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Heh the guardian just got hacked in a ransomware attack.
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kingturnip posted:It all just drums home that of the last couple of generation of elected politicians, 80% plus of them are completely loving useless when it comes to thinking long-term. The 'last shower of cunts' for the last, what, 4 elections? has been the same cunts, but nobody seems to notice.
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Words are not themselves harmful, but can be a expression of harmfulness or uncaring, depending on the context. But harm is not in using the word, the harm is in the cultural mindset that gives rise to a word - hence all of them only being harmful in context. While discussion of what words are harmful can be a useful point to explore harmful cultural mindsets, it is often the case that privileged classes focus on making certain words taboo over engaging with the mindset that makes them taboo in the first place.
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Dec 21, 2022 15:12
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keep punching joe posted:Heh the guardian just got hacked in a ransomware attack. We will unlock your files if you say 'trans rights'
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Dec 21, 2022 15:13
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keep punching joe posted:Heh the guardian just got hacked in a ransomware attack. No, they add that request for money to all their emails.
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Dec 21, 2022 15:14
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Guavanaut posted:I'm still annoyed that they changed master/slave device to primary/secondary and not dom/sub. I mean the real fix to this was SATA. I haven't personally had to deal with PATA master/slave stuff since the previous century I think.
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keep punching joe posted:Heh the guardian just got hacked in a ransomware attack. Hope they have to sell Adrian Chiles to pay the ransom
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Dec 21, 2022 15:21
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bessantj posted:U.S. citizen v American seems reasonable in part though when you get someone saying "Well I'm Canadian and he's United States Citizanian" that would sound too strange. We could just call the country Usastan and the people Usastanese, it's not like Pakistan is an 'actual' name for a place or people. Or name it Springfield.
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The one about whitespace is genuinely silly because there's nothing good or bad about whitespace, it's empty, it's as neutral a thing as you can get. You can have too much or too little or just enough, and if you code in python you can have the wrong kind and get in a fight. It's just called white because that's the colour of paper.
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Words are not themselves harmful, but can be a expression of harmfulness or uncaring, depending on the context. But harm is not in using the word, the harm is in the cultural mindset that gives rise to a word - hence all of them only being harmful in context. While discussion of what words are harmful can be a useful point to explore harmful cultural mindsets, it is often the case that privileged classes focus on making certain words taboo over engaging with the mindset that makes them taboo in the first place. As Dave Gahan once said "Words are very unnecessary, they can only do harm" . Not sure if we should trust that though since he communicated the idea using words 
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Nenonen posted:We could just call the country Usastan and the people Usastanese, it's not like Pakistan is an 'actual' name for a place or people. Or name it Springfield. Call it Yankeeland and the people Yanks.
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Dec 21, 2022 15:33
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Dabir posted:The one about whitespace is genuinely silly because there's nothing good or bad about whitespace, it's empty, it's as neutral a thing as you can get. You can have too much or too little or just enough, and if you code in python you can have the wrong kind and get in a fight. It's just called white because that's the colour of paper. No white space in my IDE. Dark mode supremacy!
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No it should be The Great Satan and The Great Satanians
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Microplastics posted:No it should be The Great Satan and The Great Satanians That's much too cool, 99% of America is a deeply lame place don't let the propaganda fool ya. Source: currently on US soil in the airport waiting for a flight, and it's deeply poo poo
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Failed Imagineer posted:Hope they have to sell Adrian Chiles to pay the ransom perhaps he is the ransom, and he will write a column about the experience
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forkboy84 posted:It's stupid liberal ivory tower bullshit that can't see the forest for the trees. "Person who engages in sex work" is far too long-winded to ever catch on when people tend to use much shorter (& more insulting) terms for sex workers. My job title was "call centre operator", that doesn't define me, it defines my job. These idiots at Stanford (which, let's be fair, is a hive of right wing libertarian fuckwittery & their academics would do better addressing that than policing language in the most "parody of a centrist scholar whose only interaction with real people is when they hire a new cleaner for their place) proposed that I be called "a person who engages with call centre work" I'd call them stupid cunts. Someone at my work said "feed two birds with one seed" a while back and I've started using it 🐥🐥 We've also had an informal request to try and use allowlist and denylist instead of whitelist and blacklist. I'm on the fence with this stuff. It can get ott, but if I can take an action to not use language that bothers people, it's no skin off my rear end. Like, I definitely used the phrase r*tard up until about the mid-2000s, and I don't bemoan the fact that I shouldn't/don't say it any more. And I used the word "lame" to mean disappointing or bad until recently when someone pointed out the connotation, so I stopped. I do agree that replacing a short phrase with a less-zippy one is never going to work. "Person who is experiencing homelessness" is never going to compete with "homeless person" or sadly "bum".
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Failed Imagineer posted:That's much too cool, 99% of America is a deeply lame place don't let the propaganda fool ya. The true-true. Flew into JFK in space year 2000, felt like The Beatles touching down. Everything welcoming, spacious, clean and bright, trivial to get a taxi into Manhattan and approach the city over the bridge as the sun sets amongst the steel and glass canyons. On the way out, the departure terminals are like a corrugated iron shed, crowded, unmaintained, littered, filthy.
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sinky posted:We will unlock your files if you say 'trans rights' who the gently caress is scraeming "say 'trans rights' and i will unlock your files" at my house. show yourself, coward. i will never say 'trans rights'
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Microplastics posted:No it should be The Great Satan and The Great Satanians Typical Satanian exceptionalism  what makes them soooo great?
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feedmegin posted:I mean the real fix to this was SATA. I haven't personally had to deal with PATA master/slave stuff since the previous century I think. But never (that I've seen) dom/sub or even top/bottom. 
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Mega Comrade posted:£5 says they didn't consult a single indigenous American on this either. But it doesn't roll off the tongue, it doesn't make sense, and it doesn't fix any of the underlying problems, it just makes the language around it harder to use. Which, it coming from a right wing institution might be the point. You're right though, it smacks very much of well meaning white people coming up with solutions for problems without talking to anyone from those communities. This is something that's on my mind because the other type of D&D thread is being extremely normal and I'm sure very ethically diverse in terms of the voices saying orcs aren't racist stereotypes, despite the repeated links to an archive of panels of prominent black folks in the D&D community saying it very much is a problem. Jaeluni Asjil posted:What's with all this patriarchal perSON stuff? How about we use perCHILD instead so it's not demeaning to talk about woperchildren* as if they were a lesser species?
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a woperchild sounds like what you get if the fey steal your babby and replace it with a gremlin
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forkboy84 posted:The Atlanta baseball team are still the Braves. Dunno about anyone else. one of the traditions the Braves have is their fans do the “tomahawk chop”
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France not taking the loss of the World Cup well, I see.
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Darth Walrus posted:https://twitter.com/lbc/status/1605585654670295042?s=46&t=s_Gjx-7-YyeN4rmDlI8tbQ  E: oh wait nvm 
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/world/europe/uk-ambulance-delay-nhs-strike.htmlquote:WREXHAM, Wales — Rachel Parry and Wayne Jones, two paramedics with the Wrexham Ambulance Service, pulled up to a hospital in northern Wales with a patient just after 10 a.m. one early December morning. That’s when their wait began. It would be 4:30 p.m. before their patient, a 47-year-old woman with agonizing back pain and numbness in both of her legs, would be handed over to the emergency room of Wrexham Maelor Hospital. It was more than 12 hours since she had first called 999, the British equivalent of 911.
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Apraxin posted:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/world/europe/uk-ambulance-delay-nhs-strike.html It's always projection. McKenzie knows he's a vile psychopath and assumes everyone else is too
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I really don't think the plan of trying to demonise healthcare workers is going to work out. When they tried it a few years ago with those fat cat junior doctors the response was lukewarm at best, going after nurses and ambulance drivers is ridiculous. I've been pleasantly surprised how hard the BBC has had to work to get even mildly disgruntled vox pops on the train strikes - I watched the news the other night and the worst they could find was a guy who said business at his military memorabilia market stand was down this year, presumably because of the lack of trains. Everyone else was either ambivalent or supportive.
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The bigger issue is I suspect the government is more willing to collapse the health service than pay people properly.
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Rishi just staring at a spreadsheet right now trying to work out the solution Pensions £200b Public transport £150b Military £800b Dodgy contracts to mates £3600b NHS £150b
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Just how supported are the strikes? I want stats! Surely yougov have been polling everyone
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xtothez posted:Rishi just staring at a spreadsheet right now trying to work out the solution i don't know about that NHS number, seems a bit high
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YouGov poll of exclusively angry old shut-ins who imagine they might need the train any day now and haven't spoken to a working person in 10 years except to yell about cat food.
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Microplastics posted:Just how supported are the strikes? I want stats! Surely yougov have been polling everyone 30% of labour voters polled support a ban on ambulance workers striking I saw that and just crumpled
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xtothez posted:Rishi just staring at a spreadsheet right now trying to work out the solution Buy less PPE.
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Apraxin posted:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/world/europe/uk-ambulance-delay-nhs-strike.html
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Darth Walrus posted:https://twitter.com/lbc/status/1605585654670295042?s=46&t=s_Gjx-7-YyeN4rmDlI8tbQ That's not a bomb.... that's a two pounder shell (40mm ) from a British Pom-Pom gun.  I watch too far many Drachinifel vids for my own good. edit: they say it's from WW1 but that ammo was in use during both wars, looks like the primer is missing so probably safe to handle... a bit. Just Another Lurker fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Dec 21, 2022 |
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