Maybe I should follow in the foot steps of @nedpyle.com and start a series of “snories”.

First up would be Hershy:

Duolingo is the best way to spend 15m a day, usually in weird places, to make some progress on learning a language.

If you really want to do it, learn properly, immerse and the whole shebang.

And I say this as a paying, happy customer:

Please tell me that someone in @microsoft.com at least got a promo pack for slinging this shit into W11 24H2, and that it wasn't just to torment me…

Sorry but it's another case of classical US "na-na-na-na-na-i-can't-hear-you" willful blindness to any empirical evidence, so to not go through a crisis of faith in the almighty power of greed.

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