[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

Poor guy's aged twice as fast as all his peers since only he still ages when time gets stopped

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

I would assume it's a spam email and delete it. Are they really deporting people over email? Seems more like a postal letter kind of thing.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago

This seems like such a useful feature and I hope lemmy brings it. What else does piefed do?

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Even with the caveats about limited data and untangling causation and correlation, the statistics are striking: the first year of a scheme in Wales where the speed limit on urban roads was lowered to 20mph resulted in about 100 fewer people killed or seriously injured.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The article says it's not poisoning the AI data, only providing valid facts. The scraper still gets content, just not the content it was aiming for.

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It is important to us that we don’t generate inaccurate content that contributes to the spread of misinformation on the Internet, so the content we generate is real and related to scientific facts, just not relevant or proprietary to the site being crawled.

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/25238685

Ocean Way is the one I'm thankful for. Almost everyone drives at 30 on there anyway despite the 20 limit.

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Ocean Way is the one I'm thankful for. Almost everyone drives at 30 on there anyway despite the 20 limit.

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~~Anyone want to trade for 1- and 2-dianond cards?~~

~~I need Kirlia (1D), Gabite, Purugly, Lum Berry, and Pokemon Communication. Can probably offer most others.~~

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

The Home Office official said that because Alina is over 18 she is not being granted permission to come to the UK as a dependant of her parents.

They're not counting her as a dependent child because she's an adult, but it seems to ignore the fact that her parents care for her in some way

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Can't tell at this point if his eating preferences are a bit odd or if he actually eats foie gras and wagu steaks every day, but he knows he can't share that with the electorate.

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/877454

This is a post about placenames because I find these kinds of things interesting. Fill in any blanks or make corrections if you can.

For whatever reason, Korea likes to refer to a connection (usually a railway or road) between two places by taking the first part of each word and combining them. When one of those places is Seoul, the syllable used is gyeong - for example Gyeongbu to refer to a rail line between Seoul and Busan, or Gyeongin to refer to the collective area/connection of Seoul and Incheon. Gyeonggi-do, the province surrounding the capital, literally means that. But why is "gyeong" used in place of "Seoul" or "Seo"?

Seoul is, as far as I know, the only native Korean placename in use. Everywhere else has over the course of history been converted to a Sino-Korean name, which can be written using Hanja (Chinese characters). For some places, the old native Korean name is still known, but is never used.

Seoul as a word simply means the capital. It's a word that has transformed from being a general noun (e.g., "the seoul of England is London") to being a proper noun referring to the city of Seoul. (Aside: I think 수도 is now the term to refer to a capital in general sense).

Seoul only became known as Seoul following the end of Japanese occupation. Prior to that, it had a few different (Sino-Korean) names, most recently Gyeongseong - a Sino-Korean word meaning capital city (gyeong/경/京 means "capital"). When Seoul Station was built, it originally took the name Gyeongseong Station. So it makes sense that when they named the railway line between Seoul and Busan, they called it the Gyeong-Bu line, right?

So when you see 경 in relation to Seoul, you might have a slight appreciation of why it's there. But just because you see it, it might not be related. For example, Gyeongnam province or Gyeongju city both have "gyeong" but have a different Hanja and a different, totally unrelated, underlying meaning.

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