Posting less is how you kill the whole idea of the fediverse

It’s not about paying, my insurance will get me back. It’s about the wait time in the emergency room. If you’re not dying they never see you until early in the morning

You see how that would be bad for the economy, right? Good for individual workers, but bad for consumers since there’s no longer a person doing some service, like I don’t know, medical care. I fell off the bike in Canada and spent 7 hours covered in blood before a nurse saw me and bandaged me up.

As an American I also had to pay $1000 USD for this (insurance will eventually refund this to me, hopefully)

You didn’t prove it had any effect. I actually learned the simplified characters and they are more confusing

fā 發 and fà 髮 now share the character 发 despite different meanings and pronunciations

Same for 亁 gān and 幹 gàn sharing the character 干

Considering mainland Chinese have no issue reading traditional characters, I don’t see how it helps

If you can’t understand something, you don’t get challenged, you just skip it. You need to be getting 98%-99% of the text to gain something from reading it

Simplified Chinese didn’t do anything. Taiwan has a higher literacy rate than mainland China while using traditional characters

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

Only if you understand most of it

You have no appreciation for people learning languages and how hard it is

Turning over in my head is an expression that’s also part of vocabulary, there’s no physical turning, it’s a form of speech

You can ask the AI for any reading level you want and it will do it

Why not

People reading more might actually make them better readers, Even if it’s too simple for your standards!

If they read more simple material, they would still improve their reading comprehension. Maybe even more efficiently, if it’s still challenging but not overwhelming

Yes, people reading books would be terrible

It’s a higher grade reading level. It’s not just longer, but also harder to understand for teenagers who don’t have the same vocabulary as adults

Yeah, it’s reading books that makes people dumb

The cat listens to me. It understands nothing, though

They were very smart. Ball pens messed up my wrists. I was livid when I found out it takes no pressure to write with a fountain pen

Because I don’t like the smell of cat shit anywhere outside the bathroom

But itself, maybe not

Domino’s has not. Yet people criticize a few dollars delivery fee, despite Uber eats actually costing more (maybe not at first glance, but the prices in store and online are different which is worse)