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I... am both dumbfounded and grateful that you appreciate our community, Rolando. <3

Nice job portraying all that as Biden's specific work.

In any case, if you want to see the US go hardcore on Israel support, then by all means Trump will do that.

You're a big help.

World collapses and all maps of New Zealand are destroyed.

That made perfect sense to me for a moment because I've read several times now that NZ seems to be the preferred location for global billionaires to build their ultimate survival bunkers when collapse happens.

Plus, I imagine they'd want people topside to hang on there reasonably well for several reasons, such as a labor pool, genetics pool, testing pool, and possibly to grow some food on the surface.

I paid around US$700-800 for a nice Neumann mic that I'd researched pretty well, but like a dumbass didn't realise that it required power, meaning I couldn't just hook in to my amp like your basic Shure.

So later on as a solution, I got myself a Focusrite powered amp-interface that has a bonus of being able to route guitar and mic input in to USB. Spent hours trying to get everything working and kept running in to problems. IIRC the USB signal was barely received by my computer, and the only way the amp received a signal is if the computer was powering the thing, which shouldn't have been a requirement as it already had power.

I just went back to my Shure while that fancy stuff gathers dust. Similar thing with my Ableton.

What would be some commonly unused features?

Thank you for these thoughts & interesting perspective. :-)

Maybe your experience was like mine in class. It just wasn't the right format for me, and I needed to find a different way to unlock the door.

Thanks for explaining. So I guess that kind of thing is an artifact of the language being originally designed... what, ~100yrs ago? Still, since the main point is ease of learning and simplicity, maybe this is just something worth putting up with for the time being, no?

Oh, sorry. It's a classic Sanskrit Buddhist mantra. I was switching gears there.

Anyway, good to hear about "La," thanks.

Om mani padme hum.

So do I have it right that gender is mostly neutral? One of the things that kills me about FR (and SP) is the need to clutter my limited brain space with useless gender nonsense.

French.
I figured since I was exposed to it for a year as an infant, it would help me out when I was farting around with electives in school. Well, nope-- that 'infant period' was just too early I guess, and classroom learning didn't work for me, regardless.

What actually helped a tonne was just vacationing in Paris for a week (i.e. helpless immersion), and later, developing a passion for Franco-Belgian comics, which led to me using the DuoLingo app on phone whenever I'm bored or have a spare moment.

~Six months in, I'm just blown away by how much I can read without too much trouble. Google's vanilla "Translate" app helps a bunch when I'm stuck. Of course it's also good to have other aids, such as a handy chart of verb conjugations, etc, but really it was just DuoLingo that caught me on fire.

Feel free anyone to drop by our Lemmy community devoted to European graphic novels if you're interested.