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@ imvii @lemmy.ca

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  • How can I properly learn deaf sign languages?

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  • All the teachers were deaf.

  • How can I properly learn deaf sign languages?

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  • Deaf people LOVE when hearing folks try to communicate so they’ll do anything they can to help you out generally.

    That is the exact opposite of what I experienced when I was learning ASL.

  • How can I properly learn deaf sign languages?

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  • At one point in my life I had planned to learn ASL/English sign and work as an interpreter. I lived in an area on the west coast with a community college that had a huge deaf community and a very good ASL interpreter training program. I did almost two years (just short of completing) before bailing out.

    Our classes were complete immersion from day one. No speaking or writing was allowed. Later classes, fingerspell was to be kept at a minimum. It was pretty cool but at times really frustrating. It's easy to build your vocabulary of noun and verbs, but more abstract concepts were hard to understand in this setting.

    Think of it this way. How does someone explain "abstract concept" with only gestures you don't understand yet?

    Why did I quit?

    I'm a hearing person and the deaf community was generally pretty hostile towards hearing people in the program. One deaf woman went so far to say I was exploiting her disability. That's kind of the vibe I got from many in the community. This was the main reason for leaving. I didn't want a job where I worked with people who actively hated me for no reason.

    The second reason; it was very hard to become fluent. I was getting pretty familiar with the local dialect (a blend of ASL and English). I was getting good at reading sign, but MY signs sucked. I just didn't have people to "talk" with out of my class and they were all hearing people in the same boat as me.

    You can pick up sign languages by watching videos over and over, but your pronunciation is probably going to suck without someone actively correcting you.

  • LeopardsAteMyFace @lemmy.ca
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    'I'm over it': Tornado-ravaged red state residents hit out at 'America first'

    www.rawstory.com /havent-seen-federal-folks-man-in-tornado-ravaged-red-state-says-trump-no/

  • New Bill Would Make All Pornography a Federal Crime in the U.S.

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  • Software companies HATE him!

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  • I'm still using CS5.1 Photoshop. I used a newer version about a year ago and short of a few things moved around, it was pretty much the same.

    Maybe there is some back end, under the trunk changes that make it more intelligent in how it does something, but I never noticed.

    For what I use it for, I don't foresee myself using anything else until it stops running.

  • Are most people here left-wing?

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  • Why even lump pedos in the same sentence with the gays

    That's the new MAGA argument. I was getting in front of it.

    They're basically arguing if gay and trans people are born that way, and that's fine, then pedos are born that way so why isn't that fine?

    It's a stupid argument because gay and trans people by default exist without victims.

    In my opinion there is absolutely nothing wrong with being gay, bi, trans, asexual, etc.

  • Donald Trump threatens new 50% tariffs on China

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  • Who wants to bet that the idea of retaliatory tariffs wasn’t gamed out beforehand and they have no strategy?

    He has a concept of a strategy.

  • Donald Trump threatens new 50% tariffs on China

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  • US companies would pay a total rate of 104% on Chinese imports.

    The more money people lose, the more desperate they become. This is going to get interesting. Who goes after Trump first? The ultra rich or the average working class?

  • Are most people here left-wing?

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  • I'm Canadian. I support social programs and humanist programs. I support regulation of business so they don't abuse their positions of power over people and to curb their habit of doing bad things in the name of more profit. I'm for taxing those with hordes of cash and giving the struggling worker a break. I support people to have the freedom to be who they want to be (gay, straight, trans, etc) as long as they aren't hurting other people (IE pedos don't get to harm children because they "were born that way" or god said it was cool). I support protecting the land, water and animals. I think Trump is a cunt.

    I'm probably pretty left-wing.

  • Trump Plans $92 Million Military Parade—Honoring Himself | Donald Trump is pulling straight from the dictator’s playbook.

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  • 30 people along the route of the parade cracking tear gas grenades at the same time would be lovey to see.

    This is clearly not worse than J6 and those people are heroes now.

  • Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service

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  • I've been using Thunderbird for email for years. I use it with some SMTP servers on shared hosting platforms, a yahoo account and a few gmail accounts - one with calendars. I don't have any problems with it. Runs stable, doesn't crash or do weird things. My only complaint would be search is a little clunky, but it works.

    I had to use Outlook client for year at another job and that client was hot garbage.

  • Reddit’s 50% plunge fails to entice dip buyers as growth slows

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  • Same. 11 year old account got banned for saying something. I'm not even entirely sure what it was. They deleted it and gave me the finger.

    Fine with me.

  • Calm your tits

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  • Airline Demand Between Canada & United States Collapses, Down 70%+

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  • I don't know anyone in Canada still planning trips to the USA. My cousin spends 2-3 months out of the year in California. She's been doing it for 10 years now. She had cancelled all those plans going forward.

    There is even more of a risk for Canadians to go to the US. It's always been dangerous in the US with the insane amount of guns in the average idiots hands, but now we've got Ice Bros itching to hurt people as well. Fuck that noise.

    The US really doesn't offer us anything we can't get from another safer country.

  • Greenland visit cancelled after locals refuse to welcome Usha Vance

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  • Why do we hate SELinux?

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  • All the linux stacks I was involved with over the years always had SELinux disabled as part of the base config. I can't think of a single server it was enabled on.

  • Airline Demand Between Canada & United States Collapses, Down 70%+

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  • The girlfriend and I (both Canadian in Canada) were just planning a summer trip to Niagara Falls like 30 minutes ago. Neither of us have been. We were looking at flights and didn't realize we were looking at flights to Niagara Falls airport in the US. We were both like "Whoa. Nope!"

    If this had been last year, we would have flown into either airport and visited both sides of the border. But there is not a chance in hell I'm crossing to the US side during this trip. I'm absolutely not taking a chance of wrecking my vacation, or weeks of my life, getting nabbed by some Nazi Ice Bro and shipped to a detention camp in Arizona.

  • South Florida man drives SUV into Tesla protesters, cops say

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  • Stands with Tesla.

    Drives a Nissan.

    Hilarious.

  • Donald Trump reveals he's had more recent calls with Vladimir Putin

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  • Trump calls Moscow.

    Putin makes him wait on hold for a few hours as a power move.

    Putin gets on the phone and says "Fuck with Canada more you piece of shit babushka. I'll have your daughter killed, bitch." then hangs up.

    Trump tells the 'Washington Examiner' that the two leaders have engaged in multiple phone discussions over the past weeks.

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Donald Trump says 'nasty' Canada 'meant to be 51st state'

    www.newsweek.com /donald-trump-says-nasty-canada-meant-51st-state-2046930
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    US asks countries to help lower soaring prices of eggs

    www.businesstimes.com.sg /companies-markets/energy-commodities/us-asks-countries-help-lower-soaring-prices-eggs
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    US meat trade days away from getting 'kicked out' of China

    www.abc.net.au /news/2025-03-14/3-billion-united-states-meat-trade-to-china-at-risk/105052220
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    Canada is so furious at the US right now

    www.vox.com /politics/403927/canada-tariffs-alcohol-steel-trump-51st-state-boycott
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Why Reddit, Inc. (RDDT) Crashed on Monday

    finance.yahoo.com /news/why-reddit-inc-rddt-crashed-183816997.html
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Trump Orders US Military to Plan Invasion of Panama to Seize Canal: Report | Common Dreams

    www.commondreams.org /news/trump-panama-canal-invasion-plan
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    British parliamentarian calls on the U.K. to rally around Canada, throws poutine party

    www.cbc.ca /news/world/uk-liberal-democrat-ed-davey-canada-support-1.7481537
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    Canada's incoming prime minister says he'll meet Trump if Canadian sovereignty is respected

    apnews.com /article/canada-mark-carney-trump-prime-minister-tariffs-413e1d8ab73b059f6bf92aa79e40d5a2
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    RFK Jr.: It Would Be Better if ‘Everybody Got Measles’

    www.thedailybeast.com /rfk-jr-it-would-be-better-if-everybody-got-measles/
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Trump Confirms ICE Arrested Palestinian Columbia Graduate Over Political Speech

    www.huffpost.com /entry/trump-ice-arrests-palestinian-columbia-speech_n_67cf46d4e4b04dd3a4e5b208
  • Boycott US @lemmy.ca
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    Trump is sobbing about Tesla being down 30% since last month. Keep it up!

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Trump says he will double tariffs on steel and aluminum in retaliation for Ontario energy surcharge

    www.cp24.com /politics/queens-park/2025/03/11/we-dont-need-your-energy-trump-says-in-response-to-ontarios-electricity-surcharge/
  • News @lemmy.world
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    US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/mar/09/watchlist-decline-civic-freedoms-civicus
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Abruptly Blocking Intel, The U.S. Hamstrings Ukraine’s HIMARS

    www.forbes.com /sites/davidaxe/2025/03/05/abruptly-blocking-intel-the-us-prevents-ukraines-himars-from-firing-for-maximum-effect/
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Swedes launch boycott of US goods in response to recent policy shifts

    www.euronews.com /my-europe/2025/03/07/swedes-launch-boycott-of-us-goods-in-response-to-recent-policy-shifts
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Trump Turnberry vandalised by pro-Palestine group

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/cr52q7l6drdo
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    I’m Canadian And Love Visiting The U.S., But I Refuse To Travel There Again Until Trump Is Gone

    www.huffpost.com /entry/canada-trump-tariffs-trade-war-response_n_67ca3aa1e4b0fe2a0433e542
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Germany issues warning for transgender & nonbinary people traveling to the U.S.

    www.advocate.com /news/germany-warns-transgender-travelers-us
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Hegseth’s Frenzied DEI Purge Targets ‘Gay’ Plane

    www.thedailybeast.com /pete-hegseth-banned-images-of-enola-gay-wwii-plane-in-dei-crackdown/