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I feel like a lot of Duolingo discourse should acknowledge that the reason that they have basically every national European language on there is not because of a “European bias” but because of refugees. A huge number of refugees in Europe use it to learn the language of whatever country they’re moving to or living in; the site even talks about it in the “fun facts” on their waiting screen. Languages like Swedish and Norwegian aren’t there primarily for Minnesotans getting in touch with their heritage, but for African and Asian refugees in Sweden and Norway, and indeed they make up the majority of people using Duolingo to learn those languages. The site does need to add more non-European languages; it’s gradually doing this, it recently added Zulu, Xhosa and Kreyòl, and its focus on indigenous languages like Navajo and Hawaiian is especially commendable, but there are still some glaring omissions of major world languages from Asia and Africa that need to be addressed — and even “they’re edited by users” doesn’t cut it with how many people worldwide speak those whom they could seek out! But the fact that a free language app is doing its best to provide the language learning services that those actual countries routinely deny desperately-poor refugees is a good thing actually. Reserve your rage for the inclusion of Esperanto, Klingon and High Valyrian over Tagalog and Farsi.

There’s a big campaign locally to get Icelandic on Duolingo because there are no competent resources accessible to immigrants. Something like 15% of the country can’t speak the local language, a number that probably goes up to 20% or more during the tourism season. This is a huge problem in society made worse by the head of the largest low wage union saying she thinks that only the bourgeois would want access to language classes during work hours. Duolingo Icelandic could help solve one of the most pressing issues for one of the richest countries in the world - which, yes, is a completely pathetic state of affairs but guess what, not enough people vote with a mind to immigrant affairs and the political will to solve this problem simply doesn’t exist. Finland and i believe some of the other Nordics at least have fully subsidized immersion programs up to B2-C1, Iceland doesn’t. So if Icelandic shows up on Duolingo next, please consider that there’s been a large influx of especially Ukrainian and Palestinian refugees in the past year and the Icelandic government isn’t exactly going out of their way to help them integrate.

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People who think sheep are killed for their wool are so hilarious to me. Does your barber slit your throat whenever you get a haircut?? Are you a returning customer to Sweeney Todd? Lmao it grows back, fools.

This is completely ignoring the fact that the sheep's soul is stored in its wool. So sure, the body remains, but the spirit, the essence of the sheep, that's gone forever, and then as the wool regrows a new soul moves in.

What

Wool raises Magic Defense and sheep prevent hauntings by absorbing floating souls what’s not to get.

this is why wearing woolly jumpers makes you immune to ghosts tho

i’m going to start calling american music a-pop. for no reason

You know Hitchcock’s philosophy about audience suspense?

If your nose is currently unblocked and not runny, take a moment to appreciate it. Wow look at you breathing in with both nostrils and not having to blow your nose every two minutes! You must be so proud of yourself! I’m proud of you too bud, have fun with your clear nose, you deserve it.

"markiplier utilizing his extremely horny fan base with the intention of making joe rogans life a living nightmare" is a string of words that seemed unimaginable just moments ago but it's now one of the funniest fucking things that exists on the internet. Outstanding, absolutely no criticism here

How do I put this gently . . . You fuckers wanna see Trump actually face consequences - see Roe protected - not lose all the progress of the past 2 years under Biden? (yes ik we need more to be done i know) YOU HAVE TO FUCKING VOTE IN THE MID TERMS - POLLS ARE SHOWING A RED RESURGANCE BC PEOPLE HATE INFLATION AND THEY'RE VOTING REPUBLICAN LIKE IT'LL DO SOMETHING TO STOP IT.

Vote. Encourage your friends to vote. Vote at all levels. It does make a difference! If it didn't they wouldn't be trying so hard to discourage us from voting!

Really.