SaraTonin

joined 2 months ago
[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

I once watched a German YouTuber talk about learning English and how quickly she improved when she started working in an English office because she _ had_ to. In the video she says one of the things she’s always had difficulty with but is now much better at and almost never slips up on now is vs and ws. Then, immediately afterwards in the next sentence she goes “now in this wideo…”

[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

TheSpiffingBrit is similar

And if you’re in to chess, Kevin’s partner, Anna Rudolf used to have some of the best educational chess content online. Her and Daniel Naroditsky (RIP). She stepped back from producing much content for personal reasons and now mostly works behind the scenes on Kevin’s channel, but she’s getting back into commentating and is excellent at that.

[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

What, exactly, do you find unbelievable about the best linguists of the last 400 years being unable to solve a 10-letter anagram? Anagrams are really hard.

[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s human nature to survive, but doing things which enable you to survive is not part of human nature?

[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So the first person who acquired wealth and/or power got no pleasure from it, because that’s not in their nature, but nonetheless kept it and passed it down to their children, who also derived no pleasure from it but also kept it and passed it down, until it had become ingrained tradition, and then people started to acquire the desire for the wealth and power they had had for generations?

[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (5 children)

If it’s not in human nature to hoard wealth and power, then how do systems arise which are predicated on obtaining as much wealth or power as possible?

[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (7 children)

So then it’s not capitalism which causes in humans the desire to hoard wealth and power?

[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (9 children)

So the ruling class, with all the wealth and power and ability to do whatever they wanted acted against their own natures to create a system which would create in humans the desire to hoard wealth and power?

[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (11 children)

One has to wonder how capitalism arose, if the traits which gave rise to it aren’t part of human nature.