But when most people have a problem with you, for example if they have to treat your behavior as a special case, then problem isn't most people. It's you.
Er, unless you are the "intellectual" and the "most people" are Chinese villagers during the cultural revolution...
You're either 1000% on board with the "high-verbal-IQ non-technical politics-playing San-Francisco-residing cliques of social justice advocates" or you're out.
Yep. And since the rules are ever evolving, you might have been in last week, but out now.
After all, making sexual jokes (for example) was once the height of being cool and showing "the man" how natural and unrestrained you are and how you wouldn't be held back by boring old rules and superstitions. But in far less than a lifetime, we now have a new set of tight rules on that, strictly enforced enough to impress any Victorian.
So those of you who feel smug about having got in sync with the rules of the current moment, just watch out. People far cooler than you (e.g. movie producers, actors) have very suddenly found themselves on the wrong side of the dock.That mercy you didn't show before will sound pretty good to you then.
Simple solution: don't trust any one source. Even if they're supposedly impeccable. Look for corroboration from multiple independent sources (and make sure they're really independent and not all getting their information from the same source). For instance if you have a video of someone checking into a hotel with a compromising companion, look for corroboration from the hotel's records, hotel staff who should have interacted with them, and the person's credit-card records. This is what we used to do before people got lazy and started believing everything they were told without question.
On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses the one who is to die shall be put to death; a person shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness.
Astoundingly often... like others, I got in Gmail early and got a good address.
I'm not surprised that others wish they had my address... I'm just astounded at how many people actually seem to think they have it.
All sorts of receipts and transactional emails... hotels, online shopping, tire places... from around the English speaking world. Oh, and one guy actually had business cards printed up with my email address... and apparently he is quite the player. Yikes. (Him I actually did track down... he thought it was pretty funny.)
As I say on all these stories... all words are just arbitrary strings of characters that convey meaning.
And one of the meanings that offensive words carry is that of offense. The people using them are trying to give offense. These are units of communication, and that's literally what you are communicating with them.
The childish thing is not to recognize that, but to pretend that you don't recognize it.
I once considered firebase. But after looking in to it and discovering there was no way to remove mandatory Google-spying, I dropped it.
The bigger problem is that there's no way to remove Google-dropping. As soon as you get used to it, they'll kill it. Even if you had a use case where privacy was unimportant, it would still make no sense to use it.
Sounds like a business opportunity - make an abstraction layer that will let Firebase-using code work with other storage...
So... Christianity? After all white Christian men are responsible for almost all terrorist attacks in the U.S., and nobody ever hesitates to name names when there's even a remote chance that some other religion might be involved. Or when they don't know who did it yet. Or when they know it was a Christian but that doesn't make for good "news".
No, nobody is the least bit reluctant to name that one. In fact they are eager to do so. Try harder.
Based on recent history... big law enforcement action and nobody saying anything... at least 50/50 chance that it involves the militant wing of the religion/worldview that must not be named.
OK, as someone who normally despises conspiracy theories... I give up.
The whole "oh noes Russia" things was a false flag operation, to give Facebook et al a blanket excuse to go hog wild with their bias. "What choice do we have?"
I didn't want to believe that... I really didn't...
On the one hand, China clearly does not derive from Europeans, so they must be good. OTOH, they clearly do some not so good things...
And Google has to be good for being on the "right" side of so many issues and "nudging" people in the progressive direction, yet here they are willing to sell their souls for money in China, which is bad...
And a whole lot of teachers will be hired, classrooms will be built, and the poorest among us, for a while, will have a slightly better shot at "making it" than they did before he gave the money.
But... but... where in that scenario do I get to pontificate from my high horse??
There are four Chinese for every American, five for every two Europeans. All other things being equal, they're going to become the dominant country in everything.
The only country that's going to be close is India (again, all other things being equal).
Lacking a major war, or internal political factors, the Chinese and Indians are going to dominate the world over the next couple centuries, and the USA is going to go the way of the UK - a nation that dominated "back then"....
The USA and UK never used sheer population to dominate world affairs, for the simple reason that this would have been numerically impossible. So I find this an odd argument.
Note, for the record, that I don't think "all other things being equal" actually applies. I don't think either China or India can liberalize enough to allow their inherent advantages to really take hold. But you never can tell....
Indeed, all other things are not equal. Mandarin Chinese have significantly higher average IQ than most other people groups, for one thing. Then again, they seem to be more content with totalitarianism, which Americans/UK wouldn't tolerate. So many factors are not equal. Hard to predict what will happen...
Slashdot Mirror
But when most people have a problem with you, for example if they have to treat your behavior as a special case, then problem isn't most people. It's you.
Er, unless you are the "intellectual" and the "most people" are Chinese villagers during the cultural revolution ...
You're either 1000% on board with the "high-verbal-IQ non-technical politics-playing San-Francisco-residing cliques of social justice advocates" or you're out.
Yep. And since the rules are ever evolving, you might have been in last week, but out now.
After all, making sexual jokes (for example) was once the height of being cool and showing "the man" how natural and unrestrained you are and how you wouldn't be held back by boring old rules and superstitions. But in far less than a lifetime, we now have a new set of tight rules on that, strictly enforced enough to impress any Victorian.
So those of you who feel smug about having got in sync with the rules of the current moment, just watch out. People far cooler than you (e.g. movie producers, actors) have very suddenly found themselves on the wrong side of the dock.That mercy you didn't show before will sound pretty good to you then.
Their own damn satellite! ;)
Simple solution: don't trust any one source. Even if they're supposedly impeccable. Look for corroboration from multiple independent sources (and make sure they're really independent and not all getting their information from the same source). For instance if you have a video of someone checking into a hotel with a compromising companion, look for corroboration from the hotel's records, hotel staff who should have interacted with them, and the person's credit-card records. This is what we used to do before people got lazy and started believing everything they were told without question.
Indeed.
Deuteronomy 17:6
On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses the one who is to die shall be put to death; a person shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness.
Astoundingly often ... like others, I got in Gmail early and got a good address.
I'm not surprised that others wish they had my address ... I'm just astounded at how many people actually seem to think they have it.
All sorts of receipts and transactional emails ... hotels, online shopping, tire places ... from around the English speaking world. Oh, and one guy actually had business cards printed up with my email address ... and apparently he is quite the player. Yikes. (Him I actually did track down ... he thought it was pretty funny.)
...will be from people who make money from the platform.
So .. the only people who will say that it doesn't suck, are those for whom it doesn't suck?
It's like he spun the random tech solution wheel ...
"We'll fix it with ... a satellite!"
It's like saying you'll fix everything with blockchain, only fifty years out of date.
I remember that site around the turn of this century. How did they get around this ban?
Apparently it was the .us registrar who had the prohibition. Not .com
Wouldn't want to hinder someone taking a brave stand against Nazis, some 73 years too late ...
As I say on all these stories ... all words are just arbitrary strings of characters that convey meaning.
And one of the meanings that offensive words carry is that of offense. The people using them are trying to give offense. These are units of communication, and that's literally what you are communicating with them.
The childish thing is not to recognize that, but to pretend that you don't recognize it.
I once considered firebase. But after looking in to it and discovering there was no way to remove mandatory Google-spying, I dropped it.
The bigger problem is that there's no way to remove Google-dropping. As soon as you get used to it, they'll kill it. Even if you had a use case where privacy was unimportant, it would still make no sense to use it.
Sounds like a business opportunity - make an abstraction layer that will let Firebase-using code work with other storage ...
The Heart of the Matter
Difficult to read, but so moving ... so dead on in the pain that people experience in relationships, and in life in general.
The Heart of the Matter
It was just a little black spot on the sun today, just the same old thing as yesterday.
King of pain ...
So... Christianity? After all white Christian men are responsible for almost all terrorist attacks in the U.S., and nobody ever hesitates to name names when there's even a remote chance that some other religion might be involved. Or when they don't know who did it yet. Or when they know it was a Christian but that doesn't make for good "news".
No, nobody is the least bit reluctant to name that one. In fact they are eager to do so. Try harder.
You literally just proved my point, lol.
Based on recent history ... big law enforcement action and nobody saying anything ... at least 50/50 chance that it involves the militant wing of the religion/worldview that must not be named.
I look forward to finding out when some halfwit judge releases everybody ...
WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT of the Fact check.
To stop idiots from posting and reposting memes with misleading information and flat out lies that are nothing more than propaganda.
Except it won't be done that way. Leftist propaganda will be happily still passed along, just as it is now.
OK, as someone who normally despises conspiracy theories ... I give up.
The whole "oh noes Russia" things was a false flag operation, to give Facebook et al a blanket excuse to go hog wild with their bias. "What choice do we have?"
I didn't want to believe that ... I really didn't ...
Who to root for?
On the one hand, China clearly does not derive from Europeans, so they must be good. OTOH, they clearly do some not so good things ...
And Google has to be good for being on the "right" side of so many issues and "nudging" people in the progressive direction, yet here they are willing to sell their souls for money in China, which is bad ...
Enough to make one's head hurt.
And a whole lot of teachers will be hired, classrooms will be built, and the poorest among us, for a while, will have a slightly better shot at "making it" than they did before he gave the money.
But ... but ... where in that scenario do I get to pontificate from my high horse??
I'll keep using my inexpensive unlocked phone, and change it, and the carrier, whenever I like. Thanks all the same.
There are four Chinese for every American, five for every two Europeans. All other things being equal, they're going to become the dominant country in everything.
The only country that's going to be close is India (again, all other things being equal).
Lacking a major war, or internal political factors, the Chinese and Indians are going to dominate the world over the next couple centuries, and the USA is going to go the way of the UK - a nation that dominated "back then"....
The USA and UK never used sheer population to dominate world affairs, for the simple reason that this would have been numerically impossible. So I find this an odd argument.
Note, for the record, that I don't think "all other things being equal" actually applies. I don't think either China or India can liberalize enough to allow their inherent advantages to really take hold. But you never can tell....
Indeed, all other things are not equal. Mandarin Chinese have significantly higher average IQ than most other people groups, for one thing. Then again, they seem to be more content with totalitarianism, which Americans/UK wouldn't tolerate. So many factors are not equal. Hard to predict what will happen ...
In the age of smartphone addiction and devices that cost as much as some refrigerators, “iPhone Excess” may not be great for branding.
It's perfect for branding Apple.
given that the words remind some people of America's peculiar institution
Those words can't "remind" anyone of that institution, seeing how no living person is present to remember it.