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That depends whether you have watched "Passport to Pimlico".

They had a substantial Breton component too. Neither Norse nor Flemish nor French.

Surprisingly good article about this on the BBC website, I read a while back.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20210420-cosmism-russia...

It has been in widespread use in the UK without any antisemitic overtones. "Sloppy" is even more common as a term for badly done work.

"Zed" is much better than "zee" for the simple reason that "zee" sounds too much like "zee".

I think you mean Scottish Gaelic. Or maybe Irish.

"W" is alive and well in Manx Gaelic.

I always thought it looked more like a p.

No, the Jawbone still isn't there. There was talk of building a fibreglass version (probably the best option.) Animal rights people complained about it apparently.

Edinburgh Council has a habit of taking things into storage and not putting them back.

One pleasant exception: the Ross Fountain. That's back in Princes Street Gardens and is a) now working and b) looking better than it did back in the eighties and nineties.

It is a phrase which implies that capitalism is about to collapse any minute, and that Karl Marx told us so. Marxists have been saying we're in late stage capitalism for nearly 150 years now.

The PRC is strongarming educational institutions. Look up the Drew Pavlou case at Queensland University. There are similar reports from New Zealand, Canada and the UK.

One of many old clocks in Edinburgh that needs fixing. The one on the Balmoral Hotel had to get a lot of work done.

There were three identical street clocks in Edinburgh that the council there have tried to remove. They succeeded with the one at Tollcross.

The PRC.

They aren't always making passion projects. They're told unpaid labour is good for their CV/resumé, or that they're helping society (sometimes the case, but sometimes not).

Massive corporations such as Alphabet do have the resources to pay YouTubers, especially given how much tax they avoid in most countries.

History is full of people playing follow the leader, often to their own great cost. I needn't point out that there are a number of awful governments in this world in certain countries which cause their populations immense suffering, but which are being held together by the conformity of most of the populace. (North Korea for one.)

Most people where I live are not anti-establishmemt. Some are, but not the majority. I frequently hear people parrot whatever those in power tell them, via the mass media or whatever. They even do this in non-political areas of life too. I've lost count of the number of times I've heard sports discussions which I know have been lifted from that day's newspapers/broadcasting etc and presented as a person's own opinion. They're often not even good takes on a particular team or player, and aren't borne out when a match etc is played.

You can get sunburn from light reflecting off water as well, in hot places. Maybe not on its own, but certainly in conjunction with direct sunlight.

Depends which part of the world you are in. I've never been sunburnt on an overcast day where I live.

It depends a lot on the position of the sun in the sky too. It can be warm around sunset and sunrise, but because the sun is so low to the horizon, it is passing through more atmosphere.

I spent a lot of time out in the sun by the Dead Sea and did not burn at all, since the very low altitude seems to have provided me with extra protection, whereas nearby on the shores of the Red Sea, at sea level, I did burn with similar levels of exposure.

The average person obeys whoever is in charge and believes whatever they're told by them. Power means authenticity for them.

The problem is that whenever someone writes something they are accused of using AI. I know people who are accused of this because they know how to use em dashes, or even just write bullet-points. Reminds me of the bores who accused me of using Google Translate for something, and I had to show them that the language in question wasn't even on Google Translate.

There are plenty of people giving away their labour for free, which makes it harder for people who need to be able to make some money in order to support themselves.

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 for example, you're unlikely to.

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 between.)

You don't get hourly pay for it, it's vaguely commission based and you do all your own promotion. They can demonetise you at a whim and refuse to pay you (I've seen this happen to craft channels and other content that wasn't remotely controversial.)

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, without paying them properly (or at all in many cases). Wikipedia's content is used by LLMs and other such outlets who also profit off unpaid labour.

It is a basic right of people to be able to afford to live. It's easy to work for free when you have family money but you cannot support yourself when you don't.

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.

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 revenues. At least with sponsorship the people themselves make some money.

Sponsorship within videos at least gives money to the uploader. YouTube has forced that by demonetising videos or paying peanuts.

The trouble with these tests are that they are themselves training AI. I don't want to let designers know the "tells".

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 change to find out how they can benefit us too.

In the UK, both of the main parties push internet censorship. As do the third party and the SNP.

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 language yet, although some people write "a answer" rather than "an answer" etc.