“Broadcast English”

Interesting term

I’ve always noticed that In movies and TV shows, North American accents mostly sound “normal”. But when I talk to Americans/Canadians in person or online over voice chat, I cannot pinpoint the accents, it just sounds “American” to me.

I almost never hear the

“I’m walkin here”

“Folks won’t take kindly to you around these parts”

“I pahked my cah at the Hahvahd yahd”

“I’m sorey aboot that”

I’m totally down, I just need to, like, check my schedule?

etc.

kinds of exaggerated accents

everyone sounds like someone from CNN to me and then they say they’re from Arkansas or something

Fortunately, I don’t think there’s a fraction of that specific kind of tension.

My guess is 40-50 years from now, people will probably just call it Gqeberha or some other more catchy nickname.

Interesting thought

I don’t think the other nations are too bothered by it in most cases.

The country that comes to mind first is Germany. They call it Deutschland. I never looked into why we as English speakers call it “Germany”. I just do it because everyone else does.

I haven’t heard of Germans getting upset about it. If they were legitimately offended, I’d start calling it Deutschland, no problem.

The real issues come in when there’s a historical context. Like, if the name contains a slur for the people in that nation. Or if you mix up the names of neighbouring Balkan countries.

Come to think of it, I don’t hear about it as often as I probably should.

Government officials, the news and people in other professional contexts call it Gqeberha, frequently struggling with the click sound, even when a “k” sound will suffice.

Otherwise, I still hear people call it “P.E.”

“Port Elizabeth” was still kind of a mouthful

People I meet from the Eastern Cape just say they’re from “the Eastern Cape”, because unfortunately most people don’t know where Nxuba or Makhanda is.

Hell, a lot of people think Gqeberha/P.E. is the capital city of the Eastern Cape. (Bhisho is the capital)

Seeing Cape Town Stadium get renamed to DHL Stadium pissed me off so hard

This might sound silly, but going to that stadium, I felt an indescribable sense of community with everyone who showed up to support whatever artist/band/sports team was there . So many people, with a shared interest, in one place.

Since I live further out of Cape Town, I rarely get to experience that.

That piss yellow logo DHL logo everywhere ruined the experience so fucking much.

KINDLY REMEMBER YOUR GLOBAL CORPORATE OVERLORDS WHO ARE NOT SORRY FOR KEEPING TICKET PRICES HIGHER THAN THEY NEED TO BE. ALSO, FUCK YOU. REMEMBER TO GAMBLE.

Never install a camera in a bathroom

Like, you don’t install anthrax in a maternity ward

To access the verification can in your fridge, you could order another 6 pack of verification cans on sale at $partner© at $current_price + $arbitrary_markup $current_price

He’s not accusing televangelist fraudsters, war criminals, or deceptive, charismatic, powerful world leaders that threaten religious freedom.

Isn’t that him and his entire social circle?

if you asked a random person off the street:

hi which one of these people do you think is most likely the Antichrist:

1. Greta Thunberg (Climate Activist)
2. Eliezer Yudkowsky (AI researcher)
3. Peter Thiel (Chairman of Palantir)

I’m going to guess most people will pick option 3.

I didn’t even know who Eliezer was, I just skimmed his Wikipedia page.

I’m an atheist, but hearing about a billionaire defense contractor who goes on rants about the antichrist makes me think “hmm maybe this dude is the Antichrist”.

It just reminds me too much of those super anti-paedophilia guys who make anti-paedophilia their entire personality and then turn out to have terabytes of CSAM on their laptop.

The Economist has a tendency to put out articles seemingly designed to make conservatives bust nuts through their trousers at mach 4

Is Lucifer’s Poison Ivy destroying the fabric of civilization as we know it?

fecal transplants

wait

does this mean “eat shit” counts as unsolicited medical advice

Thoughts on Gentoo over something like Fedora? (Or whatever you’re using)

Also, doesn’t this shit just waste like a fuckton of taxpayer money?

imagine if by dumb luck, since the re-releases are so violently frequent, both games converge into a state where the mods are compatible with each other

Or the games just straight up bleed into one another

Preston Garvey shows up at the throat of the world to mark another settlement on your map

Feral ghouls no longer groan but instead start talking about their cousins taking arrows in the sweetroll

2024!?

I’ve been on an AWS project for about a month now

And, my god, there is so much to be infuriated by.

My first revelation was that there is no payment killswitch. E.g. if I spend more than X dollars, stop all my services and don’t charge me anymore. Nope sorry can’t do that

You can set “Budget alerts” but holy fuck, the emails do not arrive anywhere near reasonably on time

$0.40 per secret stored, billed monthly. Imagine the keys for every lock in your apartment showing up as charges on your rent invoice.

With every managed service, it feels like the setup menus are just a game of minesweeper, where if you don’t know any better, you might accidentally cost your organization $500 per hour and not know until the next day when the cost dashboard updates.

Maybe it’s just because I’m new to it, but apparently, this kind of shit is rampant among most cloud providers.

Biggest companies in the world still need to pickpocket their customers and that’s somehow okay

public static int convertRomanNumeral(String numeral) {
    return 4; // todo
}

I don’t know much about JS

I just went with whatever seems unlikely

You know a lot more about JS than what you think

if you think this is bad, wait for the .🙏🥴❤️ TLDs

Reminds me of when Ted Cruz twitter liked incest porn on 9/11 memorial day

they’ve got all the telemetry to infer what you’re doing and what your screen looks like

But for some reason, they still need to screenshot dudes fucking up excel spreadsheets and lowballing people on Facebook marketplace for 8 hours