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When does a colloquial term become a non-colloquial? Usage by government/official contexts?
In August 2022, Minister of Immigration Michael Wood referred to 85,000 holders of recently approved New Zealand 2021 resident visas as “new Kiwis”.
When does a colloquial term become a non-colloquial? Usage by government/official contexts?
In August 2022, Minister of Immigration Michael Wood referred to 85,000 holders of recently approved New Zealand 2021 resident visas as “new Kiwis”.
New Zealand -> Kiwi.
Human languages: the words are made up and the rules don’t matter.
Especially true for English.
If it wasn’t for StarOffice/OpenOffice/LibreOffice Impress, is have thought a rename to Impress would be a good name.
I read this a few weeks ago about it.
They can’t fix the bug because it’ll affect the outcome of any experiments.
Always been a fan of it being Hal Finney, regardless of any evidence. It’s poetic symmetry with losing both around the same time.
How does the use of ccTLDs furthers harms against the countries?
Nothing will top the r/nostupidquestions favourite of [Is Stephen pronounced like Stephen?](https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/3bmo28/is_stephen_pronounced_the_same_as_stephen/]
Cool. Can’t see that data url. Use an image of pastebin like it did.
Divination with maths is statistics.
Ten years ago sure, the days I’d suggest matrix instead.
data:html,
Might work.
Edit: stupid html stripping. Ugh.
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Fine, a paste bin. https://txt.t0.vc/PDIP
Also, often can right click -> loop.
It’s an abundant resource curse; land is the resource that is wasted.
Any hyper focused group, especially one that has an excluded “other”, will form a totem idea of that other and unreasonably become extremely against that totem. So hate spirals out of control. This occurs on either ends of the political spectrum. It can happen with sports teams vs their rivals.
CGP Grey made a video a number of years ago explaining such things better. https://youtu.be/rE3j_RHkqJc.
Bear in mind he’s doing it with a very specific performance characteristic in mind, and not as a standard EV conversion.
Perhaps more accurate would be the Hummer conversion by Jerry Rig Everything and iirc EV Doctor channels.
But in general, same stuff involved.
I think the alternative: copyright should be looser. It usually only benefits corporations and lawyers.
Though it would be naive to consider AI companies and ally in a goal to reduce copyright terms.