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Duolingo Sucks, Now What?: A Guide

Now that the quality of Duolingo has fallen (even more) due to AI and people are more willing to make the jump here are just some alternative apps and what languages they have:

"I just want an identical experience to DL"

Busuu (Languages: Spanish, Japanese, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Korean)

"I want a good audio-based app"

Language Transfer (Languages: French, Swahili, Italian, Greek, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, English for Spanish Speakers)

"I want a good audio-based app and money's no object"

Pimsleur (Literally so many languages)

Glossika (Also a lot of languages, but minority languages are free)

*anecdote: I borrowed my brother's Japanese Pimsleur CD as a kid and I still remember how to say the weather is nice over a decade later. You can find the CDs at libraries and "other" places I'm sure.

"I have a pretty neat library card"

Mango (Languages: So many and all endangered/Indigenous courses are free even if you don't have a library that has a partnership with Mango)

"I want SRS flashcards and have an android"

AnkiDroid: (Theoretically all languages, pre-made decks can be found easily)

"I want SRS flashcards and I have an iphone"

AnkiApp: It's almost as good as AnkiDroid and free compared to the official Anki app for iphone

"I don't mind ads and just want to learn Korean"

lingory

"I want an app made for Mandarin that's BETTER than DL and has multiple languages to learn Mandarin in"

ChineseSkill (You can use their older version of the course for free)

"I don't like any of these apps you mentioned already, give me one more"

Bunpo: (Languages: Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Mandarin)

#resources #for later

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glassedice · 6 months

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playing chess is inherently gay

#real

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glassedice · 6 months

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what Ni is NOT

a lot of people in the community get Ni wrong. and i totally get that because Ni is often talked about in a super vague, weirdly prophetic light. which it is NOT.

Ni does NOT mean you can’t make connections between ideas

Ni does NOT mean you only see one truth

Ni is NOT a predictive function

all Ni is, is intuition as it makes sense to you personally. Ne, looks at the outside data and expands on that, Ni looks at the outside data and puts it in their internal framework. that’s the only difference. that Ni is personal and Ne is less personal when dealing with the abstract.

the combination of Se and Ni can come across as Ne because the user takes the tangible details and then subconsciously adds them to their mental framework. the way i personally decide between Ne and Ni is often based on this, idea. that Ni tends to be a more subconscious process, often with the user struggling to explain where the conclusion came from. Ne tends to be an obvious process. i have never once had to question where an Ne user got their idea from, because they often talk through their process unknowingly.

but just because you can’t fully understand it does NOT make Ni a sort of prophetic function. never was and never will be. it’s just the process of boiling physical things into concepts and adding said concepts to a mental framework that only makes sense to that specific person.

#MBTI

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glassedice · 6 months

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I'm tired.

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glassedice · 6 months

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Reblog and put your tiny superpower(s) in the tags

#buddhist monk levels of psychological patience #aided by MDD

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glassedice · 6 months

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Pet Shop Boys versus America - EVERY chronological IMAGE

Part 3 out of 3 (fucking finally)

“At times, when writing about the Pet Shop Boys, it can feel as though much of what you want to write is already written at the moment it happened in real time in front of you.”

(Photographs by Pennie Smith)

#as if someone with an infamously bad surname could stop the dazai from finishing her projects #fucking amazing #the boys are still vibing #pet shop boys

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glassedice · 6 months

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HELLO ANYONE WHO MIGHT SEE THIS—

I used to be confusedazai but they are no more because Paul Sl*ttery is being a little bitch

SO, if you were my mutual please reconnect here, I tried to keep the exact same appearance so it’s not too confusing, if you’re not sure who I was I primarily make posts about the Pet Shop Boys, The Smiths, New Order, Joy Division, The Cure, Electronic, Johnny Marr and all that 80s synthpop goodness

#You've got to be kidding me #this is exactly why we need to abolish copyright laws to the ground #“b-b-but these are OUR pictures we didn't authorize for repost in social media!!!” my ass #so glad to see you're back too #mutuals

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glassedice · 6 months

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Watch "Jim Croce - Time in a bottle - 1973" on YouTube

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If I could save time in a bottle / The first thing that I'd like to do / Is to save every day 'til eternity passes away / Just to spend them with you

If I could make days last forever / If words could make wishes come true / I'd save every day like a treasure, and then / Again, I would spend them with you

But there never seems to be enough time / To do the things you want to do once you find them / I've looked around enough to know / That you're the one I want to go through time with

If I had a box just for wishes / And dreams that had never come true / The box would be empty / Except for the memory of how they were answered by you

But there never seems to be enough time / To do the things you want to do once you find them / I've looked around enough to know / That you're the one I want to go through time with

#mood #feeling pretty awful #jim croce

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glassedice · 6 months

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We’ve arrived at the final post in the Pet Shop Boys/Erasure “rivalry” series. I hope you’ve enjoyed the ride!

So, was there a “rivalry” at all? The two groups disagreed on a lot of things and made their fair share of snippy comments about each other, goaded on by journalists and fans’ comparisons. But they also talked about enjoying each other’s music and didn’t go out of their way to avoid one another. For instance, they appeared at the same London Pride festival in 1997, performing within an hour of each other.

By the 2000s, they’d stopped the trash-talking. In interviews around this time, both groups said they didn’t consider themselves rivals, and acknowledged the role of the public in creating this mistaken impression. However, when asked about each other, they were hesitant to approach the topic–which suggests that, while they weren’t enemies, they weren’t friends either.

For the most part, both groups have continued to reiterate that they weren’t and aren’t rivals. They hardly ever met in person–both have said that their paths rarely crossed–and when they did meet, they were able to be civil. And that’s still true to this day. In a 2019 interview, Andy Bell said that he’d met Chris Lowe a couple years ago at a Marc Almond show, and Chris had cracked a gentle joke, even calling Andy “love” as he did. It seems there are no hard feelings between the two bands.

My thoughts? The rivalry was mostly created and sustained by journalists and fans, and the bands themselves played a fairly small role in it. While they weren’t friends, there wasn’t any real hate between them. They may have even found it fun to make all those petty comments.

#music journalism loves to start beef for the sake of beef #it's not even neil and his ego starting the rivalry but a handful of sassy newspapers provoking both artists into a meaningless race #they still ended in excellent terms nonetheless #i love these crazy bastards #pet shop boys #erasure

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glassedice · 6 months

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YES

#orientation

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glassedice · 6 months

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Did Martin Scorsese actually fucking join Letterboxd???

#holy shit he did #the madman actually joined #I'm more than certain his daughter convinced him to do it #Martin Scorsese #movies #movie director

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glassedice · 6 months

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@royalfortunesmate

hey netizens! i'm not sure how many people are aware, but youtube's been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can't be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate

BUT, if you're a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard (under My Filters) to get rid of it!

youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0) youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, []) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3

#ublock origin #youtube #adblock #useful tools

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glassedice · 6 months

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I'm just gonna.. leave this here for my fellow silly Johnny lovers 😭

#Johnny Marr #Show this picture to anyone and say this is your favorite musician

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glassedice · 6 months

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Pet Shop Boys versus America - EVERY chronological IMAGE

Part 1 out of 3, yes these will be long there are almost 90 photos

(Photographs by Pennie Smith)

#pet shop boys #neil tennant #chris lowe #they vibin

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glassedice · 6 months

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Elysium 2: Electric Boogaloo

What we know so far about PSB15 (aka the next album):

Burning the Heather was originally going to be saved and used as the guiding framework for the next album but was released instead on Hotspot

Produced by James Ford, who notably recently produced Jessie Ware's two albums, Depeche Mode's Memento Mori, and Blur's The Ballad of Darren. Neil also has been an outspoken fan of his group The Last Shadow Puppets

Two albums worth of songs were written over quarantine, including a song about Rudolf Nureyev, and a song about the pandemic titled "Living in a lonely time". Additionally, there are several songs written from the Super era that have not yet been released

Neil bought a keyboard and learned how to use GarageBand to write songs himself

Neil stated in Classic Pop that the next album would be "...very tuneful, less super-electronic sounding. Strings will be returning. It's more autobiographical, looking back."

They started work on the album in March 14, 2023 and posted a photo likely of James Ford's studio. The photo showcases a xylophone, bell pepper shaker, multiple keyboards and synthesizers, reel-to-reel tape machines, a guitar, a hammered dulcimer, and others

In April 2023, strings and brass were recorded at The Church Recording studio in London

Recording for the album likely ended before they went back on tour at the end of May 2023

Neil supposedly told a fan that the album would be out in Spring, possibly April 2024

Things that might influence the album:

Over quarantine, Neil watched a lot of 1940s film noir

Their BBC Radio Takeover in 2021 and song selections - Chris usually is the one who decides on their albums' directions, so his choices might hint at that

Lost EP saw the release of four songs from the Super era that had previously been unreleased. Given they were released as an EP and not saved for the next album might hint that they wouldn't have fit the musical or thematic style of the next album (too electronic?)

During quarantine, Neil started a project of digitizing his diaries, which might explain why the next album might be more autobiographical

#already starting to love this album that's not even out yet #I love when excellent artists go autobiographical #pet shop boys

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glassedice · 6 months

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req'd by @dendro-daddy

welllll good as step as any!

text: Richelieu's Quick Guide to Performing Exorcisms: Step one: Gun

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glassedice · 6 months

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me and bro when shits about to go down

#my ass looking straight at my sister remembering we didn't turn off the oven before leaving #neil tennant #chris lowe #pet shop boys

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