El Barto

You damn right know exactly what I’m referring to.

Oracle??!!

If only there was a way to find out. . .

I don’t believe it would work well otherwise

What a weird comment to say about a device that’s actually working well.

Cute.

Excellent example.

Sure, but that’s a red herring. The main thing is that people can use the phrase differently, to squash criticism.

“This fake AI video being consumed by male teens is giving the wrong message that women are objects!”

“Ugh. Can’t you just let people enjoy things, man!!!”

It’s probably photoshop or a photo of someone who looks like her. Horrid stuff, sure, but don’t let it make you lose sleep for it. “Hopefully not real” - it may well be. There’s an unlimited supply of gore on the Internet. I found the hard way back in my teen years. Something died inside of me because of it (innocence? I dunno…), and then I decided that the best thing I could do is accept that people suck and to try to live my own life as best as I could, and help others as much as I could.

It could be photoshopped.

By the way, Mullvad rocks!

I completely understand your position and yes, organizations blocking VPN traffic is some major bullshit.

Like apps that ask for your location when they can perfectly function without it. Don’t provide me with a “Never ask me again” checkbox? Fine, I’ll play this game every time. Stop working because now you demand location? A stupid game app? Uninstalled.

Specifically blacklisting a group of users because of the technology they use is, by definition, “targeting”, right? I mean, if not, what qualifies as “targeting” for you?

You may be right. I guess it’s a matter of semantics. But the way you described it sounded more nefarious. “I’ll target this group of VPN users because fuck them, I hope they all die in a tsunami!!!” when it’s more like “ugh, another VPN bot. The 9th this hour and I’m hungry. You know what - I’ll just block VPN altogether and go fix me a sandwich.” Maybe that’s just my perception.

But anyway - it’s Joe Blogger’s machine, at his home, for him to do whatever he likes. Some rando from the street knocks on the door and says “excuse me, do you mind if I send an e-mail from your computer?” Joe Blogger can perfectly say no, not even an excuse is owed.

You’d have a point if it was a business or a corporation. Some home machine? Out of billions? Why bother?

I guess we’re two pedantic folks. I enjoy these discussions. I sometimes gain some new knowledge out of them.

lol holy molly!

By OP I meant the parent poster of this comment thread - which it turned out to be you lol. I hadn’t noticed, sorry about that.

But anyway. I see what you’re saying now.

You are right in that specific case, but I was thinking of another case of pronunciation: where to put the stress.

Co-operative —> co ó perative Re-elect ----> re e léct.

But maybe OP wasn’t referring to that.

Albeit comes from all-be-it?!?!?!?!?!??! You just blew my mind!

I surely hope so.

You’re putting words in my mouth. I didn’t say that. Targeting sounds like specifically doing it with an agenda.

What you’re saying the equivalent of being offended that you can’t bring guns inside someone’s private property because they don’t want to, period. “It is not ethical that you forbid me from exercising my constitutional rights of bearing arms in your house. How dare you not allowing me to put my AK-47 in your kitchen counter!”

Nope. I said that if someone doesn’t want to deal with VPN users because it’s more hassle than worth (e.g. bots), then so be it. Joe Blogger may get 20 visitors a month instead of 24. Oh the horror!

I am a huge advocate of privacy laws. But if Joe Blogger doesn’t allow me in his personal website, eh. I might try archive.org.

Would the dieresis be placed on top of the s in lineöfsight? Or would it be for vowels only?

Also, by your coöperative pronunciation example, people would be mispronouncing reëlect.

You chose to ignore OP’s point.

let’s stop pretending the law actually matters for the people in power.