Realized I need to spend more time reviewing. I’m very eager to learn more but lots of it isn’t sticking, so I need to find a better balance. And it’s always a lot easier to read than to listen than to produce the language, but I’m enjoying recognizing more things when I scan websites and such.

Single day. It was work mixing cement with what was in a chemical lagoon for an ink factory. Basically the liquid would get pumped into a mixing machine and then piped over to a nearby site to make a more inert giant puck. Whoever was in charge of ratios was mixing things too thick and caused something to explode in a guy’s face. It wasn’t a big explosion, just enough to get the mixture all over him and into his eyes. I wasn’t really dealing with any of that yet, just starting on tarball duty where anything remotely black in the area around the lagoon was considered escaped contamination and got dug up with a shovel and tossed back in the designated area. This was in summer and we had to be in tyvek suits and rubber boots which both had to get taken off and thrown out in a special way every time you left the area. But seeing what happened to that guy just made me think all this wasn’t worth the risk and I didn’t come back the next day.

Actually making progress on getting some minis painted. I had an unsuccessful attempt at making a pearlescent insect wing and got glitter everywhere. Going to try a different method this week. Otherwise, the sword bandits, burning undead, and hives are ready for varnishing and the komuso monks and fire wizards are coming along. My painting is adequate, so they’re nothing that’s going to win contests, but I’m glad to have more things painted when my friends gather to play.

It’s Elon’s hero’s birthday (and his last day on the surface according to Wikipedia). And the anniversary of the Columbine shooting. And the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. I’m very glad that pot takes top billing.

Ugh, making a car mechanic appointment has been on my list since October. Nothing’s actively wrong with it, and I’m not due mileage-wise. I just want to make sure it can handle a medium length trip that kept getting postponed due to a few things I couldn’t be away from home for more than a day for a while.

Could it be a good candidate for federation? There’s already a few naming standards that would allow a bit of a common ground. And maybe eliminate a few of the big points of failure.

Slow, mostly steady progress through Practice Portuguese. It often feels like it’s asking stuff that it hasn’t taught me yet so it can be a bit frustrating. I need more review as I forget some things pretty quickly. I do really enjoy seeing all the words that have a counterpart in English but the counterpart isn’t common, like garaffa means bottle and seems like it’s related to carafe. Facil/easy/facilitate, feliz/happy/felicity, etc.

You’re not into long pointy things being counted differently than flat things being counted differently than people being counted differently than…?

Things got a lot better for me when I blocked lemmy.world. It’s one of the worse instances for the things you’re completing about. If you ever get the itch to return, try a different instance and block .world and see if that makes a difference. Anyway, good luck to you and may you find some peace.

Thanks so much for that!

Back when I was trying to use SNES games for learning, the kanji were often incomprehensible and there weren’t all the phone apps that make looking stuff up easier. Trying to figure out what something was and then looking it up in a huge kanji dictionary was a huge barrier to it being useful. I can go a lot faster these days with being able to draw a kanji and usually getting a hit even if it’s not perfect.

I’m not sure about games specifically made for language learning, but plenty of games have language settings.

I was looking to brush up on my Japanese and decided to replay Trails from Zero with the language set to Japanese. Its exposition was very complex with a ton of economic and political terms and just overwhelming. So pick something that suits your level if you can.

As for German, on Steam you can look for games that have German language support with something like this:

https://store.steampowered.com/search/?supportedlang=german&ndl=1

Good luck with your learning!

As an admin, I prefer no swap on prod machines because I’d rather have the oom killer kill a process that will automatically be brought back up or replaced than grind everything to a crawl swapping. A dead process can be restarted. A swapped to death server can be challenging to even get into.

Please put them on, Takemina-san. It’s on Crunchyroll if that’s how you roll.

A new anime where that woman travels back in time by removing her underwear (which ceases to exist).

Mental prosthetics. Basically set up systems when you’re capable to support when you’re less so.

For your frugality example, lower the limit on your card, never save it for future use on a website, remove it from your wallet and put it in an inconvenient place. Next time you get impulsive, you’ll have to overcome the inertia of having to do extra steps and it’ll be harder to drain your bank accounts.

For things you want to do, reduce the friction. I have wet erase magnets that I write my todos on so I have a physical reminder if I forget between one room and another.

Oh geeze, I watched this out of curiosity. When the time travel happens, the underwear that was removed ceases to exist so she always brings extra with her.

Anyway, the show isn’t so bad it’s good, it’s just boring and stupid.

Yes.

It’s not the start menu or the control panel I’m talking about, but things like being in bed with the IDF post October 2023.

I didn’t mean to set up a comparison or minimize anything, so I apologize. Notch is a total piece of shit. Companies that enable systems of oppression are shitty and I don’t want to see them enable your oppressors once the price is right.

I’m not sure Microsoft is any better when it comes to your Minecraft dollars…