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Like so many grammar "rules", this one was caused by one fussy dude who got his panties in a twist about an aspect of language:
This isn't an example of how modern English is going to the dogs. Less has been used this way for well over a thousand years—nearly as long as there's been a written English language. But for more than 200 years almost every usage writer and English teacher has declared such use to be wrong. The received rule seems to have originated with the critic Robert Baker, who expressed it not as a law but as a matter of personal preference. Somewhere along the way—it's not clear how—his preference was generalized and elevated to an absolute, inviolable rule.
It's a semi obscure "rule" of zero consequence that carries a false sense of knowledgeable power. Of course fucking pedants love it
Why would they only love it whilst mid-coitus?
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I wonder how well this fantastic joke would do outside of Lemmy.
Call the FCC, Max Headroom hacked his way onto Lemmy!
This image won’t load for me. I just want to know if it’s Stannis Baratheon. Can someone tell me?
Affirmative!
Thank you!
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And photos are more grainy than those i took with my 2005 “smartphone”
Man I loved my RAZR flip phone.
Miss texting from my pocket while maintaining eye contact.
You see ads?
Pirated Software also works much better than legal software. Strike that, pirated Software works, legal software might work?
One might spy on you, the other definitely does.
Many of the good piracy sites don‘t even have adds
Welcome to 2026, a time when piracy sites continue to receive cease-and-desist letters, but the applications that are being showered with unprecedented investments in the range of fantastrillions are also piracy ventures.
Given how ubiquitous ad blockers are now, I’m partially convinced that most are just masochists that want to suffer through that shit.
Without uBlock some sites are downright unusable. I dare you to go to weather.com or any fandom.com site with ad blockers, greasemonkey and NoScript deactivated and try not to lunch your monitor
Even with ublock, since it doesn't stop the cookie banners. I struggle whenever I have to to consult the ASCII table. Why does a website whose whole purpose is to serve a static page of ~1KiB need a cookie banner and ads? Just put a fucking "reject all" button, you don't need to suck in all my data to share with your 849 partners to show me an ASCII table.
Today you are one of the 10000. https://xkcd.com/1053/
uBlock Origin has an "EasyList/uBO – Cookie Notices" list that you can turn on in the settings. It was a very good day when I found out.
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Ads feel pretty uncountable, often
YouTube just hit me with my first PiP ad, it's a nightmare who the shit came up with this
Yeah, Python pip is a nightmare.
Fuck YouTube.
EVEN THIS IS AN AD! FEET! INFINITE FEET HERE! INFINITE FUCKING FEET AD! JUST CLICK MY PROFILE FOR FEET! FEEEEEET! WHEEE! SORRY GOT PUSHED ON A SWO G NOW IM DRUNK FU K FEET FUCK FEET THATS WVAT I FO!
Well it worked, but this was clearly false advertising. There were no feet just disappointment.
No, what was being advertised was education on philosophy, spirituality, and mental health skills for pedephiles, and others of the sort, who would complain.
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We need Piracy Premium which would be a subscription based service so you don't see piracy ads.
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