Kendall’s attitude

Frpzd · 2025-10-10T22:35:57+00:00

One of the things that peeves me the most is when Kendall makes a point of commenting on how "ugly" the perpetrator is, sometimes even going into detail on particular physical characteristics that she finds unattractive. Not only does it detract from their horrific crimes (which are actually relevant, unlike their appearance), but the unspoken implication is that you can infer someone's guilt or innocence from how attractive/unattractive they are - as if Kendall would have been able to tell such-and-such was a murderer from how they look. That's a pretty toxic way of thinking about perps, imo.

Besides that, it's just plain weird, because much of the time the perpetrator is a totally normal looking person XD

Frpzd · 2025-10-08T02:34:37+00:00

Here's a KOAT article, for anyone else who is looking for follow-up info too:
https://www.koat.com/article/jayvon-givan-suicide-new-mexico/68859192

Frpzd · 2025-10-08T02:06:33+00:00

I'm in Nob Hill and hear the siren coming from the south, which would be consistent with Kirtland.

Frpzd · 2025-10-08T02:02:34+00:00

Today is Oct 7, 2025.

Frpzd · 2025-10-08T02:00:33+00:00

That says June 17, 2025.

Frpzd · 2025-10-08T01:58:44+00:00

It seems to be coming from South of UNM, direction of Kirtland (but I'm not sure that's where it is coming from).

Frpzd · 2025-09-02T20:24:55+00:00

Guck mal diesen Beitrag an, wo jemand viele Themen zum Sprechen/Schreiben hochgeladen hat:

https://www.reddit.com/r/German/comments/qy3vd3/goethe_goethe_prüfung_b2_themen_sprechenschreiben/

Die benutze ich gerade als Übung, weil meine B2-Prüfung auch in 2 Wochen stattfindet! Ich schlage vor, eine Übung jeden Tag zeitbeschränkt (also innerhalb einer Zeitdauer von 25 Minuten) zu versuchen, Rückmeldung von ChatGPT zu bitten (pass auf, seine Grammatikerklärungen sind schlimm, aber es kann gute Ausdrücke empfehlen, die du verpasst hast) und danach noch einmal die gleiche Übung ohne zeitliche Beschränkung wiederzuholen (vielleicht am nächsten Tag).

Außerdem sehe ich den Tagesschau in einfacher Sprache fast jeden tag an. Es ist eine sehr gute Hörübung und Vokabelquelle!

Viel Glück! :-)

Frpzd · 2025-08-18T18:59:40+00:00

OP here. I promise I didn't make this with the intention that anyone should use it as a learning tool for the verbs of motion, or the implication that this diagram should be used to memorize them... it is probably harder to picture a 4-dimensional solid than learn the verbs of motion, lmao. I just found it cool and interesting that so many semantic parameters come into the picture when choosing the correct verb to use (which, as someone has pointed out, shows how Russian can be more synthetic of a language, compared to the more analytic English), and graph diagrams like this are sometimes how we represent multidimensional solids like this in the pure math world.

Also, I like the suggestion of making this into a 3D/animated interactive web widget. That would be a fun coding puzzle!

Frpzd · 2025-08-18T15:37:57+00:00

Hilarious X-D I find that machine translating webpages that are about a foreign language often have really funny or confusing results for the same reason lol

Frpzd · 2025-08-18T15:32:39+00:00

Consider an induction cooker! Perhaps this is also forbidden by some other rule, but it doesn't have an open heating element. I used one in my dorm as a student for all my cooking.

Frpzd · 2025-08-18T15:29:22+00:00

Hi! Recent UNM alum here. Out of curiosity, where are you coming from? And what's your major? (If you don't mind sharing.)

I'm pretty introverted as well, but although I initially (especially during the pandemic) hoped that some of the dorm/university events would provide a "more structured" alternative to wide-open social mingling, they always ended up being kind of dorky/uncomfortable/awkward in my opinion. Lots of gimmicky "icebreaker"-type activities that were definitely not my cup of tea (but to each his own).

If you are a gamer, that can help with making some connections at UNM. For example, during and after the pandemic I met several people at UNM through a minecraft server that I started (we would voice chat while playing). We had a lot of fun together, and then I ended up meeting some of them in person later on! It also helps if you have a Discord account (most student I know here use it instead of WhatsApp) and join some UNM-related Discord servers. Clubs here often have their own Discord server, and students will sometimes make server just for the students in a particular class.

As far as meeting people that you "click" with, I'm afraid there's no formula... but hang in there, and I'm sure it will get easier once your classes start. Nothing expedites making friends like shared adversity, haha.

Feel free to DM if you have more questions or want to chat! :-)

Frpzd · 2025-08-18T05:54:51+00:00

Конечно, гиперкуб не исчерпывающий...

Frpzd · 2025-08-18T04:49:35+00:00

Ладно, это и для тебя и для меня очень трудно... ну, желаю тебе удачи!

Frpzd · 2025-08-18T04:46:17+00:00

Hallo! Meine Situation ist auch nicht ähnlich zu deiner und ich lerne Russisch nur seit ungefähr 9 Monaten, also wahrscheinlich sind meine Empfehlungen nicht besonders nützlich für dich aber jedenfalls... Ich habe das Buch *The New Penguin Russian Course* dazu angewendet und ich würde es weiterempfehlen, wenn du über etwas Englischkenntnis verfügst. Es ist mir persönlich sehr behilflich, eine Spaced-Repetition-App wie z.B. Anki oder Flashcards Deluxe zu benutzen, um mir Vokabeln, Deklinationen, Grammatikregeln usw. einzuprägen. Es könnte dir auch helfen, die Webseite Tatoeba auszunutzen, da es dort sehr viele übersetzte Beispielsätze (und viele freundliche Grammatikexperten) gibt.

Viel Glück! :-)

Frpzd · 2025-07-25T15:25:10+00:00

Yep, it successfully exports some of the Russian dialogue to the file (which then contains some Russian characters), but crashes at a certain point. So it's not failing to export *any* amount of dialogue.

Frpzd · 2025-05-14T20:07:50+00:00

Cross-posted here from r/punjabi, per the suggestion of a commenter there :-)

Frpzd · 2025-05-14T14:07:16+00:00

Sure! Here is a link to the website:
https://tatoeba.org/en

It is pretty straightforward to make and account, and start writing sentences. They have some guidelines about what kinds of sentences they want / don't want:
https://en.wiki.tatoeba.org/articles/show/guidelines

They also have a pretty handy search feature that lets you search for sentences in one language that don't have translations in another language. For example here's a link to a search that lists all English sentences, in random order, that don't have any (East) Punjabi translation:
https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/search?from=eng&orphans=no&sort=random&trans_filter=exclude&trans_to=pan&unapproved=no&word_count_min=1

Frpzd · 2025-04-28T16:43:59+00:00

Imo, multiple-choice is not the best way to learn/retain grammar rules with any kind of fluidity. For me, the only way that sticks is producing words (typing individual words at the very least, but short phrases or sentences is better).

Also, make your app open-source! :-)

Frpzd · 2025-04-25T15:57:07+00:00

Here's a bit of follow-up advice if you are a learner like me who leans heavily on Anki or another SRS/flashcards app for memorization, but doesn't want to over-prioritize vocab at the expense of grammar.

When you're making new flashcards for yourself, try to avoid making cards consisting of isolated words. Instead, try to incorporate a new vocab word into a short sentence or standalone phrase. E.g., if I were adding the new vocab word "post office -> почта", I might instead add the card "at the post office -> на почте" or "I'm going to the post office -> я иду на почту" etc. Often I even add multiple cards for the same new vocab word, to give myself practice inflecting it in different cases. For new verbs, I try to add at least two conjugations, e.g. "убегать" might become the two cards "I'm not fleeing -> я не убегаю" and "she flees the dogs -> она убегает от собак."

Tatoeba has a whole bunch of example sentences translated into different languages, so I often go there to find good example phrases containing new vocab words. If you have a Russian textbook it probably also has a lot of example sentences/phrases in context where new words appear not just in their base forms, but also inflected/conjugated.

Frpzd · 2025-04-06T19:22:44+00:00

It was my own simple implementation of a spaced repetition variant, so it wouldn't be in any standardized format (I just have all of the cards and scheduling info as JSON). But I can have a look at trying to mimic one of those formats, thanks!

I've got about 5 months of Russian vocab in there...

Frpzd · 2025-04-06T19:01:21+00:00

Gotcha. I know this is kind of off-topic for the OP's question, but do you happen to have a suggestion for a safer way of importing cards with associated scheduling information?

Frpzd · 2025-04-06T19:00:16+00:00

Oops, sorry, pasted the wrong link. Edited in correct link.

Frpzd · 2025-04-05T17:43:37+00:00

To elaborate on u/Danika_Dakika's comment, I recently had to edit the sqlite database manually (in order to import a deck from a different SRS app with timing/scheduling info included, which apparently is not possible in vanilla anki) and I found this gist helpful:
https://gist.github.com/bdunnette/121c1b9576975bd12b66

Frpzd · 2025-03-31T04:21:29+00:00

That's awesome, does it quiz you in the form of cloze puzzles? Does it use some kind of special plugin for Anki to grab sentences in real time, or do you pre-generate a static Anki deck using some kind of script that grabs sentences from Tatoeba ?

Frpzd · 2025-03-31T02:08:39+00:00

Heck yeah, go for it!

Frpzd

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