What they don’t tell you about speaking multiple languages is that your brain does not in fact have a box labeled Spanish and another one labeled German. Instead it has a box labeled “Not English” and sometimes when you’re talking or writing in one of the languages you speak it will just start pulling random words from that box.
I just wrote down “Tengo eine Katze” and then put my head in my hands
it also says the NGO CoffeeWatch is filing a complaint with US Customs and Border Protection attempting to block these corporations from importing coffees produced wholly or in part by slave labor in Brazil.
but this isn’t unique to Starbucks, this is the unspoken truth of many of our goods in the west, relying on the exploitation of people in the global south. i pray all the survivors secure a massive payout, but still.. i cant imagine anything would ever make up for this kind of treatment.
and i know a lot of people read headlines and not necessarily the whole article so I want to highlight a quote from Santos Filho at the end
“To put an end to this, we need consumers to be aware that every cup of coffee they drink, without questioning its true origin, is financing slave labour in coffee production. It’s no use feeling sympathy for the workers or claiming zero tolerance for such practices if you continue drinking coffee without questioning its source.”
thank you @obfuscatedtruttle1 (youtube page here) for all these videos! no activity on that account for a year but tagging just in case. the youtube channel is still active though :]
and here’s some snippets from my brief trip into the Esolang Wiki to find those links, looking back at languages I’d already encountered as well as finding new ones.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but please please please please please explore the settings. Of your phone, computer, of every app you use. Investigate the UI, toggle some things around and see what happens. You won’t break anything irreperably without a confirmation box asking you if you really mean to do that thing. And you can just look up what a setting will do before touching it if you’re really worried ok?
Worst case scenario you just have to change the settings back if you don’t like what happened but it is so so so important to explore the tools available to you and gain a better understanding for how the stuff you use works.
Even if you already know. Even if you’re comfortable with how you use it now. You don’t just have to accept whtever experience has been handed to you by default and it’s good for you to at least know what’s available to you.
Yeah. I’ve been “good at computers” since I was a kid and since I was a kid I’ve been telling people that all it is is a willingness to look at settings and push buttons.
Computers are good at “are you sure?” and “reset to defaults”. There’s a safety net. Go look at the options, and push ‘em if you’re not sure. That’s like 90% of being “good at computers” : not being scared to push buttons and fiddle with options when something is broken or you need to learn a new thing
My mom treated me like a computer wizard because I knew where in the settings menu to look up her pc’s specs to see if she had a graphics card or not. It’s literally behind like two menus max. Please investigate your technology, capitalism wants you in a walled garden, one of the best ways you can fight back is spending some time finding the weak bricks.
“every possible kind of content can be found on the internet” yeah sure except for the One fucking thing I’m looking for. why does no one want to talk about the One Singular thing I’m looking for. but yeah other than that everything is on here.
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