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by sw104 4y ago
Just add it to the pile. It's humanity. - Cigarette companies giving people lung cancer. - Alcohol companies giving people lifelong addictions and liver disease. - Food companies happily providing high calorie, high fat food to contrib
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Not sure why you've been downvoted. I think the dopamine receptor frying nature of apps like TikTok is more of a danger than the Chinese government getting hold of kids/teens data. We have almost entire generations hooked on a sho
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by sw104 4y ago
I always found it weird how mobile phone apps/games trigger the "happy to pay £10 for a pizza, but not happy to pay £10 for hours of entertainment" attitude in people. Is it perhaps because they spent a few hundred/thous
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by sw104 4y ago
I think the previous poster may be thinking more along the lines of a Mickey Mouse shaped bar of soap, rather than an important component of something useful, like resistors. There is a mountain of trash end-products out there, which market
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by sw104 4y ago
The ending looks like it says 'CIA'
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by sw104 4y ago
I'm surprised a linguist would use Duolingo. Which languages does she use it for?
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by sw104 4y ago
Not the original poster, but language exchange apps. Best way to learn a language is to speak with someone who it's native to. Apps and games only go so far.
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by sw104 4y ago
You've seen the worst side of Duolingo. Duolingo is rubbish for learning most languages, but the Russian and Ukrainian courses are particularly bad. Not only do they not really teach you the Cyrillic language foundation, but they don&#
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by sw104 4y ago
If you find the right teacher, you shouldn't need a base, as such. If you really want a head start you could use books, but honestly language exchange / tutoring is the best way to go for starting any new language. Don't worr
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by sw104 4y ago
Duolingo was always, at most, a game which could potentially reinforce language learning. People who think they're learning a language from it are fooling themselves. They may learn some things, but the time would be much better invest
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by sw104 4y ago
More like "some" video games. On one end you have lads playing video games who turn out to be good managers/workers in tech. On the other end, you have socially stunted lads who gradually find themselves falling down the &quo
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by sw104 4y ago
I strongly believe (as a citizen) that the UK will collapse within my lifetime (before 2070), even without outside interference. There's just so little positive momentum in the country, and that's reflected at all levels, and in t
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by sw104 4y ago
Wholly agree, but to each their own. I, and many people, just don't want to read a book in monospaced font, sat at a desk with a desktop PC/laptop. I'd take a Kindle/e-reader over that setup any day. I can read in bed, o
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by sw104 4y ago
"It won't happen to me" said everybody who it happened to. People always underestimate/overestimate their ability to deal with things. Your kid is very mature, but they're dealing with forces way beyond them nonethe
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by sw104 4y ago
I think op has a point. Almost every woman I know, my wife included, expresses some level of disgust at the idea of an adult man playing video games. I don't think I know many women who are alright with a man who plays video games, let
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by sw104 4y ago
That's a fair point, but I'd add that it's sex in media as well as porn. Media is more sexualised than ever before:- TV shows feature more sex and more of it is clearly visible, sex is used to sell basically anything, some da
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by sw104 4y ago
> there are almost no good girls in westernized society Here we go again.. The online catalog of a dating app isn't reflective of the majority of the female population of the collective West. This sort of talk always sounds like inc
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by sw104 4y ago
Always seems a bit cope-y when people have to express how happy they are being child-free, vegan, single, [insert label here]. If they were truly happy, would they really need to say/do anything about it?
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by sw104 4y ago
In my experience, the average British person has no idea how to cook a square healthy meal that is also appetising enough for them to choose it over other easier options. Cooking is taught poorly (if at all) in schools and at home. This isn
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by sw104 4y ago
Ah yes. Search provided by the Russian government to the Russian people, Chinese government to the Chinese people, British government to the British people, X government to the X people.. What could go wrong?
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by sw104 4y ago
Then you put a 10 minute timer on the browser. Enough for lookups, not enough to waste time.
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by sw104 4y ago
I used to play Ring Fit a bit (some years back), but nowadays primarily run outside, go to the gym, swim, cycle. Honestly, in my opinion, the Ring Fit game doesn't really compare to a gym workout or run. There's a few exercises on
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by sw104 4y ago
No. 100 calories/mile is the general estimate given for running for an average weight. More for overweight/obese people. Running on a treadmill for an hour would be anything from 6 miles (10km) to 12 miles (20km) for some of the v
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by sw104 4y ago
People in the office constantly use the child effect. Leaving early, arriving late, popping out in the middle of the day because both parents work and the kid needs to go to the doctor/be picked up from school etc. I witness it all the
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by sw104 4y ago
I'm sure women could say the same of men.
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YMMV
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Those gentlemen would probably also waste time in an office environment. You're just substituting wasting time at work with wasting time at work (from home). In the office I work in, walking past anybody's desk you see procrastina
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by sw104 4y ago
It still doesn't change the lifestyle if you use it as a utility. If you use it for consuming content, then sure. But using a phone for the odd phone call, message, map check, translation, calendar, tickets (bus/train), rides (Ube
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by sw104 4y ago
Smartphones don't necessarily have to have an effect on somebody's lifestyle. It's what people install and use on their smartphone which makes the difference.
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by sw104 4y ago
For me it was just a weigh-in after a long gap. Thankfully I caught my weight gain before it reached 'overweight' and then dropped back well into the lower/middle of the healthy range. Intermittent fasting and cutting all jun

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