“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.

Never install a camera in a bathroom

Like, you don’t install anthrax in a maternity ward

The Economist has a tendency to put out articles seemingly designed to make conservatives bust nuts through their trousers at mach 4

Is Lucifer’s Poison Ivy destroying the fabric of civilization as we know it?

fecal transplants

wait

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

Also, doesn’t this shit just waste like a fuckton of taxpayer money?

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.

i take this to mean “shit on the fingerprint scanner”

shit

which one

I was barred-out faded the other night, trying to submit garbage data on one of the sites that managed to not get completed DDOS’d

They made you submit it uploads in a specific format

- name
- job title
- workplace
- image of speech offender

It would then compile it and make you download a 2mb PNG file that you had to submit with your real name and email for “accountability”

I can’t remember how far I got. I hope I didn’t use my actual email address if I actually got to the submit stage

I intended to submit this (screenshot and crop in case of malicious exif):

He begins his declaration by quoting Joseph Goebbels

That was very necessary I guess

He didn’t

he mentioned India and Ireland too

I’m no historian, but I vaguely recall reading somewhere that British rule in those countries were uh… “somewhat controversial”

My networking knowledge may be out of date, but can’t you get around region locked sites with VPNs or Tor?

I was in Turkey in July 2019. Wikipedia was blocked. I had to use Tor to access it. On installation I think I had to tick a special box that said something like “use flux capacitor bridge for blablabla countries like China and Turkey”

Though In that case, Wikipedia didn’t give a fuck if you were accessing it from Tor. The government did.

I know some sites block tor/VPN access for various reasons

there’s gotta be at least one fun game like that

mass traffic casualty any% speedrun

The card would likely be older than him

I can’t get over how a kid who did high school over zoom during COVID is now in charge of terror prevention for the US

like what the fuck

I’ll read this article later

are you saying all my Trumpcoins, Trump NFTs, degrees from Trump university and deep frozen Trump steaks are worthless

good lord theres penice

Biblical end time blunt rotation in that room jesus fuck

Stopping exploitation by Shell, BP & Friends isn’t exactly what made those regimes despotic