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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I recently tried duo lingo. I have a pretty strong background in Spanish, but want to brush up. It became apparent very quickly that the app is not about learning so much as keeping you in it. The lessons don’t make a ton of sense, and after not using app for a week, it demoted me to just 8 words that you would learn in your first class (hombre, el, agua, tu, etc.). There is no way to skip ahead.

















  • It is very clear where he got his ideas from. The Daily Show put together a nice summary.

    The words he uses are not common expressions. They aren’t even phrases you might accidentally reinvent.

    He uses very direct language from Hitler’s speeches.

    • Blood of our nation
    • Vermin
    • Fake news
    • Make America great again
    • Referring to enemies as animals
    • Retribution

    All of it is clearly stolen for Hitler’s playbook. Trump gets on the stage and suddenly he speaks with a 1930’s vocabulary.