and what a ghastly troll that must have been!! did you sleep ok?

well that answers that, onto the next thread thanks

oh no not the downvotes how will my children eat! listen to yourself for fucks sake

if by people you mean corporations

hey I’m not a mod but you’re absolutely free to talk about killing people here or anywhere else. what they meant was, if you do they’ll ban you

if you want to talk about organizing political violence, this kind of platform isnt ideal anyway. go talk to people face to face in your locale

I’m glad the mods remove that shit cuz i dont need to get put on a list just for browsing it

they’re observing that the sky is green and im asking if anyone gave them strange mushrooms. its literally impossible to be not fluent in your native language without having some sort of condition that prevents you from speaking

the kind of statement that the above poster is making is the same exact sentiment (literally zero difference) as saying black people dont speak english because they say yall or whatever. but i bet they just have hillbillies in mind. this brand of linguistic prescriptivism is violence and im having zero fucking tolerance for that shit. linguistic prescriptivism is nerd fascism and you fuckers dont even get it you’re so smug about being right.

What do you define as fluency? you literally wrote this in English!

are you talking accent reduction? it’s irrelevant to fluency for the most part. that’s a cultural mark of power, that’s it. if you want to give up some of your identity to blend in better you’d probably work at it more. i bet you have more integrity than that.

what are the issues with reading? there can be many reasons to struggle with reading in any language, not just foreign ones.

anyway, if there’s a “too old for language” or “just some people cant”, you, at 32, writing on an english forum, you aint it chief. you’re doing fine the way you are 👑 just keep living with English in your life as much as you want it to be, enjoy learning new things when it’s enjoyable, and go easy on yourself when it’s not

most people dont understand languages. it’s sad and i dont understand why they don’t understand. thanks for some sanity in here.

oh my god… relax. they’re called allophones, it’s when two different sounds are treated as the same phoneme in a language. so like whether you make a click sound with your K or not, it’s still a K right? well in some languages it would be a totally different phoneme. but to you, whether you can hear the difference or not is irrelevant to you because it either way it just means K. that’s what they’re talking about.

it can be very hard to hear the difference if you never grew up with it, especially in the course of conversation. just try and understand the difference between 살 and 쌀, it sucks.

can you chill with the “you should be ashamed” and try more of “i should generously try to understand what they mean and ask questions to get there instead of raging at any perceived weakness”

are you talking about a disability or are you making an extremely ill informed statement on linguistics

this comment makes me feel the way i felt when i checked out Voat that one time to see if it was really extremist nutjobs

edit: okay wow you told someone to terminate their pregnancy so they could “abort the future slave” yea no im good man i dont need this kind of clown in my feed. its a 1 day old account and already block worthy… not looking forward to seeing your bullshit on your next account, hope you give me some temporary peace

kids start asking why when they reach around 3 yrs old, which correlates with their height being around 3 feet. this proves that the portion of the brain that asks why is stored in the kneecaps and must be stretched for 3 yrs before use

maybe! there is probably also some joy in saying that you’re leaving the old world behind

Naive is the word lol XD Nieves is a Hispanic family name

yeah I’d prefer -30 over +30 and humid

“necessary” could mean something that must exist, could not be otherwise. like, uhh, the sun? idk man

“evil” is just the dregs of Abrahamic thought that plague our culture, though

it’s definitely a dumb question but fun to play along with if you don’t take it too seriously

for real, are you serious? you’re gonna call names at the moral relativist dude, saying he’s the dude who believes that hierarchies are morally good because they exist??? how inconsistent can you get

I’m not sure if you’re comparing SSRIs to castration but I’m gonna assume you’re not.

I dont think any prescriber would consider any of those medicines necessary. a much better example would be steroids like prednisone. it weakens your immune system, but it’s absolutely necessary at times.

SSRIs are rarely necessary, but are a useful tool. too much to say on this.

Benzos are a short term solution to enable more longer term treatments. they’re absolute monsters of a drug class, but really effective for sure.

fentanyl would be a better example of a necessary evil. it’s synthesis revolutionized surgery.

finally, lithium is a funny example – we still don’t even really know how it works!! but it’s a mood stabilizer and can be hugely beneficial for managing bipolar disorder. that said, one can attempt to manage bipolar symptoms without medications, but it’s certainly going to be harder and possibly less effective

nah, the justice system is absolutely fucked. in a world where we remake the law around restorative and rehabilitative justice rather than punitive, we’re probably not even going to be calling it “prison” anymore

Singapore seems a smart choice. Seems like a great city from everyone I’ve met from there. The general English proficiency is excellent as well.

Whatever you do, avoid Europe. The anti-Asian racism in most of Europe is far more grave than it is in the Americas. and Australia, ok, you’ll have more Chinese community, but it’s probably the biggest cesspool of anti-Asian racism on the planet

You might also look into what Chinese populations are in South America. you might like it there.