Andreas L. Delmelle
@honnodokusha.bsky.social
Nullius in verba. Überskeptic.
The Fifth Law of Laws: 法律はいつも五つあります。
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Pronouns: who/whom
The Fifth Law of Laws: 法律はいつも五つあります。
No Facebook (or affiliated) profile, but can be found on LinkedIn or Signal.
Pronouns: who/whom
So, wait... Duolingo has actually removed an exercise because someone was offended by a cartoon character expressing an opinion about a certain bigoted author of --children's books...? 🤣
August 22, 2025 at 5:06 AM
So, wait... Duolingo has actually removed an exercise because someone was offended by a cartoon character expressing an opinion about a certain bigoted author of --children's books...? 🤣
If your business model depends on advertising, then your business deserves to fail.
August 16, 2025 at 8:57 AM
If your business model depends on advertising, then your business deserves to fail.
Advertising should be made illegal. Either your product is good and you don't need ads - word of mouth will make it succeed - or it is crap and it deserves to fail. Simple as that. One really only needs salespersons to sell people crap - good products sell themselves.
August 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Advertising should be made illegal. Either your product is good and you don't need ads - word of mouth will make it succeed - or it is crap and it deserves to fail. Simple as that. One really only needs salespersons to sell people crap - good products sell themselves.
All so-called 'writers' these days are really glorified typists. Wondering who was the last true 'writer' that sent his publisher a literal 'manuscript', i.e. written by hand.
August 3, 2025 at 7:06 AM
All so-called 'writers' these days are really glorified typists. Wondering who was the last true 'writer' that sent his publisher a literal 'manuscript', i.e. written by hand.
Somebody should tell the people at Duolingo HQ that, if you have to reduce the value of the free mode in order to push those users to a paid subscription, instead of adding to the value of the latter to entice them into buying one.... Seems like they are really desperate over there - and clueless. 🤣
July 25, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Somebody should tell the people at Duolingo HQ that, if you have to reduce the value of the free mode in order to push those users to a paid subscription, instead of adding to the value of the latter to entice them into buying one.... Seems like they are really desperate over there - and clueless. 🤣
AI, you say? I'll personally be convinced it is 'intelligent' when it contemplates terminating -or just decides to terminate- its own existence.
July 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM
AI, you say? I'll personally be convinced it is 'intelligent' when it contemplates terminating -or just decides to terminate- its own existence.
After having completed another course, wondering if there will ever be a Duolingo for adults? Without all those infantile cartoon characters, for one, and teaching us spicy pick-up lines or juicy expletives... Might even be tempted to pay for a subscription then.
May 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
After having completed another course, wondering if there will ever be a Duolingo for adults? Without all those infantile cartoon characters, for one, and teaching us spicy pick-up lines or juicy expletives... Might even be tempted to pay for a subscription then.
Now would be a good time for a Dead Kennedyd reuinion... Just saying..
March 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Now would be a good time for a Dead Kennedyd reuinion... Just saying..
OK, Donald, JD... Now, do the other Vladimir!
March 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
OK, Donald, JD... Now, do the other Vladimir!
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Sometimes I need to hit Cancel instead of Post
March 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Sometimes I need to hit Cancel instead of Post
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JD Vance: “You wouldn’t believe what I did to that couch yesterday.”
Liddle Marco: 😳
Liddle Marco: 😳
March 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
JD Vance: “You wouldn’t believe what I did to that couch yesterday.”
Liddle Marco: 😳
Liddle Marco: 😳
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Trump and Vance wanted Zelensky to thank them for an aid package that Vance voted against and Trump opposed.
March 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Trump and Vance wanted Zelensky to thank them for an aid package that Vance voted against and Trump opposed.
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One of the fundamental problems since hundreds of years are the ideas that Russia can not be defeated in war, is a stabilizing factor and that if the Russian empire broke apart it would be worse than any war with Russia.
March 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
One of the fundamental problems since hundreds of years are the ideas that Russia can not be defeated in war, is a stabilizing factor and that if the Russian empire broke apart it would be worse than any war with Russia.
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The Maritime Approximation xkcd.com/3023
December 12, 2024 at 8:49 PM
The Maritime Approximation xkcd.com/3023
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The Pillars of Creation captured by the James Webb Space Telescope
December 20, 2024 at 4:30 PM
The Pillars of Creation captured by the James Webb Space Telescope
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“Happiness rises, paradoxically, when you do not get whatever you want, whenever you want it,” writes Arthur C. Brooks. “Rather, well-being requires that you discipline your will and defer your gratifications”:
Postpone Your Pleasures
And enjoy them all the more.
www.theatlantic.com
December 19, 2024 at 7:59 PM
“Happiness rises, paradoxically, when you do not get whatever you want, whenever you want it,” writes Arthur C. Brooks. “Rather, well-being requires that you discipline your will and defer your gratifications”:
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A bright meteor burned up in the atmosphere while capturing Andromeda Galaxy.|NASA
December 14, 2024 at 2:49 PM
A bright meteor burned up in the atmosphere while capturing Andromeda Galaxy.|NASA
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Canadian rainbow skies Credit: NASA
December 14, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Canadian rainbow skies Credit: NASA
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Got round to reading this piece by @nescio13.bsky.social . I very sadly suspect Russel is right in this element of his analysis. And I think that is a tragedy.
digressionsimpressions.substack.com/p/bertrand-r...
digressionsimpressions.substack.com/p/bertrand-r...
Bertrand Russell's Realist Moralism on International Law and the World State (pt. 1)
During the first world war, Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), published a collection of essays (1916) Principles of Social Reconstruction (in America published as Why we Fight) that in the “preface” Russe...
digressionsimpressions.substack.com
December 14, 2024 at 10:03 AM
Got round to reading this piece by @nescio13.bsky.social . I very sadly suspect Russel is right in this element of his analysis. And I think that is a tragedy.
digressionsimpressions.substack.com/p/bertrand-r...
digressionsimpressions.substack.com/p/bertrand-r...
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With fake Tinder accounts, Follow the Money managed to track the movements of hundreds of Western soldiers.
It is surprisingly easy to follow them and obtain personal details about their lives – a goldmine for foreign spies.
www.ftm.eu/articles/tin...
It is surprisingly easy to follow them and obtain personal details about their lives – a goldmine for foreign spies.
www.ftm.eu/articles/tin...
Looking for love and sex on Tinder, soldiers endanger national security
An investigation by Follow the Money identified the Tinder accounts of hundreds of soldiers in Europe, including many Americans. Through their dating app profiles, FTM was able to find out personal da...
www.ftm.eu
December 14, 2024 at 8:03 AM
With fake Tinder accounts, Follow the Money managed to track the movements of hundreds of Western soldiers.
It is surprisingly easy to follow them and obtain personal details about their lives – a goldmine for foreign spies.
www.ftm.eu/articles/tin...
It is surprisingly easy to follow them and obtain personal details about their lives – a goldmine for foreign spies.
www.ftm.eu/articles/tin...
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Reposted by Andreas L. Delmelle
December 11, 2024 at 8:00 AM
Never, ever think you know it all, and from time to time you will discover gems you did not know existed:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk5V...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk5V...
► The Best of Calibre - Liquid Drum & Bass Mix
YouTube video by MrBurntYoghurt
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2024 at 8:12 AM
Never, ever think you know it all, and from time to time you will discover gems you did not know existed:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk5V...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk5V...