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Coolness Averted posted:I feel real bad for a friend who moved to Utah to work for ancestry dot com a year or so ago, and hope they survive the inevitable employee purge as the company is asset stripped.
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Aug 9, 2020 10:10
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGWZpKYYc_Y
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Aug 9, 2020 10:42
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just FYI ancestry got bought by Blackstone and not BlackRock. https://www.economist.com/business/2018/01/13/blackrock-v-blackstone
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Aug 9, 2020 10:50
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Do they go out of their way to pick names that sound like evil organisations, or is it just coincidence?
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Aug 9, 2020 16:07
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Grey Hunter posted:Do they go out of their way to pick names that sound like evil organisations, or is it just coincidence? I get the feeling we're just secondary characters in a DnD campaign where an increasingly frustrated DM is trying to signpost how demonstrable evil something is, but the party is 100% on board with their ethos.
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Aug 9, 2020 16:14
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Grey Hunter posted:Do they go out of their way to pick names that sound like evil organisations, or is it just coincidence? "gently caress you. Regards, Grom Hellscream"
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Aug 9, 2020 19:23
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Grey Hunter posted:Do they go out of their way to pick names that sound like evil organisations, or is it just coincidence? My last job was briefly working with a company called "black dragon capital" so I think they're just openly evil. Why wouldn't they be, their behavior is glorified by so many
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Aug 9, 2020 19:31
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Sestze posted:Writers got lazy in the later seasons, why else would you make a corporation devoted to monitoring civilians and lead by a white supremacist called "Palantir?" It turns out they didn't go far enough.
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Aug 9, 2020 20:20
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It's ironic, they know how they're viewed and play into it despite ultimately believing themselves to be a necessary and integral part of the economy.
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Aug 9, 2020 21:14
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Reacher Guilt, CEO
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Aug 9, 2020 22:03
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I was going to joke about John Guilt but they literally did that 50 years ago
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Aug 9, 2020 22:27
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:apropos of nothing did y’all know one of the proposals to mitigate global warming is just keep shooting a shitload of sulfur into the atmosphere to make a cooling effect and also cause widespread acid rain, destroy ozone, and change the color of the sky Has anyone written a novel yet where the Global South desperately tries this plan to stave off climate-change-induced crop failures, and America bombs the gently caress out of them to make them stop?
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Aug 9, 2020 22:43
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Media Bloodbath posted:just FYI ancestry got bought by Blackstone and not BlackRock. Can't wait until they decide this means their sub-corporations are officially Black-owned businesses. (Hashtag BlackOpsMatter)
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Aug 9, 2020 22:49
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Chamale posted:Has anyone written a novel yet where the Global South desperately tries this plan to stave off climate-change-induced crop failures, and America bombs the gently caress out of them to make them stop? idk but futurama may have already had the most accurate prediction, global warming gets balanced out by nuclear winter
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Aug 9, 2020 23:14
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Corporations of Color
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Aug 9, 2020 23:19
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Chamale posted:Has anyone written a novel yet where the Global South desperately tries this plan to stave off climate-change-induced crop failures, and America bombs the gently caress out of them to make them stop? God I hate this term. It is invariably used by people who think the world just gets hotter the more south you go
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Aug 10, 2020 01:11
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exmachina posted:God I hate this term. It is invariably used by people who think the world just gets hotter the more south you go that isn't what the term means at all
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Aug 10, 2020 01:16
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exmachina posted:God I hate this term. It is invariably used by people who think the world just gets hotter the more south you go The Global South is a more accurate way of saying something like "less-industrialized countries", like the outdated term "The Third World", hth
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Aug 10, 2020 01:27
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And every map that tries to show how northern countries are more developed/advanced/whatever than southern countries just goes "Australia? New Zealand? Never heard of them"
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Aug 10, 2020 01:39
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australia and new zealand are just colonial outposts and don't count
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Aug 10, 2020 01:58
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seems like it’s probably a bad idea to explicitly identify a nation’s level of socioeconomic development with a fundamental and unchangable geographic property? (ofc as an american i am already primed to associate poverty and exploitation with the south)
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Aug 10, 2020 02:47
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Sure, if you assume those descriptors to be unchanging forever. They're meant to identify a problem - if there's a demographic in your city that's poorer on average thanks to systemic oppression, you're allowed to describe it as such. This is the same on a different scale
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Aug 10, 2020 02:55
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:seems like it’s probably a bad idea to explicitly identify a nation’s level of socioeconomic development with a fundamental and unchangable geographic property? the point of "global" in "global south" is that it doesn't do that hth the correct term, of course, is "victims of (neo)imperialism" but that's too scary and makes students feel bad.
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Aug 10, 2020 02:57
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exmachina posted:God I hate this term. It is invariably used by people who think the world just gets hotter the more south you go lol what ?? Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:seems like it’s probably a bad idea to explicitly identify a nation’s level of socioeconomic development with a fundamental and unchangable geographic property? it has literally nothing, zero, to do with actual geography beyond coincidental arrangements it's a term that was more or less developed as the natural opposition to the US/NATO sociopolitical apparatchiks "the global west" and/or "north" so if it bothers you go like yell at the pentagon or the NED office on K street or something HiroProtagonist has issued a correction as of 03:22 on Aug 10, 2020 |
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Aug 10, 2020 03:18
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Chamale posted:The Global South is a more accurate way of saying something like "less-industrialized countries", like the outdated term "The Third World", hth “The Global South” isn’t going to inject sulphur into the upper atmosphere and get bombed for it because “the Global South” isn’t one nation. It’s a colonialist mindset to treat them all together. hth
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Aug 10, 2020 03:28
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Platystemon posted:“The Global South” isn’t going to inject sulphur into the upper atmosphere and get bombed for it because “the Global South” isn’t one nation. It’s a colonialist mindset to treat them all together. ah yes, solidarity is now colonialism 
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Aug 10, 2020 03:33
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As long as we all agree that someone will try some geo-engineering and get bombed to poo poo over it.
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Aug 10, 2020 03:34
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There are heaps of different ways of saying the same thing. First world/third world, developed/developing, MEDCs/LEDCs, global North/global South, etc etc. They're all just shades of meaning on the same concept and there's literally no way to divide the world into those two distinct groups that doesn't heavily stigmatise one, other than MAYBE "colonisers" and "victims of colonialism". They can still be useful terms to use, because history has treated the world in somewhat of a binary like that, and as of a few years ago Global North and Global South were the preferred terms because at the very least the language involved isn't stigmatising or labelling one as lesser.
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Aug 10, 2020 03:48
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redleader posted:australia and new zealand are just colonial outposts and don't count Hey we can count. Who saying we don't know how to count? All god drat lies!
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Aug 10, 2020 03:52
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bike tory posted:There are heaps of different ways of saying the same thing. First world/third world, developed/developing, MEDCs/LEDCs, global North/global South, etc etc. They're all just shades of meaning on the same concept and there's literally no way to divide the world into those two distinct groups that doesn't heavily stigmatise one, other than MAYBE "colonisers" and "victims of colonialism". yes, "colonizers" and "colonized"/"victims of colonialism" are the correct terms and the global south/global north (/west) are just synonyms made up by people (aka thinktanks and OAS, school of americas, etc.) who don't want to invoke the legacy for colonialism as their reason for grouping things accordingly.
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Aug 10, 2020 03:54
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HiroProtagonist posted:yes, "colonizers" and "colonized"/"victims of colonialism" are the correct terms and the global south/global north (/west) are just synonyms made up by people (aka thinktanks and OAS, school of americas, etc.) who don't want to invoke the legacy for colonialism as their reason for grouping things accordingly. You do realize that you could say that "XXX"/"YYY" are the correct terms and that "colonizers" and "colonized"/"victims of colonialism" are just synonyms made up by people (aka thinktanks and OAS, school of americas, etc.) who want to deprive countries of any identity independent of exploitation, etc? Global South is a flawed term and every term like Developing World/LDC/G77/G134/NAM/Third World is flawed too because they are all too simplistic, but sometimes people need to communicate simplified ideas without reciting the entirety of Settlers mid-sentence.
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Aug 10, 2020 04:05
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global South isn’t a flawed term, it’s vague to the point of uselessness. kind of like the west really
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Aug 10, 2020 04:11
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colonisers/victims is also an insanely vague binary that any even mildly skilled internet pedant could easily undermine
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Aug 10, 2020 04:13
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just talk about countries individually. It’s rarely useful to talk about them in groups anyway
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Aug 10, 2020 04:15
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Farm Frenzy posted:colonisers/victims is also an insanely vague binary that any even mildly skilled internet pedant could easily undermine Ok, but not if you live in the world that the rest of us do that is an inheritance of European colonization
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Aug 10, 2020 04:16
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Isn't "the global south" just a rebranding of "the southern hemisphere"? Is hemisphere too big a word for 2020?
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Aug 10, 2020 04:16
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It's a dog whistle
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Aug 10, 2020 04:17
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Facebook Aunt posted:Isn't "the global south" just a rebranding of "the southern hemisphere"? Is hemisphere too big a word for 2020? No, its trying to say "third world" without saying third world.
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Aug 10, 2020 04:19
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CharlestheHammer posted:just talk about countries individually. It’s rarely useful to talk about them in groups anyway I *knew* memorizing that Animaniacs song would come in handy someday! Didn't expect to recite big chunks of it every few sentences of a policy discussion though... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x88Z5txBc7w&t=10s
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Aug 10, 2020 04:26
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taqueso posted:It's a dog whistle hobbesmaster posted:No, its trying to say "third world" without saying third world. Ah, I see. Perhaps we should take a note from Trump and just refer to them as the "Shithole Countries". It's rude, but it's pretty much what people mean when they use "third world" these days.
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Aug 10, 2020 04:36
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