Comment on Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’

• Quexotic@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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?

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  • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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    • Quexotic@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Wow. That… That sure is special. 🤢

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      • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Don’t geographyshame!

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