Joined the Mayqueeze.
Absolutely. Thiel-backed is a red flag hoisted on a flagpole whose tip reaches just below the ISS, whose width is at least 1000 football fields long, which is illuminated at all times by 5000 spotlights, and which is simultaneously and counterintuitively on fire despite the lack of oxygen at that altitude.
Yeah, that’s another reason to criticize this graph. And in fairness to the authors and from what I understood, they don’t just look at native speakers. The theory is that due to population decline everywhere but Africa and the dominance of French on the continent French’s rise to lingua franca will be a pull factor. People who want to do business with these African francophone areas are more likely to learn it.
Projected by one research group. My French isn’t good enough to tell how well they did their job.
Knowing how serious especially the French take French, this theory reads a bit try-hard-y. We were the language of the world, the language of royalty and diplomacy. And then the blasted roastbeefs passed us on the right. But now we play the long game to get back to the top. I’m not saying this can’t be true. It’s just there is this graph in the summary that almost seems comical with the optimistic projection:
As I said, I didn’t read it all so take my criticism with un peu du sel. I remain unconvinced that English will be displaced here. English has insane orthography but relatively simple grammar. French is two for two on the insanity scale (as somebody who had to learn both as foreign languages in school I feel comfortable in making this judgment). English got spread around the world with the roastbeef empire; French didn’t quite reach those heights. They had to have a revolution or two and in between Napoleon screwed it up by selling Louisiana.
I’m also getting my tax advice from Gonzo on LinkedIn.
What a sad state of journalism. Celebrity posted something on social. Opinions are divided. Commenters said this. Others said that. Thanks for looking at our ads.
She may be right, I dunno. I’m criticizing the publication and quality of the story, not the actor and alleged AI influencer.
Thank you. I already had sexual intercourse today. But I appreciate your concern. I’ll take your thoughts on the matter to my eLderS oF tHE fEDivErSE meeting and see what I can do for you. But temper your expectations; we were so happy to have picked you as a random victim to torment in our effort to stifle free speech, I don’t think much will change. In the meantime, give a thought to the adage that if you think you’re only surrounded by a-holes, you might be the a-hole.
A new account? Bitching about being banned? This must be credible.
I wouldn’t call this so much a statistical error but a human one. While the exact number may be unknown, somebody with a pencil sat down somewhere and counted some beans on a sample, which a math whiz can extrapolate to get to a total population number that’s closer to the truth.
Never trust a statistic, which you haven’t forged yourself.
Delightfully dumb this is. LOL it made me.
If they don’t know that they’re committing a mortal sin by spamming other communities, I say let them. When they get to the pearly gate and ol’ Pete is like no guys y’all punched a ticket for downstairs, they’ll know they fucked up.
I fear there won’t be a solution that doesn’t cost money somewhere. Please don’t buy 3 burner phone numbers at once. I would feel bad if it didn’t work and/or you get suspected of being a criminal.
Check your current phone subscription if you have one. There might be a way to get an additional number for free or very little extra. And it might be a good backup emergency service to have just with your parents maybe even if you go down a different route for the rest.
Anything other than Signal seems unadvisable from a privacy POV. Do you have a way of talking to them live on the phone, at the same time? You can try and register their Signal on a burner phone wherever you are. As they sign up, you sit on the call and give them the phone number and security code when it comes through. Unless having Signal on the phone is itself a reason to get arrested in Russia, which frankly wouldn’t surprise me either.
I don’t know if this will work. I did it on a different service using the number on a dumbphone to register for use on a tablet once.
I wonder if the gender imbalance had an influence on this decision. According to Wikipedia there are 1.14 boys for every girl in the 15 and under age bracket. The lag in maturity got maybe more pronounced because there simply were more boisterous boys in the classrooms than mature girls who can answer all the questions.
The OSs aren’t forks as far as in aware. So this turd in the water will flow downstream and then it depends. Can they excise this dev database checkup? Or will they fork (or at least try)? I think we have to wait and see.
The availability of apps will probably decrease. Although with the latest advanced flow of the turd that will allow installation after a 24h cooling off period, a restart, a piece of your soul, and your firstborn it will probably not be a bad as we had initially thought. Still shit though.
There is no way in hell that this checkup Google will conduct will be looked at by actual people. This will be automated. I predict this will be a cat and mouse game where hackers will find a way to bypass this, Google will find out and fix it, whereupon hackers will find a way to bypass that, and so forth. As Google will be the mouse in that game, they might tire of it.
Is there something wrong with making a new account to make a discussion post about a video?
If the video is from a platform whose algorithm thrives on controversy, is presented in a context of controversy, on a new account, it’s at least suspicious here on the lemmyverse.
So you’ve been thinking about joining the fediverse but it was this video you wanted to share with us that finally made you pull the trigger? It’s a sequence of events I find inherently sus.
Is this not a forum website?
Yes, it is. And as such it is sometimes abused by people with ulterior motives.
This is ridiculous behavior.
That is both your prerogative to think so and a matter of opinion.
I’ve been respectful and open to every single person I’ve responded to. I am not creating drama or name calling.
Your eagerness to engage virtually any comment on this niche subject is what I find suspicious. It’s the eagerness you also see by people who abuse Lemmy for rage bait.
If there’s drama being created on this post, it’s because people can’t stand Mutahar. And I agree with them! But as someone who refuses to be an ideologue living in an echo chamber, I watch content from sources I don’t agree with too, and I discuss it. I don’t get what problem you have with this.
I don’t know who that is and don’t care enough to find out. I refer you to my criticism of the source of the video. My suspicion, which I have to say your comments have not diminished, is that you created this account and this persona to generate more views to feed the algorithm on YouTube and not because you wanted to have a serious discussion about the subject.
Correction: so you made a new account on this instance and then posted it.
Why would this decision require a public feedback sesh? Build it and they will come. Or they won’t because they read some stuff about the author.
I’m just spit balling here. Is it possible that the intent of this post is not to have a discussion about OSs but to boost the YouTube views? It’s just a vibe I’m getting. New account, very eager to reply, posting this out of the blue.
If the video is on YouTube, they make a thumbnail pulling a dumb face, and it gets presented in a forum like this with a whiff of controversy about it, personally, I’ll refuse to look at it.
Hung around with a couple of guys from there. One of them has a mullet.
You’re not here to f@ck spiders going by the TLD on your handle. The average yank wouldn’t know what that meant.
“Native English speaker” is not adequately complex as a label. I think you have to be more specific.
Before we gloat too much - and let’s be honest, we all wanna - CEOs tend to be of a certain vintage. I remember how I could program the VCR and my parents decidedly could not. Old folks’ opinions may be less relevant here.
Bringing all these tools in is basically giving magic beans to cave people. How would they know how to use them effectively? All the while trying to figure out if they are indeed magic. This, sadly, could just be the anomaly before the numbers go up. This isn’t proof positive that it’s all horse shit just yet. It’s just confirmation that the peddlers are overflowing with it.