Because I like to take advantage of subsidized pricing and I have yet to encounter a brand that’s been able to break through my pfSense box’s adblocking coupled with bimonthly reviews of traffic logs from suspect devices

If(businessModelProfit>10000000){ PayBusinessExpense } Else { Go-to jail }

This is just propaganda from Satan’s PR team, they just don’t want it widely known that he accepts good soup as an alternative payment!

Now this is the kinda AC I can get behind, not that BS kernel level shit

Woah now, some tech is just pure science fiction

If you have the money to go in on a lawsuit solo, you have the money to retain a local lawyer and probably travel costs.

Otherwise, you’ll have to get a class action going which in that case, a local lawyer is still retained but the cost is spread out and for class actions only 1 person of the party needs to be present (if at all)

Some scammers are getting into sophisticated targeting, it’s not outside the realm of possibility they’ve sim-swapped Dad’s phone and intentionally worded it like that knowing you’d call that number and they’d be able to intercept it. Hell these days if they are able to get just seconds of your dad’s voice they’d even be able to have a convincing AI voice on the other end

You’d have fallen for it lmao

you can still have to work on snow days.

When wasn’t that true? Lmao

But some school districts did try to pull that bullshit including the one for my kids. Ours reversed course after many parents (including me) started loudly complaining about it lol

Wow reading through it certainly sounds like it’s the plaintiff law firm that’s being scummy, predatory and even funded by some VC company “Black Diamond”

I don’t quite see the point they’re making, I’m assuming by “massive arbitration lawsuit” they mean they’re being sued because of and to get rid of the arbitration clause?

I don’t see how it’s a win for them in either case tbh, maybe they’re trying to avoid having a precedent set is all that I can think of

“If you’re going to enter this line of work, be ready to face intense scrutiny,” said Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.). “If you’re not, then shame on you. Think it through.”

Any bets on when Mr. Tillis here gets busted for something himself? Lol

Have kids and tbh I’m actually kinda jealous of their car seats. They look so snug and comfy and are also the safest passenger in the vehicle with their nice 5 point harness lmao

what industry professionals seem to use most often.

Lol ok, if you want to change to that set of rules, I am an industry professional. Fairly deep into my IT career, and I will absolutely get on to any of my people if I see “Scuzzy” (Not that that particular one will ever come up again, fairly out of date lmao) or “Sequel” or any of that other bull

Irrelevant, acronyms and initialisms don’t depend on the underlying words they stand for beyond the first letter of each word. You can’t use the word underlying C or any of the other letters for grammatical justification or pronunciation.

Each letter must stand on its own and be governed by pronunciation rules independently of its underlying word, if it cannot form a sensible pronounceable word (Like FBI, CIA, SQL, SCSI) on its own it’s an initialism. If it can (Like NASA) then it’s an acronym.

Because it’s not, it’s just something from computing history that is no longer relevant

I’m the head of IT for my company and it’s S-Q-L and I’m a native speaker.

It’s not a grammatically correct pronunciation at all (which is why it seems like non-native English tends to not say “Sequel”) and even MySQL documentation specifically calls it out and says it’s S-Q-L

The final “i” follows the convention of being pronounced as a short vowel (/ɪ/), like in “mini” or “city.” This contrasts with words like “pie” or “die,” where the “i” is part of a diphthong (/aɪ/). Also, “MIDI” is an acronym where the letters form a pronounceable word without modification, and in such cases, a short “i” is more common when it’s in the middle or at the end of the word. Hence, “mid-ee” sticks to these phonetic rules

“Taxi” comes from the French word “taximètre” and its shortened form “taxi,” which itself comes from the Latin “taxa,” meaning charge or rate. In this case, the “i” at the end of “taxi” is pronounced as a short vowel sound (/ɪ/), like the “i” in “sit,” rather than a long “eye” sound (/aɪ/). English has phonetic rules where an “i” at the end of a word is pronounced as a short vowel when preceded by a consonant, especially when the word has a foreign language origin. This contrasts with words like “alibi” or “butterfly,” where the “i” is part of a longer syllable or a diphthong. Therefore, “Taxi” is pronounced “tak-see” following these conventions.

You’re actually trying to dictate pronunciation in English?

Wym? This is an English community and the thread is about English initialisms, acronyms and words. Why would I not reference English grammatical rules?

To get Scuzzy you have to fundamentally modify SCSI and break a few grammatical rules

In English, “S” before a consonant typically retains its standard /s/ sound (as in “stop” or “snow”). Pronouncing “SCSI” as “Scuzzy” violates this by softening the second “S” into a /z/ sound before the consonant “Z,” which doesn’t follow the rule where “S” remains /s/ unless a voicing context (such as between two vowels) alters it.

English has rules governing when consonants are “soft” (like “S” becoming /z/) or “hard” (like “C” becoming /k/). In “SCSI,” these letters maintain their distinct pronunciations, but when forced into “Scuzzy,” the “C” becomes part of a hard /sk/ sound, and the second “S” is softened into /z/. These changes are not guided by typical English consonant-hardening rules, especially since “SCSI” does not include the contextual elements that normally trigger these shifts (e.g., vowel placement following “C” in certain cases).

You also have to add whole new vowels like “u” and “y”

See previous reply:

“PEG” stands on its own, and it’s also a word, “peg”