Vib Rib posted:

Sounds like they need more lifeboats and a better system for quickly loading and lowering them!

credburn posted:

I know I'm an idiot on social media, but --

When someone says "yt", that's the same as saying "whitey," meaning specifically it's meant to be a slur, right? I am a white guy and sure don't care one way or the other if people are using slurs about white folk, it's just that sometimes I'm really not sure what the tone of the message is. My little cousin has used this in texts and I'm pretty sure she actually doesn't mean it as a slur... or maybe she does. Most everywhere else it seems to be

Clarified question: do people use "yt" ever to just indicate someone is Caucasian, or is it always in the context of making fun of them / being angry at them?

BalloonFish posted:

Which are exactly the main changes they made to the third ship in the class, the Britannic. As well as more lifeboats (48 of them), they were served by big crane davits with electric hoisting gear, so the boats could be lowered and raised at the touch of a button. These were developed by Harland & Wolff in direct response to the Titanic disaster and were the precursor of all modern shipboard davits.

credburn posted:

Youtube = Y.t.
Whitey = Y-T
You, too = Y, t

Neito posted:

I knew a girl who used to wear a cross-body or messenger (is that really how it's spelled? I feel like there should be an A in there) bag while driving to make cops think she was wearing her seatbelt.

Platystemon posted:

We could never pass seatbelt laws today.

Or public smoking bans.

Hardcordion posted:

It's just white. Y with t sound at the end.

OwlFancier posted:

At least not wearing a helmet is a tactile experience. Seems ill advised but I can understand the appeal.

Unless you have some sort of serious... what's the word for when people can't tolerate certain sensations? Whatever that is, I don't get not wearing a seatbelt.

Legal Advice UK posted:

Just been caught working abroad without my companies permission, Am I about to get sued?

I've been working abroad without my companies permission for 9 months now, living in SEA hopping countries every 3 months or so (or whenever the tourist visa expired). Yesterday out of the blue I get an email from IT basically saying they know what's going on and I've got a formal HR meeting coming up.

It's a billion dollar US fortune 500 company in the Finance industry, I'm a low level software engineer dealing with back end code and no customer data. I've only ever had production access to real live servers 3 times (no db access IIRC). I've performed well, done all my work and thought I could outsmart the system..

I'm now terrified that they could incur massive fines for them not having a business entity in those countries and I'm not only going to get fired, but also sued to levels where I'm financially ruined..

In short I'm panicking quite a lot and as a hail mary thought I'd ask what the likelihood of me getting sued is and if so.. how much I'm potentially looking at? and what's the best way for me to act during this? Should I be totally up front and honest about the length of time and countries I've visited.

Edit: My employer is based in England and I've been working there for over a year and a half.

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I'm now terrified that they could incur massive fines for them not having a business entity in those countries and I'm not only going to get fired, but also sued to levels where I'm financially ruined..

OwlFancier posted:

At least not wearing a helmet is a tactile experience. Seems ill advised but I can understand the appeal.

Unless you have some sort of serious... what's the word for when people can't tolerate certain sensations? Whatever that is, I don't get not wearing a seatbelt.

Burning_Monk posted:

Had a convo with a boomer once about seatbelts. He was "bu' my freedumb!" and how The Man was just making laws for no reason. When he asked me why I would want to wear a seatbelt I explained how I had a friend that took his off to find his inhaler while in a car and it crashed, flipped, and tossed him out and then rolled over his body. And I didn't want anyone I know going to my funeral like I did his.

"Well... I ain't wearing one." was his only reply.

Inceltown posted:

PhazonLink posted:

lol at protag syndrome and other general stupidity/nothing bad ever happens to me mindset.

my favorite is still the titanic sub posts of bros just claiming to tank the ocean pressure and then swim back up.

Baron von Eevl posted:

It also prevents racists searching "white" on twitter to yell at POC for innocuous comments that involve white people

PhazonLink posted:

my favorite is still the titanic sub posts of bros just claiming to tank the ocean pressure and then swim back up.

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(LONG post)
So Clay from Love is Blind has come out with Celina Powell who is simply another in a line of non black women he's posted on his IG since the show ended.

This is a passive-aggressive nonverbal communication as to what his problem was was with AD on the show. This harkens back to Chris from Married at First Sight who kept saying Paige ( who looked way better than him and was more successful than him) wasn't the "pretty girl type" because she was dark skinned.

And I see a lot of women in the comments on these posts like how come these reality shows keep casting "these type of black men".

So I think there are several reasons that this keeps happening.

Number one and I know you guys aren't going to like this but this behavior is the norm in our community. It's such a norm that non black people are aware of this dynamic. White girls know that when it comes to a black man we aren't competing with them and we are not on their level, that means that behavior is a norm. Non black women often actually get angry and shocked if a black man chooses a black woman over them, thats how foreign such a concept is to them. I think there are far more black men like this than a lot of people are willing to accept. When I was growing up it was normal and expected that you didn't have a chance with a black guy and if you were a black girl who they'd date you were beyond reproach. Okay so let's stop pretending that black men who don't like black women is outside of what's normal.

1. Okay so number one the reason men like this are more likely to be chosen for dating shows is because more black men like this exist than the opposite. You can die mad about it.

Another reason this keeps happening is because Black men like this have a way of communicating that black women are able to ascertain okay he doesn't like me, he doesn't like black women. There is a very subtle underhanded double speaking type of way men like this will interact with you that allows you to pick up in conversation that he don't gently caress with black girls. I'm reminded of when they asked Chris what his racial preference was and he said "I like black queens, white Queens, Asian Queens, Latina Queens." That means "I don't like or date black women". Period. Point Blank. Were not going to debate about it that's what that means when you ask a man does he like black women and he says I like all women he is telling you I don't gently caress with black girls.

2. They do not have enough black people in casting to be able to pick up on the underhanded meanings of the things black men say to communicate this behavior before they pick them for the show.

And last but not least there's also a part of me that believes that the people in charge of these shows find it funny and think it's good entertainment. There's always a chance that these shows do know that these men don't really gently caress with black women and then match them with black women on purpose to create drama and ratings.

3. People hate black women and shows find it entertaining to see black men romantically mistreat black women on national television.

oldpainless posted:

It only slows the process down but rest assured the work gets done

Neito posted:

My company actually has a formal policy on changing your working location, despite most of us being partially or fully remote. We have to alert them if we change states, let alone countries, for more than I think 89 days. The tax implications of that alone are a pain, let alone the liability of something like that.

Skios posted:

I once got in trouble at work. I needed to grab something from a website that's blocked in my home country, so I used a VPN. The first country in the drop-down menu was Albania. The following day at 9AM sharp I tried to log in, only to get locked out. When I finally got through to the IT department they informed me that that happens automatically when you try to log in on a government server from a 'suspicious country'.

tokin opposition posted:

yeah that's really common for US based orgs, my place blocks anything coming from outside the US. I'm sure it's fine.

OwlFancier posted:

At least not wearing a helmet is a tactile experience. Seems ill advised but I can understand the appeal.

Unless you have some sort of serious... what's the word for when people can't tolerate certain sensations? Whatever that is, I don't get not wearing a seatbelt.