"I Don't Like JRK But I Still Love Harry Potter"

i cannot keep quiet about this anymore.

if you're in the US or Canada and interested in learning a language using a free app please get a library card and download MANGO. it's very good and extremely free with a library card (there are many public libraries and universities using the service, so make an account and use the search feature here to find out if there's one near you).

mango currently has 72 available languages and dialects (that's right! different courses for french or canadian french! spanish or latam spanish!). it's set up basically like an audiobook with text. the idea is that the narrator explains the words while you read, and you repeat after them or say the translation out loud when prompted. there's a daily review where you go through flashcards. you can also use the flashcards at your leisure and create your own. at the end of each chapter there's a listening comprehension quiz and a reading comprehension quiz. i cannot emphasize how effective this all is. and it's free with a card.

if you're not in the US or Canada and/or looking for something more like duolingo (don't use duolingo btw tldr they fired translators and replaced them with "ai"), then try BUSUU! it only has 14 languages atm but the lessons are really descriptive and effective. it also has a feature where you can correct other people's open-ended speaking/typing exercises. you set your fluent languages, and exercises by people learning those languages will appear in your feed for you to correct. you can even add others as friends! and, much like duolingo, it has a streak and leaderboard system for you to strive for, minus the guilt-tripping owl.

busuu is free (you watch ads to unlock lessons and they're all skippable after like five seconds), although it also has paid premium/plus versions (i don't use the paid version—the language courses are available for free, and the ad system is Really unobtrusive).

so that's my wisdom for the day. mango and busuu. please check them out :)

DM me if anybody wants a bluesky code.

What impact could the ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion in the aviation industry have on the industry?

More slip-shod Quality Assurance failures like the door falling off Boeing jets. and airline delays and cancellations to protect executive compensation.

COMMENTARY:

The aviation industry, including the airlines, have been the leading edge of DEI high performance technology since Rosie the Riveter begam drawing a paycheck. Boeing’s current QA problems are a direct consequence of the erosion of those standards by the de=regulation agenda of Conservative politics symbolized by Ragan’s PATCO assault of Nixon’s design for airline deregulation,

Let me put this as clearly as possible: Eisenhower’s 1956 Presidential Platform was conceived to upgrade the global Military Industrial Complex to the Aerospace-Entrepreneurial Star Wars Matrix required to sustain a lunar colony for 100 years. The movie 2001: A Space Odyssey illustrates how that economics will operate, On January 19, 1981, America was on track to achieve that vision, If Carter had been re-elected, we would have had people on Mars and back by now.

If you replace the Pan Am logo in 2001: A Space Odyssey with SpaceX, that’s where we should have been when Bush/Cheney came to office, but the politics and business model of Elon Musk, as a proxy for the pro-Trump anti-DEI Fortune 500 CEOs has prevented it.

PBS had a show last night about the perilous status of the American bridge system which has been starved for the capital that has been diverted to the private fortunes of the Stanford-Silicon Valley Oligarchs of the top 1% of Trickle Down Economics, The door that flew off of the Boeing jet is one metric of that erosion of Quality Assurance represented by DEI performance technology that is being sabotaged by the Conservative agenda behind January 6. and all things Trump.

The things is, the wealth of these Oligarchs is as dependent upon the Key Bridge in Baltimore as the rest of us, but they are content to remain within the echo chamber of their cocoons of wealth and and obstruct DEI proliferation on the pretense of “merit” based on white privilege and inherited money, They are perfectly content to let America fall apart like in Atlas Shrugged purely on the basis of Ayn Rand's Virtue of Selfishness.

MSNBC.com

As he uses antisemitism claims to target visas, Rubio chats with influencer who praised Hitler

An interview with Michael Benz, who once wrote Hitler had “some decent points,” exposes the administration’s crackdown as a ruse.

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