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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • We’re talking about, say, learning Spanish and Duolingo be like “now translate this very long and overly specific sentence to English”

    Then you end up trying to construct the English sentence even though you’re learning Spanish

    Here’s an example where I think my sentence is perfectly fine, but it just expected a different word order. It expected me to put If at the beginning, but I didn’t notice it was capitalized.

    Korean doesn’t even have capital letters, why is it doing some gotcha about English capitalization when I already know English?


















  • They have social security and some of them have savings. My mom is planning to retire in West Virginia and she’s already planning on selling her current residence to build a house there. She chose a low property tax state on purpose.

    At this point she would only receive social security and start to go through her savings to live. You want to start charging her federal taxes the moment her property is worth $1 more than what she bought it for, even though she’s on fixed income.