#language websites

[oobbbear]

I want to post this here too because I’ve seen it happen a few times

Please understand that there are cultural differences and language differences, if you see this happening let the person clarify what they meant, that person might just not be familiar with words the western side of the internet use

#bearz rambling tag #no it’s not really possible to let everyone who uses this term to change #because as far as I know this is the most common word with use on Chinese websites #I didn’t know that pairing are called ‘ship’ here #like why would I even know that #‘ship’ makes zero sense to me #it took me a while to learn the fandom language people speak here #it’s hard #give people time #shipping culture is very different too #Like on Chinese site you HAVE to clarify the Top and the Bottom of this ship in the ship name #it is very very important to them #people who like the same ship but with different Top Bottom preference will fight till no end #imagine how confused I was when I first got here #where there’s no top bottom differences #it’s not really a smut thing #it’s more a dynamic thing #AxB and BxA is very different #oh I can talk so much about the differences on fandom cultures #if ya are interested in more please feel free to ask #it’s very interesting to me #I wanna talk about it

[lifehacksthatwork]

Just a bunch of useful websites

12ft – Hate paywalls? Try this site out.

My Fridge Food – No idea what to make? Tell this site what ingredients you have on hand and it will give you recipes to cook.

Project Gutenberg – Always ends up on these type of lists and for very good reason. All works that are copyright free in one place.

Ninite – New PC? Install all of your programs in one go with no bloat or unnecessary crap.

Unchecky – Tired of software trying to install additional unwanted programs? This will stop it completely by unchecking the necessary boxes when you install.

Sci-Hub – Research papers galore! Check here before shelling out money. And if it’s not here, try the next link in our list.

LibGen – Lots of free PDFs relate primarily to the sciences.

Zotero – A free and easy to use program to collect, organize, cite and share research.

Car Complaints – Buying a used car? Check out what other owners of the same model have to say about it first.

CamelCamelCamel – Check the historical prices of items on Amazon and set alerts for when prices drop.

Have I Been Pawned – Still the king when it comes to checking if your online accounts have been released in a data breach. Also able to sign up for email alerts if you’ve ever a victim of a breach.

Radio Garden – Think Google Earth but wherever you zoom, you get the radio station of that place.

Just The Recipe – Paste in the url and get just the recipe as a result. No life story or adverts.

Tineye – An Amazing reverse image search tool.

My 90s TV – Simulates 90’s TV using YouTube videos. Also has My80sTV, My70sTV, My60sTV and for the younger ones out there, My00sTV. Lose yourself in nostalgia.

Foto Forensics – Free image analysis tools.

Old Games Download – A repository of games from the 90’s and early 2000’s. Get your fix of nostalgia here.

Online OCR – Convert pictures of text into actual text and output it in the format you need.

Remove Background – An amazingly quick and accurate way to remove backgrounds from your pictures.

Twoseven – Allows you to sync videos from providers such as Netflix, Youtube, Disney+ etc and watch them with your friends. Ad free and also has the ability to do real time video and text chat.

Terms of Service, Didn’t Read – Get a quick summary of Terms of service plus a privacy rating.

Coolors – Struggling to get a good combination of colors? This site will generate color palettes for you.

This To That – Need to glue two things together? This’ll help.

Photopea – A free online alternative to Adobe Photoshop. Does everything in your browser.

BitWarden – Free open source password manager.

Atlas Obscura – Travelling to a new place? Find out the hidden treasures you should go to with Atlas Obscura.

ID Ransomware – Ever get ransomware on your computer? Use this to see if the virus infecting your pc has been cracked yet or not. Potentially saving you money. You can also sign up for email notifications if your particular problem hasn’t been cracked yet.

Way Back Machine – The Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites and loads more.

Rome2Rio – Directions from anywhere to anywhere by bus, train, plane, car and ferry.

Splitter – Seperate different audio tracks audio. Allowing you to split out music from the words for example.

myNoise – Gives you beautiful noises to match your mood. Increase your productivity, calm down and need help sleeping? All here for you.

DeepL – Best language translation tool on the web.

Forvo – Alternatively, if you need to hear a local speaking a word, this is the site for you.

#lifehacks #life hacks #useful websites #websites #links #useful links 2022 #2022 #language learning #travel #useful programs #recipes #cooking #editing #free shit

[reasonsforhope]

"In an unprecedented step to preserve and maintain the most carbon-rich elements of U.S. forests in an era of climate change, President Joe Biden’s administration last week proposed to end commercially driven logging of old-growth trees in National Forests.

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, issued a Notice of Intent to amend the land management plans of all 128 National Forests to prioritize old-growth conservation and recognize the oldest trees’ unique role in carbon storage. 

It would be the first nationwide amendment to forest plans in the 118-year history of the Forest Service, where local rangers typically have the final word on how to balance forests’ role in watershed, wildlife and recreation with the agency’s mandate to maintain a “sustained yield” of timber.

“Old-growth forests are a vital part of our ecosystems and a special cultural resource,” Vilsack said in a statement accompanying the notice. “This clear direction will help our old-growth forests thrive across our shared landscape.”

But initial responses from both environmentalists and the logging industry suggest that the plan does not resolve the conflict between the Forest Service’s traditional role of administering the “products and services” of public lands—especially timber—and the challenges the agency now faces due to climate change. National Forests hold most of the nation’s mature and old-growth trees, and therefore, its greatest stores of forest carbon, but that resource is under growing pressure from wildfire, insects, disease and other impacts of warming.

Views could not be more polarized on how the National Forests should be managed in light of the growing risks.

National and local environmental advocates have been urging the Biden administration to adopt a new policy emphasizing preservation in National Forests, treating them as a strategic reserve of carbon. Although they praised the old-growth proposal as an “historic” step, they want to see protection extended to “mature” forests, those dominated by trees roughly 80 to 150 years old, which are a far larger portion of the National Forests. As old-growth trees are lost, which can happen rapidly due to megafires and other assaults, they argue that the Forest Service should be ensuring there are fully developed trees on the landscape to take their place...

The Biden administration’s new proposal seeks to take a middle ground, establishing protection for the oldest trees under its stewardship while allowing exceptions to reduce fuel hazards, protect public health and safety and other purposes. And the Forest Service is seeking public comment through Feb. 2 (Note: That's the official page for the proposed rule, but for some reason you can only submit comments through the forest service website - so do that here!) on the proposal as well as other steps needed to manage its lands to retain mature and old-growth forests over time, particularly in light of climate change.

If the Forest Service were to put in place nationwide protections for both mature and old-growth forests, it would close off most of the National Forests to logging. In an inventory concluded earlier this year in response to a Biden executive order, the Forest Service found that 24.7 million acres, or 17 percent, of its 144.3 million acres of forest are old-growth, while 68.1 million acres, or 47 percent, are mature."

-via Inside Climate News, December 20, 2023

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Note: This proposed rule is current up for public comment! If you're in the US, you can go here to file an official comment telling the Biden administration how much you support this proposal - and that you think it should be extended to mature forests!

Official public comments really DO matter. You can leave a comment on this proposal here until February 2nd.

#united states #us politics #conservation #climate change #sustainability #forests #old growth forest #national forest #carbon emissions #climate action #climate crisis #forest service #biden #biden administration #public comment #good news #hope #it took me soooo long to hunt down the actual public comment link #by which I mean like 10 minutes but like #that's too long! especially considering I am way better at navigating language and bureaucratic websites like this #than A LOT of people #why tf can't you just comment on the Official Website For Public Commenting? #aka regulations.gov #baffling #anyway the good news is I did find it so pls do go ahead and submit a comment if you can

[destiel-wings]

Dean Winchester & hug dynamic analysis

I was thinking about how whenever Dean hugs someone he's almost always the one hugging the other and how this links to his psychological trauma of always being the caretaker of people, making himself bigger to protect them.

Because that's how Dean sees himself, as a shield for others, and then I thought about how Cas actually is the shield, and he's HIS SHIELD, specifically, the only one who's really there to protect HIM, which is why it hits so much when we see this:

The way Cas wraps his arms around him, trying to protect him with his whole body--that he'd use as a shield and give up in a second if he could spare him from any pain and save him.

(for context: Dean was about to go use the soul bomb on Amara there, it was a suicide mission)

Bobby is another one that hits, he hugs him as the big hugger because he's his father, he loves him and he's actually here to protect him (and Dean LETS him -barely, but he lets him *and Cas* - in a way that he doesn't let Sam)

I watched a compilation of Sam & Dean hugs to check if i was right about it, but it's almost always Dean the big hugger with Sam, except when he's about to die or Sam sees him alive again after losing him.

Even then, Dean mostly tries to hug Sam as the big hugger anyway, with at least one arm, like a way to comfort him, making him feel protected, like his body language is saying "I'm here, I'm okay, I'm still strong, i can still protect you" (because their real father failed and Dean thinks it's his job).

He rarely lets himself be the little one hugged with Sam, unless he's barely conscious. Which is why it kills me so much more now that in this moment (s14, when Dean was going to lock himself in the Ma'lak box cause he was possessed by Michael) and Sam has a desperate breakdown and punches him (to stop him) he forcefully hugs him as the little hugger, the way Dean always kept him, like a way of saying "I still need you to protect me, please don't do this to yourself".

In the scene below he gives Sam his blessing to do a dangerous (possibly suicidal) mission, and one of his arms is down, but the other one tries to stay up--he's forcing himself to do it and he struggles because he still wants to protect him, but (as the seasons progress) he slowly becomes more prone to let go.

So in this view the hug dynamic becomes an indicator of how Dean sees Sam (and himself) and his protector role, how adult and self sufficient he considers Sam, and how much he lets people around him take care of him, lowering his walls and letting himself be hugged.

This is also why i think hugs from characters like Garth or Charlie are so special, because they're just like us: they see Dean and they just know that he needs to be hugged a lot, and that he's not used to it, so they just go for it-- and it's so normal and kind and spontaneous that Dean's just not used to it-- he doesn't know how to respond (especially with Garth, at the beginning, but as the seasons progress, he learns to, and he even initiates the hug eventually).

I love the hugs where they're 50/50 (one arm up, one arm down both), feels like they're equals, both taking care of each other. I feel like with Sam and Dean, this indicates a healthier dynamic, because Dean lets go a little of the role that was imposed to him and manages to see Sam as the strong individual that he is. But the same applies to 50/50 hugs with other characters, like with Cas, where I feel like it testifies how equals they feel in terms of being fighters, there's a show of respect of each other's strength that transpires by the gesture (which is even more astounding considering that Cas is literally a powerful angel).

And just to end on a destiel note, I'd like to note the possessiveness and protectiveness of Dean (rightfully so) whenever he finds Cas after he thought he had lost him, and how that translates into his body/hug language:

#dean winchester #spn #dean winchester character study #spn analysis #dean winchester analysis #dean winchester & hugs #dean studies #destiel #deancas #body language #hugs #dean winchester hugs #castiel #sam winchester #sam & dean #sam & dean dynamics #dean x cas #psychology #my thoughts #my interpretation #my analysis #spn gifs #dean winchester gifs #Youtube #long post #but it's mostly many gifs #no that's not true i also wrote a lot (but it's little paragraphs in between more gifs than the mobile app allows) #(I did it from the website to cheat) #(i hope it doesn't lag too much)

[benkyoutobentou]

language learning culture is always watching children’s media in various languages

#benkyou posting #polyglot #langblr #studyblr #language learning #studying #studyinspo #i never watched toooo much childrens shows in japanese but right now my main mandarin study resource is a website made for kids to learn #one of the more advanced stories on the website is a kids version of journey to the west #im so excited to be able to watch that one some day #i do need to start reading (comics) though because im mostly just watching things as immersion in mandarin

[prokopetz]

I'm not saying I was born in the wrong era, but I do sometimes reflect that having been born in the era that I was means I'll likely never have the chance to have my life's work unironically described in mainstream periodicals as an "infernal contraption".

#life #language #you just don't see a lot of news websites declaring things to be affronts to man and god

[evegwood]

I've finally compiled a whole bunch of my conlangs and conscripts on my website! If you're interested in made up languages and alphabets, you can read my painfully detailed write-ups at evegwood.com/languages.

#conscripts #conlangs #languages are like the number one thing i think about other than comics #and you know how insane i am about comics #so you can imagine how absolutely nuts i get about languages #i am SO relieved to finally have this all in one place #instead of in several folders of loose paper #not art #these are NOT FREE FOR USE by the way!!!!! #it says on the website but #you may not use these for any public or commercial projects #pay me for that

[whilomm]

"oh theres so much laios tentacle stuff" WHERE IS IT?? WHAT WEBSITES?? TELL ME

#WHY AM I FINDING MORE LAIOS/MARCIELLE STUFF THAN I AM LAIOS/TENTACLES THAT IS NOT FUCKING RIGHT #WHY IS THERE 50 PAGES OF CHILCHUCK GETTING TENTACLE FCUKED AND NOT LAIOS HES THE PRIME CANDIATE #god i hate the tumblr ban yet again bc it would surely be So Much Easier to find here #im trying ro use gelbooru and pixiv and shit but 1. having trouble figuring out how to search 2. SERIOUSLY WHY SO MUCH #MARCILLEE/LAIOS SHIT THAF OUTWEIGHS TENTACLES BY SO FUCJING MUCH #WHY!!! UNNECESSARY!!! #also unfortunately. laios and falin stuff which is. hm. no please keep that 100000 miles away from me thanks. #also for how popular laios/kabru is here i hardly see ANY of it there #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #laios touden #maybe if i tag it the laios squad will come with links and websites and search terms #TELL ME EXACTLY WHAT WORDS TOTYPE INTO THIS WEBSITE PLEASE ITS IN A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE AND I AM CONFUSION

[rslashrats]

various banners from different german ratteries and breeding projects, found here

#rats #this whole website is in german so this is enrichment for me #trying to learn rat genetics on a website where i don't speak much of the language. lets goo

[ponydoodles]

hello everyone!! just a quick one, thank u for all the asks reminding us to turn on preventing third party sharing- we’ve already done it 🫡

to anyone who hasn’t already make sure to go to your settings -> visibility -> ‘prevent third party sharing’ (pictured below) and make sure that’s ON! this means your data and such cannot be sold to research companies and posts can’t be used in ai training models!

-mod treat

#ik mentions of ai tends to put everyone into a panic but pls don’t be distressed! #this is obviously a dumb feature esp on such an anti-ai website it’ll be removed soon enough #and it mostly refers to just text posts too like the posts users create will train ai language models #but as long as u have the setting on (don’t worry if you don’t have it yet it’s something being rolled out just check back the next day) #you’re totally fine and covered ❤️

[mapsontheweb]

Percentage of websites within country code top-level domain (ccTLD) written in English.

by u/pieca_111

#maps #pieca_111 #ttl #websites #english language

[txttletale]

the linguistic hoops that liberals will go jump through to describe the institutional violence of non-western states without acknowledging the obvious truth that america does the exact same things on a larger scale is ridiculous. “country X is such an authoritarian nightmare, they have prison camps/internment camps/gulags!!”

“no, because people are sent there for no reason! they’re imprisoned on false charges just because of their ethinicity!! people are forced to confess even though they’re innocent!”

“no!!!! it’s different!! in country X the detainees are forced into modern-day slavery to make money for the government!! the guards illegally torture, rape, and beat them!!”

#because this is the piss on the poor website: i'm not defending thing X or thing Y #just pointing out that the language used to describe these situations is specifically chosen #to elide the fact that the US is the world's biggest carceral state entirely out of any given conversation #to present these things as a Uniquely Foreign Evil perpetrated only by Regimes #and sanitize the atrocities of US empire into being simply everyday innocuous operations #inherently unremarkable #best of

[gamebunny-advance]

(Source)

I really liked these unique scenes that were made for the Pikmin Garden website entry on caves. Technically, neither of these use unique assets, but it's kinda cute that they went through the trouble of making these scenes just for character building.

It almost gives me hope for DLC~

#pikmin #pikmin 4 #olimar #louie #i say 'building' but the dialogue actually doesn't tell us anything we don't already know: #olimar thinks logically. louie thinks with his stomach #but these articles are still cute~ canonically they're all written by Chet #i get by from translating the text using the language tool add-on. it's kinda interesting reading how they reconcile all the continuities #as far as the website is concerned: all games are canon and nothing is officially retconned #it's up to you if you want to believe that though #my favorite article so far is about space suits #like... did you know that the 'collar' the president wears is actually a bib? #or that there's an actual reason you can instantly change your spacesuit color?

[granny-griffin]

guys more of you should post in your native language about stuff that isn’t relevant to me as an american. sometimes I want to learn about other languages/cultures via interaction and not from a textbook but it gets kind of hard when everyone only uses english all the time

#this also applies to fic writing!! #why do I not have to specify english fics on ao3 if I want to see english fics! #or if thats the english fanfic website #where are the other ones?? #dont be shy. show me that my language and culture are not the default #hey! griffin!

[kukekakuningaskris]

i bring you my medieval recreation of the crash fic (thanks to the bayeux tapestry website thingy)

#my credentials are that i have an english language and literature degree #pls don't fact check my old english too hard i spent way too long trying to get it somewhat okay using several websites and sources #shoutout to the bosworth-toller anglo-saxon dictionary for being unusable as always great job guys #sometimes you spend an hour looking up old english vocabulary and grammar rules for the silliest fandom joke ever and thats okay #joker out

[iwanttobepersephone]

Omg you know what I just realized

In 3 languages now the first full phrase I have learned + memorized has been "I love you"

Japanese: 恋してる

Irish: tá grá agam duit

Dutch: Ik houd van jou

What a pattern like dude

#learning languages #languages #japanese #irish #dutch #I learned the japanese one from YouTube duolingo a website and pinterest #the irish one from pinterest alone #and the Dutch one from a friend #but like seriously though now that I've noticed that pattern I'm so happy #(also I know the Japanese one's not really the like. Casual one. By any means. But it's the one I memorized lol)