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Saturday December 14, 2024
It's the Stupidity, Stupid
We live in an age when no one's minding the store or the people minding the store are morons. Or both.
The other day I got the following in an email from Duolingo, the language app I use daily. In fact I've used it 938 days in a row. Began with French, then Chinese as I prepared to return to Taiwan in May 2023. Kept going. I reached the end of the lessons a while back but still do the pinyin section—my written is so much worse than my spoken.
Anyway, this was their message. Duo is their owl mascot:
If I'd purposely tried to sabotage the company I couldn't have come up with a better campaign than this. 白痴。