NoGodsNoMasters [they/them, she/her]

i mean he’s been hugely influential in linguistics and it’d be dumb to pretend he hasn’t made contributions of value, but it’s fun to dunk on him and there’s definitely a fair bit that’s somewhat controversial and that i disagree with

you hate chomsky for his political opinions, i hate chomsky for his linguistics opinions (and also his political opinions). we are not the same

and then alcohol ended up getting loaned back into arabic as (al-)kuḥūl

Really not beating the supporting Nazis allegations with this

I’ve seen literally one of those shows lol, definitely know the feeling

I know everyone here is doing China discourse here but the honestly not insignificant inequality that remained in the USSR is kinda interesting to see.

Quite authoritarian of them to exist without permission I must say

By being ‘slightly critical’ you do mean complaining about homeless people, right?

Haven’t liberals been the ones calling us fascists ever since we federated?

The hell of capitalism is the firm, not the fact that it has a boss

Another cool Dominik Mayer art

Going? I think the least lib she ever got was making two videos about capitalism being bad and then concluding it with this statement:

You know maybe we should do something in the meantime. Uhh so I dunno, I guess vote Labour, tweet radically, try to eat more vegetables, uhh… Try not to be manipulated into waging war against other downtrodden people, and can we please not hand more power to the absolute worst dingbats our society has on offer.

r/196 kinda gives me Vaush vibes in that way (and also in the radlibbiness ofc)

It may be gauche, but it is certainly not de gauche

Natalie’s inability to own up to mistakes is either a serious character flaw or

I don’t think that that is a flaw she has is in question at this point tbh

But what about the vitamins!!! (my diet has many deficiencies too but those don’t matter because meat)

16 hours a day in a world where no one has to sleep seems wildly optimistic

I’ve always used it for everything

surgical masks (useless)

This isn’t entirely true though. Yes they are far from perfect and yes they are worse than better masks, but they are still better than nothing and do actually reduce transmission.

Pretty sure I can’t since I’m no longer younger than 15

In all seriousness though I’m curious how you’ve been finding Spanish, just if it kinda fits with my experience where, coming from French, it seemed overall quite easy to learn and improve (especially on the comprehension side of things.