I watched my life go by

That’s perfectly fine. Don’t worry about forgetting words. You will forget them, look them up again, forget them look them up again, eventually they’ll stick. Focus on the reading. Don’t treat it like a vocabulary lesson. Every day you’re here to read, as long as you reach the end you’re good, over months you’ll realize you learned a lot of vocabs.

At first because the text will be so dense with new words yes it will take a long time to read, that’s why I typically only read a short maybe half a page per day. Then gradually increase that as your vocabulary grows over months. The goal should be to encounter say 50-100 new words a day. Notice I said encounter not learn.

Those websites where you look up words are really useful. Make sure they have text to speech and read out loud in the language not in English even if you see the translation in English that’s fine.

Also do a lot of listening along with the reading. I usually get myself an audio book and its corresponding text, chop it up into 1 minute and half a page segments, for each segment listen once, then read looking new words up, then listen while reading at the same time a few times, trying to follow a long, looking up any words I forgot, then listen without reading a dozen or so times until I can follow along. Then movd on to the next segment.

Do a lot of reading and listening to material you find interesting. The learning happens in the background.

Reminds me of space force dollars

Nope

Might wanna write them down as soon as you wake up.

Dreams can sometimes inspire creative work so to me I like remembering them.

I heard smell is particularly good at bringing back memories, sometimes even in Alzheimer’s patients.

To me it’s hearing that seems the strongest, especially music.

Because demographics

You can probably check that out in the performance section of your browser dev tools

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How do I register with one of these nickservs? I tried with an android client but I couldn’t figure it out.

What about signing up? Is there no such thing as an account there?

Also what about mobile?

I never used IRC. I tried to get into it once but never figured out how to make it work.

Some pockets here and there are still fun. It’s just hard to find them.

It seems you’re allowing one person to talk on behalf of a whole group a lot.

ULTRA DRAGON DREAM FEET

Orange is light brown

لم أعد أرى أي حلم. كأن أحلامي نفدت…

Good point

But the YouTuber who put the sponsor segment there assumed everyone would see it. So I think they’d have to be pretty shameless to have their video content be so obviously influenced by the ad. Ok sometimes it’s more insidious but come on. People will catch it and call them a sellout.

Personally I don’t care. I’m here to watch the video and ads don’t work on me 99.9999% of the time. Because I associate them with bad products and services, if your product or service is good it’ll sell itself. I trust word of mouth way more.

Get sponsorblock extension on website or on revanced if you’re on mobile.

I haven’t seen a sponsored segment in ages.