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Depends on how you take it. When you say anyone who doesn’t have a neurological disorder can do something it puts a negative light on people who haven’t done it. Not being multilingual is a common negative statement about Americans, for example, always comparing them with Europeans. But most Americans don’t live close to multiple places where different languages are prevalent, as in Europe, so their only reason to learn other languages is purely academic. Similar to the average person’s motivation to learn calculus. I think I framed it pretty realistically - certainly with more brevity.

IDGAF if it’s the best (mint), it was easy to install, easy to transition to from Windows, and in 6 months hasn’t given me any trouble. I just wanna use my computer.

That’s not what I’m right about, and your nonsense is now blocked.

TBH that sounds like saying anybody can become “fluent” in calculus if they just apply themselves. In my experience that’s just not the case. People have different aptitudes. You might be right that with sufficient motivation and unlimited time, anyone without a neurological disorder could theoretically learn a language, but in a real-life context where people have a lot of other concerns and responsibilities going on, I think it’s much more reasonable to say “probably but it depends.”

Smart move, tailoring movies to the demographic that talks the loudest and then stays home and pirates everything.

When meme-brains use labels like “centrist” and “leftist” cuz they don’t remember how thinking works. Black hat BAD, white hat GOOD!

Back in the 1990s I did a thought experiment using 1990s industrial cost figures and production volumes I found online. Turned out Americans could save the Amazon rainforest by cutting our beef consumption by 10%. I don’t have the math on hand but the gist was that if demand for beef in America dropped 10%, so would demand for cattle feed, which was mostly corn. Reducing corn production by that much and devoting the land to hemp cultivation (which would work) would produce enough hemp fiber to replace all the wood pulp being imported from Brazil to make paper. At that time most trees being logged in the Amazon region were being pulped and exported to the US. So boom, demand for Amazon pulp logs drops to zero, rainforest saved!

Admittedly this was simplistic and did not account for pulp producers selling to other countries that may have been competing with the US to buy the pulp. But they would have to compete with whatever other pulp sources those customers already had. Anyway, just the fact that the numbers worked out so well helped me understand how a trend in one area can affect seemingly unrelated areas. Like, I dunno, people buy fewer Barbies and the price of air conditioners goes down. I’m sure some people make a lot of money by figuring out stuff like that.

Well yeah, former governor. So at this point just some guy criticizing Mamdani (also, typo fixed - thx).

ChatGPT didn’t “think” anything. It generated instructions telling users to do things incorrectly based on the human-generated content in its training data, which it didn’t understand because it doesn’t understand anything.

Technically correct, and OP changed the headline to say “attack” instead of slander. But even that’s inaccurate. What the governor said was very polite criticism, saying he doesn’t think Mamdani is the best person for the job - not even “bad”, just not “the best”. And it’s the governor - one person - not “Dems”. OP is just spewing standard MAGA bullshit.

Amazing that people in the same party would critize each other ain’t it? That’s called competition, having an opinion, not lining up in lockstep behind Daddy. Before MAGA that used to be the American Way. Try it sometime.

Mainly lack of marketing I think. When I went to England a few years ago they were everywhere. I bought one as soon as I got home. Fantastic invention!

Could things like this go in linuxmemes? Memes are fun but it would be nice to keep this a place for actual information. And no, this is not a comment on what it’s saying, I’m just tired of so many memes.

The old school method of learning a programming language, database, framework or whatever was to read books and take classes, do a series of exercises that teach you how to use the features, and the errors you get if you don’t do it right. Then you write code that way for like 10-15 years.

The Information Age method is to find some sample code, copypaste into an editor and hit Compile, then paste compile errors into google and fix them until there are no more. Then hit Run and copypaste/fix runtime errors until there are no more runtime errors. Old-schoolers used to call this hacking, but now it’s called not having time to deeply learn the hot new thing because before you do you’ll have to start over with the next hot new thing.

Which casino does your dad own?

Yeah it’s like, “Srsly, you don’t hear it?”

Seen about a third of those. But I mean, there’s only so much time, and so much more to experience besides watching television.

It was on a sign where I once worked, but that was almost 10 years ago.

They wouldn’t push to main at the same time tho, they would push to the branches they’re working on. Unless their organization is very badly run, and then it’s probably already happened before just because it was Tuesday.

I think item 1 would be enough to vastly improve the left’s appeal to centrists, many of whom are just liberals other liberals call centrist for not being liberal enough. Perfection is the enemy of progress.