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Statics is good fun. That was one of those courses i spent 40-50hrs a week on.

That knowledge is great for other applications too. For example, it helps with visualizing of how tension laid in fallen trees on saw crews for trail maintenance.

I still use statics at work but i could in theory get by with just basic FEA guess and check.

Unfortunate, i know lots of engineers who never learned math.

Human art, even when claimed to be AI, conveys emotion and connects with people through it. Generative images lack the expression of emotion, and so they are found lacking connection when compared to art from a human of even moderate skill.

Yeah i think just having experience with a different grammar at all forces you to be more flexible. When you only talk to other english speakers as a first language, the rules are somewhat rigid in the sense that everyone’s interpretation assumes your intent aligns with what is spoken. If that’s your only experience you might try to apply that assumption with non-native speakers. So I’m suggesting regardless of your knowledge of any particular other language, having learned some of any secondary language in practice forces you to re-evaluate the rigidity of those social rules and think more critically about what an English learner is trying to say.

I wouldn’t expect Scandinavian countries to move much. Most of them learn it to fluency as part of primary education.

1. England
2. Ireland
3. Australia
4. New Zealand
5. Bahamas
6. Nigeria
7. USA

Checks out.

I wonder what the numbers look like between English first language ‘with no second language experience’ versus ‘some or fluent post-childhood learning second language experience’. Because there are a lot of English only speakers.

I’ve been told im awful to practice English with because i just understand. But i have teen/adult learning experience with two other languages.

This. They’re more widely pissed off at the status quo because they never had the future that millenials were tricked into believing but received scraps for. Now the scraps are all gone and gen z knows it.

Socialists like Mamdani give an actual hopeful future with a real tangible promise.

The ones who voted for trump didn’t have that at the time and were faced with forever status quo of insufficiently paid debt servitude, or try something. Even if it just breaks everything there’s at least a chance for a better future in the aftermath.

I’m not saying there’s a shortage of fascist gen z, but there is absolutely a shortage of better options in politics. I hope we see more unapologetic socialists like Mamdani. I’m happy to bet the vote would swing amongst gen Z significantly even in deep right territory.

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but their many relationships are entirely performative. and they have built up their entire life as one big act.

Is precisely the part i disagree with if you’re going to generalize the way you did in your first reply. Hence talking about the experience even with honest meaningful deep non-performative relationships.

it means they are mentally ill.

Psychological health indeed impacts it, hence why i brought up depression and anxiety to name just two of many conditions that could contribute.

The wealth disease, on the other hand, is probably generalizable in the way you’re suggesting. I couldn’t really care it someone is sad about being ultra-wealthy. Maybe they should give it up and be a depressed laborer like the rest of us.

This is an extremely reductive take based on anecdote.

There are a lot of reasons people can feel lonely. Hell you can even feel lonely when you have deep meaningful relationships. Sometimes it’s a result of anxiety or depression, or an abusive relationship.

Of course some people fall into the category you speak of too.

My anus is bleeding

Not under capitalism. The wealthiest will do just fine in climate collapse and they’re planning for it. They don’t care about anything beyond the next fiscal quarter in terms of environment.

I have found one use for it: getting information from behind login/paywalls.

It still feels gross to use AI at all though. It’s like putting my hand in toilet water.

The market flooding is a classic silicon valley strategy of free today charge tomorrow except they’re over invested in this one financially, in global supply for GPUs, and land with viable power infrastructure.

Yeah anxiety sucks ass. Speaking from personal and recent experience my suggestion is ACT (or CBT) therapy if that’s an option for you.

Remembering back when my extended family hired karaoke for a reunion sometime in the early 2000’s. I think i heard that song at least 30 times that night. I swear it had to be breaking the Geneva convention…

The taboo is starring/oggling or catcalling a stranger. If you look people in the eyes/face and don’t linger then no one is going to care except people who would have been a bother in any case.

Seems you have a plan. Good luck!