If you leave your mouth open for long enough, you break the vacuum holding the shit and piss stink in and you’ll start smelling.

Well, I’m an idiot and sometimes I need help 😂

I’m sure he’d pivot away to something else, considering that he pivoted from talking about trans rights to try and say “I shouldn’t have to worry about walking with my daughters down the street and walking into two dudes making out.” Basically suggesting that gay and trans people are the source of moral decay in the U.S.

The guy is the literal poster child of boomer moral decay, by the way. Digustingly obese, entitled, racist, MAGA.

You absolutely did, but let’s take your statement to its logical conclusion.

Roughly 85% of the world is religious. By your definition, they are simply all evil. So why then would you care about Venezuela being bombed, Iran being bombed, literally anywhere being bombed — they’re evil! Anywhere that has religious people is fair game, because religion is evil.

It’s almost like making blanket generalizations about most of the world is just fucking stupid. Weird how that worked out.

The kind of corruption and evil entitlement that people get is indeed unique to religion.

That sure as hell sounds like goalposts shifting to me.

Nope, my MAGA coworker hates gay people and is staunchly Athiest.

I guess that’s true, I have actually mentioned it to a few of my coworkers – they all had a reaction that more or less spoke ‘there simply isn’t enough time for that’ lol.

Tangentially, there’s also this bilibili show called ling long reincarnation that, whether I’m stupid for liking it or not, is awesome. The thing about it is that I’ve always felt like there’s something lost in translation about the show, or there are themes that I’m simply unaware of due to… well an overall lack of knowledge about Chinese language and culture, I suppose.

Idk, full immersion would be best like you said — I just have no idea where I’d find that in California. I’m sure there are places, but then there’s the extra layer of somehow finding enough time to actually absorb the language through immersion. Perhaps I’ll just take up Spanish lol, I always did well in it in school and it’s close enough to English. I think it would probably be much easier to find people who speak Spanish here.

Well, to answer your primary question — many of the people on the team I work with speak… it’s either Cantonese or Mandarin, I think they told me Mandarin but I’m not entirely sure. It isn’t something that would necessarily help me on a professional level, but it would help me on a personal level with many of them.

That’s genuinely my motivation, I don’t really care about ‘seeming’ bilingual — this is mostly to bring me closer to people who have helped me at work.

Ahh… that’s much better than what I thought you meant.

… huh?

That’s a fair assessment, it could have gone from heavily biased to just outright state regime media.

Was VoA not propaganda to begin with?

Since Lemmy apparently has a ton of people who are bilingual — how do I as a 31 year old man that knows enough Spanish to say ‘Thank you, where is the bathroom?’ and frequently watches anime in subtitles gain another language? I’m open to all suggestions, except bad ones. Specifically I am interested in learning Mandarin because I hate myself.

She was lobotomized, my money is on her not having deserved it.

No issues, just become a master craftsmen and compete with other master craftsmen. Easy.

Lazy? No I was skimming while working, mainly because I was bored – I realize what I said was the point.

Ah, so you’re talking about the benefits we reap after the dust settles following the initial military actions.

That makes more sense, admittedly I did skim.

How did the Iraq war yield quick results? Wasn’t the U.S. military there for like 9 years?

It’s China. I think the most they have as far as animal protections are the bans they placed on wet markets and the trade of wildlife.

This should not be a surprise.

Elucidate for me?