Thank you.

This is an argument of scarcity. That scarcity (of money, in this case) is artificial, and created by those who won the last election to make the scarcity even more extreme.

The fact is we need both, and to get both we have to change ideas and to change ideas we need to get people onboard and a good way to get people onboard with clean renewable energy in the US is cars. It’s a gigantic fucking place and trains and bikes aren’t practical in some of it.

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I have found there is a way to nuke my duolingo account from orbit and god they don’t make it easy, putting instructions here for anyone else who would like to. I am unsure if it’s possible on mobile (already uninstalled the app on mobile) but I’m pissed off enough + suspect that they might pay slightly more attention to account deletion en masse rather than app uninstalling en masse. also I cannot see myself ever using this bs again, so…

step 1: log onto duolingo.com

step 2: there’s a sidebar on the left. mouse over “more” and then “help.”

step 3: scroll down the list of frequently asked questions to the “account management” category. click on “how do I delete my account an access my data” and then on the link to “duolingo data vault.”

step 4: hit the big red “erase personal data” button. do not be swayed by the crying owl. he cares not for you, only for your data.

step 5: they should send you an email to whatever account is connected to your duolingo account. you can tell which email it is based on the spam you’ve gotten for the past several years reminding you to maintain your streak.

step 5.5: if you have a super duolingo subscription or got suckered into their free trial that does not cancel automatically, cancel that separately, they explicitly state that they will keep charging you even if you do not have an account which tracks for the company duolingo is now

step 6: find the email, click on the link listed after “delete my data link”

step 7: wait 7 days. you cannot get your data deleted any faster than this, but you can cancel it during this 7-day grace period.

step 8: apparently it will take “up to 23 more days” to delete your data entirely. pat yourself on the back. you’re free now.

jokes aside, I’m still on step 7 myself, but I cannot see myself WANTING to undo my account deletion even if I could, so… for anyone who’s confused about how to do this but wants to, hope this can help.

and on a final note, fuck gen ai all my homies hate generative ai.

Everyone: No more fucking AI!!!

Oligarchs: EAT IT! EAT MORE AI! EAT IT!!!

A demented rapist AND a traitor.

And just like that Duolingo went from “supposed to be good but AI fucked it up they say” language software I might have looked at once to - Nope.

If I’m a media enterprise, probably, yeah.

Right now? They’ve been doing this for two years!

CD’s?! Ooh La La Mister Fancy French man with the digital media! Back in our day linux came on a plastic 45 inside Fruity Pebbles cereal and it had loose crusty sugar in the grooves that introduced errors in X that meant the screen scrolled like an out-of-whack tv and you had to wait for the prompt to roll by so you could try another resolution that would core dump and spit you back to the A:\ drive and eject the disc into your shins like a frisbee! And that’s the way we liked it!

I didn’t think it was unexpected. I thought it was specifically expected.

Sorry, but that’s exactly what it does.

Yeah, they’ll do that

Chess is hard. ?

Yeah but it seems to be happening a lot more.

This is literally thousands of years-old knowledge. At some point maybe we could call it settled and move on?

some working-class Cajuns may regard the word “coonass” as a badge of ethnic pride, whereas it may be frowned upon by some middle- and upper-class Cajuns who may be more likely to regard the term as insulting or degrading, even when used by fellow Cajuns in reference to themselves.

BAHAHAHhahahaha! Oh man. Sure, yeah well-if the intertubes says it huh.

Lemme clarify then: That is bull shit.

And “coon” is a racist term, so don’t use it. What is wrong with you.

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There’s no evidence you’re corrupt pieces of shit. But. Y’know.

They needed a survey for that?