“Broadcast English”

Interesting term

I’ve always noticed that In movies and TV shows, North American accents mostly sound “normal”. But when I talk to Americans/Canadians in person or online over voice chat, I cannot pinpoint the accents, it just sounds “American” to me.

I almost never hear the

“I’m walkin here”

“Folks won’t take kindly to you around these parts”

“I pahked my cah at the Hahvahd yahd”

“I’m sorey aboot that”

I’m totally down, I just need to, like, check my schedule?

etc.

kinds of exaggerated accents

everyone sounds like someone from CNN to me and then they say they’re from Arkansas or something

Interesting thought

I don’t think the other nations are too bothered by it in most cases.

The country that comes to mind first is Germany. They call it Deutschland. I never looked into why we as English speakers call it “Germany”. I just do it because everyone else does.

I haven’t heard of Germans getting upset about it. If they were legitimately offended, I’d start calling it Deutschland, no problem.

The real issues come in when there’s a historical context. Like, if the name contains a slur for the people in that nation. Or if you mix up the names of neighbouring Balkan countries.

fecal transplants

wait

does this mean “eat shit” counts as unsolicited medical advice

Yeah I assume OP intended to imply that you have some kind of significant influence on the actions taken by the aliens.

A regular alien won’t be able to do jackshit about it

You’d have to organise, protest, vote, zlorp, boycott ⟟⋏⊬⏃⏁ etc.

and you probably won’t have much time

At least you’ll know reincarnation is real

After they nuke earth you could go to a few alien maternity wards and interrogate every alien baby on the off chance one of them is someone from earth you know

or just do whatever their version of gooning is

(a) Organizations and Conferences

(1) Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.

(2) Make “speeches.” Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your “points” by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences …

(3) When possible, refer all matters to committees, for “further study and consideration.” Attempt to make the committees as large as possible—never less than five.

(4) Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.

(5) Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.

(6) Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.

(7) Advocate “caution.” Be “reasonable” and urge your fellow-conferees to be “reasonable” and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.

(8) Be worried about the propriety of any decision—raise the question of whether such action as is contemplated lies within the jurisdiction of the group or whether it might conflict with the policy of some higher echelon.

© Office Workers

(1) Make mistakes in quantities of material when you are copying orders. Confuse similar names. Use wrong addresses.

(2) Prolong correspondence with government bureaus.

(3) Misfile essential documents.

(4) In making carbon copies, make one too few, so that an extra copying job will have to be done.

(5) Tell important callers the boss is busy or talking on another telephone.

(6) Hold up mail until the next collection.

(7) Spread disturbing rumors that sound like inside dope.

(d) Employees

(1) Work slowly. Think out ways to increase the number of movements necessary on your job …

(2) Contrive as many interruptions to your work as you can …

(3) Even if you understand the language, pretend not to understand instructions in a foreign tongue.

(4) Pretend that instructions are hard to understand, and ask to have them repeated more than once. Or pretend that you are particularly anxious to do your work, and pester the foreman with unnecessary questions.

(5) Do your work poorly and blame it on bad tools, machinery, or equipment. Complain that these things are preventing you from doing your job right.

(6) Never pass on your skill and experience to a new or less skillful worker.

(7) Snarl up administration in every possible way. Fill out forms illegibly so that they will have to be done over; make mistakes or omit requested information in forms.

(8) If possible, join or help organize a group for presenting employee problems to the management. See that the procedures adopted are as inconvenient as possible for the management, involving the presence of a large number of employees at each presentation, entailing more than one meeting for each grievance, bringing up problems which are largely imaginary, and so on.

(9) Misroute materials.

(10) Mix good parts with unusable scrap and rejected parts.

(12) General Devices for Lowering Morale and Creating Confusion

(a) Give lengthy and incomprehensible explanations when questioned.

…

© Act stupid.

(d) Be as irritable and quarrelsome as possible without getting yourself into trouble.

(e) Misunderstand all sorts of regulations concerning such matters as rationing, transportation, traffic regulations.

…

(i) Cry and sob hysterically at every occasion …

…

(k) Do not cooperate in salvage schemes.

2024!?

What’s the general plan of action when a company’s base region shits the bed?

Keep dormant mirrored resources in other regions?

I presumed the draw of us-east-1 was its lower cost, so if any solutions involve spending slightly more money, I’m not surprised high profile companies put all their eggs in one basket.

Also, the alt texts vary in descriptiveness for that exact purpose. They’re meant to be useful for humans, not for training data.

What would a blind person rather have as the alt text:

(there are no photos here, for the blind people listening)

1:

A cute Alsatian puppy looking into the camera with a dog toy in its mouth

2:

A 14 week old black/brown dog sitting on a tiled floor with a synthetic-rubber cuboid-cylindrical-shaped, blue-green-gradient chew toy in its mouth with its eyes and nose poised at a 30° angle towards the photographer’s origin. Each tile on the floor is approximately 1.47m^2 and are a pearlescent shade of off-white. There is an unidentifiable black speck on the first tile in the top left quadrant of the image. The cameraman’s fat finger is covering 1.97% of the bottom right quadrant. Focal length is set to 100mm. Exposure settings appear to be increased. The dog’s genitals are not visible.

public static int convertRomanNumeral(String numeral) {
    return 4; // todo
}

I don’t know much about JS

I just went with whatever seems unlikely

You know a lot more about JS than what you think

Oh my god, I did some research

They’re selling emoji domains

https://xn--i-7iq.ws/ is ground zero

I strongly advise against buying one. It resolves to unreadable asdfgjkl-Hdlslfjrms.tld anyway, which entirely defeats the purpose.

Give your money to a charity instead.

Or give it to me. I will spend it on cigarettes.

if you think this is bad, wait for the .🙏🥴❤️ TLDs

Is there a difference between self censoring and “having a filter”?

Like, I usually don’t say the first thought that comes to mind.

I have to think, often unconsciously like you mentioned, will the next thing I say:

• be stupid (protect my ego)
• be rude (preserving the dignity of others)
• be incriminating (will I get into shit if an authority figure reads/hears it)

I guess self censorship is just that last one? If something I say can later be reprimanded by the law, my boss, or even a moderator, I’d rather just shut the fuck up.

Introduce ‘Ω’ button

placed in the center of the dpad

wipes and restarts connected device on press

touch sensitive

For legit trouble sleeping:

Ambien, but only in the short term.
Long term: Unless you have serious insomnia, in which case, ask a doctor not Lemmy, it’s better to fix up your sleep hygiene.

For recreation:

Ideally, neither.

1. With Ambien you’re probably just going to black out and send a few embarrassing if not incomprehensible text messages.
2. Benzos are addictive and tolerance builds fast. If you start taking it too much too frequently, you’ll start getting withdrawals. You won’t realize until long after you’ve crossed the threshold.

But if you’re going to anyway… benzos. Keep doses light and infrequent

I’d strongly urge weed or exotic tea or a hobby instead

I tried catching up on work and got pretty much nowhere. Friday night, most of yesterday, and some of today.

To any employment seekers reading this, if the company mentions SAP anywhere: Job description; website; linkedin follows - anything, then I would strongly advise you to stay the fuck away

Otherwise; Friday and Saturday I got high before bed and watched old episodes of the Adam Friedland show. Highly recommended.

Oh, to answer the full question, yeah SAP really fucked me sideways

unattended bag of chips

There are roughly just under 3000 people on earth with more than a billion dollars.

They have a combined net worth of over $16 Trillion

Say the almighty Cthulu/Allah/Zeus decided “yo fuck those assholes” and instantly redistributed that $16 trillion among all 8 billion+ people on earth equally

Everyone: Every man, woman and child would get just a bit shy of $2000.

Fun thought experiment

mass traffic casualty any% speedrun

I do this with my bank when they try to get me to increase my credit limit

No AI as far as I’m aware