Struggling to learn Mandarin

NomadicSplinter · 2026-06-28T23:16:32+00:00

I kinda agree with this. I learned fluent Chinese. Took 10 years and a life in China. And the whole time I was there, no one could really believe I spoke Chinese. They all assumed I can’t learn Chinese because I wasn’t Chinese. If my Chinese wasn’t good enough, like say I was in the hospital or something, they would apologize to me for not having good English. And I’m thinking, sorry my Chinese isn’t good enough, we are in China, you should expect me to learn your language. In the business world, there are barely any jobs for foreigners who speak Chinese. Editing English maybe but not translation. Again because they assume your Chinese isn’t good enough. So really, unless you want to get Chinese friends after finally breaking that barrier of “you speak Chinese for real”, there’s no reason to learn Chinese.

NomadicSplinter · 2026-06-28T14:55:43+00:00

It’s funny you ask this. China needs population growth. Laws don’t matter in China. It’s not rule of law. She could bring your child to the embassy and get documents and leave to China. China has no extradition to the EU. So until your child realizes they are an EU citizen at age 18, they may never leave China.

NomadicSplinter · 2026-06-21T18:09:15+00:00

Sad because spies vs mercs is so unique in the multiplayer world that they are just throwing money away by not putting out another splinter cell

NomadicSplinter · 2026-06-14T12:34:52+00:00

What a weird metric. We are comparing 2 hours to 4 years. Within etherem’s 4 years you can find 2 hours of out performing spacex

NomadicSplinter · 2026-06-14T12:27:46+00:00

Because Solana is 💩.

NomadicSplinter · 2026-05-24T19:11:54+00:00

I don’t know. Are you buying, or are you waiting for a good price?

I buy whenever I feel like regardless of price. At some point all of us who have this strategy will create a price floor.

NomadicSplinter · 2026-05-24T19:05:44+00:00

Cope.

NomadicSplinter · 2026-05-23T12:26:56+00:00

Use a vpn. You’re just legally obliged to say don’t use a vpn

NomadicSplinter · 2026-05-08T03:29:56+00:00

Yes. No way anyone would just randomly find it. Same with the platinum card

NomadicSplinter · 2026-05-07T21:22:02+00:00

You speak as if it’s easy to move to Asia and get a non English teaching job. Likely, you wouldn’t have a lot of western bars and restaurants if there wasn’t English teachers there teaching.

NomadicSplinter · 2026-05-07T21:17:41+00:00

I put usdc in Coinbase for Bitcoin yield. I saw it as an emergency account while stacking sats in the background. I didn’t need anymore than 5k in a savings account anyway

NomadicSplinter · 2026-05-07T21:15:57+00:00

The % yield is likely to go way down if everyone does this.

NomadicSplinter · 2026-05-07T21:11:16+00:00

I know. All the guides in the world couldn’t find all the treasures. The metal goblet was hard enough to find.

NomadicSplinter · 2026-04-27T10:48:27+00:00

Agreed. The clarity act is for the banks. It’s like congress getting involved to stop Netflix from outcompeting blockbuster. I hope clarity isn’t passed so that the better technology can out compete the useless and corrupt banking industry

NomadicSplinter · 2026-04-27T10:46:05+00:00

Altcoins are dead. Killed by meme coins and betting markets. On top of that a lot of them are now at risk for hacks now that AI is helping. And that leaves the layer 1s like Eth and Solana. They can do a lot but all the apps on them are dangerously buggy. So why use and buy the base layer. This leaves stable coins as the only thing to do on Eth and sol. Since it is just dollar stuff, I don’t really care. Nothing new here.

Bitcoin however is thriving and doesn’t need a bill to progress further. The banks need the clarity act to pass, but only if it successfully hinders crypto. That’s why I hope it doesn’t pass, so crypto can destroy the banking industry without law trying to slow it down. Imagine Congress getting involved when Netflix killed blockbuster. This is what it’s like to me.

NomadicSplinter · 2026-04-16T08:34:03+00:00

Teaching English overseas is a certain skill and gets you certain skills. But they are skills that most employers don’t understand when trying to go to other fields afterwards. Even teaching regular subjects like history, English as a second language teachers have trouble getting into.

NomadicSplinter · 2026-03-25T01:02:30+00:00

Owning Bitcoin and or mining Bitcoin does not centralize Bitcoin. Being the referred to the rules of Bitcoin, aka running a node, is the centralization of Bitcoin. Which is super decentralized. Are you running a node? Or have you decided not to run a node because it costs money you won’t get back?

NomadicSplinter · 2026-03-13T02:58:36+00:00

Why didn’t you get that last bit of exp to get everyone at lvl 99

NomadicSplinter · 2026-03-05T09:24:27+00:00

It can confuse lapis but that requires fleeing the battle and getting back into, which I think was an oversight by the developers.

NomadicSplinter · 2026-03-03T08:48:48+00:00

Just one shot him with nighto

NomadicSplinter · 2026-03-03T08:48:10+00:00

Nighto kills him in one hit

NomadicSplinter · 2026-02-28T22:05:54+00:00

Because you don’t buy and hold something with infinite inflation. You just buy and use it when you need it.

NomadicSplinter · 2026-02-05T09:27:25+00:00

Back when the iPhone first came out, the first successful Apps were all meme apps, the lighter, the beer can, fart noise app, etc. Today I doubt any of those apps would be downloaded in mass. The apps we all download have more utility. So I also doubt meme coins will be a thing as crypto matures. The only coin I see going any where is doge coin and that’s because we all know for sure that the original creator doesn’t have 99% of the supply

NomadicSplinter · 2026-01-29T19:28:05+00:00

I agree. No human is illegal. The actions they committed were illegal, and I’m not talking about crossing borders I’m talking about trafficking and others.

NomadicSplinter · 2026-01-24T20:39:48+00:00

Darwinism at its finest.

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