Think about written English: it’s phonetic.

How do you learn to RECOGNIZE A WRITTEN WORD when you don’t know what it sounds like, let alone what the letters mean. Or becomes a matter of a hundred thousand different symbols, recognized as a unit, removed from the auditory context.

I can’t imagine how any deaf person learns to read, to be honest . It’s an astounding feat.

A lot of posts are from bots. It would be cool if the bots could make a whole new submission and not link back, but all things considered I’m just happy there is interesting content.

Cool fact! Thanks!

Italic?

Woah.I had never heard of this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_paper_bag_test

Yes! Thank you!

There is a book my friend swore by. I think it’s called “how to quit smoking”. By the time he finished it he said he had lost all interest.

It’s kind of well known, and I’m sure you can find it if you Google.

Baby carrots with peanut butter

Excellent point

There is no value to society to have it last that long. And if there is no value to society, then the system should be changed.

They have created the perpetual copyright scheme we all suffer with.

There’s no reason copyright needs to last longer than 7 years

Disney

Ticketmaster

Exxon

Chevron

Shell

https://midwest.social/post/3398391

I think the lemmy community is great as it is!

Martini

Donate to the union fund, and give the scab performance a one star review on Google maps

Make sure you have a plug converter so you can charge your electronics

Tell them they should have factored the consequences into their predetermined behavior.

They should also understand why consistent enforcement is necessary to prevent others from making the same preordained decision.

Even if the choice is only illusory, it’s indistinguishable from free will in every other respect… So we will treat it as such