See I Already Knew This Bc When I Do Any Sort Of Problem Solving It's Literally Caveman Noises "oh? Oh?

i finished reading your story and i must say that, while it's alright, there's so many plot holes because the characters made irrational decisions and didn't think logically 100% of the time. consider fixing this next time please

Western Zodiac Signs in MANDARIN CHINESE:

Aries:  白羊座 (báiyángzuò)

Taurus:  金牛座 (jīnniúzuò)

Gemini:  雙子座 (shuāngzǐzuò)

Cancer:  巨蟹座 (jùxièzuò)

Leo:  獅子座 (shīzǐzuò)

Virgo:  室女座 (shìnǚzuò)

Libra:  天秤座  (tiānchèngzuò)

Scorpio:  天蝎座 (tiānxiēzuò)

Sagittarius:  射手座 (shèshǒuzuò)

Capricorn:  摩羯座 (mójiézuò)

Aquarius:  水瓶座 (shuǐpíngzuò)

Pisces:  雙魚座 (shuāngyúzuò)

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Ted Talks for aspiring polyglots

I love these all for various reasons so I highly recommend checking them out!

How to learn any language in six months — Chris Lonsdale

The secrets of learning a new language — Lýdia Machová

How to learn any language easily — Matthew Youlden

Why We Struggle Learning Languages — Gabriel Wyner

Learning a language? Speak it like you’re playing a video game — Marianna Pascal

Hacking language learning — Benny Lewis

How to Talk Like a Native Speaker — Marc Green

they should invent being awake and attentive and having energy

it’s always amazing to watch adults discover how much changes when they don’t treat their perspective as the default human experience.

example: it’s been well-documented for a long time that urban spaces are more dangerous for kids than they are for adults. but common wisdom has generally held that that’s just the way things are because kids are inherently vulnerable. and because policymakers keep operating under the assumption that there’s nothing that can be done about kids being less safe in cities because that’s just how kids are, the danger they face in public spaces like streets and parks has been used as an excuse for marginalizing and regulating them out of those spaces.

(by the same people who then complain about kids being inside playing video games, I’d imagine.)

thing is, there’s no real evidence to suggest that kids are inescapably less safe in urban spaces. the causality goes the other way: urban spaces are safer for adults because they are designed for adults, by adults, with an adult perspective and experience in mind.

the city of Oslo, Norway recently started a campaign to take a new perspective on urban planning. quite literally a new perspective: they started looking at the city from 95 centimeters off the ground - the height of the average three-year-old. one of the first things they found was that, from that height, there were a lot of hedges blocking the view of roads from sidewalks. in other words, adults could see traffic, but kids couldn’t.

pop quiz: what does not being able to see a car coming do to the safety of pedestrians? the city of Oslo was literally designed to make it more dangerous for kids to cross the street. and no one realized it until they took the laughably small but simultaneously really significant step of…lowering their eye level by a couple of feet.

so Oslo started trimming all its decorative roadside vegetation down. and what was the first result they saw? kids in Oslo are walking to school more, because it’s safer to do it now. and that, as it turns out, reduces traffic around schools, making it even safer to walk to school.

so yeah. this is the kind of important real-life impact all that silly social justice nonsense of recognizing adultism as a massive structural problem can have. stop ignoring 1/3 of the population when you’re deciding what the world should look like and the world gets better a little bit at a time.

Chandra shows black holes.(x/x/x)

when i pass people on the duolingo leaderboards i hope they know i'm doing it with gleeful malice in my heart. i'm not doing it on accident and i'm not thinking haha yay i'm thinking everybody get fucked this is call of duty to me

#duolingo is my biggest hobby... and my greatest fear.

*copying the thai alphabet* ooh loopies hell yeah this is so cool

*reading typed thai* where are all the loopies