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Strings cut to US/UK
slash
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intransitive verb: to lash out, cut, or thrash about with or as if with an edged blade
transitive verb
1: to cut with or as if with rough sweeping strokes
2: cane, lash
3: to cut slits in (something, such as a garment) so as to reveal a color beneath
4: to criticize cuttingly
5: to reduce sharply : cut
slash
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noun (1)
1: the act of slashing
also : a long cut or stroke made by or as if by slashing
2: an ornamental slit in a garment
3a: an open tract in a forest strewn with debris (as from logging)
b: the debris in such a tract
4: a mark / used typically to denote "or" (as in and/or), "and or" (as in straggler/deserter), or "per" (as in feet/second)
called also diagonal, slant, solidus, virgule
5
or slash fiction : a genre of fan fiction which features a romantic pairing of two usually male fictional characters who are not romantically connected in the original work of fiction
If women are the prime producers of the stuff, one would imagine that slash would be as full of male-female fantasies as male-male fantasies, but that's not the case.—
Owen Smith
Here's a sampling of Harry Potter slash, taken from a novella called "Irresistible Poison," about a budding romance between Harry and his archenemy Draco Malfoy.—
Christopher Noxon
I don't know whether Moody has read Kirk/Spock slash fiction, either, but I bet he's heard of it …—
Elizabeth Hand
slash
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noun (2): a low swampy area often overgrown with brush
transitive verb
1: to draw a line under : underline
2: to make evident : emphasize, stress
arrived early to underscore the importance of the occasion
3: to provide (action on film) with accompanying music
underscore
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noun
1: a line drawn under a word or line especially for emphasis or to indicate intent to italicize
2: music accompanying the action and dialogue of a film
originally posted by: NoAlienBastards
Found this while Researching Joseph Daniel Casolaro:
Danny Casolaro
SERCO, THE MOST EVIL CORPORATION ON EARTH!
Introduction
What if I told you there exists a multinational corporation with 40+ subsidiary companies across the globe which services a vast array of governmental agencies? And what if I told you this very same corporation has been involved in scandal after scandal, ranging from overcharging governments for electronically tagged inmates, to falsifying billing documents, to mismanaging vital patient information, to drug smuggling enterprises found within their facilities, and finally sexual abuse and terrible living conditions in their immigration/refugee centers? What if I also told you that this same company is protected under “commercial confidentiality” and the details of its inner workings are not open to Freedom of Information requests?
You’d probably ask me, “What is this corporation you speak of?”
Well, this corporation’s name is Serco, and it’s the biggest company you’ve never heard of. And that’s no accident. Since 1987, Serco has quietly and clandestinely taken over many of the world’s public services, and has cleverly avoided too much media attention. That is until in 2013, a taxpayer scandal broke and collapsed its share price. Since then, Serco has been fighting a steady battle in the UK media, with little attention to it in other areas of the world.
So, what is Serco Group?
Most Evil Corporation on Earth
Disclaimer: This was an April Fools Day Story.
originally posted by: Guyfriday
a reply to: TheBadCabbie
Yea, I've seen that too, but does that make people turn animalistic to the point where grunts and growls are being used. When I say feral, I really mean feral in is most raw state. There are people out there who are human only in appearance.
It's something that I've only noticed in the past few years, but some of the Law Enforcement friends I have told me that they've also noticed a difference between these "wild minded" people (that what they call them) and the regular homeless people.
In the middle of the day one of these people was eating a dog and when approached by Law Enforcement they lashed out at them. It took several tasers to subdue the person, and when taken in they had no evidence of drugs in their system. In the end since nobody knew who's dog was killed, so they had to let the person go. My friend said that the person never said anything and came across as a wild animal than a person. This "wild person" was too far gone or never was there to begin with. A Social Worker that is now attached to the police around here won't even come near these people without armed Law Enforcement since there have been attacks by them in the past.
I hate to say this, but my friend drove me around, yes it was a police ride-a-long, and showed me where some of these people hunt for food and stuff and there was a person wadded up sleeping, but the person looked like a half starved dog. It was a very weird sight. My friend told me that if they stopped to toss a blanket at them, that person would bite at the blanket and leave it then move to another location.
There are people that have withdrawn in their heads for one reason or another, and I've seen those people wandering around town. These feral people are completely different.
I do want to thank you for your insight on this issue though. For all the governmental bloat that gets wasted, it's a sham that the Clintons dumped finding for Mental Health services in this country. That being said this feral people thing is very weird and I doubt mental health services would help them. It's almost like these people were bred just as an experiment gone wrong. It's really weird.
M2 is being wound back.
Assets have grown faster than Liabilities. It was in the red, now is in the green.
This means that loans in USD are being paid off. USD are returning back home, which is why M2 rolls back.
The Kremlin did not provide evidence to support the claims, but said it "reserves the right to take retaliatory measures where and when it sees fit.” Kyiv denied any involvement.
Russia claimed Wednesday that Ukraine tried to assassinate President Vladimir Putin in an overnight drone attack on the Kremlin, news that drew denials from Kyiv and furious demands for retaliation from nationalists in Moscow.
The Kremlin’s accusation, made without providing evidence, was the latest in a string of reported incidents far from the war’s front lines. Kyiv said it had nothing to do with the alleged incident and suggested it could be used as a pretext for a new Russian attack inside Ukraine.
Although the Industrial Revolution is often thought of as a single continuous event, it can be better understood as four sequential revolutions or paradigm shifts. The first, which began in the late 18th century, was propelled by mechanization and steam power. The second, in the 19th century, was fostered by mass production, electricity, and the assembly line. The third, which took place in the 20th century, introduced computers, automation, and information technologies
The Fourth Industrial Revolution, which we are now experiencing, encompasses the advent and convergence of exponential technologies—from artificial intelligence and smart machines to robotics, blockchain, and virtual reality—that are already affecting the way we live. Whenever you query Siri, for example, to find a restaurant’s address, or ask Alexa to call your mom, you are using AI, whether you are conscious of it or not
Herein lies the double-edged sword of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Although smart machines and artificial intelligence are predicted to bring unimaginable efficiencies, they will do so by increasingly replacing a wide swath of existing human jobs. While historically jobs have always been around for human beings through technological revolutions, we have never had a technological revolution that has been capable of displacing so many human beings and so much human brain power as the one we are transitioning through now
Technology adoption, already accelerating before and during the pandemic, potentially poses a new wave of transformation, especially to white-collar work through the rise of generative AI. And now a strong push for a much-needed green transformation is also leading to expectations of future displacement in carbon-intensive roles in favour of growth in emerging green jobs and skills.
Technology will create structural churn, with a quarter of companies seeing job decline from new technology adoption and more than half seeing job growth. But the human-machine frontier is shifting to new terrain. While expectations of the displacement of physical and manual work by machines has decreased, tasks requiring reasoning, communicating and coordinating – all traits with a comparative advantage for humans – are expected to be more automatable in the future.
Generative artificial intelligence is expected to be adopted by nearly 75% of surveyed companies and is second only to humanoid and industrial robots in terms of expectations of job losses, most likely to affect bank tellers, cashiers, clerks, secretaries and accounting. Yet, the biggest threat to jobs is still seen to come not from technology, but from slowing economic growth, the rising costs of inputs and weaker purchasing power among consumers.