Exhibit #482,683 on why capitalism and medicine are inevitably a horrible combination.
And on why regulations and independent audits of product/service health effects are entirely necessary. If people could stop being such fucks and prioritising revenue, we wouldn't need a bunch of people to investigate, document and litigate their bullshit. And we wouldn't need courts to sit there and establish whether the law let's them do that in that precise way right this minute.
Greedy parasites going out there, killing us, profiting from it, and making a bunch of extra work for us, just to prove they're being greedy malicious parasites.
Company decisions should have personal consequences for the people who benefit the most from them.
This sort of borrowing happens all the time, regardless of the language. The fact that the youth still adapts it to the phonetics, phonology and grammar of Italian says that the language is alive and kicking.
It would be a bit more concerning if it was the core vocab, but it isn’t - it’s mostly that sort of word that comes and goes depending on the trends, near the “surface” of the vocabulary.
What concerns me most isn’t “grammatical” Italian, but rather the local varieties. Politically it’s damn easy to find some shitty excuse to get rid of them; for example, label Grico as “foreign” and Lombard as “improper usage of Italian” and you have grounds to legislate against their usage, even in the light of the current legal safeguards (law #482, 15/Dec/1999; plus the 6th article of the Constitution).
And I may be wrong, but I think that the project of law that the article refers to (in Italian) was partially aiming at those languages, and using English as a scapegoat. Specially given who suggested it, Fratelli d’Italia is filled to the brine with fascists (including Meloni, who used to publicly praise Mussolini).
GuessTheGame, c'est le jeu ultime, final, le grand jeu de tous les jeux, celui qui les synthétise tous, puisque c'est le jeu qui propose, chaque matin, de deviner un jeu vidéo à partir d'une demi-douzaine de captures et d'une poignée d'indices.
Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware (arstechnica.com)
Philips Kept Warnings About Dangerous CPAP Machines Secret While Profits Soared. (www.propublica.org)
Exhibit #482,683 on why capitalism and medicine are inevitably a horrible combination.
Italians have embraced ‘fake English’ (archive.ph)
Fluency in ‘inglese farlocco’ has become necessary in Italy as hybrid words and off-kilter meanings proliferate.