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[–] Quexotic@beehaw.org 63 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

Google claims it’s illegally evading bot-blockers to steal copyrighted content.

Says the company that trained its and Altman's AI with user content on YouTube.

Crimea river.

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 26 points 10 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Quexotic@beehaw.org 15 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

There are 257 rivers and major streams on the Crimean peninsula.

Each of them are Crimean and therefore qualify for use in the mockery of any tech giant of my choosing via extremely bad puns.

However...

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 5 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

How the fuck do you cram 257 rivers into a space that size? Like, we can't even manage the Colorado (no, the other one ... how we have one flowing through Austin escapes me).

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know what counts as a major stream, but usually streams are smaller than creeks, and creeks can be pretty small. So if there are 255 water courses that are smaller than creeks... I can see it.

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Why can't we just make it an even 256?

[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 4 points 5 hours ago

Motherfuckers.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Crimea has a mountain range up south, really close to the sea, so it has a bunch of really short rivers. Chile is the same.

That said the river from the "Crimea river" meme is the Salğır/Салгир:

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 3 points 5 hours ago

Oh cry me a river! I get it! Ukrainian humor prevails! Take that putin!

[–] Quexotic@beehaw.org 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

..and major streams. Don't forget major streams!
I don't know shit though, I just pulled that from Wikipedia to support a really bad pun.🤣

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I think "major streams" are more generally referred to as "rivers."

[–] Quexotic@beehaw.org 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe it's a translation issue, we have

  • rivers
  • streams
  • creeks
  • Brooks and
  • runs

...

Maybe they just have the 2 words so there's information lost in translation?

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 points 5 hours ago

That's a wildly incomplete list. I guess if you're out east, that might feel like a full list, but if you've ever lived somewhere with arroyos, you've never experienced brooks or runs. I mean, short of Mel Brooks and having diarrhea.

There's an old joke about growing up in Phoenix: That one does not associate rivers or bridges with water.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 points 5 hours ago

OK, I was really hoping someone would make this opening.

The paper in Port Angeles, Wash., is the Peninsula Daily News. They ran a special section decades ago with some ... unfortunate folios. The whole thing ran with Penisnula Daily News.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Quexotic@beehaw.org 5 points 8 hours ago

Oh yeah... I had read that and forgotten. Thank you!