Yep, well put. I love working remotely, but would appreciate once/twice a year having an off-site to get to know some people in the company on a more human level, or so I know who has a dog, so they can send me pics. As you said, during work hours it’s hard to get away from the transactional nature of the conversation.

The other thing I’m always worried about, is when grads join the company. A lot are coming from an environment where they’ve been interacting in person on a daily basis, and now their only interaction is online.

You know, I was very much agreeing to OP, until your comment. You make a convincing point.

I think we can all agree that daylight savings needs to die though.

More like function over table

I think Krashen’s “Natural Approach” is the best way to learn. It focuses on consuming comprehensible input (CI) - listening/reading in the foreign language, and making sure you understand around 80%+. The idea would be to start with very easy stories/sentences, and slowly build that up as your vocabulary grows.

Pimsleur & FSI are good resources. Also, try to watch movies/shows that you already have seen in the target language instead (e.g. Friends, The Office, Simpsons). That way, you already have the context, and it will be easier to comprehend.

You need around 100-200hrs of CI to have a basic understanding of the language (maybe you can’t speak, but you can understand basic interactions in the language). At around 400-600hrs, you’ll be intermediate, and after around 800-1000hrs of CI, you’ll be fluent.

Try Immortal Technique.

• Dance with the Devil
• Impeach the President
• The 4th Branch

And many more

“Che” is how Argentineans say “hey”. Che, boludo!

How do you do the ingredients for a recipe? Does it understand “1tbsp” and things like that?

Stacey’s car has got it going on

Where I live, they will often have a label on the pack that says whether it can be “divided” or not. I agree though that it’s a grey area until you see packs that have already been opened. For example, I wouldn’t take just one yoghurt, and I would never open up a pack that had glass bottles, so it seems unique to plastic and cans.

For me at least, “said” has a link to https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR7mbL8g/

That link only takes me to the front page, but perhaps if someone has a tiktok account that goes to a video (a tik? Tok? Whatever it’s called).

This would have been an emoticon ad-lib if you remove “taking off” and just leave the rocket.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231121175655/https://ktla.com/news/local-news/taco-bell-holiday-party-involved-open-sex-vomit-in-the-guac-bowl-lawsuit/

Don’t think current link works outside of the US.

Alt: https://archive.li/n6yma

Hello AA5B, what’s happening? Ummm, I’m gonna need you to go ahead come in on Saturday. So if you could be here around 9 that would be great, mmmkay…

Oh, and remember: next Friday… is Hawaiian shirt day. So, you know, if you want to, go ahead and wear a Hawaiian shirt and jeans.

I could really use a meal about now

We’re just dogs, aren’t we?

Too much of anything is never good.

Now you need to go back wearing the most expensive outfit and carrying lots of bags of clothes from expensive stores, find the guy, and say, “you guys work on commission, right? Big mistake.”

Two-factor authentication (2FA) is usually a good thing to enable in order to make it more difficult for an unauthorised person to login to your account remotely, as they will need that second authentication to be able to login.

Unless someone has access to your computer, then cookies & history don’t really matter. However, if you login to facebook, and then leave your computer open for 10mins, someone could open up facebook again and you would likely still be logged in. If that’s a scenario you’re worried about, then you could erase all your browsing session data to ensure that you’re effectively logged out everywhere.

Edit: below 2 links are also good to check if your email and/or your passwords have been leaked as part of a breach. Before using them, I would do a bit of research on the site to make sure you trust it. Always be sceptical with sensitive info!

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords

I think usually they are referring to “undivided attention” because technically, even though we’re pretty bad at it, you can do multiple things at the same time. I can drive, listen to music, and have a conversation but it starts to overload my brain at that point, as most of my attention is focusing on driving.

If we think of our brains & attention-span as RAM (memory), then some tasks take up more memory, and we have a limit to the RAM, so there are only so many processes that can run at the same time.

Advertisers/products/lovers, they’re all fighting for a bigger slice of your RAM.