• EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works
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      This is a neat idea until you’re in a situation where you remember 38 different words for a thing, just not the one in the language you need

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        I only speak one language fluently and one language extremely poorly.

        The number of times I’ve been able to come up with the word I want in my second language and completely blanked on it in my native language baffles my mind.

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          This is why I learned the shit out of English: If I forget a word, there’s like 6 more words that are close enough to the one I forgot.

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      If it was just one language and writing system as a choice, I might say Japanese.

      There are so many different characters in their writing as symbols instead of phonetic sounds, that bookstores in Japan are divided into sections, in which one has books that use… say 500 characters, then another section with books that use 1200 characters, or 5000, or 10,000, or more!
      To read Japanese or Chinese with a mastery of over 10,000 symbols might be my choice. The richness and depth of those writings must be something incredible.

      My second choice, for shits ‘n’ giggles, might be something like Sumerian or Akkadian, in the original Cuneiform!

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      This is a back up power to me. The best power is the power to control time however you like.

      You could learn every language ever created with the ability to control time. As you would also live as long as you wanted.

      You also would be able to timelock any object making it unmoving and indestructable.

      You can heal anyone from anything by rolling them back to when they werent injured

      No end to what you can do with controlling time

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        You also would be able to timelock any object making it unmoving and indestructable.

        Technically, if you stop something in time and space, it would disappear before your very eyes if it was on Earth, as the Earth would keep on going on its orbit around the sun, around the Milky Way Galaxy, etc. and your object would be floating somewhere. Against what reference point would you lock it?

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          Against what reference point would you lock it?

          Depends on what you need it to do (or not do)

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      I can’t even imagine how powerful I would be if I could be ignored in every language.

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        I might be a little obsessed with efficiency. Possibly due to my issues making me inefficient by nature, I tend to seek efficiency wherever I can, like some mirage in the desert of my mind.

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          Did I write this comment? I used to think I just did my best to deliberately waste as little time as possible to balance out all the time I waste involuntarily. Now I realize that I just can’t tolerate being idle, so the moment I initiate some automated process that will take more than a few seconds to complete, I start yet another task while waiting. This looks a hell of a lot more efficient on paper than it does in reality, though…

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      I thought the issue there was the processor not being able to run a single core long enough.

      Or maybe it’s just how the operating system works?

      Have you tried Linux? I use Arch btw.

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        If I had to liken ADHD to computer terms, I think I would blame a faulty task scheduler. That’s what issues the threads to the CPU. When Ryzen came out and also when Intel moved to Performance and Efficiency cores there were issues with efficient task scheduling.

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      When I was driving instacart between jobs or what not I had one for just that. Pick up 4 items from Lowes. Called them and she said they just left there and weren’t going back, haha

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    Universal language module. Not to translate all into English but to understand all of them.

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    I’d upload a few languages. Instantly being able to speak and read an array of languages and traveling the world would be fun.

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      This is a good one. I interact with a lot of East and South Asians in my spare time, and I would love to speak all of their languages. Especially since their English is not the best (in my circle, that is).

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    Read and write all languages. Be it swahili, mandarin, latin, hieroglyfs, python, c++ or java. ;)

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      Poke your hand until you hit the corner of a seam. Do the same with the other hand on an adjacent corner.

      Bring hands together so both corners touch.

      Now unfold the corner in one hand onto the other hand.

      Smooth it out. Repeat with the untouched corners.

      You can do it one more time or just fold from there

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        You say that but when you put the four corners together you get a trapezoid or triangle instead of a square or rectangle. I’ve even watched videos and tried to copy but failed at this.

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      That can be said about any form of communication. Words on a page convey what words spoken can’t always.

      The right touch in the right way Can connect you more than any sound or word could ever hope to.

      A painting can make me feel things a book can’t make me understand. A performance or dance can show me something i can’t hear or speak

      It’s different ways of experiencing experiences. What is communicated is not always the same between different subjects and objects. Even if they often do

      But also to your point hearing music IS different from feeling music and different from creating it. I think music as a communication tool is fuzzy and not very good at communicating clearly. Powerfully i dont deny but not everyone can be affected the same way by the same music either so it’s not a dependable form of communication.

      And sometimes yes those feelings can be conveyed by other means.

      But you seem like you might enjoy this song

      Ren - Hi Ren (the music video is worth watching if you listen to this one)