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JeremyMallin , to random
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When I was a kid, teachers taught us that plural words that end with "s" that are meant to be possessive should end with an apostrophe after the "s" and nothing else. I have been coming across more and more people ending those words with "s's". Did they not get the memo or is that construction changing?

ex: "peoples'" versus "peoples's"

bytebro ,
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@JeremyMallin Actually, I was taught differently. The example given was UK-centric, but said that the soccer team managed by a chap called Terry Venables (for example), should be "Terry Venables's team". So maybe, in our own way, we're all 'right'!

Might take a while, but I'll try and find my go-to cite for that later 😂

bytebro ,
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@ergative @JeremyMallin "The way I was taught" was that if the word itself is a singular ending in 's' then it gets an apostrophe and an 's'. Like "Venables's" in my example

If however the word is itself a plural like "peoples" ending in 's' then in your example then it simply has the trailing apostrophe to indicate a plurality, so "peoples<apostrophe>.

I shall find the cite when I get home, or at least an amusing rant about the subject 😂

Pitching to @JdeBP for affirmation!

Nonilex , to random
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allies test a new strategy for
In 5 battleground states, county-level ofcls have tried to block the of tallies — which election experts worry is a test run for trying to thwart a victory.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/26/certification-2024-election-results/

bytebro ,
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@Nonilex Sadly that's paywalled. Might anyone have a gift link please? Thx.

RickiTarr , to random
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Me, doing chores and food prep: Existing is too much work!!!

bytebro ,
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@RolloTreadway @RickiTarr @colo_lee I have owned one (bread making machine) for a couple of decades. It's quite good at producing house-bricks, but not so much for edible loveliness. Probably because I'm shite at making bread, of course. Even the 'pre-mix' stuff comes out as building material.

I either need to bin it, or sell it on.

GottaLaff , to random
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“16 Nobel Prize-winning economists penned a letter, first obtained by Axios, warning about the possibility of higher if returns to the White House next year.”
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-inflation-nobel-economists-warning-1917046

bytebro ,
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@GottaLaff I think 'higher inflation' might be the least of everyone's worries.

lednaBM , to random
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Hey, dumbasses! What's taking so long....

bytebro ,
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@MishaVanMollusq @lednaBM

From the Other Place...

Natasha_Jay , to random
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BINFACE MANIFESTO 2024: Selected highlights, manifesto of the day

  • All water bosses to take a dip in British rivers, to see how they like it
  • National Service to be introduced for all former prime ministers
  • Wifi on trains that works
  • Trains that work
  • The reintroduction of ceefax
  • European countries to be invited to join the UK, creating a new ‘union of europe’, if you will
  • Wallace and Gromit to be knighted, for services to Wensleydale 🧀
  • I pledge to build at least one affordable house
  • Croissants to be price-capped at £1.10, and 99 flakes to cost 99p
  • Loud snacks to be banned from cinemas and theatres
  • Pensions to be double-locked, but with a little extra chain on the side
  • Minsters’ pay to be tied to that of nurses for the next 100 years
  • Shops that play Christmas music before december to be closed down and turned into public libraries
  • Count binface to represent the UK at Eurovision

Link to full manifesto:
https://www.countbinface.com/manifesto

bytebro ,
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@Natasha_Jay If he was standing in Bristol, he'd have my vote on that platform. Not even that controversial for many of my cohorts!

I'm particularly in favour of this one... "Shops that play Christmas music before december to be closed down and turned into public libraries"

futurebird , to random
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If you see a new youTube channel with a plain sounding name like "NatureView" or "BrightScience" etc. and there is what looks like a tempting video on a specific education topic "Most Active Volcanoes" or "Incredible Carnivorous Plants"

There is a 50/50 chance it will be a generated voice with stock footage and a script written by GPT.

I am now avoiding videos if I don't recognize the creator, or don't see signs it was made by a person.

So much spam!

bytebro ,
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@futurebird True. Obvs, we all like different stuff, but I do follow the channels from Hank Green (SciShow, Journey to the Microcosmos, et al) along with some of Brady Haran's (Numberphile, Computerphile, Periodic Table, et al), plus PBS SpaceTime. I dump the LLM-voiced ones immediately.

wdlindsy , to random
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“The White House press corps would be in wolf pack mode if Biden were in the middle of a speech and suddenly veered into gibberish about boats and sharks. There would be front-page stories questioning whether the president, at 81, was suffering from dementia; and the op-ed pages would be filled with thumb-suckers about whether Vice President Harris and the Cabinet should invoke the 25th Amendment."

~ Eugene Robinson

#Trump #dementia #Biden #media #MediaFail
/1

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/10/trump-sharks-electrocuted-boat-story/

bytebro ,
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@wdlindsy The headline on that WAPO article is a great example of Betteridge's Law though.

jerry , to random
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One weird trick ransomware operators do NOT want you to know…

bytebro ,
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@zixxorb @jerry So does uninstalling Windows.

lowqualityfacts , to random
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It's one of my favorite traditions.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

bytebro ,
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@lowqualityfacts For that very reason I now have a codicil to my Will that says that my body must be embalmed or wrapped with itching powder. I shall laugh at your discomfort as I'm being cremated 🙂

lowqualityfacts , to random
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That is good to know.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

bytebro ,
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@lowqualityfacts
I refer you to Mr Bygraves...

https://youtu.be/p-rcZh0A64s

rbreich , to random
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When Trump openly and repeatedly exclaims that migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” or shares a video calling for a “unified Reich,” he is literally echoing the language of Hitler.

Trump is not a “populist.” He’s not a “strongman.” He is a fascist.

Use the word.

bytebro ,
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@rbreich And why not? The treasonous fuckgibbon isn't even trying to hide it anymore.

Journos should always[1] be like:
"Say what you see"
"Looks like, walks like, talks like - yup, it a fucken duck"
"If reporting it gets 'important' people angry, it's news"

  1. I am not a journo, so it's not jeopardising my livelihood, I know. Yes, they get unethical pressures from editors and bosses. If it were me I'd like to think I'd rather walk than cave.
lunastation , to random
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Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. - Anne Herbert

bytebro ,
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@lunastation Great steal from Gilbert Sheldon from 1971, as well :)

RickiTarr , to random
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What is your dream road trip? Where would you start? Where would you end up? What stops would you make along the way? It can be short or long, whatever interests you!

bytebro ,
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@RolloTreadway @RickiTarr

Shades of Anna Kendrick...

"I’ve got my ticket for the long way ‘round
The one with the prettiest of views
It’s got mountains, it’s got rivers, it’s got sights to give you shivers
But it sure would be prettier with you"

rbreich , to random
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Wondering if wealth inequality is out of control?

Well, Jeff Bezos made over $7.9 million an hour last year.

In just 13 minutes, he made the equivalent of what a typical person earns in a lifetime.

Don't tell me that the rich can't afford a wealth tax.

bytebro ,
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@rbreich No-one said they can't afford to pay it. But they can afford enough that they don't have to pay it, maybe.

carturo222 , to random
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English says "Panama" as /ˈpænəˌmɑ/, which means there are three different sounds for "a" in the same word, and that should be proof enough that English is broken and should be rebuilt from scratch.

bytebro ,
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@carturo222 There are many more examples, but that's a good enough one. Comes (i think) partly from it being a hodge-podge of Norse, Saxon, German, French, Latin, Greek, etm.

GottaLaff , to random
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starts HERE.
Please remember I don’t reply while live-posting. Plz use NFL (Not For Laffy, but no hashtag) so I can ignore those replies.

1/… Bower:

Trump enters the courtroom. Before arriving, he lingered for a moment in the doorway, talking to his lawyers, Emile Bove and Todd Blanche. He had a piece of paper in his hand, which he waved around as he spoke.

Wait for it….

bytebro ,
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@GottaLaff I'm liking this Daniels woman more, the more I read about her!

RickiTarr , to random
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Okay, this might sound weird, but this is what I'm thinking of today. I'm assuming most of you know the idiom, "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." I know it's about looking at the horse's teeth to check it's age and health, but in my heart I have an alternate history where it's about The Trojan Horse, which doesn't really even make much sense, but it's still living there rent free.

So, does anyone else do this, make up alternate histories for words or phrases? If you do, I'd love examples!

bytebro ,
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@ScotttSee @sollat @RickiTarr Data-point: in the UK it's usually "raining cats and dogs" without the 'like'. Never heard it the other way round, so that may be a UK thing.

bytebro ,
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@sollat @ScotttSee @RickiTarr
"Raining stair-rods" was one from my grandma; descriptive enough that even as a kid I got the analogy.

bytebro ,
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@sollat The rods that were commonly used across each tread to secure the carpet. Long and thin, and 6yr old me figured it was rain that looked like it was such rods coming downwards vertically.

Orewoet , (edited ) to random Danish
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Nice to see that my new bird house has been accepted.

bytebro ,
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@Orewoet "Nice box, but nah. Good roof though; were in here!"

taylorlorenz , to random
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“These emails tell a dramatic story about how Google’s finance and advertising teams, led by Raghavan with the blessing of CEO Sundar Pichai, actively worked to make Google worse to make the company more money.” https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

bytebro ,
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@futurebird @taylorlorenz This is a good suggestion, but the politics of it would surely be a nightmare? You'd have governments lobbying to suppress stuff they don't like, or boost their own prowess, you'd have mega-corps issuing interminable lawsuits in order to make it replicate their fraudulent SEO results, it would likely be blocked by some regimes, and on and on.

ElleGray , to random
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that's the stupidest plan I've ever heard. I'm in.

bytebro ,
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@ElleGray "It's a 1,000,000 to 1 chance. And we all know that 1,000,000 to 1 chances turn up 9 times out of 10"

wdlindsy , to random
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Ja'Han Jones reports:

"The Pew Research Center has released a report that underscores how the claims that there has been a seismic shift toward Republicans among nonwhite voters have been wrong all along."

Republicans make stuff up, and the purported shift of Black voters to Trump is totally made up. The significant question here is, Why do New York Times and major media outlets amplify this stuff? They surely know better.

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/trump-black-voters-republicans-pew-report-rcna147645

bytebro ,
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@wdlindsy My first thought when I read "Why do New York Times and major media outlets amplify this stuff?" was "Who owns and funds those outlets?" Follow the money, always.

scotlit , to bookstodon group
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“What the hell do the love letters of that old fraud H. P. Lovecraft have to do with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs?”

A slight departure for – the Hugo Award-winning novella “Equoid” by Charles Stross @cstross
🦄 🐙

@bookstodon

https://reactormag.com/equoid/

bytebro ,
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@scotlit @cstross @bookstodon Excellent stuff!

bytebro ,
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@scotlit @cstross @bookstodon Have now read this, and it's wonderful. Up there with the rest of the Laundry series, at least!
Thank you @cstross

mastodonmigration , to random
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Once you decide to be a defender of democracy instead of a scared rabbit this one is simple:

RNC weighs limiting NBC’s access at this summer’s convention >>> https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/28/rnc-nbc-convention-ronna-mcdaniel-00149620

NBC should just call their bluff, and say OK, if we don't get full access we won't cover your convention at all.

AND the other networks should back them up and tell the RNC that everyone gets full access or they aren't covering it either.

Enough of this garbage!

#WarOnDemocracy #WarOnTruth #NBC #RNC

bytebro ,
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@mastodonmigration So yeah, "NBC should just call their bluff". Almost all here would agree. And the likelihood of that happening is? Or are you just preaching to the choir?

lowqualityfacts , to random
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Things I learned this morning:

-The bridge is woke.
-The ship that crashed into the bridge is woke.
-It was a Russian or Chinese cyber attack.
-But it was also a false flag.
-Yesterday's legal experts are now structural engineers.
-It will take somewhere between one day and ten years to build a new bridge.

bytebro ,
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@lowqualityfacts Helpful update. Thanks for that!

Strandjunker , to random
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He betrayed our national security.
He compromised our elections.
He incited an armed insurrection to overthrow our democracy.
He will do so again.
He is a traitor.

Do not normalize Donald Trump.

bytebro ,
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@Strandjunker Yes indeed, but I'm not sure who you are preaching to in this place. Everyone here is pretty much 'in the choir'. If you have any ideas about how to bring that about outside of here, that would be great.

NikaShilobod , to histodons group
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I just stumbled into this while digging around in some old 1814 newspaper. It's an English Mulan!!! What a life.

The text from the images is in the following comments...

https://newspaperarchive.com/london-st-james-chronicle-and-evening-post-dec-08-1814-p-3/

@histodons

Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

bytebro ,
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@NikaShilobod @histodons What an astounding story. Thank you for finding!

timjan , to random
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One thing I don't get with :

I follow both accounts A and B.
A writes a long thread. In my home timeline, I see that B commented an hour ago, and A responded in turn soon thereafter. Given these posts in isolation, I don't get the context, so I click in to see the whole interaction, which brings me to the beginning of A's thread.

bytebro ,
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@timjan @apps Paging @FediTips as they give good advice.

RickiTarr , to random
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Tax the Rich, before we Attack the Rich.

bytebro ,
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@RolloTreadway @RickiTarr @Saket @silvermoon82 Nah. The hairdressers and telephone sanitisers were more useful.

keefeglise , to bookstodon group
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And as a handful of people decide to have their argument in front of 6.5k followers of @bookstodon I wonder again if we can have the ability to mute threads we aren't tagged into.

bytebro ,
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@keefeglise @bookstodon @FediTips Is this doable? Seems like it should be?

bytebro ,
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@FediTips @keefeglise Thx from here!

MikeDunnAuthor , to random
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Today, for Black History Month, we honor the memory of Mary Fields (c. 1832 – 12/5/1914), also known as Stagecoach Mary, an American mail carrier who was the first Black woman to be employed as a star route postwoman in the United States. She was born into slavery. After emancipation, she worked as a chambermaid on a steamship, and as a household servant. In 1895, at the age of sixty, she got a job as a Star Route Carrier, which used a stagecoach to deliver mail in the harsh weather and rocky terrain of Montana. She carried multiple firearms, most notably a .38 Smith & Wesson under her apron to protect herself and the mail from wolves, thieves and bandits. She never missed a day, and her reliability earned her the nickname "Stagecoach Mary." When the snow was too deep for horses, she delivered the mail on snowshoes, carrying the sacks on her shoulders.

bytebro ,
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@MikeDunnAuthor If Mary was still here, I'd buy her a beer.

flockofnazguls , to random
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‘Reply guy’ is a gendered and bigoted term.

I kindly suggest ‘obnoxious thread barnacle’ instead.

bytebro ,
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@BeAware @flockofnazguls Maybe we could persuade everyone to use, perhaps, "reply muppet" instead. Or indeed, "reply arsehole", as we've all got one of those so no gender implications 🙂

lowqualityfacts , to random
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Every study ever: Overworked employees are less productive. Employees who work from home are just as productive as employees who work in the office. The evidence is indisputable.

Managers: I see. But I have a hunch that the complete opposite is true.

bytebro ,
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@lowqualityfacts Data point: I work in the office and I'm FAR more productive on the days when everyone else is WFH because it's quieter and less distracting!

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