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What exactly did I write that is wrong? UG argues a universal grammar exists, and that humans innately posses knowledge about this grammar. It's this grammar that enables humans to learn a language (according to UG). They (UG linguists) have created a system of syntax rules that attempts to describe any language, but failed at doing so once they step outside of Indo-European languages. This is partly because Chomsky was hired by MIT to solve machine translation and putting language into a set of neat boxes was his best idea and partly because Chomsky himself had little knowledge of other languages. It's pseudoscience.

grammar as we know it was devised for the Latin language and linguists spend most of the time attempting to fit other languages into neat boxes that the Latin grammar wasn't designed for. This of course leads to absurdity. Chomsky attempted to solve this problem with his universal grammar, but that too stops working quickly once you get outside of European languages. That is, ignoring linguistic tools is one of the reasons GPT is successful.

If you set the width/height to 12px, set the image's left padding to 0, and center things vertically with flex, it looks significantly better.

  image.width = 12
  image.height = 12
  image.style.marginRight = '0.25em'
  //image.style.paddingRight = '0.25em'
  //image.style.paddingLeft = '0.25em'

  document.querySelectorAll('.athing > td:nth-child(3), .titlelink').forEach(e => { 
    e.style.display = 'flex',
    e.style.alignItems = 'center',
    e.style.marginRight = '0.25em'
  })
Screenshot: https://imgur.com/BN2wHgo

Seems clear at this point that the official Spanish government was behind these attacks, or the official registries got hacked (together with various delivery companies). Both are bad, but that signs are pointing to the earlier makes it even worse.

Not arguing again't your claim either way, but SMS sender can be set to anything, it's a feature of the system for it to work. The "DNI" (Spanish identification number) can't be considered private information and isn't difficult to find.

A more reasonable demand would be to have a warning sign for government propaganda websites, without that affecting ranking. Search engines and video hosting platforms like YouTube aren't the same. The first aims to be an index of all the information available on the internet, akin to "the eyes of the internet". When a search engine censors content, we lose sight of our surroundings. The second (e.g YT) hosts the content itself and is more akin to a hotel, in which case there is no expectation that it should host any given content.

"Putin dying or his regime getting toppled is going to create a huge power vacuum, lots of instability and is probably not going to be good for anyone"

Ironically, this is the same logic used by many Russians who support Putin.

It only offered very limited military support. You entirely ignore that Castro came to power under a different pretext than communism but Cubans only learned this too late. Unfortunately Kennedy didn't give the air support needed. Cuba could have been in much better shape today.

Don't compare an authoritarian regime sending militias to conquer the territory of a democratic country to a democratic country training and supporting exiles to get rid of their tormentor. Intent matters.

You start your argument by watering down the definition of dictator. Parents aren't dictators, they're people with authority above their offspring. This authority comes with enormous heart-felt responsibility. Being rejected by somebody doesn't make that person a dictator. Everybody is free to reject you and vice versa. If you're looking for no rejections at all, you might not be psychologically fit. Yes, the world is full of BS, this isn't a bug it's a feature - humans are creative.

We need more dictators who can take charage and kick the wrong kind of people into prison.

Are you trolling?

Because not all programmers are made equal.

For some

  method(thing a, thing b) thing {
    return a * b
  }
is not better than
  method
    a * b
  end
If you're an "artist" type that care about the aesthetics of your code you tend to prefer the second.