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Earlier, I wasn’t convinced this was due to Spotify because it happened incredibly quickly after the news about the scraping. Two weeks or so after AA’s announcement, I’d hardly believe this sort of domain takedown can be carried out so swiftly, without the pirated material even being available on the site yet. Guess I was wrong, Spotify money can do miracles.
It’s a forum in Europe but many businessmen there were certainly from the US. It’s the World Economic Forum, after all.
No, silly, that’s not estrogen but Estragon, a character from Samuel Beckett’s classic modernist play Waiting for Godot.
Lumping Baltic countries together with Hungary and Slovakia shows you don’t actually know much about the political situation there and shouldn’t try to make predictions about them.
The rest of your comment is too implausible for me to want to discuss it in detail. I really don’t get the impression you’ve actually thought through any of the scenarios you’re coming up with. Canada fighting the most powerful military in the world that completely surrounds it on land? China attacking its biggest individual trading partner (by teleporting soldiers onto the other side of the world somehow) and having anything to gain from destabilising the world economy? Wars aren’t carried out in the media, Trump won’t be stopped and Greenland won’t be defended with a new round of “Trump bad” articles in US media.
Probably, because if they didn’t, there’s no guarantee they wouldn’t be next.
The powerful ones simply wouldn’t be next. Weak ones might be, but they in particular won’t be able to do shit about Greenland.
The conflict, if it comes to it, will play out through less direct means.
Don’t forget the incredibly organised mafia (primarily cocaine trafficking) spanning pretty much the entire world.
The official White House Twitter account posted about his death, it was pretty noticeable. 😬
In this particular case it’s still a bit extreme level of indecisiveness. He doesn’t know if central characters will live or die even after 20 years of writing the story, and can change his mind based on the character being appealing in the adaptation.
Tbh it’s not like he’s been hiding it for the last 15 years at minimum. Called it “gardener” style of writing as opposed to “architect” style. (He evidently has a very messy garden.)
If the US invades Denmark, all other NATO companies are OBLIGATED to provide military support. So that would basically kick USA out of NATO,
The other countries can simply not oblige (and thus kill NATO). That’s the more realistic option.
and you can bet your bottom dollar that not only NATO but also Russia, China, North Korea, etc would all fall over themselves to ‘help respect and defend the sovereign territory of Denmark from illegal invasion’.
Lol no they wouldn’t. Neither would they care about who owns Greenland (except probably Russia), neither would they waste immense amounts of money and manpower to fight the biggest military and economy in the world for no real gain, and neither would 2/3 of the listed countries (Ru, NK) be able to do anything serious against US anyway (outside of suicidally throwing nukes at it).
also is used to describe Western art, which immitates arts from the North Africa, Middle East and Asia
Not necessarily imitate their art (which would probably result in artistically more interesting works), but mainly present the foreign people and cultures in an exoticising and stereotyped manner, as objects of fascination rather than normal culture.
The second “wind” is as in “I wound up the toy car and, when I released it, it zoomed all the way to the other side of the room”. In this context, a “long-winded response” is one that metaphorically winded the coils that make the speaker go.
The more primary meaning is this one (copied from Oxford Dictionary of English): move in or take a twisting or spiral course. The etymology of the verb ‘wind’ (also from ODE) is: Old English windan ‘go rapidly’, ‘twine’, of Germanic origin; related to wander and wend. Long-winded = the speaker’s words/thoughts wander in circles for a long time.
Don’t spread this nonsense, please. All of Wikipedia’s content is already free, stays free and is still in the same place as ever. What has been sold to AI companies, that have already been scraping and using the site for years for free, is API access to WP’s material, suited to AI companies’ needs and hopefully less of a burden on WP’s normal infrastructure.
The deals mean that most major AI developers have now signed on to the foundation’s Wikimedia Enterprise program, a commercial subsidiary that sells high-speed API access to Wikipedia’s 65 million articles at higher speeds and volumes than the free public APIs provide. Wikipedia’s content remains freely available under a Creative Commons license, but the Enterprise program charges for faster, higher-volume access to the data.
I wonder what Adams would’ve thought of receiving this epitaph, say, a decade ago.
That would be wildly expensive and take a long time to carry out. A volcano would suffice.
Hopefully the aliens will appreciate it.
But there are no Nazis in Ukraine.
Said nobody ever except disingenuous tankies needing a strawman.
The protesters on Tiananmen Square were killed by the military so I guess that technically doesn’t count?
Fuck. Vimeo is used by many filmmakers and streaming services, moving all of that content elsewhere will be downright impossible to carry out completely. A lot of content will be irrecoverably lost once the company is really killed off.
Last year or so they disabled viewing other people’s profiles or even searching the website for users in the EU. I have to admit I haven’t seen any service being so actively destroyed by its owners.