Rex Mundane
Witness to the Shoe Event Horizon
- I love this thing on the internet where you can just say "Remember..." before just making something up? And then, because people don't appreciate how bad their own memories are, they'll actually manufacture the memory for themselves in that moment, and say "Yeah, I *DO* remember that!" So good.
- Dear hell I'm arguing with trolls again. I haven't grown at all. I know better, I'm certain I know better, I know they don't care about data or argument and are just trying to waste everyone's time. But also, they're... incorrect, and disproving them gives me a dopamine hit. I'm an addict.
- Starting to actively hate the Duolingo app. Let my Super subscription lapse when they announced they were going all in on AI, hadn't understood how *hostile* the free version is to use. A single exercise can drain more than half your energy, so you have to watch like 6 more ads for damned KingShot.
- And all the ads, including the ones for Duolingo itself, are obviously AI generated as well, which compounds it. It's wild how some of the ads are like "By joining Duolingo Super, you help bring our app to millions!" And... so what, I'm paying you to inflict this broken user experience on others?
- I'm sticking with it for the moment, hoping to hit a 2000-day streak in, I think, August, and finish the Japanese course by then, after which, I'll be glad to watch that bird burn.