NoneOfUrBusiness

You gotta interact with that language, both in spoken and written (the former is more effective but the latter is more accessible) forms. Of course studying grammar and vocabulary is important, but it’s in the end a stepping stone so you can comprehend native content. Admittedly I have no idea if there’s even something like native Esperanto content, but yeah that’s the gist of it. It’s also best if the content you’re consuming is something you actually enjoy. I for example learned English from memes on Facebook and then Reddit, and learned Japanese from anime and light novels. Something to take into consideration is the n+1 rule, which says that when consuming content of a language you’re trying to learn, you should pick something where you can generally understand all words except one in a sentence. This allows you to use context clues to understand unknown words and makes the whole process more effective.

Also something to note is that learning two languages at once is, in my experience, not a good idea. They’ll start mixing and pronunciation rules for one will leak into another and generally cause a headache that’s probably not worth it.

PS: I keep saying consume because I’m too awkward to talk to native speakers, but that’s also a good option from what I hear.

Chinese characters’ pronunciations are expressed using the Latin alphabet with accents for tone (for example tóng xué for 同学, or classmate). Therefore modern Chinese typing is done via normal Latin keyboards by typing the pronunciation (without tones because that’s a pain) and choosing between the keyboard’s different guesses for what you intended to write. For example to say “I want a cake” I’d type “woyaogedangao” and get 我要个蛋糕. This is the Pinyin system, which is used in mainland China among others. Taiwan uses a different system and I don’t know how they type with it.

Source: Am learning Chinese.

his faux-masculine base

From their comment.

Subjective??? This was a guy who reported on CIA drug trafficking and its relation to the Nicaraguan war. Where’s the subjectivity here?

Then you’re not gonna get anything of value.

As a guy in your situation on the other side (20 YO, only nerd in my family and none of them share my taste in basically anything), I just… don’t. I mean I just kinda exist and do my thing, because while I love them we’re too different to connect over much of anything.

The only answer here is “do what you want but make sure you have a plan”.

Trump isn’t trying to deport H1B workers, though. Well he was until a few days ago when his billionaire masters said otherwise so now he’s not.

The answer will, of course, vary depending on religion and even depending on sect or school of thought within the same religion, but here’s the Sunni Islamic answer as I understand it: God has emotions befitting of His grace and perfection, as opposed to our imperfect human emotions. For example a human might get angry and say or do something that they regret, but God’s anger doesn’t take away from His wisdom (I think Christianity has something about God regretting flooding the Earth in Noah’s time, but islam rejects that sort of thing out of principle). God’s mercy doesn’t make Him commit injustice, as a human might. Etc etc. We humans don’t need a deeper understanding of Allah than this, so Islam doesn’t really get into the details of these things, but that’s the gist of it. This does contradict your premise that God should be beyond emotion, but there’s really no reason for that to be the case. God should obviously be beyond imperfection, but emotions aren’t inherently imperfection; only humans’ flawed emotions are.

I mean the creation of the universe and the beginning of life are the two big ones, among others. That said you can’t have scientific proof for or against a supreme being specifically because the sort of questions you’d ask to confirm or deny the existence of one don’t intersect with modern science.

I wonder how doxxable this picture is.

there is stated desire to have it

There is? Haven’t they explicitly stated they don’t want them?

I mean okay but AFAIK there’s no evidence Iran has or is working on nuclear weapons.

They don’t (at least publicly) have a nuclear weapons program.

I rwad the article and honestly I kinda wish I didn’t. This is stupid.

We used to take it back with taxes, now we don’t…

I mean exactly. I’m not sure when in my replies you saw me say anything otherwise; you need strong and well-enforced taxation or the whole thing falls apart. That has no relation to the value of currency, which is a far more fundamental issue in a capitalist system.

I mean real wages have been increasing under Biden so he’s not 100% wrong about the whole economy thing, but either way that’s not relevant to my point.

Lots of money is moving, it’s not good for the majority of us

Because it’s moving to the top. The latest round of price gouging inflation is a special case and not representative of inflation at large.

Maybe with better framing, but with the way you’re explaining this (or maybe it’s just that clear cut) the only realistic answer is “no”.

There’s a limit with any particular set of tools and labor, but a universal limit doesn’t exist, no. Profit comes when you take money and use it in a more productive way than letting it sit under your mattress, and there’s no theoretical limit on productivity.

So they make inflation more, and people lose purchasing power in a savings account, and instead invest, which pumps up stock prices for the whales who knows when to cash out.

That’s… not really how that works. I mean inflation is there to keep people from saving when they could be investing their money, but that’s not to make money for the whales. Money sitting in a bank account doing nothing is bad (economically speaking) even when the owner of the money isn’t rich. More money moving is better for everyone.