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Hertha  ·  2885 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are your goals for 2017?

Hey oyster,

what kind of beekeeping are you looking at?

Hertha  ·  3381 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Anarchestra - man invents hundreds of strange musical instruments

I really like the quote. Too high expectations of others can be a great burden.

Hertha  ·  3399 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How to be polite

i have been a really polite person, but yes that means smiling and laughing if pepole treat you like shit, which is lying. I have been polite until the age of 12, but as I encountered it people get it wrong all the time, mistaking your politness as invitation for harming you. Eventually I stopped, became the opposite. I've walked up to people to tell them I don't like them. this article motivates me to reintroduce a little fake politness. it certainly has its upps

Hertha  ·  3414 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How Americans United for Life Is Reshaping States' Abortion Laws - The Atlantic

Thanks for the additional insight. I find the last part of your comment troubling. There will always be a minority group trying to shove their oppinion down everyone else's throat, the real problem is the system, that let's them. The sole purpose of a state is to better the inhabitents lifes. If a government fails to protect from AUL etc, the government has failed.

Hertha  ·  3417 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski, what's an original idea you've had but have never had the chance to share it?

The mosquitobite is the one act left in which the human contributes to the ecosystem sustaining this world.

Hertha  ·  3419 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Does your head use multiple languages?

translate, like you activly translate or what comes to the paper is a different language than what you percieved?

Hertha  ·  3419 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Does your head use multiple languages?

Like a barricade your mind set up, to keep those languages nice and tidy in separate boxes?

Hertha  ·  3419 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Does your head use multiple languages?

That's a nice approach, going to try that today.

Hertha  ·  3419 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Does your head use multiple languages?

Had to Google those. So the Philippines? Out of curiosity, how comfortable do you feel in those languages, and assuming you learned them pretty much simultaneously do you feel it's hard to distinguish between them?

Hertha  ·  3419 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Does your head use multiple languages?

maths count, as well as any kind of programming. I had to learn Latin und ancient Greek aswell, but there so far of from any modern thinking pattern, and also too obsolete to find a way into my active vocabulary.

Hertha  ·  3419 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Does your head use multiple languages?

Native German, learned english (more a learning by doing kind, it's not correct but not bothersome), spanish and now french. Worst are collocations, I tend to mess those up.

Hertha  ·  3421 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 9 Reddit Alternatives Trying So Hard

But also I feel misunderstood. The sentence about hubski might standing a chance if it gets more popular?