[-] cacti@ani.social 5 points 20 hours ago

But I don't think any frontend allows you to disable those shitty machine translated titles. Like what the fuck is this?:
FreeTube screenshot of a video title saying "I have a ton of balls so why not just force yourself to play?"

[-] cacti@ani.social 3 points 2 days ago

I've had a much better experience with OnlyOffice compared to LibreOffice in terms of MS compatibility, and it's a Flatpak so it should have no issues running under Bazzite.

[-] cacti@ani.social 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If only it was as innocent as "on and off days". Those statements can be found in this video's first minute. And I hope you're saying "Big Science" satirically as science is not a conglomerate, nor does the worldwide scientific community have any ties to a specific corporate entity/state/nation. And she doesn't "suggest" that "scientific research hasn't delivered as much as it once did", she clearly states that in all fields of science, most of the research paid for by your taxes "is almost certainly bullshit", and that one should not trust scientists. Then after she gets called out for this, she just acts like she was actually only talking about the fundamentals of physics, not every field.

And her defending Eric Weinstein — a man literally directly funded by the Peter Thiel behind the Dark Enlightenment movement — for his pseudoscientific "theory" of everything with obvious fake outrage, saying that "If you take away one thing from this video, let it be that Sabine said Eric's a good and fairly normal person", implying that a theory of everything is something that everyone in her circle has, saying that she hasn't looked into the theory (which is a lie, this gets exposed in the video linked on the original post) and that she "is not interested in unification ideas". Unification in physics by the way is the thing that has been wildly succesful twice and that has allowed her to post her shitty propaganda online. And this is only the first one and a half minutes of that video of hers. As such, I would recommend being skeptical of her opinions on the fundamentals of physics too.

Edit: My apologies if this reply sounds rude or condescending, that was not my intention. It's just a side effect of having to describe people such as Sabine.

[-] cacti@ani.social 1 points 3 days ago

Neil deGrasse Tyson doesn't make unhinged statements like "I don't trust scientists" and "Most of academic research that your taxes pay for is almost certainly bullshit" though, at least as far as I know.

[-] cacti@ani.social 1 points 3 days ago

I have binged on nuts as well, but some nuts are also very calorie-dense and can cause weight gain too.

[-] cacti@ani.social 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

She doesn't just talk about String Theory, she acts like an authoritative figure on everything. And I could hardly say that Professor Dave is a grifter.

[-] cacti@ani.social 6 points 4 days ago

She used to be a pretty popular popsci content creator and still continues to be one to this day, though the reason for her popularity now is that she has started feeding conspiratorial narratives.

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submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by cacti@ani.social to c/videos@lemmy.world

This comes after blatant science denial (this is a link to another one of Farina's videos because it can't be summarized by just one video of Sabine's), attributing academia to "communism" as a fear mongering tactic (her whole point on this was that academia is a form of planned economy or something), and making a video in support of capitalism.

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submitted 1 week ago by cacti@ani.social to c/meta@ani.social

Hello!
AFAIK Lemmy itself supports GIF profile pictures, as I have used one in the past on another instance. But trying to set one here gives me a "Type Error" pop-up and fails. Are they disabled here?

[-] cacti@ani.social 11 points 2 weeks ago

This stuff still exists in my country, and the expensive toothpaste my mother bought is one of them 🙂

[-] cacti@ani.social 36 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

No, pretty much everybody is able to acquire another language unless they have a neurological disorder that makes them unable to acquire any language at all.

You don't need to be young or be a child to acquire a language either. The critical period hypothesis is a causation-correlation fallacy at best. It points out many issues directly related to traditional language learning methods and not acquisition of another language at an older age; the issues it points out are the resultant bad pronunciation, spelling errors, grammatical errors upon trying to output etc.

These do not result from "improper age" or "an inability to learn another language", they result from how society as a whole has accepted "formal study" and "language courses" as the best ways to acquire a language, which they are definitely not.

Language acquisition is achieved first and foremost by comprehensible input in the target language. Hundreds and thousands of hours of comprehensible input. This can consist of any type of content a person enjoys watching, as long as it's language dense, easy to understand at the start and slowly harder going forward. A good figure to aim for is 10,000 hours of this.

Production of language, or output, is not beneficial to the learner, especially at the first few thousands of hours where it can permanently damage the learner's ability. The reason for early outputting being so detrimental to language acquisition is that as the learner doesn't yet completely know how the target language sounds, and they don't understand grammar rules intuitively yet because of the lack of input, anything they force out will in all likelihood be incorrect and they will unconsciously reinforce the incorrect grammar and pronunciation they just outputted.

So the best way to get to fluency is by doing as much input as possible and while starting out as much no output as possible. This is also usually called immersion learning.

You did mention immersion in your text, but considering that you live in an English speaking country you most definitely were forced to output early to at least survive, which damaged your speaking skills. The reason your reading may be bad is that you may not be reading enough English. If you're talking about language courses when you say “formal study“ and not just skimming through a grammar textbook for an easier time with immersion, which you most likely are, that may have harmed your perception of how English sounds too due to toxic input (the incorrect speech/writing of other learners).

Tatsumoto‘s website is pretty useful for more information and resources on input-based learning. It is primarily for Japanese but as language acquisition doesn‘t differ from one language to another it doesn‘t matter and you can just skip the Kanji-specific parts. I would just think twice about joining their community though as they are pieces of shit, but the website is really well made for a complete language acquisition guide that only uses Libre tooling.

Edit: The amount of misinformation in this thread is just sad. I reached basic English fluency at around 14 and I'm currently doing Japanese immersion, with my comprehension rate of the Japanese content I consume being around 90%. And I'm not 9 months old, as you can also probably tell.

Edit 2: I forgot about Antimoon's Learner Reports. Antimoon as a source is a bit outdated, but they have some interesting stuff in there as well.

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In Firefox and its derivatives, you can add the non-AI version of DuckDuckGo as a search engine by going into Settings > Search > Search Shortcuts > Add and then giving it a name of your choice with https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s being put in the "URL with %s in place of search term" part. You have to remove the 25 part from the URL though, that seems to be a Lemmy quirk with posting a link.

I don't know when they made this available, but I'm learning about this now and it's super useful if you hate LLMs and also use a browser that clears cookies on close (such as Mullvad or LibreWolf).

[-] cacti@ani.social 13 points 2 weeks ago

This is... really specific..

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