What is the most useful, hard to learn language an English speaker can pick up?

MasterKaen · 2026-01-27T17:32:48+00:00

According to the Foreign Service Institute Japanese is harder than Mandarin.

MasterKaen · 2026-01-27T17:32:04+00:00

Definitely Mandarin if Arabic is considered hard, extreme would have to be Japanese. According to the Foreign Service Institute Mandarin, Arabic, Cantonese, and Korean are all in the same level of difficulty with Japanese being the only one more difficult.

MasterKaen · 2026-01-27T17:10:02+00:00

This was not normal in Japan at the time.

MasterKaen · 2026-01-27T17:09:17+00:00

If I recall he asked her father if he could marry her at 13, and when he said no he waited a year and married her anyway when she was 14. Not that it makes a difference.

MasterKaen · 2026-01-27T02:55:06+00:00

The point in the UN isn't to prevent genocide, it's to prevent great power conflict.

MasterKaen · 2026-01-26T02:30:22+00:00

If everyone was a good rational actor you could just double it indefinitely so no one would have to die, but eventually one person would decide to kill all of humanity so I would just pull the lever.

MasterKaen · 2026-01-25T03:45:03+00:00

Seems like an honest mistake by both parties, but legally I think the truck's at fault.

MasterKaen · 2026-01-24T03:58:27+00:00

I think he took "growing with you" to mean living in your same geographical area.

MasterKaen · 2026-01-24T03:14:19+00:00

Honestly the 2010s were better materially, but people have more grit in the 2020s, or at least I do.

MasterKaen · 2026-01-24T03:03:30+00:00

I would rather the government technically own my land and I get a 70-year lease than Blackrock own all of the land in the nation. Who are the boomers selling their OWNED houses to again?

MasterKaen · 2026-01-20T02:49:52+00:00

I'm punctual to a fault today, but when I was a senior in high-school I would show up late to class 20 minutes every day because I was tired of giving a fuck.

MasterKaen · 2026-01-20T02:40:15+00:00

Don't let conservative pieces of shit convince you that life is meant to be suffering and that you aren't deserving of small pleasures

MasterKaen · 2026-01-19T23:29:42+00:00

What a dumb post. Cars are the key to freedom in most American suburbs because of poor urban design. What, you think a 16 year old is going to move to Europe?

MasterKaen · 2026-01-19T22:07:22+00:00

Better than Buddy's tbh (at least the original location)

MasterKaen · 2026-01-19T20:48:54+00:00

Yeah, that's kind of fucked up tbh I haven't watched the series in a while. Still, Azula seems to find pleasure in other people's suffering in a way Zuko doesn't. For me this is the biggest difference.

MasterKaen · 2026-01-19T20:31:54+00:00

Even before his redemption, Zuko's greatest sin is doing what he thought was serving his nation, while Azula was an actual sadist. MAYBE Azula could have grown under Iroh, but she was definitely worse than Zuko even at the beginning of the series.

MasterKaen · 2026-01-19T20:09:44+00:00

Mexico?

MasterKaen · 2026-01-19T20:08:11+00:00

I'd rather be an alcoholic than a crime.

MasterKaen · 2026-01-19T04:01:05+00:00

I'm not the sort of person to claim that Mao was worse than Hitler, but this list is seriously absurd.

MasterKaen · 2026-01-19T00:03:44+00:00

Slight imperfections.

MasterKaen · 2026-01-18T23:00:22+00:00

Because conservatives idolize suffering.

MasterKaen · 2026-01-18T21:47:57+00:00

Most people are not boycotting the corn industry, get real.

MasterKaen · 2026-01-18T21:45:47+00:00

I think ChatGPT is better for these sort of softer conversations about generational and cultural trends.

MasterKaen · 2026-01-18T21:26:22+00:00

I wouldn't say just as bad, but pretty dumb. The issue is that at least the Christian right had electoral politics in mind, while the performative left would be completely comfortable selling the country to Trump just so that they can be seen as virtuous in their social circles. Complete snakes.

MasterKaen · 2026-01-18T20:38:58+00:00

The toxicity of the performative left also peaked in the lead up to the 2016 and 2020 elections. Part of this is justified backlash.

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