"Drinkwaterbedrijven vinden het ‘de omgekeerde wereld’ dat ze verantwoordelijk worden gemaakt voor de verontreiniging van anderen. Dat gaat in tegen het principe dat de vervuiler betaalt. Evides stelt dat ‘overheden nauwelijks invulling geven aan hun wettelijke zorgplicht voor de bescherming van drinkwaterbronnen.’ Ook de Raad voor de leefomgeving in infrastructuur (Rli) kwam tot die conclusie. #PFAS#DrinkWater#Vervuiling#Gif
Are there any #mastodon apps that have built-in #gif integration? Giphy now serves an ad before letting you download and I am not here for it :blobfoxsad:
The creator of the format, Steve Wilhite, pronounced it with a soft “g.” Apparently this pronunciation is even specified in the tech specs for the format. He was riffing on a Jif peanut-butter advertising slogan, “Choosy mothers choose Jif,” by saying “Choosy programmers choose GIF.”
If you insist that “GIF” be pronounced with a hard g, because of some misguided insistence that acronyms must follow the pronunciation of the expanded phrase, missing the joke, AND ignoring the tech specs, for God’s sake, then I will insist that you also use the following pronunciations:
COVID: | ˌkōvīd | (“covyde”), as the “VI” is short for virus, with a long i.
SCUBA: | ˈskəbə | (“skubba”), as the U stands for “underwater,” which is pronounced with a short u.
LASER: | ˈlasir | (“lasseer”), as the A stands for amplfication (short a), the S for simulated (“sss” not “zzz”), and the E stands for emission (usually a long e, but debatable, okay)
YOLO: | ˈyōlwə | (“yole-wuh”) as the final O stands for “once”, with the o taking on a wuh sound.
POTUS: | ‘pätyo͞os | (“pot-use”) as the O stands for “office” (ah) and the U stands for “United” (you).
gotta eat cheese!