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  1. Comment on What do you drive? in ~hobbies

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    2018 HR-V I let my boyfriend drive me most of the time in his truck. He likes driving (and finds it less stressful) a lot more than I do :)

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    I let my boyfriend drive me most of the time in his truck. He likes driving (and finds it less stressful) a lot more than I do :)

  2. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~talk

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    I have been reading Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner and following the book's plan to learn Spanish. Essentially, it's an Anki deck that cuts out English whenever possible. The front of the card is...

    I have been reading Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner and following the book's plan to learn Spanish. Essentially, it's an Anki deck that cuts out English whenever possible. The front of the card is the word in spanish, and the back is a picture I associate with it. I also download the pronounciation from Forvo so that it plays when the word comes up.

    It takes some time to make cards (and download all the pronounciations), but I'm at 64 right now and I really do feel like they're all sinking in. There's a master list of 625 words in the book and I'm hoping to knock them all out. After that, it'll be a two-pronged attack of continuing the Anki deck and Clozemaster to learn enough vocab and grammar for semi-fluency.

    Learning to roll my R's is another beast altogether.

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  4. Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music

  5. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~talk

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    Working. Sigh.

    Working. Sigh.

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  6. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~lgbt

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    This is only news if people make it news.

    This is only news if people make it news.

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  7. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~finance

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    $FB and $AMZN are tanking in kind, bringing the NASDAQ and larger US economy down with it today. Smells like panic selling to me. Big tech is too powerful to get split up by the government like this.

    $FB and $AMZN are tanking in kind, bringing the NASDAQ and larger US economy down with it today.

    Smells like panic selling to me. Big tech is too powerful to get split up by the government like this.

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  8. Do you read self-help books? And if so, any recommendations?

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    It's a genre that friends, coworkers, and family will chide you for reading, and often self-help books will repeat the same old principles. Yet, I find myself drawn to books like How to Win...

    It's a genre that friends, coworkers, and family will chide you for reading, and often self-help books will repeat the same old principles. Yet, I find myself drawn to books like How to Win Friends and Atomic Habits again and again, in a hope that reading them will fix my life's problems. And honestly, some books in the genre do provide some great advice.

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