rattlesnake

Okay, so we are mentally ill. The question is, what to do with us? Especially as we are now the majority (c.f. your own claim that all Trump supporters are conspiracy theorists, that's 77 million people in the US alone). Being in the minority of sane people, what do you suggest as an actionable remedy?

You should capitalise and add punctuation to your own output (here, the first sentence) so that it blends in a little more seamlessly with the AI output.

Of note, yes. Popular, no.

I was on a thread just now and saw one guy's post was in the "Most Popular Posts" leaderboard on the right hand-side. This particular post, though, has received 6 thumbs down vs. one thumbs up, so it is not popular by any stretch of the imagination. It seems the counter takes into account all emojis received without distinguishing them. This would be a worthwhile tweak to make: posts receiving thumbs down are not popular! Cheers.

77 million people in the US alone. You are screwed.

It is called an insurmountable contradiction. It places the interlocutor in a binary position: make an honest concession or ignore/deflect.

@kwilco, how about giving your insights on Biden's naked showers with his daughter, instead of a thumbs down (or a 'digital grunt of the illiterati' as you once so eloquently put it to describe what you saw as a propensity to compensate rhetorical mediocrity with an emoji)?

Are you implying that 'conspiracy theorists' are de facto Trump supporters? There is just as much – if not more – Donald derangement and hatred amongst them than in other categories. Anyway, what do you want to know?

Yes, native English speakers are actually the worst IME, but they get away with it (and are not encouraged to make any effort) because they already speak the 'universal language'.

Yeah, they do that. 😄 Partly because they are insecure about their own inability to speak any foreign language (I am French by the way).

For the first few weeks. 😄

France is a good example, as the French are notoriously unwilling to speak anything other than French. The result is that foreigners learn the language very quickly in general. The human brain is very resourceful and performs well if/when required.

That's not true, I never progressed as quickly as when I was surrounded by non-English speaking Thai natives.

In my experience and opinion, learning the alphabet by heart is the most difficult, but most rewarding step as everything becomes so much easier after that. Thai is actually a very simple language, from a grammatical viewpoint. No conjugations, connectors, prepositions, plural/singular... The vocabulary and underlying linguistic logic are also incredibly simple. Another thing I have done for years is strive to learn one thing every day, whether a new word, or a word I already know but practice pronunciation, or an idiomatic formulation etc. You don't notice the difference in the short term, but you do in the long term. I am better now than I was one year ago, and will be better in one year than I am now. This app is the one I used several years ago for the alphabet, I found it great. It is designed for kids but works very well for an adult: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.megagenius.kengthai&pli=1

It depends on your personality, I think. I used to know smokers who were on the paranoid side, and I tended to be too. Being an 'overthinker', I quit weed/hasch nearly 20 years ago because it wasn't good for me.