kolpeshtheyardstick made a pretty great video essay about the work and its historical context and cultural impact. (01:04:19)

I never heard about how it was made before and that really changed how I view the work.

I you have YYZ you are three dudes.

Thanks, I hate it.

A lot of people keep asking me questions that are answered by the cover of my book…

My favorite version

Don’t forget to get some blinker fluid!

To paraphrase a war criminal:

The nine eight most terrifying words in the English language are: “I’m from Germany, and I’m here to help.”

Ah yes instant incest coffee

🥚 came first cuz of dinosaur

I’ll just leave this here… :’-)

The USA: where money has been legally transmogrified to free speech.

You definitely have a way with words!

Huh, you learn something new every day

Some more context

I mean, Star Wars was meant to be a direct allegory for the War in Vietnam so….

Huh, I didn’t know that. I just tried it out and it worked.

I think I’ll stick with memrise for now.

Thanks though!

I just tried it out and I like it a lot better than duolingo.

Duolingo is super gamified and you can’t keep practicing after you made a few mistakes. I just practiced for an hour with memrise and it was nice. There’s also video exercises in the app, and you can also practice chatting (with an AI probably?). I hope it holds up.

I would love to compare babbel too, but Arabic is not available there.

BBC article: [How a Dutch tragedy made people take loneliness seriously]https://web.archive.org/web/20231217224509/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67714026)