Comment on Apple sued by shareholders for allegedly overstating AI progress

• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Well, in Russia in early 00s (my childhood) they’d say that about things looking like Chinese toys of cheap plastic. As in “Chinese means cheap, but low-quality and probably a toy”. Such things were indeed mostly produced in China, so. It’s rather that back then you’d sometimes have better things, now everything is like this.

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  • moakley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    In English we used to use the word “Scotch”, like Scottish. We still use it to refer to scotch tape - cheap tape.

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    • aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Scotch tape is a brand name.

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      • moakley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        And it was named that because it was cheap tape.

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And the phonetic transcription of that is how we still call that in Russian.

      Well, with “Chinese” in Russian it didn’t stick. I’m somewhat sad, I think certain political conditions also make the Russian language poorer and weaker with time. In 00s I, despite being autistic, could somewhat “feel the wave” of the people around me. Now it just … feels as if someone tracks and tries to slowly kill all the good things, as if just being in control is not enough for those people.

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  • graff@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ah. Thanks, that’s insightful :)

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