Holy smokes. Beautiful

This story gets me the chills. Very sad.

Great comment. She effectively communicates in all those languages, which is impressive. Who cares about her pronunciation mistakes or her accent ! Still, your analysis is interesting to understand the roots of Latin languages and how subconsciously we tend to phonetically use our mother tongue phonetics when communicating using other romanic languages and dialects. It happens to me when speaking specially French or Italian that I cannot avoid but using the tonic syllable of my native language. I always say that, even is not a Latin/greek based language, I love how Swedish pronounce their English: in my experience, kind of trying to communicate efficiently and forgetting, as much as neutrally possible, about the accent. (To be said that later on I learnt that most Scandinavians also have a strong accent when speaking English). I guess that the question is if to be considered a proficient speaker of a specific language, do you need to loose all traits of a foreign accent?

El euro niño

I my experience I am seeing how the trend goes on the other direction and more and more people around me actively choose to leave the city and go to rural areas. I think that this tends to happens around the mid 30s,!not exclusively, and might be also related to an specific location. I am central Europe based. It's just my personal experience tough.

I am lucky enough to have grown on a Lebanese cooking family and also to have traveled to the country and tried all possible Hummus variations. Now I have a good panoramic on how to cook my own favourite hummus at home. This was a decent one, tough. Never judge a hummus by its cover but by its taste!

À place called Twinkies at Paris. Seasoned tuna with garlic and some other spices.

Same here. I think that the only thing that I can do now to add something of value is to participate in good and respectful discussions while sharing content that I genuinely like. A grain of salt ends up adding to a mountain they say.

TIL about the Litmus test!

I try to ever forget that under the GDPR scope andanu other privacy legislations, CCPA included, location data (GPS obtained) = Personal Data. The only exception lies only when this data can be disaggregated from any other informations that could link to locate a subject, therefore it wouldn't be personal but simple data, or if it is fully anonymised. That also raises the obligation to obtain a valid consent and inform the data subject. Maybe it's better to stick to a non connected to the Internet car... Call me old schooled :S

I had the chance to spend some days inside the amazon jungle and it was very concerning how I could hear non stop tree cutting, almost 24/7. Local indigenous tribes told me they could not confront the workers because they might get shot. Finally good news about the Amazon deforestation!

Just migrated from reddit and writing from Sync. So happy that Sync is back!