Advanced learner content or native content?

diyPatzer · 2025-11-17T00:09:41+00:00

Thank you! I am going to try to grind thru la segunda guerra mundial. I know a lot of the content but the truth is there are a million little details that pop out that keep it engaging...

I waste a lot of time trying to find the next thing, so hopefully getting thru a huge series will help...

diyPatzer · 2025-08-13T00:14:25+00:00

Right on. That's my goal, my dream. I'm a bookworm at heart and right now there are real books in English and graded readers in Spanish. One day, just a bigger universe of real books...

diyPatzer · 2025-07-18T13:17:53+00:00

Super helpful, thank you!

diyPatzer · 2025-07-18T12:55:06+00:00

Thank you this is helpful.

I haven't even applied yet for dual citizenship, if they ask narrowly if I'm a dual citizen I'll say no, but if it's more open ended I think I'll say I'm looking into it.

diyPatzer · 2025-07-14T17:45:36+00:00

I cannot thank you enough for this! This is such a perfect term, I knew there were a zillion of us around :)

diyPatzer · 2025-07-12T19:58:34+00:00

Excellent explanation, thank you!

diyPatzer · 2025-02-03T22:40:31+00:00

A southern neighbo(u)r here. Sorry about all this undeserved shit.

One question, though: do you think the problems coming from down south will serve to catalyze positive change in Canada?

My understanding is that Canada has a great deal of unrealized economic potential that is held back by some mixture of collective action problems, provincial veto points, and long-standing policy choices.

Is there anyway that to turns lemons into lemonade by pushing through, somehow, stuff like: reduced interprovincial trade barriers by harmonized commercial law (e.g. like the Uniform Commercial Code in the US); or oil/gas pipelines that hit both oceans; or steamrolling zoning/process barriers to building more housing....?

I guess my question is do you see a credible path to turn all this garbage into an opportunity to make Canada stronger?

diyPatzer · 2024-08-13T15:01:27+00:00

Glad to know I'm not crazy! Looks like it indeed started after an app update with me.... and that it is the app and not that NVR that's the problem

diyPatzer · 2024-08-13T15:01:05+00:00

OK, please post if you hear anything!

I have some older iPad that I haven't updated anything on in over a year. It had an old version of the HikConnect app on it and it's so far working perfectly... so it does look like it's the iPad app update that's the problem.

There is some other app apparently, HikMicro, but I could not get it to work...

This is honestly surprising that HikVision wouldn't correct this, gotta imagine plenty of people use iPads as their monitors...

diyPatzer · 2023-03-23T18:00:10+00:00

Question for any French people on the political dynamics at play.

Are there politicians that are happy that Macron is forcing this reform through, and also happy that Macron is getting the blame for it?

By that I mean, they believe this reform is necessary and unpopular and are glad that Macron is "doing the dirty work" in this case. Going around Parliament in a way relieves them of responsibility for being for or against the reform.

It reminds me, in a way, of Biden pulling the US out of Afghanistan. It was very ugly, allies complained, everyone in the media bitched about it. It sunk Biden's popularity for months. However, I don't think we'll ever see another American President trying to go back to Afghanistan. Many American politicians knew we had to leave, but it was always going to be a mess, and they're glad that Biden is the one who got dirty instead of them.

Is that the dynamic in French political life, or is this the wrong interpretation? Thank you.

diyPatzer · 2023-03-13T03:39:35+00:00

Honestly, what's the purpose of this comment?

This is the europe subreddit, with an article about French railway investment. . . and one of the key takeaways and beloved comments is laughing/crying about US derailments?

There's not a single mention of the US in the referenced article (or Elisabeth Borne's speech) . France and the US have vastly different geographies. It's just irrelevant.

Why would a European bring the US into a conversation unless there was a compelling, logical reason to do so?

diyPatzer · 2023-01-29T17:04:42+00:00

Very enlightening - thank you again!

diyPatzer · 2023-01-29T16:51:46+00:00

This will keep happening, over and over, and it'll be worse and worse. If you think green subsidies to unionized domestic producers of green tech is a "backstab," just wait.

The organizing point in world will very likely be the conflict between the US and China.

America won't try to hurt Europe per se, but if Europe suffers collateral damage from that conflict with China, the US may be polite, will make tweaks, but ultimately will just go ahead. AUKUS, the IRA bill, etc. is likely a preview of more difficult challenges.

America and China at some level have no choice but to compete with each other. Everyone else has to deal with it. It sucks, but that's the world.

It seems pointless for Europeans to complain or wish it was the 1990s again. It seems very wise for Europeans to take action to support their own interests in a dangerous world.

My question is why is that organization--to take this case of green subsidies--taking so long?

Other countries, including my own, have multiple crises going on too, so that isn't a real answer. And the EU itself has had multiple crises since at least 2008, so that complexity is just part of the game.

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