If I Was Trapped In The Time Loop I Would Do The Correct Sequence Of Actions To Break Out Of The Time

My wife and I have a little game we play called "Speaking From Ignorance."

To play Speaking From Ignorance, all you need is a phone with a voice recorder, and another person who knows considerably more or considerably less about a topic than you do. The topic can be anything: from "how to bake a quiche" to "what happens in the Peter Jackson Hobbit movies" to "who is Florence Pugh" to "how does the traveling salesman problem work." All that matters is that one of you has a firm grasp on the material, and one of you absolutely the fuck does not.

Then the person who knows about the topic turns on the recorder, and says to the person who knows barely anything: "Hey - tell me everything you think you know about [X]."

The speaker is then not allowed to ask any questions. Nor is the expert allowed to volunteer any information. The expert is allowed to pipe up with a faintly incredulous "Oh--really? Do you--do you think so?" from time to time, but for the most part, the expert's job is just to sit there and make encouraging sounds while the speaker digs their own grave.

This is never not funny.

The reason you record it is because, very often, the first thing the speaker wants to do after finishing the recording is find out how you actually make a quiche, or whatever. Then you both get to go back and listen to how wrong they were.

We have a small library now of Speaking From Ignorance recordings, and I'm going to be listening to them until I'm eighty.

he is sitting and pondering

2025년 3월 31일 (월)

안녕하세요! 오랜만이에요~ 보고 싶었어요? ㅋㅋ 농담이에요, 사실 2일밖에 안 됐어요.

좋은 소식이에요: 이제 더 이상 아프지 않아요. 그런데 너무 바빠서 활동을 못 했어요. 지금부터는 더 열심히 활동하려고 해요~~

아무튼 오늘은 친구 생일이라서 한국과 일본 무한리필 식당에 가서 먹을 거예요. 기대되고 신나요~~~ 짱!

좋은 하루 보내세요~

2025년 5월 6일 (화)

이 포스트를 쓰는 동안 벌써 5월이 된 걸 깨달았어요…. ㅋㅋㅋ 전 “뭐?”라고 생각했어요

아무튼… 지금 기차에서 이 포스트를 쓰고 있어요. 뭘 더 써야 할지 모르겠어요 ㅎㅎㅎ

좋은 날 보내세요

thanks so much to everyone who replied! i’ve attached a little update to the bottom of the original message. i genuinely cannot express my gratitude enough. you’re all wonderful 🩷

👋 hi language learner! yes, you! have a favor to ask of you :)

for my graduation, i’m researching ways that technology can enhance the language learning process through visual media (series, movies, but also news etc.). for this, i need to speak to learners (of any language, genuinely, no matter your rate of fluency or how long you’ve been studying for) to interview and possibly test my prototype a few times through a link i’ll share with you. it’s also perfectly okay if you haven’t had experience with tools that help you learn through shows and such, but instead have worked with other things such as duolingo.

anything we discuss can be entirely anonymous and can be done via chat here or discord or whatever you prefer, that’s up for discussion. i don’t need to record your voice, provide your real name or show your face, so typing is also fine.

i’d love to hear your input on your wishes for language learning programs and your experiences if you have any so i can design something we may be able to use in the future to learn, that’s hopefully an improvement upon currently existing methods.

as i’ve mentioned, the language you learn is unimportant to me as any feedback is great feedback; but as i need to pick a language to prototype with to keep the scope of my project doable for the period of my graduation (even though i’d *love* to do it for all languages right off the bat ☹️), korean and arabic learners are somewhat preferable as these are languages that i’m familiar with. please don’t let yourself be deterred by this if you’re learning any other language though!

on top of that; i’ll be taking accessibility into account, so if you’re able to give me input on that front, i’d be eternally thankful as well.

if you wanna help me out (thank you so much), please react with a ❤️ to this post or shoot me a message and i’ll get back to you soon. if not, i’d appreciate if you would spread around the message by reposting.

thank you for your attention!

UPDATE: oh my god, this got so much attention 🥺 thank you to those who shared and those who want to help me with this, it means the world. i will be reaching out in the near future :) if anyone else wants to join still feel free to react.

idk why people photoshopped the crying cat meme on this pic when the unedited version is so powerful

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields