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Stepping up its war on gangs, El Salvador sent 10,000 soldiers to seal off a crime-ridden suburb of the capital city. Rights groups have already expressed concern over the government's tactics. pic.twitter.com/bNsqPILEO7— DW News (@dwnews) December 4, 2022

Context: The CIA intern picked the wrong tweet to unleash the bot farm on. It's totally natural to talk about Iran in some tweet about El Salvador.

  • replaceable [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    That shouldnt be possible, this mistake can only be made by humans, to computers these are completely different words

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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      2 years ago

      Whomst among us has never forgotten to ensure that a query is case sensitive?

      • replaceable [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Its not case sensitivity a and á are just different letters to the computer

        • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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          2 years ago

          That would be a great point, if "they will go" and "Iran" weren't both spelled with an á in Spanish.

          They are exactly the same spelling.

        • blobjim [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          depending on how you do string comparisons they can be. See Java's Collator class.