Empty bucket of water? But we booked the shark - infested waters over a year ago!

(I think Cantonese, Korean, and Japanese, decended from a common language)

Idk about Korean but I do know that Japanese loaned tons of words from Chinese when they imported Kanji but they’re otherwise unrelated afaik.

Mexican here:

Spanish & English - Fluent

Japanese - Intermediate-advanced

French - Still learning but it’s so similar to Spanish it feels like cheating 😅

Same here! But I’m Mexican from Mexico.

Last year I’ve gotten to reading full-length Japanese news articles with little to no help with the Kanjis.

It’s funny how many Latinos are naturally drawn to Japanese. I always blame the loads of anime we got throughout the 90s.

I had the idea that mass shootings were more of a cultural phenomenon exacerbated by the media. I mean, we don’t have them in my country either. And although some older people have gone through compulsory military training, it’s been slowly rescinded for the younger generations so it makes me wonder if that has any effect on people’s willingness to go on shooting sprees.

I didn’t say that.

I swear they’re already here. We got a couple stubborn conservative plants doing nothing but posting disinfo day in and day out. The mods of !conservative@lemmy.world are particularly sus.

Or Mexico! We’re already on it. Sheinbaum is working to get a chip manufacturing plant up in Guadalajara. Exciting stuff, honestly.

You’re missing the entire point. You go murder people if that’s what you want. You’re no different.

You’re the one taking the L right now, why don’t you take your own advice instead?

Whoa, I did not know that existed. Time to give OSM some loving back.

incapable of actually fixing

Or making them worse. He just upped taxes on the lower classes and gave the rich tax breaks… again.

I’m sorry, as an AI, I don’t have access to your thirst receptors. Please allow access to your brain chip to continue.

Funnily enough, I’ve had more trouble using Gemini than the previous assistant for simple tasks like setting up a countdown. At least it loads faster, I guess.

These violent delights have violent ends.

Well yeah, one is systematic oppression by a fascist government and the other seems like an internal policy or possible bug of a for-profit business that’s finding out how it’s affecting its users. One is enforced by the state and the other is probably a mistake. There’s a clear distinction.

Confront them first, make them feel uncomfortable. Make fun of them, make them feel ashamed first. We don’t need to get violent from the get-go to be effective. We gotta get creative.

Get out your pool noodles & whack 'em on sight. Amplify their message with satire. Make a buffoonery out of them until they learn.

Oh and therapy.

Let’s start there.

The left hasn’t unilaterally claimed universal tolerance. Some people do, though, but they can go do themselves. The rest of us have no room for the wicked.