I’m speedrunning French, trying to focus on Québécois you kinda end up learning traditional French too along the way. This is my third language.

• Duo for daily practice and grammar, but it makes a lot of mistakes
• Work group to practice speaking
• I switched various daily apps to French
• Grabbed a few comic books in French, happy to say I’m now past those :)
• Québécois friends for slang and informal reference
• Recently been playing Pokemon ZA in French (extra fun since it’s in Poke-Paris), quite pleased with it!

I’m about a year in, and I’m low-level conversational. Solidly A2. Basically just taking any resources I can find, I plan to look for a proper class soon.

Le chemin est très agréable, je le trouve bien!

It’s actually called mental floss :)

My day job won’t go far, but my fire expertise and leatherworking skills will take me pretty far

Calm down now Trump

In a weird twist, despite speaking Spanish, my particular dialect doesn’t have a formal you. We use usted for everyone. I joke that “usted es un malcriado puta de mierda” is a perfectly valid sentence

I also know French and that one does have a formal you, but it also doubles as the plural you so it’s a bit more common. It also has two different forms of we

If you feed a latex tube through the nose and out the mouth then pull it back and forth, it makes a squeaking sound

More modern bots have specific instructions to try to avoid injection attacks. It really depends on how shitty the bot is

Will you help people, or will you harm them? You don’t have an option of inaction - inaction is harmful. If you have the power to help another person, you should be under a moral imperative to do so.

For what it’s worth, that goes beyond liberalism and into leftist belief. Liberal has been traditionally used to refer to the left in the US since the US has two right wing parties, but is center to center right literally everywhere else (like Canada).

Arguing with bots. They have nothing to lose, they will never change their minds, and they just pollute the discussion with brainrot banter

Arguing with Nazi bots is even worse

Hey everyone look at this guy trying to make others laugh

/s

B-b-but Trump said we won every war since WW1 /s

picard_facepalm.exe

My American education taught me basically nothing about the war of 1812. It was an excerpt in a textbook and that was about it. It wasn’t until I moved to Canada that I started digging into the murky details (since it’s so central to Canada’s history) and quickly realized why the US doesn’t teach it.

I assume every ICE agent is a Nazi piece of shit who gets off to videos of his buddies zip tying children. Am I justified in throwing a sandwich now?

But who’s the changeling in the relationship and who’s the changeling

Also no previous context included but it looks like she was on the run.

“There’s no info on what happened before so I’m going to make up a justification and present it as truth”

Fuck off Nazi

So when is Musk getting held accountable for making a literal US funded Nazi waifu bot

Honestly pretty age appropriate nowadays

Feel similar for Star Wars. I gave the sequels a few shots but ultimately don’t really care about them. However, the transition era between the Republic and the Galactic Empire echoes what is happening in the US this second.

I was (re)watching Clone Wars around the start of the year while making plans with my partner to leave our friends and flee the country. The way the Jedi Council treated Ahsoka towards the end while ushering in an era of fascism hit especially hard this time around.

Saw

It gives Pink Floyd - In The Flesh vibes