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@diracpointless
Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real: Nature.com
I'm a bit frightened for the time when someone less ethical than the person that did this decides to repeat the experiment but leave out the part where they come in later and announce that it was fake and people wind up diagnosed with the fake condition and all kinds of wacky hi jinks ensues.
how are you gonna be 31 and posting fandom content bro leave it to the teenagers
People 10 and 20 years older than me are writing your favorite fanfics, and drawing your favorite characters. You'd have no fandom without the people you think are 'too old' to have hobbies.
This mentality is so insanely frustrating. Why do teenagers think that people have to give up their hobbies, give up fun, when they reach a certain age? Like??
When I was a teenager writing fic, I remember finding out that one of my favorite authors was in her 50s and that just was SUCH a revelation for me!! What do you mean, 50 year olds can write fanfic?!? Does that mean I can write fics when I'm her age?? That's AWESOME! I seriously looked up to her so much. And now I'm 35 with a husband and kid, and I'm still writing fanfic and posting fandom content - and I have no plans of stopping!
If you try to drive 30+ people out of fandom, you're going to lose the backbone of said fandom!
The ageism in fandom is fucking insane. It’s strange that people seem to have the idea that fandom was created by and for teenagers… It was not. It was created by adults. How would we have ao3 if only teenagers were in fandom?
I don’t want to sound like I am hating on younger people in fandom, but god, y’all need to stop it with the ageism. You don’t have to give up what you love once you’re an adult. Honestly, the belief that you have to is pretty bad. It sounds like it would make people afraid of aging. Granted, modern society is so very afraid of aging.
Don’t give up what you love just because you’re an adult. You don’t have to. And don’t try to force others to do it either.
condemned for the crime of continuing to wake up in the morning
Just because society is forcing ageism down your throat doesn't mean you need to listen to it. Be free in the knowledge age is coming for you but it doesn't mean you have to lose the things that bring you joy and geekery.
The problem is that youth is chronically embarrassed of itself and cannot conceive that age comes with the shedding of that embarrassment instead of shedding that which is embarrassing.
HOW’S THAT HOUSE THAT RAISED YOU? - Lev St. Valentine
What's amazing about Japanese efficiency and exactness is that - there isn't a Plan B.
In most European countries delays and cancellations happen all the time. It's very annoying, and mean you can't really rely on very exact timings. You need to leave wiggle room as a passenger.
BUT Europeans also have contingencies for when things go really wrong. Like, if the train is cancelled, a courtesy bus is usually put on. And connections have plenty of leeway in case of delays.
In Japan, not so. If your train to the airport is cancelled because a typhoon damaged the tracks, there will not be a bus or a car service to take you to the airport for your flight. In fact, the train company won't even inform you of the alternative travel options. Because that's not their job. You'll have to find out from a kind stranger, as you stand cluelessly on the platform with all your luggage, that there might be another train on a different service that is still going to the airport. And have him talk to the info desk for you because you don't have good enough japanese for this task. And find you the train and tell you exactly how to get it and apologise that it will cost an additional 14€.
Or something to that effect. That's not something that happened to me or anything.
friend. may i ask. do you speak gaeilge?. friend.
In theory a little I technically have a gcse in the thing from when I was 16 but because it’s like in this weird half state for a language especially in the north I didn’t get a chance to practice it outside of the classroom until I met one of my best friends years later who completely fluent and looks at me like at least you can count to 10 and know like some words and sentences still which is why I call my dog Cara which means friend or mo chara beag which means my little friend because she is 2 apples tall but I can not order a sandwich.
ahhhhhhhhhhh i thought you spoke only english, that's actually so cool twin!!!
i've been trying to learn it for about a year now and as you can guess, there's no learning method for portuguese native speakers :') so all the material i could find was made for english natives and if that's not already an additional difficulty, each source i found teaches one specific variation and the sounds differ a lot and there's still the difference between standard gaeilge and what people actually talk AND FOR GODS SAKE DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THE PHONOLOGY OF THIS BEAUTIFUL LANGUAGE I STILL DONT KNOW IF I SAY GO RAIBH MAITH AGAT OR LE DO THOIL RIGHT I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE 😭😭😭😭
HOW DO I PUT THIS IN MY BRAIN??????
Ahh I am obsessed with this because yeah as a technically native speaker it’s so hard to learn because it’s not a romantic language it’s a Germanic so the sounds are just different. Language has never been my strong suit so like genuinely I am so impressed by how multilingual you are it’s like the most enviable skill in the world.
I will say I think because of probably how fast we speak over here Irish phrases do kind of blend phonetically even if they don’t look like it so it’s like “go rye my ug-ut” like the rye and my sound the same and then it’s like “led-o-hul” so like the d connects it all at least in the north because yeah different dialects mostly depending on how colonised you got and by Scottish or English so like the more rural you are the more likely you are to grow up naturally bilingual but I am a city boy and didn’t get the option to learn until 12 so I got stuck with the curse of saying some gaeilge words like someone who speaks scotch Gaelic which is actually so much more linguistically different than you think.
unfortunately i totally get it 😭 phonetical blending is something we only pay attention when a foreigner who's trying to learn portuguese ask us something very specific, or eliminate sounds and entire syllables too
and yeah i notice that when is the word pronunciation or the phase with said word in it (even tho it's automatic voices)
what gets me is that trying to learn alone without a teacher really difficults the phonology rules to fix on my mind, but one day i will offer my soul or idk teleport to a gaeltacht so gaeilge can magically download on my brain 🙏🏼
and well didn't know about scottish colonization on ireland, thank you
(and thanks twin but like i bet your daughter is speaking gaeilge better than us both 😭)
... oh I definitely speak gaeilge with a Spanish accent O.o
@kittydesade as someone who has tried and failed to learn Spanish with an Irish accent I find this fascinating.
So, the think about me and non English or Spanish languages is that I grew up speaking English and Spanish*, then started French at around 13 years old and became pretty fluent in that pretty quickly (and thankfully kept practicing, as I had friends who speak French). This has done interesting things to learning languages after that.
This has led to an interesting side effect where when I'm learning a foreign language to which I don't have much auditory exposure (i.e. I don't know many speakers, I can't find films in this language, etc) I end up defaulting to Spanish sounds, vowels usually but also some consonants, because they're crisper and cleaner than English. It's not really a conscious decision, I think it has to do with trying to pay more attention to how I shape the sounds. English is a lot more, for lack of a more technical word, slushy.
*I put an asterisk by Spanish because there are a lot of different Spanishes, several of them have distinct accents, and the ones I grew up with were Mexican, Chilean, Castillean (I think? Spanish from Spain, Madrid specifically), and Puerto Rican, so my ceceo drifts in and out of my Spanish speaking like a cat faced with an open door.
I have a German accent in Russian and Portuguese!
My brain goes straight to "not the native tongue" and applies the consequent sound rules.
It also has a clear "the word in the hard language" filter, which it uses to push Russian out of my mouth when I'm trying to speak Portuguese.
What a thread! I love this.
@eleim thank you for learning Irish! I wish there was a way for you to do it through Portuguese, I'd bet it'd be better than English. Maybe our Brazilian population will get on that.
Go raibh maith agat agus an a mhaith ar fad!
(Go rev muh'agat agus an awa air fud (ish))
Thank you and great job altogether!
@ghost-kings-court-jester Even harder than Germanic - it's a Celtic language whose roots broke off from Proto Indo European even earlier than Germanic did! One of the reasons why it's hard for Everyone to learn, except maybe Welsh speakers.
On accents: this is not the mainstream opinion, but speak with an accent! Please, just speak the language, and if that means with an accent, go for it! The only usefulness of a language is to communicate, so if you can understand and make yourself understood that's all there is.
There's a weird debate going on on this island at the moment, coinciding with a revival of the language amongst young people, with one side saying that you have to put on a western or southwest accent in order to be "speaking correctly". Because the language has been gone from the east side of the island so long, that if you speak it in your own natural accent, it just isn't right.
To that I say, bollocks. The only wrong way to speak a language is to not be understood. So if people from Donegal can use their own accents, then so can people from Dublin and Wexford and Killkenny. And everyone can just get used to it.
So it would really help my side to have a bunch of gaeilgoirs with Spanish, French, Portuguese, Iranian, Australian, Japanese, Ugandan, etc accents!
WOW, i didn't know how far my ask would go. how tumblr dared to hide this from an on going linguistics graduate
@diracpointless i do imagine how much "speak the language correctly" discourse must have for irish, but what gets me most is the broad/slender vowels + vowel combinations + sine fada. ONE DAY I SHALL PERSEVERE OVER THEM. and thank you a lot :)
only accent i know i have is brazilian portuguese accent in english bc well, i have heard brazilian people speaking english. my spoken spanish is bad (maybe bc i only learned it formally for two years, with an argentine for a year and then a colombian and i got soooo shy to speak wrongly that i just dont speak at all). i have no idea for my italian too let alone the ten words in irish i learned
well, i only need now go to ireland and ask natives what my accent is. it will take a while but yeah
My baba only has one coherent word and it's "yeah!"
She absolutely uses it in the correct context. But she also uses it continually if she is having fun or just feels like yelling exuberantly. So very often she'll be over by her toys sounding like this guy.
There's this notion that being able to stream professional theater shows will hurt the industry, because people won't go to the effort to support live theater anymore, and this is based on the anxieties of the film industry, but live theater isn't a film. The better analogy is sports.
Look me dead in the eye and tell me that people being able to sit at home and watch The Game -- the fandom that encourages, the ongoing investment over the years, the memories and traditions of Watching the Game with family and friends -- harms the ticket sales of real live go-to-the-stadium sports. Of course it doesn't. Of course all that *is the reason* that people care so much about sports they'll invest a small fortune on not only tickets but often travel costs to be part of it all in person. And the people who aren't doing that *can't* do that and weren't going to regardless, but their at-home participation and investment still boosts the profile of pro and NCAA sports as cultural institutions.
Maybe it's possible to fall in love with film and be immune to the romance of Going to the Cinema such that you'll just freely choose the same film in the comfort of your living room. It's not possible to fall in love with something that happens live and not want to be there to experience it. The consequences of procasts, for theater just like for sports, can only be A) more people motivated to make live theater part of their worlds, aka more money, when theaters everywhere could desperately use more money, or B) more love. Which is worth arguing for because reasons I assume I don't have to defend.
“Where are the trans men in history?” See. When you're born a gender that was forcefully married off, who had to live most of their life indoors, when you had to raise children, and had a lobotomy if your family thought you were a tad too odd, it's kinda hard to come out as a trans man now ain't it.
forever my lineage would use his wrong pronouns but not me
I’ve heard the author of Little Women always “wished to have been born a man”? I didn’t fact check that, but there’s that.
Author of the classic novel Little Women, Louisa May Alcott wrote about being “born with a boy’s nature”, much like Jo in the classic novel
Yep.
It's a quirk of male privilege historically that any man who wished he had been born a woman must be pathological, but any woman who wished she had been born a man just wanted something society didn't want her to have. Couldn't possibly be a trans man. Just wanted to be a doctor.
When someone tells me they have a podcast:
"Nice! Which one of you is autistic and which has ADHD?"
idk man I'm thinking a lot about the discourse being reported in this post and my own post about crushes, which has garnered a lot of responses like this one
and I don't know exactly what to do with this yet but I'm fascinated, in a really upsetting way, by the way some of these people seem to conceptualize romantic and/or sexual attraction as an act of violation that no one should do to people they like and care about. if nothing else it raises some really compelling questions about what they think actually goes on between people who have sex and/or romantic bonds with each other if that's not supposed to be something that happens between friends.
normal stuff happening in the replies
oh my god I'm doing patriarchy now
This just in, "having feelings, regardless of how or whether you act upon them, is an aggressive, patriarchal act." 🙄
Saying this as gently as possible: if you have any of the above reactions to finding out that someone has romantic feelings for you, that's on you, not on them, and your reactions are both evidence of trauma and not something you should encourage in yourself. Please seek help and healing.
Les dances à travers le monde
my favourite thing about this is some are very traditional dances integral to that country/culture; and some are one individuals favourite move
and he approaches all of them with enthusiasm and a surprising amount of skill
Watching this makes me happy
Nothing gets my baba interested in her toys like me tidying them up. Which is a complicated incentive for both of us.
This is an anti-despair checkpoint! You must share something you're looking forward to before scrolling on.
Baking is ridiculous. Stir these powders into a goo and them warm them up until they turn into some kind of edible sponge. Who came up with this.
Do you guys think maybe you gave too many notes to this one
It was a real power move to name one ingredient "baking powder", since there were already so many powders used in baking.
cleaning along desire paths
Fantastic advice!! And something I’ve realized I’ve been doing for myself these last 6-7 years, even though I never had a name for it.
Seriously, this is such a great way to go about organizing your home.
I really can’t express how much easier your life can be when you accept that there’s no objectively right way to do this kind of stuff, especially when you let go of the idea that it’s a moral failure when you can’t do something the “correct way” nor is it evidence of you being lazy.
Working with (leaning into) your natural limits and instincts can do wonders for you in your day-to-day life.
It's your house. Make it work for you, don't work to an imaginary standard that doesn't serve you.
At the moment we have a weird shed extension tacked onto our house. We want to rebuild it into a functional room eventually, but I can't deny the messy storage is very handy.
My husband thinks we'll just get rid of a lot of the stuff in there and not accumulate more. My experience is that it doesn't work like that.
I think we're going to have to be really clever about how we incorporate storage into the new design of our house.
