Wrong person. Scroll up.
I ask you again: does this rationale apply to other physical traits? No more “mute button,” no more “window blinds?” You could argue those are the accepted terms for certain handicaps, but said it doesn’t matter what term we consider acceptable.
… yes. Especially if it’s some cutesy diminutive in a romance language.
Would you have us remove all commercial uses of the word “giant?”
The IPA market is dumb enough that I could not rule out being literal.
This has been a weird case for the euphemism treadmill. The word is not meaningfully distinct from “dwarf” in tone, context, or common use. This push might be even sillier than people trying to taboo the word “crazy,” as if the suggested alternatives won’t go the exact same way, for the exact same reasons.
… is there a right amount, besides none?
“You got a license for that uncle?”
… y’all know there’s other countries, right? And that in those countries there’s cops? A lot of those cops genuinely do not carry guns, because neither does anyone else.
Police in Iceland shot a guy for the first time ever in 2013.
Even in US-adjacent Canadia, the Parliament Hill shooting saw a mountie go back to his office, retrieve a gun from a locked safe, and return to the scene to kill the shooter.
We can have police who aren’t eternally three seconds away from putting a bullet in someone’s brain. In what universe is that less achievable than abolishing them completely?
The actual argument is to limit violence to specific institutions - what those institutions do is perpendicular. For example, neither desegregation nor the Holocaust were “status quo,” but both relied on limiting who could threaten force.
Proliferation isn’t a safe bet, either, as shown by Mexico’s cartels. Democratic power structures at least theoretically reflect everyone’s concerns. Plain old gangs tend to assert control through merciless terror. However you feel about American power structures - you probably won’t get shot in your home for tweeting ‘man, I hate these power structures.’
“The Birth and Death of JavaScript” predicted the future
The first time I watched that talk, I was very drunk, and forgot about the framing device halfway through. I went looking for Metal as if it was an actual project. It was not far-off from what I expected to be possible, having longed for a way to weld an emulator to Wine and run small Windows programs in Android. My shorthand was Turing completion. The man says any computer could run any program, and I wanted could to become can.
Now there’s a whole class of “usermode emulators” and you can play Crysis on your phone. The original, unmodified, full-fat Crysis.
There’s jobs you can fake after an hour of training and there’s jobs that need six years to not kill people.
Minimum wage is supposed to be enough for one income to comfortably raise a family.
But we have to have this conversation, from scratch, every fucking time someone reposts this image. I’m beginning to understand why Socrates hated writing. You can prove a book wrong, and the book’s still there, being wrong.
Yeah, that guy’s not joking.
It’s not some kayfabe act. He is sincere in all of that posturing assholery.
Block and move on.
Sometimes an engineer has an idea and gets offended that it doesn’t exist.
We’re like wizards. The miracles you want are practical, mundane, boring. The miracles we want are whimsical bullshit. Guess which ones get done sooner.
I have no idea why you’d do this.
But bravo.
There will come soft rains.
This is dumb. Corporate divestment, sure, of course, fuck their money and their power structures. But open-source developers are not generally gung-ho about the war effort… let alone propping up their local military-industrial complex.
Open-source is politics.
See: The Website Obesity Crisis.
The author links their tweet saying “your website should not exceed in file size the major works of Russian literature.” At the time, that page on Twitter was 900 KB. Today it is 11 MB.
The FOSS story, yes. But the code is out there. Even the stuff they weren’t supposed to share.
Can you name any userbase more ready to pirate the shit out of a third-party fork? Maybe the people still using Media Player Classic.
Again: you are replying to the wrong person.
I am not the one who said the things you’re ranting about.
Check usernames, dingus.