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Keen interests in world-building, storytelling, normative ethics, playing games, reading, cooking and eating food, diving into complex systems, collecting, making, tweaking, and using tools, and spending time appreciating nature, friends, and family.
You can reach me at yo at molloy dot soy, but I'm not looking for paid projects currently. I will edit technical writing or blog posts for FOSS software if I have the time–feel free to make requests!
[1] http://investigations.peta.org/australia-us-wool/ [2] http://www.peta.org/features/down-investigation/ [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdnZBJjqWe4
Full disclosure, my friend went to FSU and experienced the Koch influence firsthand and he became involved with the FSU Progress Coalition. He recently wrote "A Student Review of FSU Gift Acceptance Policy: Undue Influence and Charles Koch Foundation" [1] which is worth reading.
[1] http://static1.squarespace.com/static/5400da69e4b0cb1fd47c90...
I'll give Prolog a shot!
Also, Mandarin is a tonal language, along with having vastly different grammar than Germanic languages. While English has plenty of influence from Romance languages, most of it is strictly vocabulary; English, at its core, is a Germanic language. Thus it'd be rather hard to prove that German is more difficult for an English speaker to learn than Chinese. However, I would love to hear his arguments to the contrary, or anybody else's for that matter!