The military censor in Israel does the exact same thing: ostensibly to prevent enemies from using the data to improve their systems, in reality as an attempt to keep domestic morale high (it only ever manages to slow down the inevitable fall, though).
There’s a morpheme boundary here, probably has something to do with it. The examples in the post have no morpheme boundary before the main stress, or at least not one that’s transparent to English speakers (ab/solu/te/ly might hypothetically have been more transparent to a Latin speaker though)
Yes, but it’s usually very subtle (e.g. in realizations of single phonemes or in intonation). There are also more extreme cases which other commenters have pointed out.
I recommend you look up sociolects and sociolinguistics.
Also, for people using some Readarr derivative with Hardcover metadata, how much of a pain is it to migrate from Goodreads to Hardcover (and is it worth it)?
Calibre-Web has always been interesting to me. Can it be deployed in such a way as to keep a Calibre content server also accessible? (e.g. for sync with the desktop app/Koreader/etc.)
I sometimes wonder if I’m wrong about myself, maybe I am racist in some way but am blind to it. How would I even know?
My stance is that everyone is at least a little racist, in some way. Racism is such an essential part of society and culture, probably almost everywhere by now, that no one can avoid it entirely. However, we can try to recognize it in ourselves and other people and minimize it, and that's what really makes the difference, the end goal being to eradicate racism entirely (also apply this to all kinds of -isms and -phobias you can think of).
Maybe there are people who have cleansed themselves entirely of racism. In my view, that's comparable to achieving some sort of enlightened or transcendent state, which most of us can only aspire to.
And obviously the Piefed codebase is so politically and ethically agreeable… /s
No one likes the lemmy lead devs or their stances. But, to my knowledge, they just keep doing their own thing over at .ml and never channel it into their actual codebase.
When I first started here, I was on Kbin, and switched to lemmy because it was so much better. I considered switching to Piefed exactly because of these reasons you mentioned (I've already switched lemmy instances, comment history is not an issue for me), but when I looked into it there were so many just frankly aggravating things about the way it works and filters stuff by default (not to mention being written in Python, but that's completely tangential) that I couldn't do it.
Sure, lemmy developers have backwards principles. But at least their software doesn't. I completely get why someone would use Piefed instead, especially if they're trans or of some other demographic directly targeted by the lemmy developers, but I wouldn't do it myself (unless it gets better, of course).
No inherent reason to believe that, but seems like lying about this should be illegal. The belief is in Meta's compliance with the law rather than in its ethics, which, according to these claims, is unfortunately an unfounded belief.
Not from this instance as well, but I think the distinction would be as to whether you think that Israel should exist at the expense of the Palestinians (not just Gaza and the West Bank, but the refugee crisis dating back to 1948 and possibly before).
If you recognize that both Israel and Palestine are already here, and that both represent national identities (not necessarily countries) that are, at present, as legitimate as any other one (regardless of their history), I think that’s just pragmatic and wouldn’t make you a Zionist.
The military censor in Israel does the exact same thing: ostensibly to prevent enemies from using the data to improve their systems, in reality as an attempt to keep domestic morale high (it only ever manages to slow down the inevitable fall, though).