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Kavros posted:Oh, oh, that poor dear. Oh no. It did get us the most nationwide coverage we've probably ever gotten as a tech hub. Also that whole pitch (including another video and supporting documents for the official forms) cost CEG and other organizations who contributed to it $100,000, somehow.
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Kavros posted:Oh, oh, that poor dear. Oh no. To be fair, his delivery was really good. It's not his fault the subject was ridiculous.
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Curvature of Earth posted:More amusing than any misguided claims that Silicon Valley is overrated are the many attempts at branding every random outcropping of the tech industry as Silicon [Whatever]. The silicon forest is definitely questionable, but it's a hell of a lot better than most attempts. At least Oregon has a shitton of Intel jobs, had Tek, and still has all the high number of spin off companies from those two.
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This 60 minutes piece of the sinking millennium tower in SF is amazing. Early Google employees losing millions in home value because they moved out out of fear it would collapse.
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Makes me wonder what Millennial Tower would look like. Automatic Instagram tagging when you leave and enter? Fully customisable pronouns? Smashed avocados delivered by bespoke artisan drone?
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Weatherman posted:Makes me wonder what Millennial Tower would look like. Automatic Instagram tagging when you leave and enter? Fully customisable pronouns? Smashed avocados delivered by bespoke artisan drone? This will be the elevator music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRe1nQg-6wc
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the old ceremony posted:silicone valley Reminds me of a cyberpunk story which I thought was in Mirroshades but turns out it isn't.
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the old ceremony posted:silicone valley That's just Hollywood.
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Curvature of Earth posted:That's just The San Fernando Valley. ftfy
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actionjackson posted:Google employees losing millions in home value *world's tiniest violin plays*
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Weatherman posted:Makes me wonder what Millennial Tower would look like. Automatic Instagram tagging when you leave and enter? Fully customisable pronouns? Smashed avocados delivered by bespoke artisan drone? Each unit comes with a free gig economy account with a half dozen apps! Borrow more than $700,000 and your condo comes with a zero hour contract with a "local" business. *within 2 hours by BART
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Weatherman posted:Makes me wonder what Millennial Tower would look like. Automatic Instagram tagging when you leave and enter? Fully customisable pronouns? Smashed avocados delivered by bespoke artisan drone? https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/13/16468396/airbnb-branded-apartment-building-florida
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NightGyr posted:https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/13/16468396/airbnb-branded-apartment-building-florida Congrats, you've invented the hotel.
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blowfish posted:Congrats, you've invented the hotel. Timeshare.
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Finally, all the hyper-vigilance and annoyances of living in a hotel combined with the asinine joy of lovely apartment landlords. It's peanut butter and chocolate in a universe where both taste horrible.
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Weatherman posted:Makes me wonder what Millennial Tower would look like. Automatic Instagram tagging when you leave and enter? Fully customisable pronouns? Smashed avocados delivered by bespoke artisan drone? Why do people always shove respect for people's pronouns into their lists of silly millenial excesses. What kind of broke brain puts "treat people how they want to be treated" in a list with avocado toast?
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the old ceremony posted:silicone valley that's my new tech startup disrupting the realdoll market
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Apple truly isn't storing its excess cash in a Caribbean tax shelter. No! It's an English Channel tax shelter.
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cis autodrag posted:Why do people always shove respect for people's pronouns into their lists of silly millenial excesses. What kind of broke brain puts "treat people how they want to be treated" in a list with avocado toast? Because xe/xir/*annoyed grunt* aren't actually pronouns, hth
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Weatherman posted:Because xe/xir/*annoyed grunt* aren't actually pronouns, hth This answers the question but not for the reason I think you intended
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aware of dog posted:This answers the question but not for the reason I think you intended The real answer is that we can't even manage respect and fair treatment for the two "traditional" genders. Why would you expect the average person to suddenly be able to do it when you make the situation even more confusing for them?
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Tuxedo Gin posted:The real answer is that we can't even manage respect and fair treatment for the two "traditional" genders. Why would you expect the average person to suddenly be able to do it when you make the situation even more confusing for them? It is not that drat hard to *try* to use somebody's pronouns. (Me, I suck at it, and I apologize profusely.) Most of the genderqueer people I know use "they", and the less familiar pronouns are out there farther on the probability curve. It's like if you talk to somebody and say "Hi, Charles!" and they say "Actually, I prefer Chaz", you manage to remember not to say Charles, or you try. Saying "Well, I'm rude to everybody, so I'll be rude to you, too" is a rotten excuse.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:"We don't respect anybody now, so we're sure not going to respect anybody else more than that!" Yeah no poo poo. Tell that to ignorant boomers and hateful young conservatives.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:"We don't respect anybody now, so we're sure not going to respect anybody else more than that!" Where do you draw the line on things far outside cultural norms? My preferred pronoun is "bossman" by the way.
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If someone wants to use male or female pronouns then sure that's fine, I'll respect their choice. I'll also be on board for adding a neutral set to the English language. Until then I'm not going to memorise a new set of invented pronouns for every attack helicopter that I encounter. I can barely remember my own phone number sometimes
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Weatherman posted:If someone wants to use male or female pronouns then sure that's fine, I'll respect their choice. lol are you kidding me with this poo poo
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Weatherman posted:If someone wants to use male or female pronouns then sure that's fine, I'll respect their choice. This is a dumb take because I'm sure you use all sorts of modern invented language when it suits you. You are specifically choosing not to to accepting certain language out of protest. Anyway, English already has a gender neutral pronoun set. 'They' has been used as a singular gender neutral pronoun for around 700 years. Doesn't mean we can't have new ones, though. Language, like gender, is fluid.
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Fair enough. It's not a hill I'm prepared to die on so I'll accept yours as the last word.
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Tuxedo Gin posted:Yeah no poo poo. Tell that to ignorant boomers and hateful young conservatives. Amazing how other people are the problem after you get called out, huh? Newsflash: tech company thread full of assholes just like the content it follows.
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there aren't that many new pronouns. like people act like there are thousands of them but the only ones i've ever seen are the traditional gendered pronouns, they, and ze/zie/xe, which are all pronounced pretty much the same anyway (depending on your accent). so it's not a big deal. it's like, three new words to memorise. i thought goons were meant to be smart.
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aware of dog posted:lol are you kidding me with this poo poo Since I believe that things like gender or religion should be diluted into societal meaninglessness, I'd put down "attack helicopter" and "jedi" respectively 
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I legitimately am not sure what time or day it is a not insignificant portion of the time and I make a good and mostly successful effort to use the correct pronouns for people. It's not that hard people.
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also goons behave like non-binary peeps are always incredibly hostile and abusive when defending their pronouns but i've never seen that happen? like not even once? in my experience pronoun reminders are always phrased in the most gentle non-confrontational "hey sorry to be a pest but i just wanted to mention" way possible (unless the person doing the misgendering is being incredibly, obviously deliberately rude and hostile) and it's usually the response to the correction that blows things out of control. even in left-wing circles, alternative pronoun users get painted as this weird antisocial hyper-aggressive hivemind that roams the internet destroying other posters' lives for not saying "ze". it's carefully crafted propaganda aimed at discrediting the trans and non-binary communities, and it's based on lies and complete misinterpretations of events, helped along by the fact that nerds absolutely lose their poo poo at the slightest hint of criticism.
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T-man posted:Amazing how other people are the problem after you get called out, huh? What exactly did I get called out for? He asked a question (why people won't do x) I answered a question (why people won't do x). Has nothing to do with my own beliefs. I gladly use whatever pronouns people prefer.
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the old ceremony posted:also goons behave like non-binary peeps are always incredibly hostile and abusive when defending their pronouns but i've never seen that happen? like not even once? in my experience pronoun reminders are always phrased in the most gentle non-confrontational "hey sorry to be a pest but i just wanted to mention" way possible (unless the person doing the misgendering is being incredibly, obviously deliberately rude and hostile) and it's usually the response to the correction that blows things out of control. It's the tumblr thing. Everyone thinks that the entire non-binary community are perfectly represented by the militant tumblr memes that have been floating around. It's extremely harmful but because there is so much infighting on the left (who is LGBT, who is oppressed, who doesn't count), these things never get corrected properly because half the left perpetuates it out of spite.
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I've never met anyone in real life or online that even preferred they, let alone ze/zie/xe or anything else. But if I were asked to use those instead of he/she for somebody why not do it? It's not like English the way I learned it is some sacred relic or something, and it's exactly as cumbersome as remembering somebody's name. I'm pretty bad at names too and I just do my best to humbly apologize if I forget them. As for the 'cultural norms' argument, I wouldn't sneer in Aidyen's face and call him Danny or whatever, would you?
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Tuxedo Gin posted:Yeah no poo poo. Tell that to ignorant boomers and hateful young conservatives.
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Tuxedo Gin posted:What exactly did I get called out for? He asked a question (why people won't do x) I answered a question (why people won't do x). Has nothing to do with my own beliefs. I gladly use whatever pronouns people prefer. Mayhap xe is just trolling you.
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