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Cake day: January 25th, 2026

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  • Fair enough. I’m happy that it works for you. I suppose maybe Babbel is the exception. My friends mostly use Duolingo and Lingoda and those are awful, judging by their progress.

    Do you speak those 8 languages to a high level? C1 or C2? It’s not that I don’t believe you and I don’t mean to sound condescending, but I’ve met a lot of people who say they speak 4+ languages and then really only speak them at a A2-B1 level. That’s not nothing, but that’s not what I’m aiming for and I think not what most people are aiming for.

    I want to start learning Japanese this year and I might give Babbel a try, but I’ll probably end up sticking to textbooks for grammar + Anki for vocab + podcasts/tv/games and later on books for immersion. But I think part of that is also that I don’t really want to study on my phone. Even doing Anki on it is annoying.



  • I know a lot of people love language learning apps, but I’d argue for a different approach: Don’t use them at all. I like learning languages a lot, and focus on fluency in one language at a time over learning just the basics in many (nothing wrong with that, just not my approach). And what really works for me has always been a mixture of textbooks, dedicated vocab studying and tons of immersion. Language learning apps are fun, but they don’t make you do the boring, hard work that actually sees results.

    From my own experience: I know many people who have years-long streaks on DuoLingo and others, but actually speak very little of their target language. Meanwhile I’ve never used a language for learning Korean (Self-taught. I’ve been at it for nearly 5 years now) and I can speak to my Korean friends for hours while only having to look up words very occasionally or having them explained to me in Korean.

    By all means, use Babbel or another European alternative if you are going to use them. But maybe also consider changing your approach, you might see much better results.








  • Just because we can’t see it doesn’t mean we can’t observe it and characterize it. This line of thinking is so limited because it only considers our senses in how they’re applied directly.

    Is reality actually what we experience? Who knows. Does it matter? Not really, I’d argue. There are provable facts underlying the reality we experience which are true regardless of an individual or even a collective’s perception of them. Gamma rays exist without you perceiving them. But they are provably true. Their effects can be measured. They can be observed. If they couldn’t, then we would never know they exist and thus they’d in essence not exist for us. But would that matter?



  • Das führt zu verstärktem Hungergefühl und entsprechend mehr Konsum von erwähntem Abfall.

    Hast du dafür Quellen? Natürlich ist gesunde Ernährung ein großer Faktor bei der Bildung einer für den menschlichen Körper gesunden Darmflora. Aber die Aussage, dass explizit das Hungern der Bakterien zu erhöhtem Appetit führt muss schon belegt werden.

    Zumal mich die Formulierung “desto glücklicher ist die Darmbevölkerung” etwas stutzig macht. Bakterien haben keine Nervensysteme, die sind nicht glücklich oder unglücklich.

    Trotzdem natürlich grundsätzlich richtig: Die Darmflora hat einen Einfluss auf Appetit. Ich wäre nur an einer Quelle für den genauen Zusammenhang interessiert.



  • I think it’s less about permission and more about rights. In Germany, there is a right to work part-time. Basically, if you work for more than 6 months at a company and the position you are working in can be performed as a part-time position, then your employer must grant you a part-time position upon request. Suitable full-time job offers must also always be offered as part-time offers, although in reality this doesn’t happen as much I think.

    There are more specifics, but that’s the gist of it.

    In my opinion, the CDU/CSU is trying to create a new scapegoat for the languishing economy. Previously, it had been unemployed people on social welfare (“Bürgergeld”), but since their government introduced their own (arguably worse and def more expensive) legislation, they need a new group of people to target so that their voters don’t do the unthinkable and actually start blaming the government for not properly governing the country.


  • I have recently finished my 4th playthrough of FFX and am now playing Final Fantasy IX for the first time. Blind, so far about 25 hours in and I’m liking it a lot. The more light-hearted, cartoony story style isn’t usually my cup of tea, but the game is charming and despite a lot of junky writing, as is typical for Final Fantasy, I am emotioanlly invested in the future of these characters. The combat is also really nice and I like how well balanced and paced it is. I’d say it’s on the harder side as Final Fantasies go. Still not hard, but just spicy enough for casual play. I’m looking forward to finishing it probably sometime this week.

    Oh, and fuck tetra master.


  • Kino ist halt einfach ein veraltetes Konzept in Zeiten, wo Menschen zuhause bequem quasi jeden Film ihrer Wahl on-demand schauen können. Früher ist man ins Kino gegangen, weil es keine andere Option gab oder weil die Qualität besser war als auf dem Heimfernseher. Das ist halt schon lange nicht mehr wirklich der Fall. Ich finde Kino als Erfahrung zwar auch immer noch besser als Filme zuhause schauen. Aber halt nicht so viel besser, dass ich 20€ ausgebe.

    Es wird dann oft gesagt, es müsste günstiger sein, bequemer sein, andere Filme geben. Und das sind ja genau die Dinge, die das Heimkino bietet. Also bleibt man halt zuhause. Die Kinos würde meines Erachtens nach nur permanente staatliche Subvention retten, weil sie als Produkt den Großteil der Bevölkerung einfach nicht mehr ansprechen.