Promiseland

[Fetian]

User
Please give me a simple Japanese sentence to practice translating with

ChatGPT
Certainly! Here's a simple Japanese sentence for you to practice translating:

明日は晴れるといいですね。
Translation: I hope it will be sunny tomorrow.

Give it a try and let me know how you translate it!

User
Please give me a simple Japanese sentence without telling me the translation, to practice translating with

ChatGPT
Certainly! Here's a simple Japanese sentence for you to practice translating without providing the translation upfront:

私は猫が好きです。

Please go ahead and try to translate it on your own. Let me know when you're ready, and I'll provide the translation for you.

User
I think this sentence means "I like cats"

ChatGPT
That's correct! The translation of the sentence is indeed "I like cats." Well done! If you have any more sentences you'd like to practice translating, feel free to let me know.

User
Please give me another

ChatGPT
Certainly! Here's another sentence for you to practice translating:

今日はとても暑いです。

Give it a try and let me know your translation when you're ready!

User
I think this sentence means "It is very hot today"

ChatGPT
That's absolutely correct! The translation of the sentence is indeed "It is very hot today." Well done! If you'd like to continue practicing, feel free to let me know.

User
Please give me another

ChatGPT
Of course! Here's another sentence for you to practice translating:

彼女はピアノを上手に弾きます。

Take your time and provide your translation whenever you're ready!

User
I think this sentence means "She plays the piano well"

ChatGPT
You've got it! The translation of the sentence is indeed "She plays the piano well." Great job! If you have any more sentences you'd like to practice translating, feel free to let me know.

User
Thank you, じゃあまた

ChatGPT
You're welcome! じゃあ、また会いましょう！ (Sure, see you again!) If you have more questions or need assistance in the future, feel free to reach out. さようなら！(Goodbye!)

Pretty proud of myself, honestly

(full disclosure that I'm using Google Translate to translate words that I'm not already familiar with, but picking out where words end and begin to be able to do that is itself a skill with Japanese, and one that I've struggled with)

[Fetian]

I am of course trusting that ChatGPT is giving me correct information, but I think I can do that with reasonably high confidence between what I independently know to be accurate and knowing that ChatGPT has been trained on a lot of relevant materials

[Fetian]

If I ever get fluent (or close to fluent) in a second language, I honestly think I would really enjoy doing real translation work. They're like little language puzzles

[knightofcups]

It's not a footnote, it's a square!

m^ma^anⁿ

[Fetian]

Who invited man man

[Fetian]

I just discovered the steamdeck has a built-in music player for albums in your library, which is very cool

I may start actually caring about games that come with soundtracks

[Fetian]

We went camping! And now we're home! It was fun! And now I'm going to lay down forever!

We decided to come back a day earlier than we'd planned. I am glad to be back with my cat, who was fine without me. But we're already making plans for our next trip -- thinking maybe something in September?

A lot of camping as an adult is waiting around for it to be time for you to do what you want to do. Waiting for it to be time to eat, waiting for the sun to go down so you can have a fire, waiting for night so you can see the stars before you go to bed, waiting until you have the energy again to go hiking, etc. We did play some games, and we brought some electronics to do things with, and at one point we laid down in the tent for an hour and just rested, though it was very hot at that point. But yeah -- as a kid I'd be doing a lot more exploring, and playing around, that I don't have the energy to do now, but I don't really have much to replace that with

Anyway! Laying down for a while and catching up on some of the internet

[Fetian]

The reddit API thing genuinely has me extremely concerned about the future of the internet. This is a turning of the winds. I don't want to see what happens when it becomes the norm that you can only visit and interact with websites through the means they want you to

More and more of the old internet is dying, and corporations are trying very, very hard to crush the philosophies that made the internet great

[Fetian]

So much of the internet now is about ownership. Who owns what content. I hate it.

[Fetian]

Also can all of the people complaining about ""power hungry mods"" and how ""users own the content"" and ""mods aren't providing a valuable service"" and etc please start and try to moderate a subreddit

I hope it goes extremely viral for them

 
Like obviously it takes a lot of work to moderate a subreddit, which is the entire point of most of this, but also like, anyone can start a subreddit, that's just how reddit is supposed to work. So if you're upset mods have privated or restricted your precious subreddit just, start a new one and bring everyone over to it. I gather this is less of how reddit works anymore, that there are official subreddits that you're supposed to stick to, but that's how it used to work and all the tools to do it again are still there. So if moderating is so easy and you want to keep using reddit in counterprotest then put your money where your mouth is and just do it yourself.