I listen to a lot of Red Sox games on the radio. I like the game-calling by Joe Costiglione well enough. Joe is boring, but competent. His sidekick Dave O’Brien drives me a bit nuts, as he’s pompous & tends to talk in broadcasterese more than English. I can abide the cliches even if I don’t like them, (“twin killing” for double play; “became strikeout victim” for “struck out”, etc) but the mangled grammar is really irksome. O’Brien’s inability to master the conditional sentence, especially the “third conditional” is particularly annoying. Instead of saying, for example, “if Ortiz had hit the ball he would not have struck out and the Red Sox might not have lost the game,” O’Brien ponderously intones “Ortiz hits that ball, he doesn’t strike out and the Sox are still playing.” With O’Brien at the mic, there’s only present tense. You might think that a professional broadcaster would have familiarity with the nuances of our language. Not O’Brien. He talks like somebody who never went to school. It irritates the hell out of me.
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Better late than never. Yeah, the point is that the speech in question IS THE CONDUCT. It is done to intimidate.
So based on yesterday's testimony, the conent moderation policies of Harvard, MIT and UPenn are about the same as Facebook circa 2010.
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🚨Urgent Alert: 25 million homes risk losing their broadband access if Congress keeps stalling. It’s time to fund the Affordable Connectivity Program. @OTI
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Better late than never. Yeah, the point is that the speech in question IS THE CONDUCT. It is done to intimidate.
So based on yesterday's testimony, the conent moderation policies of Harvard, MIT and UPenn are about the same as Facebook circa 2010.
Canada in 2023: Frightening, extensively reported article on a major school board where Jewish teachers literally fear for the lives.