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Not risking it pals
U know what I want potato of luck
Damn right Iâm reblogging. See previous post re wrath of whatever from high atop the thing.
potato I will never ask you for anything else in my lifetime please potato for fuck's sake
One of the stranger things about training brand new nurses is explaining how to min max small talk. It feels very weird to coach people on how to chat.
if I make and post an insanely detailed powerpoint on the twenty different equations I run mentally during casual conversation to make it flow better, everyone has to say that it's sexy and cool and not weird at all
remember, everyone promised to be cool! also disclaimer disclaimer disclaimer assume I said all the things you'd say to be like "i know human interaction is complicated, i know some of what i listed here would be very annoying to some people," and all that
When you guys have visited potential apartments, what kind of questions did you ask besides the basics like what rent and utilities include?
Here are questions I didnât ask but should have: what does the basement look like?
What measures are taken to secure the building ?
Are the walls thin? Brief info of who lives in the building. Are they college kids? People that work through the day? Elderly? Is it a mix? Where does the garbage go?
Can I pay rent bi-weekly? What kind of fuses does the apartment use? (My fuse box is in the basement. If I blow a fuse I have to replace it myself. They screw until the box. All of which I didnât know until it happened and I was sitting in the dark suddenly.)
Who do I call for repairs? (If itâs a private rental) Am I allowed to paint the walls? Is there any additional storage? Do you do regular pest control?
count the outlets, ask about recycling policies, ask if thereâs a noise restriction (nothing loud after midnight, everything goes on the weekend, etc)
LAUNDRY FACILITIES Definitely ask about security Whether subletting is allowed (esp if youâre in college and might want to sublet for the summer) If you have a car, whether thereâs parking/how much it costs What kind of heating/AC there is Procedure/response time for any maintenance How mail/packages are received/protected from theft (seriously people stealing your packages can be a huge problem) What kind of verification of your salary will they want, and in what circumstances will they accept a guarantor instead? Whether the apartment is furnished
Assuming you are in the middle of looking at/choosing between places: When does the lease start? Are you going to give preference to people based on when they can move in? Whether groups of a certain number of people get preference Really anything about who they prioritize for applications, it can save you a lot of trouble in trying to apply to places youâll never get into
not something for asking the realtors, necessarily, but important rights you should be aware of as a tenant:
when and for what reasons are your landlords allowed to enter your home? how much of a notice should they give you before entering?
can the landlord make modifications to your home or apartment without your approval? to what extent?
what are the options and conditions for breaking your lease early if thereâs an emergency? (this is ESPECIALLY important for anyone moving to a new state/considerable distance where you are not able to visit the apartment/home before you rent â students get taken advantage of ALL THE TIME with this shit)
if your first or last month at the property is a partial stay (i.e. you move in on july 15th, and rent is typically due on the first) make sure you donât pay the full first monthâs rent before you know the area laws! in many states, you are only legally required to pay for the time you are occupying the property
is renterâs insurance necessary? many apartments want at least 30k coverage, which can run a couple hundred dollars extra per year
are the landlords/property management liable for crimes on the property? for example, if your car was broken into. if not GET RENTERâS INSURANCE
Is there a pet policy? Deposit/monthly rent?
Can I get a checklist of things that need to be done/fixed to get my deposit back at the end? (They should provide this for you - do a walkthrough when youâre looking and have them point out what they want done. Youâll want that money back!!)
Check the outlets, bring your phone charger and plug it in to test!
If there isnât laundry in the apartment, can they install a washer and dryer for a fee? (Happened to a friend for 50 bucks more, she couldâve have a washer dryer put in. What the hell itâs worth it, trust me.)
Is it a smoking complex? Some in AZ are non-smoking.
Has anyone died in the apartment? (Maybe this is dumb but I just read about someone who found out the previous tenant committed suicide in her place. Not good.)
Many of these questions can be answered by acquiring a âmodel leaseâ! This is just a copy of the landlordâs standard lease.
Most landlords will provide one on request. Some may even have one on their website.
Read any lease very carefully before signing.
Get someone else to read it over too if possible so they can catch any fuckery you mightâve missed. A lease is a legal contract youâre entering into, make sure you know what youâre agreeing to!
(Also, I personally check under each sink for mildew and I also sniff curtains, carpet, and/or paper blinds for a cigarette smell that may be stronger when the landlord hasnât just had the windows open etc to hide it)
God this is so helpful.
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The upsetting thing about the Internet Archive situation is that they decided to bet everything - their credibility, the crucial work of preservation they've done on the net, the accessibility of materials that otherwise be legitimate lost media - on a truly idiotic proposition for the sake of either "changing bad law" or martyring themselves to it.
And now they're getting martyred for it.
And it's their own goddamn fault.
And we're still going to pay for it, as a society, either paying for their dumbfuck legal pirouette, with the loss of all the material that they claimed to be custodians of but instead endangered recklessly, or realistically, both.
It's fucking maddening.
I'm reblogging this from myself because I realized that, actually, I have Opinions and I want to express them. I'm an academic librarian, for context.
I saw the 2020 Internet Archive post about their "Emergency Library" and my immediate response was, "But isn't that a huge violation of copyright? I hope they know what they're doing." Spoiler alert: I do not think they knew what they were doing. I think they fucked around and are now finding out.
The thing which makes me the most mad about this (up to and including the potential loss of everything in their archive) is the fact that this whole court case--this court case which is really and truly the Internet Archive's fault, not an overreach on the publishers' side--has made it so, so much harder to ever even potentially get legal sanction for actual controlled digital lending.
What the Internet Archive was doing Was. Not. Controlled Digital Lending (CDL). Actual CDL is when a library takes a book out of circulation, scans it, and then makes the scan available to one person at a time while the physical copy remains non-circulating. One copy of each book to one patron at one time--that's why it's called "controlled".
CDL is most often done for materials which don't have an ebook version.* For instance, the library I worked at in 2020 used CDL to make certain course reserve textbooks available to students remotely.
Librarians are and were aware that while they consider this a Fair Use exception to copyright, CDL occupies a legal gray area.** The case for fair use rests on the arguments that such use is not (or is very minimally) impeding the market because 1) the library is not loaning out more copies than they have already paid for (just doing it in a different medium) and 2) in most cases, there is no competing product from the publisher (the libraries aren't using CDL to replace available ebooks and therefore aren't causing market harm to the publisher). This use is also argued to be parallel to making digital copies of print books to allow visually impaired readers to access them,*** which is a legally established fair use case.
So libraries (some libraries) were cautiously forging ahead with CDL, hoping that if it was ever challenged, it would be found to be fair use, and that maybe it would make the digital lending/ebook landscape just a little bit less broken, and in the meantime knowing that we were making materials more accessible to our patrons.
And then along comes the Internet Archive with their "Emergency Library" where they just make every scanned book they have available to use with no restrictions. No limits to one user per physical book at a time. No considerations based on whether or not a publisher's ebook version is available. And they called that "Controlled Digital Lending".
And in doing so they have potentially harmed actual controlled digital lending for all libraries in the US.
Now every publisher who hears "controlled digital lending" is going to think of the Internet Archive's abuse of the term. Now there's legal precedent that a thing called "controlled digital lending" is a violation of copyright (even though the substance of what's meant is different). Now CDL is forever associated with actual, clear copyright violation.
And that makes me mad because this was all so preventable and is due entirely to the Internet Archive's choices.
*Partly for copyright reasons, but also because scanning a book is actually a lot of work, so buying an ebook is a lot easier. And even with how much libraries get charged for ebooks (if you weren't aware, it's often at least 3 times as much as the retail version, and we don't always even get to keep the license in perpetuity), scanning is so much work it can be more cost-effective to buy a publisher's ebook even leaving aside copyright issues.
**Almost all fair use is technically a legal gray area. Fair use is a defense against copyright infringement (that is, it is essentially permitted infringement), so any fair use case that hasn't been litigated is a sort of Schrodinger's fair use. We (general) act on the considered belief that the use is legally fair, but until and unless it's hashed out in court, no one can know for sure whether a certain use would be considered fair or illegal infringement.
***They're both forms of digitizing owned physical materials to provide access in an alternate format.
âgetting thicker skinâ is great in theory but I think for some people âget better at handling your thin skinâ is gonna be way more helpful advice. I have strong emotional reactions to criticism and they might never go away, but i can continue to try and handle each situation maturely and thatâs the important part. Sometimes irrational feelings are chronic and living with them is better than trying to beat yourself up into not having them.
i know we're all sick of self-care being a marketing tactic now, but i don't think a lot of us have any other concept of self-care beyond what companies have tried to sell us, so i thought i'd share my favorite self-care hand out
brought to you by how mad i just got at a Target ad
OP this is EXCELLENT
Now THATâS a self care resource! If youâve gotten distracted by capitalismâs appropriation of âself-careâ and watering the meaning down to nothing this is a super helpful guide to cut through the bullshit.
POV: you're the king of Sounis on your way to talk to your magus about strategies for securing your throne and you look up.
This was mostly a value study, but it was also a hell of a perspective exercise. It's referenced from parkourways.com--every time a parkour reel crosses my dash, I think of Gen, and I figured I owed a thanks to my Queen's Thief fam for putting up with my recent dive back into LotR.
Next installment of Lord of the Rings AU: It's Fine, Everybody's Fine is Aragorn's coronation, at which Boromir W E E P S:
I think in a circumstance where Boromir lives, or even just in interacting with Faramir in canon, Aragorn would be very aware of the optics of striding in out of the wilderness to take a throne that the line of stewards had been fighting and dying for in his absence (Thorongil cosplay aside). Cool thing is, in this AU, seeing the king's throne filled and experiencing Gondor at peace for the first time in living history is more than Boromir EVER hoped for.
The day the White Tree sapling blooms, Aragorn wakes up Faramir and Boromir like a six-year-old on Christmas:
And then there's that FIRST SUNRISE over the Mountains of Shadow, when day breaks over a defeated east that's clean and clear and Boromir WEEPS AGAIN because he NEVER THOUGHT he'd see such a thing and YES this is a THIRST TRAP why do you ASK
Hell yeah I gave him a tattoo, it's the seven stars of Gondor plus a coastal rockrose that grows in sandy soils along the Mediterranean because I figure that's like Dol Amroth in honor of HIS MOM because I LOVE SYMBOLISM
I'm asking this genuinely, as a 19 yo with no education in economics and a pretty surface level understanding of socialism: can you explain the whole Bananas discourse in a way someone like me might understand? In my understanding it's just "This is just a product we can give up to create better worker conditions and that's fine" but apparently that's not the full picture?
alright so some pretty important background to all this is that we're all talking about the fact that bananas, grown in the global south, are available year-round at extremely low prices all around europe and the USA. it's not really about bananas per so--the banana in this discourse is a synechdoche for all the economic benefits of imperialism.
so how are cheap bananas a result of imperialism? first of all i want to tackle a common and v. silly counterargument: 'oh, these ridiculous communists think it's imperialist for produce to be shipped internationally'. nah. believing that this is the communist objection requires believing in a deeply naive view of international traide. this view goes something like 'well, if honduras has lots of bananas, and people in the usa want bananas and are willing to pay for them, surely everyone wins when the usa buys bananas!'.
there are of course two key errors here and they are both packed into 'honduras has lots of bananas'. for a start, although the bananas are grown in honduras, honduras doesn't really 'have' them, because the plantations are mostly owned by chiquita (formerly known as united fruit) dole, del monte, and other multinationals--when they're not, those multinationals will usually purchase the bananas from honduran growers and conduct the export themselves. and wouldn't you know it, it's those intervening middleman steps--export, import, and retail, where the vast majority of money is made off bananas! so in the process of a banana making its way from honduras to a 7/11, usamerican multinationals make money selling the bananas to usamerican importers who make money selling them to usamerican retailers who make money selling them to usamerican customers.
when chiquita sells a banana to be sold in walmart, a magic trick is being performed: a banana is disappearing from honduras, and yet somehow an american company is paying a second american company for it! this is economic imperialism, the usamerican multinational extracting resources from a nation while simultaneously pocketing the value of those resources.
why does the honduran government allow this? if selling bananas is such a bad deal for the nation, why do they continue to export millions of dollars of banans a year? well, obviously, there's the fact that if they didn't, they would face a coup. the united states is more than willing to intervene and cause mass death and war to protect the profits of its multinationals. but the second, more subtle thing keeping honduras bound to this ridiculously unbalanced relationship is the need for dollars. because the US dollar is the global reserve currency, and the de facto currency of international trade, exporting to the USA is a basic necessity for nations like honduras, guatemala, &c. why is the dollar the global reserve currency? because of usamerican military and economic hegemony, of course. imperialism built upon imperialism!
this is unequal exchange, the neoimperialist terms of international trade that make the 'global economy' a tool of siphoning value and resources from the global south to the imperial core. & this is the second flaw to unravel in 'honduras has a lot of bananas' -- honduras only 'has a lot of bananas' because this global economic hegemony has led to vast unsustainable monoculture banana plantations to dominate the agriculture of honduras. it's long-attested how monoculture growth is unsustainable because it destroys soil and leads to easily-wiped-out-by-infection plants.
so, bananas in the USA are cheap because:
the workers that grow them are barely paid, mistreated, prevented from unionizing, and sometimes murdered
the nations in which the bananas are grown accept brutally unfair trade and tariff terms with the USA because they desperately need a supply of US dollars and so have little position to negotiate
shipping is also much cheaper than it should be because sailors are chronically underpaid and often not paid at all or forced to pay to work (!)
bananas are cheap, in conclusion, because they're produced by underpaid and brutalized workers and then imported on extortionate and unfair terms.
so what, should we all give up bananas? no, and it's a sign of total lack of understanding of socialism as a global movement that all the pearl-clutching usamericans have latched onto the scary communists telling them to stop buying bananas. communism does not care about you as a consumer. individual consumptive choices are not a meaningful arena of political action. the socialist position is not "if there was a socialist reovlution in the usa, we would all stop eating bananas like good little boys", but rather, "if there's a socialist revolution in the countries where bananas are grown, then the availability of bananas in the usa is going to drop, and if you want to be an anti-imperialist in the imperial core you have to accept that".
(this is where the second argument i see about this, 'oh what are you catholic you want me to eat dirt like a monk?' reveals itself as a silly fucking solipsistic misunderstanding)
and again, let's note that the case of the banana can very easily be generalised out to coffee, chocolate, sugar, etc, and that it's not about individual consumptive habits, but about global economic systems. if you are donkey fucking kong and you eat 100 bananas a day i don't care and neither does anyone else. it's about trying to illustrate just one tiny mundane way in which economic imperialism makes the lives of people in the global north more convenient and simpler and so of course there is enormous pushback from people who attach moral value to this and therefore feel like the mean commies are personally calling them evil for eating a nutella or whatever which is frankly pretty tiring. Sad!
Hey iâm a fashion design student so i have tons and tons of pdfs and docs with basic sewing techniques, pattern how-tos, and resources for fabric and trims. Iâve compiled it all into a shareable folder for anyone who wants to look into sewing and making their own clothing. Iâll be adding to this folder whenever i come across new resources
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16uhmMb8kE4P_vOSycr6XSa9zpmDijZSd?usp=sharing
Updated just now with new hand sewing resources (mainly buttonholes) and textbook pdfs on fashion history, fashion illustration, and thinking through designs!
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I really liked this, it had quite a few tips I hadnât seen before! Thanks for sharing and for always having such lovely ppt slides
life can be very callous and cruel and fucking hard but it really is interactions with other people that make it bearable...... when you connect with someone you don't know and you realise it really is all of you in this together. like me and the stranger that fell asleep against each other on the plane back from cyprus, or the man in bristol who helped me restring my guitar when it snapped in the street, or the woman on the picadilly line who held my arm when i was about to faint. i don't know i just think that people are the meaning of it all
also with all due respect the main reason the left loses so much is that yâall refuse to compromise on the language and messaging you use to speak to voters. i swear if you rebranded âdefund the policeâ as âinvest in community safety from the ground upâ most white suburban moderates would be like âthat sounds greatâ and i know that because thatâs how iâve literally reframed it to white suburban moderates who think âdefund the policeâ means weâre going to live in a scary lawless mad max world
like maybe it comes across as mealy-mouthed and corny to people steeped in online cynicism but just to be clear, this is the country that wouldnât eat french fries after 9/11 so we renamed them âfreedom friesâ and everyone was suddenly cool again. americans are not, by and large, super sophisticated about this stuff
okay, so, as a followupâŚ. basically, i joined this âchristians against trumpâ fb group for a work research project in 2017 and just ended up never leaving, bc it turned out to be such a great experiment in just⌠observing and listening and talking to people and figuring out the language that works! so like, as a basic glossary for talking to the well-meaning anti-trump moderate dems in your life about progressive policies:
instead of âdefund the police,â say âinvest in community safetyâ and emphasize things like participatory budgeting giving you power over where YOUR taxes go and reallocating funds to after-school programs, social services, and food pantries
instead of âabolish ice,â say âimmigration reformâ and âcreate a new agency for immigration and citizenship servicesâÂ
instead of âmedicare for all,â say âuniversal health careâ or even just really harp on making healthcare affordable and accessible to everyone
instead of âthe green new dealâ (which was a great piece of messaging in the first place before it became inextricably tied up with aocâs theatrics), talk about what an effective piece of climate legislation will create, not what it will destroy. when you say âban frackingâ or âban fossil fuelsâ or âreduce methane emissions in agricultureâ people go âYOU WONâT TAKE MY JOB OR MY FARTING COWS.â climate is really an area where being able to reframe it through the language of capitalism helps. say âletâs give tax breaks to farmers, especially small family farms who are already being squeezed out by the big guys, so they can invest in the future of their businessâ and other noise-shaped air stuff like that. instead of âban frackingâ talk about the jobs that renewable energy will create in communities that have been left behind by our reliance on foreign oil. i mean, fuck, the phrase âclimate changeâ can be a real problem when youâre talking to the whole country because of how effective the âclimate and weather are the same thingsâ and âclimate change is a hoaxâ disinfo campaigns have been over the past 20 years or so - but when you talk about âconserving our natural resourcesâ and all that teddy roosevelt, ranger rick shit, it just comes across different.Â
instead of âabortion rightsââŚ. listen, you know i hate equivocating about abortion but at the end of the day, when youâre talking to people who are probably anti-abortion for religious reasons but will still vote democrat because theyâre not a single-issue anti-abortion voter, donât say âabortion (on demand without apology etc),â say âthe constitutional right to privacyâ or âthe right to make personal medical decisions without the government intervening.â fearmonger about attacks on abortion the way sarah palin fearmongered about how obamacare would lead to âdeath panelsâ deciding whether your grandma would live or die! and if youâre talking to someone who just doesnât feel that strongly about abortion because yada yada roe is settled who cares, talk about how âempowering women to decide when they start a family fuels economic growth and leads to more wanted children growing up in stable, happy two-parent homesâ and so on.Â
inversely, instead of âabolish the death penalty,â talk about âsaving the lives of the innocentâ and âan eye for an eye makes the whole world blindâ if youâre talking to a christian and honestly just look at the libertarian arguments against the death penalty and ape some of those - cost to the taxpayer, high wrongful conviction rates as a reflection of government incompetence. honestly, the libertarian right is frequently aligned with the left on criminal justice issues and i know we all love to dunk on libertarians but the language they use is pretty appealing to moderates who might be coming from a more conservative background or region where itâs just normal
instead of âdemocratic socialism,â just talk about, like, values - ending poverty and hunger, living wages and better educational opportunities, creating jobs and protecting ordinary working people and families and putting money back in their pockets and creating a stable economy. people really do vote based on kitchen table issues and you can really make a moral appeal on the rest.
instead of âtax the rich,â say âcut taxes.â period. never talk about raising taxes. not on the rich, not on the middle class, not for any reason whatsoever, even if youâre saying âif we raise taxes on billionaires we can give everyone a pony.â i donât care how much you want to tax billionaires, donât fucking bring it up. i hate bezos as much as everyone but we live in america, where everyone is simply a temporarily embarrassed billionaire and convinced that taxing the ultra-rich will somehow hurt them too. donât expect middle-of-the-road normies to get on board with the âiâll pay more taxes if it means other people have health careâ thing you see from avowed liberals and lefties, because they will not, iâm sorry. frankly *****i***** have no interest in paying more taxes because nyc already taxes you out the nose regardless of where you are on the socioeconomic scale and if someone suggested i should pay more, even if it meant paying less on private services in the long run, i would simply be like, ânope!â so like, yeah, obviously the goal is to eliminate corporate tax loopholes and tax the ultra-rich at a higher rate while cutting tax burdens on everyone else, but what you want to say is stuff like âsmall business owners shouldnât pay more in taxes than the companies like apple and amazon that are already squeezing them outâ and âweâll cut taxes and frivolous government spending,â period, no embellishment. âmaking american companies pay american taxesâ is a succinct catchphrase i like to use.Â
instead of âdefund/spend less on the military,â say âwhy is the government spending so much on building outdated outdated tanks and submarines from 50 years ago and so little on services for veterans? we need to revitalize our military spending so that we can spend less on safer, more modern equipment, preserve those manufacturing jobs, and make sure that veterans get the health care and job opportunities they deserve.â get it? like, republicans have been selling the âcut waste, cut taxes, cut spendingâ line for decades because it sounds good and people really respond to it. unfortunately, one of the many cursed legacies of ronald reagan is that most people still think that balancing a government budget is like balancing a checkbook, and obviously thatâs not true but it lends a lot of familiar comparisons and metaphors, so like⌠use them.
donât equivocate on âblack lives matterâ - itâs too important and too urgent - instead, give the non-activist liberals you already know the accessible language they can use to help normalize the phrase âblack lives matterâ in their own lives and encourage them to do so. they wonât convert the full-on blue lives matter cult members and other assorted balls-to-the-wall racists, but there are people in the middle who just need to hear a targeted explanation of why that isnât a combative or controversial statement, and that totally depends on the individual⌠thereâs the very basic 101-logicky âif saying âsave the whalesâ doesnât mean you think dolphins can kick rocks, or if saying âspinach is a vegetableâ doesnât mean that you think lettuce isnât, why does âblack lives matterâ imply that other lives donât?â and i saw someone in the christians against trump group cite a brene brown quote they said (âIn order for slavery to work, in order for us to buy, sell, beat, and trade people like animals, Americans had to completely dehumanize slaves. And whether we directly participated in that or were simply a member of a culture that at one time normalized that behavior, it shaped us. We canât undo that level of dehumanizing in one or two generations. I believe Black Lives Matter is a movement to rehumanize black citizens. All lives matter, but not all lives need to be pulled back into moral inclusion. Not all people were subjected to the psychological process of demonizing and being made less than human so we could justify the inhumane practice of slavery.â) that made it click for them and they like to use to make it click for others, and thereâs also this example that i think is probably pretty resonant for christians:
the point is, as with all the rest of this, that there are a lot of people out there who are alienated by the language (because there has been a billion-dollar media propaganda machine working overtime to make the language as alienating as possible) but not by the content of the argument. the right is SO good at messaging to its base by speaking their language, dog whistles and all. but because the democratic party is a coalition of moderates and liberals and leftists, you really have to be strategic about your messaging in a way that the right doesnât. frankly, thatâs why joe biden won - he made those same broad appeals to morality and civility and unity and prosperity that people want to hear.Â
i realize that everyone feels that if you have the moral high ground, you shouldnât have to put in work to persuade people because they should automatically grasp that youâre right, but like i said above, this is america, and it doesnât work like that. we need to talk to people, not in buzzwords or in highly stigmatized language that risks turning them off immediately, but in language that already means something to them. if you want to persuade people you have to actually make things sound appealing to them, whether that means evoking warm and fuzzy mental images or appealing to their principles and moral convictions and religious beliefs or just doing your best to sound like the adults in the room. you gotta do this stuff to build a majority instead of just a plurality within this party, because thatâs just what we need to win.
I listened to the ILSRâs âbuilding local powerâ podcast on the Green Tea Alliance, and it turns out you can absolutely market solar energy co-ops to trump supporters in Florida by focusing on:
How much they hate their energy bill
Opening up the electricity market to competition, so the invisible hand of the free market can keep prices down
Creation of local jobs in a local co-op
The actual safety of solar power
Cost savings
Just donât talk about coal, apparently
the worst part about studying languages is knowing that you will never be nearly as good at it as a literal baby
The only reason babies are better at language learning is because itâs their full time job and they donât get embarrassed
If you, a teenaged or adult human, wasnât embarrassed and could study language full time you would learn way faster than a baby.
In my defense, babies receive more positive reinforcement than I do as well. Babies will say ha ba bah dah ba hah and all the adults around them will be like 𤯠really? Wow đą that is so interesting đ great job! đ¤ and then what happened? đ¤
also people who are like âIâve been studying for a year and I only have an eight-year-oldâs grasp of the languageâ:
how long do you think it took the eight-year-old
also the baby is constantly immersed in the language all the time. unless youâre surrounded by people who speak your target language, youâre not gonna have that convenience. and thatâs ok.
ladies we need to start frantically and obsessively reading books in less than 24 hours again..remember how happy we were
THANK YOU!
If anyone tries to use, âIf black people can have black pride, white people can have white pride.â argument show this to them because my man is laying down some truth.
