Eiim

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[–] Eiim@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Here's the full quote:

Case in point: in addition to having to pay a guy who he bet $5 million couldn’t prove him wrong $5 million after that guy proved him wrong, and after he went to court to try to avoid paying the money, Lindell will now have to pay some of that guy’s attorneys fees, which were incurred in court.

There's nothing technically wrong with it, it's just really awkwardly worded.

[–] Eiim@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Actually, those benches are kinda uncomfortable. Still a nice rest after you've been walking for a couple hours, but not suitable for anything else.

Source: grew up going to the Columbus Zoo

[–] Eiim@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I still don't think you understand the point of the graphic. It's called "What European language am I reading?", not "how are these European languages related?"

[–] Eiim@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Why do advertisers want you to have tools that help you detect covert advertising?

[–] Eiim@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 3 weeks ago

Apparently it ended up being 12. You can look them up here:

  • Don Bacon, Nebraska
  • Brian Fitzpatrick, Pennsylvania
  • Andy Harris, Maryland
  • Jaime Herrula Beutler, Washington
  • Richard Hudson, North Carolina
  • John Kakto, New York
  • Nicole Malliotakis, New York
  • Daniel Meuser, Pennsylvania
  • Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Iowa
  • Bill Posey, Florida
  • Christopher H. Smith, New Jersey
  • Frederick Stephen Upton, Michigan
[–] Eiim@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 weeks ago

Tomorrow!^oh^wait^wrong^football

[–] Eiim@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The character you're looking for it ɪ, not I. In this case I think you'd write [ˈdɪsˌtɹoʊ ˈbɪsˌtɹoʊ] (also adding secondary stress and correcting to a more likely rhotic). Although it depends on accent (especially because I chose phonetic ([]) transcription instead of phonemic (//, which you originally had) (which means transcribing the actual sounds (I kept this pretty broad still because I don't know how you pronounce words exactly) instead of the conceptual sounds they map onto) because this is intended at least in part for an audience which doesn't primarily speak English) and there's a lot of ambiguity anyways (is there actually secondary stress on the second syllable (where is that syllable boundary anyways? I originally had it before the s but I think in regular speech [s.t] is more likely to be realized.)? I think there should be but Wiktionary doesn't include it).

Uhh yeah all those parentheses seem to match up. I'm not editing that down more to try to make sense, my first draft was even more verbose lol

[–] Eiim@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My main takeaway is: Alexis Ohanian (Reddit's u/kn0thing) is married to Serena Williams???

[–] Eiim@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think you're on the money there. Copyright was originally intended as industry regulation, a way to prevent larger book publishers from just copying a smaller publisher's book on day one and flooding the market with their copies. It's applied to many more industries than just books (good!) but also to a wider group than actual publishers (bad!). When someone running a massive free ROMs site gets taken down, that's probably reasonable, they're playing the role of a publisher there and unfairly undercutting the competition (although the penalties in the US are still absurdly steep, as they usually are for individuals in this country). But when someone gets attacked for posting an image on social media, or streamers have to worry about the music playing in their games, or ISPs have to enforce against downloaders of pirated software, or modders have to be careful about linking their mod in such a way that no original code is included, that's not what copyright should be.

[–] Eiim@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago

I think even wilder is that he thinks content which has explicitly been labeled "do not scrape except for search engine indexing" is a "gray area" with regards to scraping for AI. Like, that's exactly what it says not to do!

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