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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • I’ve seen quality drops of Duolingo, ever since their … IPO, sadly.

    Anyway, here’s some ways you can milk the rest of the Duolingo before completely abandoning it.

    • Use the web version, and type in all the answers if it’s possible. Selecting words are good for introducing new words (and reminder in case you forgot), but by typing it on your own, it’s faster to commit into memory.
    • Use classroom mode to get unlimited hearts, create your own classroom and invite yourself in. I assume that Duolnigo will probably eventually stop this loophole
    • Use search engine to search for the sentences you’re unsure of. No, don’t use machine translation, but search on the internet, and see if the sentence ever being used by the sites (news, academic, or personal homepage) using the target language.

    I sadly still don’t know what other comparable free alternatives to Duolingo. Anki is great, but it’s largely flashcard for words, not sentences (unless you want to create your own deck). The others require subscription fee.

    Other methods? Search for pdf of language grammar files, there are a lot out there. Some are godawful to read, especially those ‘Comprehensive Grammar Guide’ books. Some are amazing, e.g. Tae Kim’s Guide to Japanese.





  • Marc Andreessen is too low there.

    Musk is a clown that says vile and stupid thing. An useful idiot for others Silicon Valley VCs.

    Andreessen and Thiel (and too some small extent Luckey) are in the background trying to push for far right libertarian dystopia.

    Andreessen is the guy who kept pushing for web 3.0, trying to dominate it before it becomes big, so that he can monopolize / become a new digital libertarian govt, but of course it got hijacked by scammers, and states like Russia or North Korea, but he doesn’t give a flying fuck.

    Thiel of course is far right financier. There’s a reason why they try to hide in the background.




  • I remember when Joe Rogan was getting giant paycheck from Spotify promoting antivax stuff, and people talked about moving to Apple Music, but it feels like many just stuck with Spotify.

    I came across a post on instagram that says that Al Yankovic’s 80 million stream on playlist only netted him enough money to buy a sandwich.

    Also, Spotify underpaying artists, making fake playlists with cover artists to undermine artists, are not new. It feels like the mainstream crowd just doesn’t care, which pushes me further into depression.








  • ECM = Experiencia cercana a la muerte. Basically NDE (Near Death Experience)

    • “Vi el futuro de la humanidad” = “I saw the future of humanity”
    • “Estamos más vivos que nunca, al otro lado” = “we are more alive than ever, on the other side”
    • “Estaremos con los nuestros en otra vida” = “we will be with ours in another life”
    • “Hay esperanza nunca morimos” = “there is hope, we never die”

    Just based on the captions / titles, this seems to be a channel about Near Death Experience.

    From my experience with other channels about NDE (I don’t know about this one), It’s less about encouraging suicide, but more of providing some spiritual comfort, that when you die it’s not complete void, and about how some people becoming better person after experiencing NDE, e.g. ego death.

    NDE is of course, from recent article that I read, mostly about neurons firing trying to recall moments (thus life flash before your eyes). But if it provides comfort for those who are anxious about death, it’s so far harmless. It’s not as bad as antivax / alternative healing (yet).

    Eventually you and I will be curious of what would happen after our death, and people talking about seeing their lost loved ones during NDE, being engulf by warm light, are source of comfort.

    I don’t believe in those. For me, there’s no second chance, no reincarnation, no afterlife, no spiritual stuff, just complete void, no consciousness, and no need to deal with another shitty human in life ever again, which makes me excited about it.