This is what I was going to say!

This pretty much was my job up until recently, though we get better leave than that in Australia.

Lengualytics is a really good tool for comprehensible input in any language. Basically it’s a collection of comprehensible input videos found and submitted by other users, and ranked according to language, dialect and difficulty level.

I used tesseract as my daily driver for lemmy, and honestly, it was and is the best lemmy interface I’ve used, at least in terms of the tools it had to make admin and moderation tasks easier.

But we were also running an older version and hadn’t upgraded to the version with the blocks, or otherwise, we’d have been in the same boat as db0, because we were one of the instances blocked by the list

Language, because I can work the rest out and learn them more quickly than I can learn a language.

I hate sleep, so I get it over with as quickly as possible. I fall asleep quickly and I wake up quickly and spend as little time as possible in between

I rarely remember my dreams, and when I do, they’re normally just boring everyday stuff. Nothing profound to be found

Being trapped in a country that descends in to rampant transphobia

Yep, very familiar :)

I have aphantasia!

I learned (am learning) Spanish later in life and it has actually been quite interesting because of this. I have aphantasia, so no mental images either, and I’ve always described my thinking and thoughts as being about the concepts and ideas of words, with the words something that I can summon if I need to.

And learning Spanish via translation and memorisation was really painful, and honestly, not enjoyable. I eventually stumbled across the comprehensible input method, which doesn’t try and translate your target language to another language. It just builds up from scratch, you learn from simple words and sentences, with strong visual support and repetition etc, getting more complex the more exposure to the language you get. And this method clicked with me. I’m only at B1 or so with Spanish, but I can listen to a native speaker and understand them, but if you asked me what they said, I would have to then convert what I heard to English after the fact.

I’ve often said that it worked because both English and Spanish attach words to the behind the scenes concepts, and I’m mapping to that.

Yep, you got me! That must be exactly what it means!

No one.

This analogy started to feel particularly accurate for my own experience when I started learning a second language. I realised that I wasn’t learning what one word meant in another language, but instead, attaching the two words to a deeper idea/concept. It means that I’d often understand what I was hearing, but even when I was listening in my new language, I didn’t automatically have the translation to my native language (English).

And my thoughts/internal experience is like that. I can pull the words out to describe the thing, but the actual thought itself, the concept that I’m using the word to describe is where I would say my thoughts naturally sit

I’d say that’s a pretty reasonable summary. I mean, I can think about the future and the past of course, and I can stress about them both too, but none of that takes the form of a dialogue, nor does it have any sense of participants. There’s just my thoughts, in the moment, about the future and what might happen.

I don’t have one…

Amazing!

Well, I learned something new today :)

Wait, windows ships with Dolphin these days?

True, but those other forms aren’t tied to wars and economic disparity in the same way, so kicking nationalism to the kerb would still be a win.

Yep, but that’s not this idealised place the OP is looking for, where all opinions are to be found. It’s just full of hate and bots, giving a very narrow range of “free” speech

There’s no such thing. Unrestrained bots make it impossible for human community to sustain itself. Unrestrained hate makes it impossible for a balanced community to be sustained.

What you’re looking for will be a site full of bots talking to each other, with the only human presence being hard core bigots.