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- Comment on Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents 1 week ago:
That could be, even just considering one language to parse from. I heard efficiency and just thought speed
- Comment on Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents 1 week ago:
I would hope so, but as a demonstration, it wasn’t very impressive. They should have left subtitles up transcripting everything
- Comment on Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents 1 week ago:
How much faster was it? I was reading along with the gibber and not losing any time
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 3 weeks ago:
Since you have completely hijacked this from talking about the Gulf, as I said, call it what you want. I’ll probably continue to call it Denali, because it’s just a name.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 3 weeks ago:
You conflate not agreeing with not reading, because if someone reads your posts, they have to agree, right? So if someone doesn’t agree, it simply means they didn’t read your post.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 3 weeks ago:
Whatever. Enjoy your rant. It’s going to be a fun four years for you
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 3 weeks ago:
I’m not ignoring it. I’m saying it’s just a name. I will continue to call it the Gulf of Mexico for the rest of my life, or probably just “the Gulf”. I never used another term for French fries, # is still a pound sign, and I’m not going to worry about this.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 3 weeks ago:
And I’m saying it’s just a name. Call it whatever you want. He means it as a distraction. There’s more important things
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 3 weeks ago:
I’m telling you this is what he wants: people to get all worked up and virtue signaling for MAGA
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 3 weeks ago:
No one can own the Gulf anyway. Trump just wanted to stir shit up and people like you getting all bent out of shape are just playing into it. It’s just a name
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 3 weeks ago:
Mexico didn’t own it before any more than the US owns it now. I don’t like the nationalistic intentions, but I can rationalize it to myself that Mexico is also part of [North] America
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 3 weeks ago:
Is there Google maps in China? If there is, I’d be surprised if it didn’t say that. That is claiming ownership. Countries can’t own a gulf beyond the domestic waters convention. But, I don’t know, that’s a good question because a regular Chinese person would just be confused. It wouldn’t effect any policy change
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 3 weeks ago:
My point is the names are different in different places. At some point, people named things from their perspective irregardless of what others, including those living adjacent to the thing cal it
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 3 weeks ago:
It’s stupid, but it’s not that extreme. Countries have different names for things. For example, Germany calls the Baltic Sea “Ostsee” (lit. east sea) and Lake Constance 'Bodensee" (lit. bottom sea) but those things are only at the bottom and east for Germany.
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 4 weeks ago:
No, it’s not “spin” like a top or top be dizzy. There’s a bunch of meanings, and some are similar to those two, but none fit for dizzy
- Comment on Is there ever a situation where a doctor can legally refuse to render aid to someone? 4 months ago:
The street sort of counts too. Licensing requires them to stop for accidents, etc
- Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple? 4 months ago:
Here’s how the creation of the graphic went: /: Create a binary Ignore vast majority (of people working with subject) Slap together chart, cherrypicking Gloat /
- Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple? 4 months ago:
Spanish in other places, too—piña colada, anyone?
- Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple? 4 months ago:
Spanish conveniently missing
- Comment on The 42 year old new hire at your job confesses to you that he has had 48 different jobs in his life. What is your opinion on that? 5 months ago:
I’m not going to fault anyone for typos. I fight my phone’s autocorrect all the time, but it was odd that just those two letters were transposed
- Comment on The 42 year old new hire at your job confesses to you that he has had 48 different jobs in his life. What is your opinion on that? 5 months ago:
Did you switch the keycaps for your r’s and t’s?
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
I’m willing to bet prohibitively expensive insurance
- Comment on What would cause a person to speak in different accents randomly? 7 months ago:
I knew someone–American–who would affect some sort of British-ish accent. It was part of her identity because she had spent some summers in England it something. It was strongest at times, especially when she was first meeting someone for the first time; no one with an accent themselves, so it wasn’t that she was absorbing some influence, more that it was an aspirational trait.
Just offering this as a possibility
- Comment on TikTok pushed far-right AfD party on young voters in Germany 7 months ago:
I get all cooking, history, and movie reviews: Max Miller, Red Letter Media, Behind the Bastards, and four-hour history/archaeology documentaries
- Comment on Is my punctuation correct? 7 months ago:
Ah, right. I completely overlooked that. Since it was such a low number, I thought it might be a numbered source
- Comment on Is my punctuation correct? 7 months ago:
Question was answered, but I’m wondering about the citation. What is the number three in parenthesis? MLA is name of source and possibly page number.
- Comment on German Chancellor promotes government cloud from SAP and Microsoft 7 months ago:
Probably referring to Microsoft. That’s the one of the two with all the cloud experience
- Comment on Why is prostitution called sometimes world's oldest profession? 7 months ago:
It really didn’t play out like that. They were not saving anything.
- Comment on Why is prostitution called sometimes world's oldest profession? 7 months ago:
There was an experiment where the researchers introduced “money” to chimps that they could exchange for fruit treats. Some females almost immediately began trading sex for money
- Comment on is there a set top media player that doesn't require an online account? 7 months ago:
Flirc and any remote you want