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by nephihaha 5d ago
There are alternative streaming platforms, but many of them have become associated with certain political viewpoints. There is also a very limited range of content on Odyssee, Bitchute and all the rest. If you want to find music tutorials f
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by nephihaha 5d ago
You have to put in a disproportionate amount of work to get anything back. Almost no one makes money off a single video, but instead you make a string of videos and get a following. (The cases of a single video making money are few and far
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by nephihaha 5d ago
YouTube is part of Alphabet, one of the biggest corporations in the world. It can easily afford to pay people. It isn't co-operation, it's a corporation which takes the work of other people and makes lots of money off them, withou
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by nephihaha 5d ago
People need to be able to make a living and when this is taken away, the living expenses don't disappear. Most people can't pay for their electricity or food with voluntary work.
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by nephihaha 5d ago
I'm in favour of people making money from their work. Maybe I'm old fashioned that way. IMDB, Duolingo and Wikipedia have encouraged the model of using unpaid labour. YouTube isn't paying people properly, despite its vast rev
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by nephihaha 5d ago
Sponsorship within videos at least gives money to the uploader. YouTube has forced that by demonetising videos or paying peanuts.
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by nephihaha 6d ago
The trouble with these tests are that they are themselves training AI. I don't want to let designers know the "tells".
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by nephihaha 6d ago
Recent research has suggested that viruses supply us with a second immune system. These viruses keep down the numbers of bacteria and other microbes in our gut etc We are so used to reading negative things about viruses that it makes a chan
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by nephihaha 6d ago
In the UK, both of the main parties push internet censorship. As do the third party and the SNP.
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by nephihaha 6d ago
I have heard it on YouTube videos and elsewhere. "A" plus a y sound, or glottal stop. People talking about "ay answer" or "a yanswer" rather than "an answer". This has not made it into the written lan
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by nephihaha 6d ago
I read in a book some years ago how some Sorbian speakers had started to use articles under the influence of German, but I've no idea how widespread it was, and I think it's been discouraged during language revival. When Wikipedia
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by nephihaha 7d ago
My guess is something Slavic (since Slavic languages lack articles apart from Sorbian). I could be wrong. I don't think Finno-Ugric languages have them either. That's just Europe, there are plenty of such examples elsewhere — Japa
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by nephihaha 7d ago
Eh? I hear both of these on a regular basis. It is a phenomenon.
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by nephihaha 7d ago
"I think it's mostly Irish with the former." Actually, it's a shibboleth. It used to be said in Ireland that Roman Catholic called it "haitch" and Protestants called it "aitch". "Haitch" is
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by nephihaha 7d ago
Most English accents don't drop the "h" in herb, although American influence will change that. But you can hear "an" used in phrases like "an hotel" or "an historic building", where the "h&q
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by nephihaha 7d ago
I notice "an" is in decline in some forms of spoken English. I noticed this shift years ago. Some English speakers say "a (y)apple" rather than "an apple" or "a(y) orange" rather than "an orange&
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by nephihaha 7d ago
The North Koreans would find it easier to smuggle nuclear weapons in by boat.
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by nephihaha 7d ago
It depends on what you are trying to convey and how.
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by nephihaha 7d ago
Sorry, but Walkmans and Discmans were considered cool... At the time. Personally I like simple designs. I always remind people who make posters that whoever looks at them will only do so for a matter of seconds. If you want extensive detail
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by nephihaha 7d ago
I remember seeing a poster for Chinese New Year years ago, and someone had included the kanji for Japan on it (日本). Obviously they just wanted generic looking characters without bothering to see what they meant. I couldn't resist writi
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by nephihaha 7d ago
Adding a safety pin to the punk design was too much of a cliché. I wasn't a fan of the Memphis one as it reminds me of the worst eighties and nineties designs.
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by nephihaha 7d ago
They still have widespread international distribution. Personally I thought the internet would have been a bigger threat to their readership.
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by nephihaha 7d ago
It's common. But I tend to find people in the south east of England barely talk to one another. :)
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by nephihaha 7d ago
I don't know of a single "mere" in Scotland or Ireland. I doubt there are any in Wales... Maybe in the eastern bits that are less Welsh speaking. I'm surprised about Cheshire. Maybe it is more widespread than I thought i
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by nephihaha 7d ago
The problem right now is that there aren't enough peer reviewers.
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by nephihaha 7d ago
I went to see Michael Gazzanigga talk about hemispheric separation some years ago. Fascinating. The two hemispheres can operate separately.
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by nephihaha 8d ago
I don't live in the USA. Never heard of it.
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by nephihaha 8d ago
There seems to be a strong attempt to unseat the USA and the dollar right now. BRICS has tried to, China and Russia would love to and it looks like the EU may follow suit. The question as always is what to replace it with, and hopefully not
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by nephihaha 8d ago
I would struggle to think of any. Google Earth was useful. I wonder if Streetview or Google Maps will end up becoming a subscription service.
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by nephihaha 8d ago
I am not sure what you mean by "Eurocentric" here. These distinctions exist in most Asian languages and probably in other continental landmasses. Peoples living on remote oceanic islands are the exception rather than the rule, and

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