cryotosensei

Fun Fact Friday- Best Fun Fact gets 10k sats

grayruby

*Q followed by U* is a feature of English and Romance languages like Spanish and French. However, in Arabic, Q is sometimes followed by A.

![](https://m.stacker.news/41755)

Source: my Malay colleague

news

World's Most Powerful and Weakest Passports by Country: The Official Rankings

IamSINGLE

As a Singaporean with a Japanese wife, I’m immensely pleased. My country beat hers!

Stacker's generosity is immense

Melisa

Well done!
I’m happy for you!
There are plenty of sats to go around here haha

On paper, Stacker News shouldn’t have succeeded. 100k sats is not a huge sum in the grand scheme of things, but it gives a strong signal that people are willing to incur losses (at least initially) and slog it out to make their territory profitable. 

And it’s not just the monetary cost, either. Founders must invest their time and energy - which are arguably more vital currencies than sats - into building a vibrant community. This involves cold-messaging strangers on Nostr and other platforms in hopes that some will set foot here. This may also involve gifting top posters of the week some sats as a form of encouragement. 

Just what is it about Stacker News that appeals to so many Stackers to embark on this high-cost venture? 

- The desire to contribute back something to SN?

- The opportunity to build a curated space that they can call their own?  

- A profound passion for their subject area and drive to spread it far and wide? 

- A wish to benefit from the high-voltage signal that Stackers are contributing? 

- A sense of responsibility to fellow Stackers who post in their territory day in, day out? 

- A desire to be more actively involved in the sats circular economy? 

The reasons for the motivations behind Stackers’ steadfast commitment are probably multifarious. What strikes me as interesting is that the interplay of these local conditions and high-functioning individuals fosters the cultivation of territories and continued growth of SN. Do you think it will be (im)possible to replicate SN’s success elsewhere? 



Secret Sauce of SN’s Success

Photography

The seafood rice was so delicious that I made a poster out of my photo:

![](https://m.stacker.news/41583)

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Kaisen Don

Stacker Saloon

saloon

Blowjob haha

I know that when the Italians toast *Cin cin*, the Japanese will think that they are referring to the penis because that’s how penis sounds like in Japanese.

Fika refers to the vagina in Italian.

Haha this is going into my collection of sexual facts

Looking forward to more Spanish language tips!

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My proof of work today, thanks to @Carresan n @Bell_curve!

FiresidePhilosophy

(No) Choice

Having full autonomy of your life is everything!

That’s a mighty fine reframing! Thanks mate

It’s cool that you used your sales experience as a stepping stone to attain a better life for yourself.

I had lunch with my vice-principal today. He was newly posted to my school this January, so he remained an enigma to me. This lunch date was the first time I had a chance to converse with him.

He was rather open about sharing himself, so it was great to know him as a person beneath his professional demeanour. He told me certain things that frankly startled me, which catalysed my reflections about the importance of choice. 

Apparently, he was apprehensive about being posted to our school because it entailed venturing out of his comfort zone. What struck me forcibly like a hammer striking a nail was how he didn’t have the chance to say nope to his posting. To stay in the education fraternity, he had to be agreeable in regard to his posting.

Which occurred to me to be a horrible way to live. My vice-principal had spent five years at a primary school prior to my school. He admitted that hanging out with children wasn’t his cup of tea. By his second year, he was dying to be posted out.

Gives the term *civil servant* a new spin, huh? My vice-principal may have ascended the leadership track and gained money, power and status, but he can’t even decide where he wants to serve and contribute. No doubt, my vice-principal must have an agreeable personality. Otherwise, there is no way he could have kept working at jobs that didn’t appeal to him.

I have had a series of jobs that empowered me to own my world and shape my horizons. Because of this, I won’t be as financially well-to-do as my vice principal. On the other hand, I have had enjoyed my jobs. Each job teaches me something novel, and I will be grateful for the fact that I have come this far due to my volition.

I feel like you know a little bit about all the languages out there haha

Had lunch with my vice-principal today. The best part of it? He gave me a treat. I’m not too proud to say nope to a free meal haha

It’s a **quintessential** part of your lifestyle haha

alter_native

As an English teacher, I’m preoccupied with teaching my students the finer points of capitalisation and punctuation. Especially so for this semester because they will be tested on the accurate use of capitalisation for their final year exam.

But teaching to the test is one thing. Making sure that they have internalised the lesson is another. I recognise that it is an uphill battle because my too-cool-for-words teenagers type like this in their daily life:

![](https://m.stacker.news/41407)

But my kids haven’t met Sensei yet. I am nothing but persistent. So, I engaged the help of Meta AI to create an image of a Grammar Champion. 

I inserted the image into Canva and wrote what I thought was a persuasive text about why they should employ capitalisation and punctuation.

![](https://m.stacker.news/41415)

Now, Sensei has a huge ego, but he knows that he isn’t omnipotent. I know that I can get the help of Canva’s Magic Write feature to make my message more palatable.
Hence, I selected the “More Fun” option. 

This is what my poster turned out to be like. I happily sent it to my class WhatsApp group, feeling satisfied that I had tackled my pet peeve today.

![](https://m.stacker.news/41418)

Canva’s Magic Write function

Education

Are you a better conversationalist than a 16-year-old?

I think you mentioned it to me a couple of times before. This must be your pet peeve haha 

It’s the same in Singapore. Some of my students write about getting better at Roblox when asked to do goal setting. Next time, I need to remember to bar gaming from their goal setting exercises.