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Guavanaut posted:https://twitter.com/DrRubidium/status/1571869354546921473 I miss when I could write female instead of woman for the sake of a bit of variety but it isn't a major loss.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Someone was asking about the hindu / muslim violence in Leicester, this seems to be a decent breakdown: I hope that one day mankind's technology will advance to a point where current events can be documented in a single page or 'article', rather than 50 individual tweets.
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Sep 20, 2022 13:37
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forkboy84 posted:I miss when I could write female instead of woman for the sake of a bit of variety but it isn't a major loss. You'll never make Grand Nagus with that attitude
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Sep 20, 2022 13:38
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Just asked in builder's merchants for some lady ended pipe bends.
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Sep 20, 2022 13:48
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It's weird that "female" is such a red flag while "male" goes unnoticed but that's how language and the euphemism treadmill works I guess.
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Sep 20, 2022 13:49
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You say that but I often hear a silent "biological" in front of male so it makes me sideeye.
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Sep 20, 2022 13:52
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Typical woke left, silencing b- Wait no, that's an actual thing they say.
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I think generally female is fine if its used as an adjective, it's only really a problem when someone's using it as a noun and tbh that's always been a clunky use of the word. Like, "Valentina Tereshkova was the first female cosmonaut" sounds ok, "Valentina Tereshkova was the first female in space" is ferengi talk.
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Ed: ^^^ your explanation makes sense - is this all there is to it? Adjective v noun? Genuine question: what is wrong with 'female'?  Educate and explain as if I were your granny. 
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Someone was asking about the hindu / muslim violence in Leicester, this seems to be a decent breakdown: I'd be wary of exactly what bits are 'imported' though, Hindutva is promoted by BJP in India, but local fascists are more than capable of standing in a big group and chanting nazi poo poo of their own accord. Some buses of various groups did apparently come from Bradford and Wembley in the name of 'community defence' but again you can always see that happening in these types of events, and I've also heard people try to pin the whole thing on 'outside agitators' and no, clean your front yard and talk to your neighbour. This bit is very on point though, white nationalists are having a field day and they can eat poo poo. https://twitter.com/sunny_hundal/status/1571943682697306113 Jaeluni Asjil posted:Genuine question: what is wrong with 'female'?
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Reveilled posted:I think generally female is fine if its used as an adjective, it's only really a problem when someone's using it as a noun and tbh that's always been a clunky use of the word. Like, "Valentina Tereshkova was the first female cosmonaut" sounds ok, "Valentina Tereshkova was the first female in space" is ferengi talk. Simply put: using an adjective as a noun is to define someone by, and thereby reduce them to, a single quality they possess.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Ed: ^^^ your explanation makes sense - is this all there is to it? Adjective v noun? It got co-opted by creepy alt-right types who managed to take a benign term and make it a vaguely dehumanising red flag. Failed Imagineer posted:You'll never make Grand Nagus with that attitude I believe my socialism already prevented that, alas.
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Sep 20, 2022 14:07
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Noun as opposed to adjective has always struck me as derogatory. Think "black" or "jew" instead of "black person" or "Jewish person" Also, poors and olds (though I do like those terms a lot)
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Ed: ^^^ your explanation makes sense - is this all there is to it? Adjective v noun? It's kind of disproportionately used by terfs and weird manosphere guys who spend all their time screaming about how women are terrible. E: mostly as a noun but in general unless you're actually a biologist writing academically, both male and female kinda give me bad vibes now because they seem to be mostly the domain of internet weirdos. I can now not hear the word male without expecting a greek letter in front of it. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 14:15 on Sep 20, 2022 |
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Sep 20, 2022 14:13
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My bland take for the day is that I never want to hear another opinion from kirstie allsopp on pretty much anything. Yes, it is my fault for reading silly local news sites. That is beside the point though. 
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Sep 20, 2022 14:23
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OwlFancier posted:I can now not hear the word male without expecting a greek letter in front of it. 
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Ed: ^^^ your explanation makes sense - is this all there is to it? Adjective v noun? As mentioned earlier, it has also now transcended the gender barrier and is also used in rants about toilets by weemin who ironically enough very much disapprove of gender barriers being transcended.
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Sep 20, 2022 14:25
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forkboy84 posted:I believe my socialism already prevented that, alas. Didn't stop Rom !
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Sep 20, 2022 14:26
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Generally when you hear a guy using 'females' as a noun, it'll be part of a sentence like "dress in bright colours and do magic tricks to entice a female"
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Sep 20, 2022 14:28
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[quote="His Divine Shadow" post="526397993"] Didn't get that feeling myself, just felt like an honest assesment to me, without pulling any punches. The days of cheap energy are coming to an end, well they're gone already. It's market failure. I have an off grid solar house in Victoria, Australia (cold and cloudy by Australian standards, probably similar to UK south coast) My solar system has provided 4800kwh of power so far this year and I haven't paid a power bill in 3 years. The house is obviously more optimal than the average UK house but solar could be a hugely useful power resource here, especially with the electrification of transport.
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Das Queen was a submarine.
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Guavanaut posted:I was genuinely unsure if you were going for Chad Manley PUA or David Attenborough there for a start. That actually touches on part of the issue. "Female" as a noun as has a clinical vibe to it.
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Sep 20, 2022 14:43
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Guavanaut posted:This fits with what I've heard from friends more directly involved. Hindutva fash kicked it off, and as always when one group tries to start a race war the other hit back. Add a bit of hooliganism/skirmishing round the sides and you get this. It's a good read. But this tweet was phrased really badly. https://twitter.com/sunny_hundal/status/1571946065305436160?t=-VjwoR85wRGcAdD7ATrqsQ&s=19
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Tomberforce posted:[solar stuff] I've been thinking about Solar Panels for our house for a while but I'm never sure how worthwhile they are in terms of time to pay off. Obviously right now they're a great thing to already have but has anyone had them added and seen good results in terms of overall energy costs?
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Surprise T Rex posted:Obviously right now they're a great thing to already have but has anyone had them added and seen good results in terms of overall energy costs? He regularly gets complaints from someone across the street who claims she gets glare off them when there is no angle the sun ever reaches overhead that would reflect into her house. He's even been over there when she claimed it was 'unbearable' and it was basically a glint off one corner of the frame.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Someone was asking about the hindu / muslim violence in Leicester, this seems to be a decent breakdown: Thanks for sharing, this is a good read.
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Haystack posted:That actually touches on part of the issue. "Female" as a noun as has a clinical vibe to it.
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Nice to see the FT pushing back against Truss and Kwarteng calling the British the worst idlers in the world We all know it isn't true just nice to see some print about it.
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What boggles my mind when reading that Byline Times article, and whenever reading about the US far right, and their lackeys over here is just how unrepentantantly evil they all seem. Like, I assume that they don't think they're the baddies, but literally everything they do, and the way they do it, is villainous. I just don't understand how people end up like this.
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Ah, my local council (the office is literally around the corner from me) The former council leader was passed over for selection as parliamentary candidate and quit the party along with a couple of other councillors. That left the Greens as the largest coalition partner, so the new leader being a Green made perfect sense. But apparently voting for that was enough for more councillors to get the boot? Absolutely bizarre behaviour. 100% not voting Labour next time out, and might ever have to backtrack on my "no Greens" policy since they replaced Molly Scott Cato and the new guy has some modest shitposting chops. https://twitter.com/PeteKennedy/status/1570089012869697539?s=20&t=9GctIGFrECQ2awFNOTl0Xg
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The Question IRL posted:It's a good read. If the police should be doing anything it's being educated on the different kinds of hard right groups that troll around trying to start poo poo, but we have a police commissioner who poo poo talks BLM to one group while posing with them for another so not much chance of that. 
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sebzilla posted:Ah, my local council (the office is literally around the corner from me) One of my brothers lived in Stroud for a few years til he got laid off. As a vegetarian musician who resigned from quite a good job (not the one he got laid off from) because he refused to wear a tie which the New Regime were insisting upon (he spent his days in a lab in a lab coat - why did he need a tie?) he fit right in to Stroud.
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Tomberforce posted:It's market failure. I have an off grid solar house in Victoria, Australia (cold and cloudy by Australian standards, probably similar to UK south coast) My solar system has provided 4800kwh of power so far this year and I haven't paid a power bill in 3 years. You can't extrapolate from your off grid home to all of society though, most of europe can't rely on solar power for half the year even if every house had solar panels (and there are environmental issues with that idea too). And when you bring in electrification of transport and other things, that makes the problem a magnitude worse. There's no way hosé we're gonna run anything like our current society on renewables without magic level energy density storage. This is why everything is falling apart now, renewables never worked in europe unless paired with natural gas (there are no storage solutions remotely on the horizon that can get rid of nat.gas, no not even that latest youtube video on the issue) and when that went up in price everything else fell down. We have five solutions for returning to something like what we've become used to and none are coming soon: -Natural gas becomes cheap again -Nuclear fission is built out massively (decade+ away) -Nuclear fusion (decades away) -Cheap mass scale storage (I think this one is further away than fusion or about in the same ball park) -Geothermal (If millimeter wave drilling works out this is the one to watch in a few years). So the next decade or so is gonna be about saving energy, unless we start buying russian gas again. edit, also a thread on the bad shape of the european energy grid: https://twitter.com/BurggrabenH/status/1567929340737863680 His Divine Shadow fucked around with this message at 15:56 on Sep 20, 2022 |
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Guavanaut posted:Anyone who thinks that 'ethnic tensions' or outside agitators are necessary for Leicester to riot ought to be reminded that the largest riot (outside of actual civil war) was over a rumour that a big balloon was actually a slightly smaller balloon so as a city we're quite capable of ruining our reputation ourselves. It definitely reads like something that would happen today though, even if not with a balloon.
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Hopefully it doesn't but the UK does it anyway and we all end up volcanoed to death.
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Also apparently big balloon is worth one deciqueen on the gawkometer.
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OwlFancier posted:Hopefully it doesn't but the UK does it anyway and we all end up volcanoed to death.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Hmm, I'm not reading that story the same way as you. It seems more like some dude claimed that the balloon they were seeing sucked, and someone else could have made a better balloon instead of wasting everyone's time with a lovely one. Thousands of people rioted over the perceived size of a balloon though, so I doubt there's a single coherent story of what they were telling each other.
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