Really makes me feel immersed in the Japanese language. This is a common problem with Duolingo- no matter what language you study, the material just feels American commercial-district

And before you ask, no, I did not pay for the subscription, they randomly gave me three free days of Plus, or Super, or whatever it is. Imagine paying for Duolingo data-laughing

    • ReadFanon [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      5·
      8 months ago

      Sometimes when the mood takes me, I troll conservative Americans with deep, pitch-perfect satire and I will drop a string of emojis with eagles and biceps with Liberian or Malaysian flags and shit in the last line of a comment post.

      They have no clue I’m taking the absolute piss out of them.

      I’m not going to justify it, although occasionally I do try and instigate sectarian slapfights amongst these people to create a hostile environment (e.g. when conservative media is cheering on the sacking of a “woke” university lecturer so I’ll go in on how cancel culture is good, actually, and how we must protect freedom by tightly restricting speech or otherwise we’ll end up opening the door to Big Government taking over, except I cloak my language so it’s much more subtle than that - generally I make a statement that uses all the right rhetoric but which is logically contradictory and which argues against their values and often it’s enough to get half of the people responding to agree with me while the other half is outraged and disgusted by me and the first group), but I have a penchant for mischief and sometimes I do it to blow off some steam. If I manage to create chaos and division amongst reactionaries in the process, that’s a perk, but honestly it’s just me doing tactical retreat into irony to preserve my sanity when confronted by the abject, banal horror that is news media and the discourse that surrounds it, like a cloud of flies converging around a pile of horseshit.

      • Mardoniush [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        8·
        8 months ago

        Liberia is an absolutely wild country, America’s only formal colony (as opposed to its many, many de facto colonies in the 19th and 20th century) founded by Americans who thought black slaves should be sent back to Africa, and ruled by members of the free African American Bourgoisie. Of course no one told the people already living there, and the consequences of having a massive extractive divide between settler colonists and African cultures in the interior has had no negative effects whatsoever.

        Brits drawing straight lines on maps wish they could create a country half as fucked up by design as Liberia.

  • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
    11·
    8 months ago

    Are you telling me that Japanese post offices don’t have the Liberian flag in front of it?

  • 中国共产党万岁@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    10·
    8 months ago

    It’s okay, there are worse crimes while learning languages. I once encountered an app that was translating Chinese dumplings as “Chinese ravioli” and I still haven’t emotionally recovered

  • Ananasova [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    8·
    8 months ago

    The most American thing isn’t that the flag (it looks more like Liberian as pointed out other comments lol) but the flagpole at average post office for no reason

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      I assume most commenters fixated on the design of the flag itself because they’re Americans who are used to seeing flag poles in front of post offices, but I meant the whole thing, flagpole and blue mailbox and all. Besides, with the design of the mailbox I think it’s obvious it’s intended to be a simplified US flag