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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I still really miss Google Hangouts. It was integrated with Gmail as a web interface. The web and mobile app synced perfectly. You could use SMS/MMS, or chat, seamlessly in the same interface. Contacts worked correctly. SMS and chat history saved to Gmail so all the text was searchable. It was AMAZING and Google killed it for no reason, only to later replace it with inferior options.

    Edit: oh yeah, you could also make phone calls, or group voice and video calls using the same app/web interface.


  • One person can do something, but one person can’t do everything. If you are already running a farm co-op, leading a union, or so on, you simply don’t have the time to address the hundred other things you can see in the news in a single day. The point still stands, you can’t control everything, so even if you are making change on one or two points, you have to avoid being angry about the hundred other things you cannot.


  • My sister is a civil engineer in PA and is familiar with this situation. She told me that basically these municipalities did not take care of their pipes, refused to raise any money for them, then, when they got old enough that the situation became critical, sold it off. Now this company comes along, has to make required fixes to the pipes, and has to raise the money to do so. The private company gets to be the bad guy, while the local governments, who neglected the pipes for a decade or more, don’t get heat.

    All this said, if they weren’t allowed to sell it to a private company, there would be no “get out of jail free” card and maybe they would have pushed harder to take care of them damn pipes.

    Point is, I don’t think it’s quite as simple as it looks on the surface.



  • I really think the vast majority of Duo Lingo users, even the ones who use it every day, never progress past an introductory “101” level in the language. I know people who use it every day for years and know some vocab but can’t hold even a basic conversation.

    If you actually want to learn the language you have to… Believe it or not… Interact with people who are fluent in the language.