I would say if you are both fluent and sometimes think in both languages (not translating when you talk) you are bilingual. So yes you are bilingual not ‘just fluent’, though in my opinion being fluent without visiting an English speaking country is quite an accomplishment.
being fluent without visiting an English speaking country is quite an accomplishment.
It helps if at the age of ~16 you start consuming only English media (books, movies, TV-shows), and are in many English online communities ;)
I would also like to thank the people who laughed at me and my friend for having German MtG cards when we were 10 years old, that was one huge boost to my vocabulary :D
I think this article by Alyssa Rosenzweig is important to consider. I think it does make some assumptions about the purpose of federating, but it does make one very important point that I think everyone in this space is ignoring: the internet was already fundamentally federated from the beginning, and look how that turned out.
It’s for this reason that I believe a fediverse only survives due to a culture of keeping it alive, but I don’t know that that culture will survive long term in a free market. It might be that the internet is just like the rest of the world: an ebb and flow of democratic and totalitarian states, history being forgotten, lessons being relearned the hard way. That might just be how the internet works now.
If you rewatch scrubs make sure to torrent some seasons with the original music. Anything up on a streaming service won’t have it because they didn’t buy good enough music rights to include streaming and all the songs Re replaced with stuff that’s not nearly as good/fitting. Makes a huge difference in the show IMO.
I recently went into one for the first time in a long while and I struggled to find something on the menu that was adjacent to healthy. Granted, what I chose ended up being pretty tasty. I remember it fondly from my childhood for the checker boards and the jumpy table game, not so much for the food options.
Your DNA mostly isn’t yours anyway. Your siblings are largely the same. I did a 23 and me years ago. No regrets yet. I’m eventually going to die probably in 40-50 years. I just don’t see how it can be used against me.
That’s because you’re looking for direct, immediate, tangible impact to yourself personally - respectfully, that’s a rather shallow, self-focused view.
Tell me, in detail, how your health/life insurance premiums are calculated? Do you know that data from these companies, even in aggregate, isn’t being taken into consideration when they set process for your geographical location?
Certain data used to be off limits to governments, new law gets passed around major events that can change that. With the type of people that have gotten close to our have held power recently, do you want that data collected and in easy reach?
If you have the markers in your genes that predispose you to say alcoholism or drug addiction, would you want vodka companies to be able to ad target you?
Musk showed that billionaires can buy massive corporations at will and use them for their own agendas, do you want all that data accessible for musk or the next musk when one of those hipster-eugenics peddling natalist fascists decides they want a new project to “improve humanity” in their image?
I do. But only when I absolutely need to. I kind of miss the uk motorbike dub. But, eh, that’s just life.
If I do need to use it. I go firefox with ghostery, and Ublock origin. But that’s only because, if I search for a problem, reddit usually has it. If it asks me to use the mobile app, then, I can always just tell Firefox to use the desktop site, and I haven’t had an issue with that yet.
WebDAV is a very old and very technical protocol to setup. The average user just wants to get the app and have it work everywhere.
I did run keypass for many years but the janky sync (it is better now) was one of the driving forces for me to change.
These days group password sharing among my family is a key feature (Netflix,Disney+) which is another feature found in some of the newer passwords managers.
Jason’s Deli has yet to disappoint me. It is not high-end cuisine, but they serve good food with consistent quality. They also have enough variety that almost anyone can find something.
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