch, didn't Israel formally recognize Somaliland recently?
ArjinFerman
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6hr ago
I'm not sure if the implication is that this contingent approves of Somali muslims ripping off US/MN welfare programs,
Why would it be? He's pointing out that a tiny group of people can get the US government to commit drastic action, even when it's unpopular with most people, while things that are popular with the voting base of the current government somehow never get done.
It's a conspiracy, because every time someone points to the disproportionate influence of the tony group, they get called a conspiracy theorist.
ArjinFerman
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7hr ago
You can go into just about any 4chan thread to convince yourself of the existence of such people. It's just that once you filter out the LARPing, the incompetent, the cowardly and the ones who rationally decide that the legal consequences are not worth it, not a lot remain.
Can you give an example? The typical chud joke is mocking the high suicide rates of the group, not threatening to kill them. I don't go to 4chan, so I might end up surprised, but I'm pretty skeptical your claim can be substantiated by clicking on a random thread there.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
Quite good. I haven't spent that much time with Godot, so take it for what it's worth, but I can't say I noticed a difference between the two.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
I dusted off my old Rumble account to upload the clips for showing the results, because TheMotte's size restrictions are rather strict. Here's last week's update, the bugs have a looping animation for walking, and this week I managed to make the death sequence to stop at the final frame. Currently the dead bodies act as obstacles, which is not the effect I want, but to fix that I'll need to finally hijack that spatial sorting mechanism, like a mentioned a few weeks back
How have you been doing @Southkraut?
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
Moving the goalposts. If you want to make the argument that he's tearing apart NATO, then make that argument, don't tell me he'll invade Greenland any day now, and switch the argument mid-flight.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
Yeah, something's up. It might not even be over yet, there was also a brief moment of respite yesterday, and then the site went down again.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
The immersion schools/classes force everything to happen in French. Students resist it, so it’s not perfect, but it’s pretty much what you’re picturing
I'm definitely not picturing students being able to "read along" with the teacher. I can believe this is a national issue, I just don't think it's an issue with the methodology as much as it is a simple case of low standards.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
About half of US deployable air power is ready for Iran boogaloo 2.0.
Since we had people having trouble telling if Trump is trolling about Greenland, Canada, or running for a third term, I just want to pre-register that this is clearly not-trolling, and how to tell the difference between the two is obvious.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
It just seems awfully coincidental that a second person with the same bee in his bonnet over age gaps should pop out of nowhere
Sure, in isolation that's a fair thing to base your, but when you can click his profile and see things like "joined 2022 September 08", and "452 comments" that should put the suspicion to rest.
Am I? How nice of you to keep track for me, I feel so seen, cherished, and valued that you spend precious time and energy on worrying about what I'm doing!
Oh, I can do better. I think you're an indispensable part of this forum's folklore, and I'm happy that you're still posting here. I'm just pointing out that someone's throwing stones in glass houses.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
Is this you, baby? Back under a fake name?
- You could at least check someone's profile, before making an accusation. He's been here for a while.
- Aren't you on you third or fourth alt, that you set up specifically to get around a permaban?
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
That's fair enough, I think I went too far by restricting it to natives. But check his other comment, apparently these schools put hardly any pressure on the students at all, no wonder they don't work!
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
I learned that I was the only making grade 12 students read; everyone else had them “read along”
That's deranged...
Shout my name when the angry mobs come for the teachers, I'll try to tell everyone you were one of the good ones.
You might chalk this up to the education system’s usual ineptitude, but if immersion works then the French-rich environment should be inculcating French despite whatever the teacher is doing.
What? No....
The children do not even learn the language like children. Immersion doesn’t work.
Well, depending on what you mean by the former, I might agree. Children don't learn just by passively absorbing things spoken in their environment. They figure it out because it lets them get what they want from their parents, interact with their peers, etc. Every such activity is an exercise, that's how they get better at it. Later, when they go to school, they're forced to exercise even more, by reading, writing, and interacting with the teacher and each other.
When you tell me there's an "French immersion school", I assume this is a school that forces all the school activities to be done in French (minus, maybe, student interactions). An "immersion school" that doesn't make you do that defeats the purpose!
And if you're wondering what's the difference between what I consider immersion, and just studying a language, it's that you don't try to teach people by taking the language apart, feeding them it's rules, and hoping they'll be able to reconstruct it from that, you force them to do stuff using thr language, correct any mistakes they make, and otherwise make them figure it out on their own.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
"Tend to", sure, but my experience of the middle class (I only had very rare and short brushes with the upper strata) is that they rarely can actually use a third language. They certainly study them, but push comes to shove, they wouldn't even be able to ask for directions.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
Let's not get into the details of where I'm at, but yeah, I spent some time there too. Sure, I agree this probably varies by country, and I haven't seen the entirety of Europe yet.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
I just disagree on the facts. I'd cut your numbers by half. That might be above your threshold, but not by much.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
I don't get it. Even though I'm in the same situation as you - my friends tend to know 2 foreign languages - that's still "almost no one".
When I say "as a child", I mean in the critical period. I don't mean as a twelve year old.
I started picking it up when I was 5, or something. Then, when I was 7, Cartoon Network made a sudden appearance on the TV, and the people who were rebroadcasting it didn't have the resources to translate it, so my English really picked up at the time. All the vidya I was playing since I was old enough to hold a controller was also untranslated. It helped a bit with reading.
It's simply a fact that language rules are an emergent phenomenon determined by the, let's say, ummah made up of speakers of each language or dialect
Yeah, every category is. Transcription errors exist even on a biomolecular level, and we can tell they're errors because we can trace what they're meant to be transcribing.
Sometimes, it's harmless enough. Sometimes it's even adaptive, and you get evolution, but the descriptivist approach is akin to saying "cancer is, like, just another way of being, man".
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
Perhaps this is a class thing? Me and most of my friends can at least make our way in countries speaking our third language and understand media in it.
Yeah, me too, but all my friends are IT guys that moved to another country, so that lines up perfectly with what he said. Either way, it being a class thing throws a wrench into the "generally expected to" idea.
If this justifies the "trans genocide" rhetoric, then similar rhetoric about transgenders (that is: they're the genocidal ones) is even more justified.
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