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Russian destruction of Ukrainian cultural heritage declared genocide
  • Which angers me as a Ukrainian. Yes, circumstances are different and I despise misinformation coming from a loudly obnoxious subset of pro-Palestinian side, but Israel officials had been clearly stating genocidal intent from the early days.

    When picking which genocide to support, the correct answer is „none”. But support for Israel kinda aligns with „Russia cannot lose” approach, so I guess things are consistent in that regard.

  • At what point when learning a new language does someone become bilingual?
  • Bilingualism is a bit overloaded nowadays, which I find kinda annoying given that word “polyglot” exists.

    Anyways, if you can freely use another language in an informal exchange with a few people of different sobriety levels while failing to remember key words and recovering from that - you’re a fluent polyglot. Ability to exchange information is a key part of what language is, and that’s how you measures your proficiency.

    Bilingual can also mean “natively proficient in two languages”. And if you’re older than three years old and are not native speakers of multiple languages already, the chances of you becoming one are slim.

    Native proficiency is a result of a language acquisition ability that is not well understood and disappears early into child development. It results in a level of effortless mastery that seems to be impossible to achieve as an adult, i.e. a dedicated or merely attentive native speaker will be able to recognize that you are not one.

  • Is there a difference in meaning between the words *people* and *persons*?
  • It’s not “people vs persons” but “those people vs they”.

    Conversationally, “those/these” distances you from the group you are talking about, which is humorously weird when it’s your family you’re talking about.

    It’s not the meaning of the words, but habitual (and often fleeting) attribution around them that tripped you up.

    PS: “People” are uncountable, “persons” are countable. That’s basically the whole difference between the two plurals. Although it’s rapidly disappearing, as “ten people” won’t raise a single eyebrow in a conversation.

  • You have a beautiful sounding language!
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    • Latexfauna
    • Один в каное
    • Клавдія Петрівна
    • Casa Ukrainia
    • Vivienne Mort
    • Цвинтар
    • Гордій Старух
    • Харцизи
    • SadSvit
    • Структура щастя
    • Хейтспіч
    • Пиріг і Батіг
    • Мур
    • Valvi
    • Жадан і собаки
    • Курган і Agregat
    • Sasha Boole
    • Хамерман знищує віруси
    • Діти інженерів
    • Jockii Druce
    • Ницо потворно
    • Drudkh
    • Артистка Чуприненко
    • Braves Only
    • Burned Time Machine
    • Колос

    This should cover a decent variety of styles and dialects.

  • Breast Cancer
  • “90% accurate” is a non-statement. It’s like you haven’t even watched the video you respond to. Also, where the hell did you pull that number from?

    How specific is it and how sensitive is it is what matters. And if Mirai in https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.aba4373 is the same model that the tweet mentions, then neither its specificity nor sensitivity reach 90%. And considering that the image in the tweet is trackable to a publication in the same year (https://news.mit.edu/2021/robust-artificial-intelligence-tools-predict-future-cancer-0128), I’m fairly sure that it’s the same Mirai.

  • Family shareable pro option

    Hello,

    Is Avelon pro upgrade family shareable? If not, would it perchance be possible to introduce a family pro option at a higher price?

    According to Apple documentation, family sharing can be enabled on individual IAPs.

    Thanks.

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