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[-] ozoned@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago

Yay! Eat each other!

[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 60 points 1 day ago
[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 3 points 1 day ago

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it does.

[-] Quexotic@beehaw.org 78 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Google claims it’s illegally evading bot-blockers to steal copyrighted content.

Says the company that trained its and Altman's AI with user content on YouTube.

Crimea river.

[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 30 points 1 day ago
[-] Quexotic@beehaw.org 19 points 1 day ago

There are 257 rivers and major streams on the Crimean peninsula.

Each of them are Crimean and therefore qualify for use in the mockery of any tech giant of my choosing via extremely bad puns.

However...

[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 5 points 1 day ago

How the fuck do you cram 257 rivers into a space that size? Like, we can't even manage the Colorado (no, the other one ... how we have one flowing through Austin escapes me).

[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago

I don't know what counts as a major stream, but usually streams are smaller than creeks, and creeks can be pretty small. So if there are 255 water courses that are smaller than creeks... I can see it.

[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 7 points 1 day ago

Why can't we just make it an even 256?

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Crimea has a mountain range up south, really close to the sea, so it has a bunch of really short rivers. Chile is the same.

That said the river from the "Crimea river" meme is the Salğır/Салгир:

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

Oh cry me a river! I get it! Ukrainian humor prevails! Take that putin!

[-] Quexotic@beehaw.org 1 points 1 day ago

..and major streams. Don't forget major streams!
I don't know shit though, I just pulled that from Wikipedia to support a really bad pun.🤣

[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 points 1 day ago

I think "major streams" are more generally referred to as "rivers."

[-] Quexotic@beehaw.org 0 points 1 day ago

Maybe it's a translation issue, we have

  • rivers
  • streams
  • creeks
  • Brooks and
  • runs

...

Maybe they just have the 2 words so there's information lost in translation?

[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago

That's a wildly incomplete list. I guess if you're out east, that might feel like a full list, but if you've ever lived somewhere with arroyos, you've never experienced brooks or runs. I mean, short of Mel Brooks and having diarrhea.

There's an old joke about growing up in Phoenix: That one does not associate rivers or bridges with water.

[-] Quexotic@beehaw.org 1 points 22 hours ago

Wow. That... That sure is special. 🤢

[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 2 points 22 hours ago

Don't geographyshame!

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago
[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 points 1 day ago

OK, I was really hoping someone would make this opening.

The paper in Port Angeles, Wash., is the Peninsula Daily News. They ran a special section decades ago with some ... unfortunate folios. The whole thing ran with Penisnula Daily News.

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

LOL, that's hilarious!

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago

Ah but you see every youtube user granted full rights for google to do whatever they want with their videos by uploading them, it's all totally legit of course!

[-] Quexotic@beehaw.org 2 points 22 hours ago

And because of entities like Google, legal and ethical rarely intersect.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 1 day ago
[-] Quexotic@beehaw.org 4 points 1 day ago

Oh yeah... I had read that and forgotten. Thank you!

[-] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 28 points 1 day ago

Oh Google... Someone should sue you too then.

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