thank you for the reminder that i’ve yet to be fully assimilated into american culture, had no clue that was a thing over there

in the case of larson: “The curtains were blue because that felt funny somehow, idk”

but that applies to literally all subjects, by this logic the US wouldn’t have any education at all, which clearly isn’t the case even if the education sucks.

and it’s not like this is at all unique to china, i’m pretty sure all the western countries are seeing the same thing happen just to a lesser degree.

Think of all the small towns in the US, they used to be lively places and now most of them are one step removed from being ghost towns. Same thing has happened here in sweden, the countryside is just a big suburb where everyone commutes to work in a city and barely any businesses survive.

this makes no sense to me, aside from english we don’t teach languages because it’s immediately useful in daily life, we teach it because it’s good for your brain and it’s good for the entire population to have some ability to use more languages.

Like, how useful do you think spanish is in northern europe? Not very! and yet most people here learn it in school.

i mean… how often do you think spanish is used in the nordics? and yet a third language is mandatory, and most people pick spanish.

Sure it’s not like most swedes can speak fluent spanish, but it’s also not like they completely forget it. If they go to spain they’ll have a hell of a better chance at being able to talk to people than those who picked german.

same in all the nordics lol

the idea that learning languages is particularly difficult seems like an anglophone invention to me, english is a completely standard mandatory subject in most of the world and in many countries a lot of kids learn 2 more languages on top of that.

Here in sweden it’s 100% expected that you speak fluent swedish, english, and can make yourself somewhat understood in at least one other language (usually spanish or german, it’s no different than being expected to know maths and science.

oh god it’s your mom!

because most other chat services kind of suck, discord made sure to polish everything up a bit and implement good voice chat in the same package.

are you saying the USA isn’t bad?

different causes: people are having less kids in the US because they’re living in misery, whereas in europe we’ve long had fewer kids because better education and less need to have 8 kids so one of them survives and can take care of you as you get old.

can you really not reject citizenships?

i saw a video of a system like that in action, guy left it running for a good long while and then dumped out a PILE of dead mosquitoes (and only mosquitoes)

you’re talking about reality, which is completely irrelevant to these people.

the cat, who is looking incredibly worried

on our way to [REDACTED] the [REDACTED]

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I just want to check though: Do you wear motorbike safety gear? Because you REALLY REALLY should, e-scooters are great but the one thing they are not is safe (if you go faster than a moderate run).

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pressing that button feels so good