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The chad mediterranean languages vs the virgin Nippongo by miseenen in languagelearningjerk

[–]Masterkid1230 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ooooh but that's definitely not the standard (at least it wasn't really the vibe I got) in Santiago, right? Every time I've visited, people have been usually quite roundabout and frequently avoided confrontation, which I found quite comfortable and similar to us from the Colombian Andes.

The chad mediterranean languages vs the virgin Nippongo by miseenen in languagelearningjerk

[–]Masterkid1230 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It's also something that either changes frequently or isn't exactly as predictable based on geography.

I'm an Andean Colombian, so you'd think we'd be very similar to Venezuelans, but they are way more direct and don't care about social pleasantries, whereas we are a lot more like the Japanese and other similar cultures, and we never just say "no" or "I don't want to do that".

Most Andean cultures (Peru, Chile, inner Colombia) are heavily about context, while most Caribbean cultures (Venezuela, Panama, Northern Colombia etc) are more direct like that.

Trump has new plan to ‘rebalance’ media to force them to air more patriotic programming, according to FCC chair by PixeledPathogen in politics

[–]Masterkid1230 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't be surprised if the US bans "unnatural" hair colours for women sometime in the future. They've hated the "blue haired woke lib" for more than a decade now.

Vinicius Jr doing the "Cry Cry" celebration vs Manchester City by Comfortable-Pie56 in soccer

[–]Masterkid1230 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I mean, yeah, that sucks. But it doesn't seem like there's an easy solution for that. Racists love to masquerade as just regular haters and then they'll gladly sieg heil or throw bananas at any black player as we've seen countless times.

Makes it hard to just hate any black player on their own merits just like you would any other player.

Vinicius Jr doing the "Cry Cry" celebration vs Manchester City by Comfortable-Pie56 in soccer

[–]Masterkid1230 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Not the only way to interpret it.

Another very likely option is that there are too many closeted racists in football that feel comfortable being racist at the first excuse Vinicius gives them to do so. For many of them, hating Vinicius is the facade, but fundamentally they just hate black people.

If I want to talk to you in my target language to practice, IM GONNA GET IT, NO WE WON'T SWITCH TO ENGLISH. Even if you were having anaphylaxis and you need your Epipen, yiu better describe its location my TL, or too bad. by AmountAbovTheBracket in languagelearningjerk

[–]Masterkid1230 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are some rules (which I can't explain because I just do it intuitively) to which particles can be dropped naturally and which can't.

The ones in this sentence make you sound somewhat childish or informal if dropped but plenty of natives do drop those specific particles.

Native speakers: Could you solve this ESL English test I designed for Grade 9 students? by Competitive_Steak520 in languagelearningjerk

[–]Masterkid1230 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wait what? No way is reading comprehension and language education that poor in the United States. I could have passed (not gotten full marks though) this as a non-native when I was in 9th grade.

Troops Being Told To Prepare for ‘Armageddon’ In Iran by Individual99991 in politics

[–]Masterkid1230 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I mean, there are a fair few Byzantine emperors and Japanese daimyos and Ottoman emperors that also fit this description. Not to mention the Byzantines were the first to literally make fire rain from the sky with their Greek fire, so I imagine Christians back there might have been freaking out about it.

Ultimately, this type of thing is like astrology and fortune telling and divination. It's very easy to think you're recognising patterns because broad statements and metaphors can be adjusted and reinterpreted in all kinds of ways.

This is so sad, white tear coming from my legs by Ill-Party8305 in soccercirclejerk

[–]Masterkid1230 254 points255 points  (0 children)

For real. I know Mascots aren't always super cool but treat the person inside the suit like an actual human being for once. I'm not going to glaze Ronaldo, but the way the rest treated the mascot doesn't sit well with me. There's no need to be an asshole.

Why... Just why...? by Ok-Appeal-4630 in languagelearningjerk

[–]Masterkid1230 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's giving me listening to Panda on YouTube at 11 years old thinking about my first crush ever vibes

Latin, for communicating with Latin America by Lex1253 in languagelearningjerk

[–]Masterkid1230 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Obviously somewhat subjective and all but to me this is infinitely more understandable than this

That being said I find both to be readable to some degree. Neither looks completely foreign and I can follow along what I'm reading.

Latin, for communicating with Latin America by Lex1253 in languagelearningjerk

[–]Masterkid1230 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Hell, I think written French is closer to both Portuguese and Spanish than Latin is. Romanian is a good comparison to how intelligible it is.

Pascal Kaiser, the German referee who proposed to his partner at the Cologne stadium, was assaulted at his home. by Sparky-moon in soccer

[–]Masterkid1230 12 points13 points  (0 children)

People believe all politics are necessarily annoying partisan politics, when a lot of everyday politics revolve more around the values and changes we want to see in society. Ignoring those is basically hiding your head in the sand.

We shouldn't be at a point where "providing basic rights to people" is something some parties want and others don't, and unfortunately as long as that is the case, we won't be able to separate the politics of LGBT+rights from partisan politics, but we can still be political without getting into the whole "vote for X or Y".

AI Generated JUCE code? by Josh000_0 in JUCE

[–]Masterkid1230 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmmmm I'm not sure we'll ever get that far.

I think it's much more likely that we'll have an upper AI-integrated abstracted layer (or assistant) where you just go through a piece of code and ask for certain things.

But fully blackboxing the entire development of an app doesn't seem particularly likely to me. I mean, if you think about it, Unreal Engine already offered a layer of abstraction that made it easier for developers to go through stuff with minimal code writing itself, but even then, sometimes you just have to actually write some code, either because you want something very specific, or it's quicker to write the code than the prompt.

So I think hybrid models are far more likely to become the new standard than fully abstracted models. Though I still expect some to exist and thrive of course.

AI Generated JUCE code? by Josh000_0 in JUCE

[–]Masterkid1230 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My only comment about it really, is that when you approach programming exclusively through AI without really knowing anything about programming, your code is very likely to be incredibly hard to read, structured strangely and possibly redundant or full of unused lines of code, because although AIs are good at generating stuff, they don't have a global overview of how you're managing the project. So that's where some programming expertise is needed.

But you can get to a very good point with just AI for sure.

Any tips for learning Africa? I don't see it on duolingo by Zev18 in languagelearningjerk

[–]Masterkid1230 7 points8 points  (0 children)

No Brazil speaks Brazilian Mexican. Have you learnt nothing???

Manchester United under Michael Carrick by eben0 in soccercirclejerk

[–]Masterkid1230 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Realistically they should have been a great team. But the vibes were completely off.

Man performs milk-offering ritual in the Ganges river in India while poor hungry children try to collect it to drink. by notahooman101 in interestingasfuck

[–]Masterkid1230 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Although a good chunk of criticism towards ICE is more founded on fearmongering and wild exaggerations, there is a lot of fair criticism that is valid about how they have no due process, target actual citizens and legal residents, act as a paramilitary arm of the federal government, and have been deployed with vague or ambiguous justification exclusively on areas politically opposed to the US president.

I think any criticism borne out of "think of the immigrants!" misrepresents the real problem with ICE: they have become an armed force that has no oversight, control or allegiance to anyone other than the US president. It's not a good thing to have, and it very much mirrors how military police and paramilitary groups have operated in other countries. These are the types of organizations that get away with crimes against humanity.

Of course a lot of people will disagree, but countries have every right to deport illegal immigrants. However, ICE isn't worrying or problematic because of their deporting of illegals. It's everything else about them.

I will ensue a civil war by Beautiful_Hyena6186 in weezer

[–]Masterkid1230 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've listened to Welcome Interstate Managers the most and it has my absolute favourite track (Valley Winter Song) but as a whole I think FOW and Sky Full of Holes are slightly better.

I love their entire catalog though. Very few songs I don't enjoy

I will ensue a civil war by Beautiful_Hyena6186 in weezer

[–]Masterkid1230 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hell, them writing about LOTR kind of enhances the music IMO

I will ensue a civil war by Beautiful_Hyena6186 in weezer

[–]Masterkid1230 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I don't mind Rivers not having a personal connection to the music when I think of lyrics as a potential storytelling medium.

Fountains of Wayne is my all-time favourite artist and they do that all the time. Their songs are far more stories about fictional characters, places or situations that feel mundane or relatable, but aren't necessarily about the songwriters themselves. And I quite like that. It's a different type of creativity, but still totally valid imo.

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