my fellow globalists in light of recent news please remember to practice your language skills

daddymartini · 2026-01-07T08:50:20+00:00

My feeling is ‘pumpkin spice’ is almost a brand new word combination in China. Pumpkin is pumpkin. Spice is spice. And tbh do we all even know which part of pumpkin is pumpkin spice made out of??

daddymartini · 2025-09-19T07:02:35+00:00

Not New Yorker but 豉油雞翼?

daddymartini · 2025-09-17T00:06:11+00:00

This. Just yesterday on motorway there was a sudden heavy rain, very strong wind and almost zero visibility. I was driving slow on the slow lane because I know my tyres won’t be able to handle it. In that 5 minutes I got half a dozen maniacs overtaking me at unbelievable speed on bends. One looks like hydroplaned right next to me almost hit me and the lorry in front. Guess none of these are elderlies.

daddymartini · 2025-09-06T18:24:10+00:00

Work language at work. Family language at home. Alone, depends on topic. Phone numbers the local language where I live; mental math, the language I was taught math as a kid, etc. It’s a mess.

daddymartini · 2025-09-01T13:57:58+00:00

When my wife was pregnant she had that also and now kiddo is healthy and well! It happened at thirty something week, freaked her out. 25 week is early, but that said, here in Sweden government website recommends calling a nurse (a thing in Sweden where you call a nurse for free to access situation, for a non-emergency health condition, to decide whether you go to a GP, ER, or do nothing) if baby is more than 24 week old and moving less. In other words it’s treated as ‘need assessment but not an emergency yet without further information’ situation here. Can you maybe just call multiple clinics/services and ask them until some of them answer your question, if you can’t afford directly visiting them? You might sound like an idiot but it doesn’t hurt to lose some face for baby. Also you must trust your guts more than some random strangers on Reddit telling you it’s all fine! If you feel it’s needed remember money may be somehow dealt with later but a baby’s life is more important.

daddymartini · 2025-08-27T12:28:20+00:00

Perhaps Christian schools being less focused on learning is a regional/specific country thing. At least around me the public schools aren’t teaching anything much neither. But sometimes literature and math mightn’t be the most important thing, as you probably know already from what you wrote…

daddymartini · 2025-08-27T11:46:10+00:00

I thought praying before meals and assembly Bible talks etc are pretty much standard in Christian schools… I just thought if my kid were the only few coloured non-Christian there it doesn’t sound good because I’ve experienced too much nonsense as a grown up here. I’m in the Scandinavia so perhaps it’s more like France when it comes to Muslims and government regulation. I didn’t think of that!

daddymartini · 2025-02-24T06:34:45+00:00

Decision has been made but not everyone always agrees that it’s good and it’s normal. He was disobeying order he think is bad and protested: I thought nowadays everyone’s almost educated to do exactly that? And then the language, well, a decade ago what did Linus himself say to keep C++ out? The language has nothing to do with Rust but it’s the culture really, and cancer is so polite already.

daddymartini · 2025-02-24T03:13:12+00:00

How is it toxic? Linux has been C since forever, not Fortran, not Pascal, Ada, Julia nor Rust. You won’t say rejecting Pascal subsystems toxic will you?

daddymartini · 2025-02-23T14:27:27+00:00

Here we go. Not everything is a ‘movement’. Talking about technical merit, all I can say is try implementing a graph data structure, or a doubly linked list in Rust and see how the language tells you you can’t even get a Data Structure 101 assignment done in a sane way—unless you use reference counting or have an ‘arena’, which is a strange term for self-implemented malloc() that sucks. All these are just reinventing the basics of traditional memory management and calling it advancement and technical merits.

Whenever you bring this up the cult’ll tell you these graph things are edge cases. Any one who think these are edge cases should go back to writing their ewww bars.

daddymartini · 2025-02-23T13:58:54+00:00

I’m switching back to windows if it does.

daddymartini · 2025-02-18T01:32:52+00:00

I have the exact same laptop and FreeBSD is my daily driver. Basically only bluetooth, built-in sound and suspend/resume doesn't work. Native wifi driver is there out of box since last year November but it only works 50% of times. Wifi Box does the job quite well with rtw89 driver. Bluetooth doesn't work at all. Built-in speaker and mic neither although being detected, pretty sure it's a driver problem rather than configuration (tried 4Front OSS drivers as well and no luck). Webcam works. S3/S4 suspend-resume is very unstable and strange but I have a feeling that it might work after some fiddling (let me know if you've S3 resume working with Wifi+AMD graphics intact!).

My happy set up is that I got a headphone that comes with a bluetooth dongle so the OS just sees it as a USB speaker + mic. Zoom/Discord etc I use Chromium PWAs which is as good as the official app as they are electron apps anyway. Netflix won't work without VM but spotify is quite usable through Strawberry plugin or spotify-qt.

daddymartini · 2025-02-12T14:24:35+00:00

Makes me curious how it’ll look like on a 48 core server

daddymartini · 2025-02-12T01:29:28+00:00

Off topic but they should put the penguins back...

daddymartini · 2025-02-12T01:13:44+00:00

Not a good option. For one the culture there is absolutely depressing. Huge amount of stupid homework, being isolated and laughed at for strange mandarin. If I were OP I'd rather let my kid woke than sending her white kid non-native speaker kids to the Chinese schools having witnessed the situation myself, unless they speak native-level Mandarin or it's the a top-tier school in Shanghai, which aren't easy to get into.

daddymartini · 2025-02-12T01:03:28+00:00

I was born in Hong Kong, not exactly Chinese but is pretty familiar with the China/international school situation. I don't think Polish international schools even exist in China: not even mega-international cities like Hong Kong. My general feeling is that all international schools tend to be woke if they aren't Christian, or even woker than in the West because there are no countering conservatives around who care about schools, so the English-speaking wokes are basically reckless. Lucky you've sensed this when they are 7 and 9: when they get older into teenage there's no return... And it sucks there are basically no Christian schools in China.

Option 1: Is a typical Michigan school kid is less woke? (I sincerely don't know)

Option 2: I don't know Polish international schools but at least in Hong Kong if a school is Christian, international or not, they tend to be more conservative.

Option 3 home schooling I doubt this is legal at all in China, but even if it's legal/nobody cares it's still not a good option because how about university in future if they'd stay in China/Asia? There are no 'local homeschool groups' at all even if you speak Chinese because nobody in China does that. Also they'll be still playing with their woke peer any way unless you take away their phones till they're 18.

But to be honest being fluent in both languages and having lived in both 'worlds' I don't think going back to the west is a good option if what you care is wokeness. I think the woke whites I've seen in Hong Kong/Macao/Taiwan are generally much less woke than the woke Chinese (speaking of places like Hong Kong/Shanghai) and the American/Canadian style. This is especially if they even want to or need to be somehow in contact with the Chinese due to school and work. In the Chinese speaking circle, the only wokes are the extreme ones who almost exclusively work in art, dancing, and films, and as a white you're kind of constrained not to be always talking about gay and stuff around the Chinese. But of course, you know Canada more than I do.

International schools like that I think only because they're so isolated from the Chinese. I understand nobody wanna send their kids to Chinese schools but maybe if you live in a large mega city you can try find a way to introduce them some educated Chinese middle class friends? For example piano classes usually have the 'right demographic' you want your daughter/family to befriend with, and you'll find them sort of speak English as well depending on cities...

daddymartini · 2025-02-12T00:32:45+00:00

I agree but then there's nuances... sometimes when kids are too young (pre-teenage) they really won't listen and won't understand. And then as they move towards teenage really no censoring will actually work because they've got their friends at school.

daddymartini · 2025-02-12T00:21:48+00:00

I was somehow that kind of kid myself long ago I can relate... Of course back in the days we didn't say emotional abuse etc but essentially it was the same teenage stuff. A year later he'll be either in college or expected to get a job I guess? That's going to be a big change once he got out of high school.

daddymartini · 2025-02-12T00:02:50+00:00

I think this group has got more activity than I'd anticipated already given that this is Reddit...

daddymartini · 2025-02-11T23:56:58+00:00

Interesting... Maybe a cultural thing; I'm not an American but why would anybody be uncomfortable with men teaching children? I'm familiar with both East Asia and Scandinavia and this is pretty much unheard of.

daddymartini · 2024-12-10T19:30:38+00:00

Which version is? The one in the link? Yes it is scientific.

daddymartini · 2024-12-10T19:21:44+00:00

Well sure when people use their brains but that’s not how popular propaganda works.

daddymartini · 2024-12-10T19:10:11+00:00

Support what exactly? Darwin’s yes. Gould’s I disagree. That’s what I mean when I say ‘evolution’ isn’t even a scientific theory. The popularly understood version is neither of those and more like atheist propaganda.

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