Honest question: Is someone still a Muslim if they don't follow Islam and are not from a Muslim culture? I guess this the same intentional confusion as Jew-as-a-religion and Jew-as-a-culture.
He did (briefly, it wasn't a plot point, just an Andy Weir-ism, solving a technical detail by thinking about the problem practically) cover Islamic prayer direction in the book.
Also, Rosario's voice is just freaking fantastic. She could read the dictionary and I would listen.
I don't even necessarily blame the person for their nuttyness. They may have simply learned at a young age that it is acceptable to do a half-ass job and pull the race card as soon as someone calls them on it.
Iain M. Banks had it figured out from his first (or was it second?) Culture book. (published in the '80s, way before most of this pronoun nonsense)
The narration is "in world", breaking the fourth wall (or the third, or the fifth?) section at the beginning to explain the "translation".
Those of you unfortunate enough not to be reading or hearing this in Marain may well be using a language without the requisite number or type of personal pronouns, so I'd better explain that bit of the translation.
Marain, the Culture's quintessentially wonderful language (so the Culture will tell you), has, as any schoolkid knows, one personal pronoun to cover females, males, in-betweens, neuters, children, drones, Minds, other sentient machines, and every life-form capable of scraping together anything remotely resembling a nervous system and the rudiments of language (or a good excuse for not having either). Naturally, there are ways of specifying a person's sex in Marain, but they're not used in everyday conversation; in the archetypal language-as-moral-weapon-and-proud-of-it, the message is that it's brains that matter, kids; gonads are hardly worth making a distinction over.
Boom, solved. I bet SJWs still bitch about it 30 years later.
Want to hear some funny shit. Andy Weir's next book had a female middle-eastern-ethnicity protagonist. And the SJWs were up in arms about that too. Mostly because she was from the Moon, and didn't identify with any culture on Earth. And made it a point that the mixed bag of cultures living on the Moon made for a more diverse culture and that women from the country she was from were not treated as equally, so she preferred to stay on the Moon.
I thought the book (specifically the audiobook voiced by Rosario Dawson), was fantastic.
Sexist if you do, sexist if you don't. Don't try to cater to social justice. They will hate based on the author's skin and gender.
Or, he is at the top and wants to get people bickering over petty bullshit to keep his position secure. This way he can get funding for Avatar 2, 3, and 4; since other directors are busy bitching about who is the most oppressed.
Yeah, if they left it to "SO users are hostile to new users", I think most people would agree. Hell sone would even suggest "lurk moar, and don't use us to do your homework".
But that doesn't generate clicks and get media involved. Make it a race/gender thing, and now you have a flood of people caring, that might otherwise ignore you.
I use StackOverflow for work, and am proud to is my real name there. Of course I don't post any politics or religion or anything else that I would discuss in front of my co-workers.
And I certainly don't post anything that would limit my career opportunities, left wing or right. But having worked in offices for a long time, I know that a lot of people just can't shut their fucking mouths.
Keep your shitposing to places like slashdot... Which is exactly what I do:)
My guess is that easily offended people will treat "question closed, duplicate of..." as "they are discriminating against me."
And I am willing to bet those people put in a picture or a username like "BlackOverflow" (I don't care who you are, that is a funny username.) That is how they can ensure they can play the discrimination card.
But I think it's pretty rare. I don't recall seeing any pictures of peoples avatars or trollishly obvious usernames.
In fact, if I was a conspiracy theorist, I might suggest those users are posting stupid questions for exactly this reason.
Except they would send letters out claiming you actually did win. (with maybe some fine print saying actually you didn't win)
On the front "CONGRATULATIONS YOU WIN 1000000 DOLLARS" Inside the letter in fine print "is what you will hear if you actually win". Legal or not, this is how you trick old people in to things.
And, as k6mfw pointed out, ever notice how those commercials with Ed McMahon were always some suburban home with a family with 2.3 children and plenty of room for a camera crew? I am not saying they were fake, I doubt they could hide that. But there is no way in hell those were random.
I don't blame a 7 year old for getting duped, but your parents are pretty stupid.
I can remember asking my mom, "Why don't you reply to these Publishers Clearinghouse letters? They say you won a million dollars. Look, they have pictures of them giving giant checks to people. It has to be real!"
It was when I learned that, yes, people would just lie to you to make money. She didn't have an answer as to why it was legal. I still have no idea why.
Slashdot Mirror
Or the station wagon can crash.
Honest question: Is someone still a Muslim if they don't follow Islam and are not from a Muslim culture? I guess this the same intentional confusion as Jew-as-a-religion and Jew-as-a-culture.
He did (briefly, it wasn't a plot point, just an Andy Weir-ism, solving a technical detail by thinking about the problem practically) cover Islamic prayer direction in the book.
Also, Rosario's voice is just freaking fantastic. She could read the dictionary and I would listen.
If you're email client doesn't tell you the location of the actual link before you click on it, that's your email client's fault.
Wait maybe that is the solution? Just like links in slashdot show the actual location, why can't shortened links do that.
No, wait that is still stupid. The url shortener itself is just not needed except when there are arbritrary limits.
Those are nouns.
There is no legitimate case for url shortening in an email.
Hell, the only legitimate use case it has is on Twitter or other comment platforms with arbitrary limits.
It's a lot harder to set up a thousand scam sites when each cert costs money.
Anytime "AI" and "Revolt" are in an articles headline, you know it will generate clicks.
So you are saying that Slashdot would be a better place if we blocked everyone with a UID lower than 300k? It might be a lonely place, friend.
I don't even necessarily blame the person for their nuttyness. They may have simply learned at a young age that it is acceptable to do a half-ass job and pull the race card as soon as someone calls them on it.
Iain M. Banks had it figured out from his first (or was it second?) Culture book. (published in the '80s, way before most of this pronoun nonsense)
The narration is "in world", breaking the fourth wall (or the third, or the fifth?) section at the beginning to explain the "translation".
Those of you unfortunate enough not to be reading or hearing this in Marain may well be using a language without the requisite number or type of personal pronouns, so I'd better explain that bit of the translation.
Marain, the Culture's quintessentially wonderful language (so the Culture will tell you), has, as any schoolkid knows, one personal pronoun to cover females, males, in-betweens, neuters, children, drones, Minds, other sentient machines, and every life-form capable of scraping together anything remotely resembling a nervous system and the rudiments of language (or a good excuse for not having either). Naturally, there are ways of specifying a person's sex in Marain, but they're not used in everyday conversation; in the archetypal language-as-moral-weapon-and-proud-of-it, the message is that it's brains that matter, kids; gonads are hardly worth making a distinction over.
Boom, solved. I bet SJWs still bitch about it 30 years later.
Want to hear some funny shit. Andy Weir's next book had a female middle-eastern-ethnicity protagonist. And the SJWs were up in arms about that too. Mostly because she was from the Moon, and didn't identify with any culture on Earth. And made it a point that the mixed bag of cultures living on the Moon made for a more diverse culture and that women from the country she was from were not treated as equally, so she preferred to stay on the Moon.
I thought the book (specifically the audiobook voiced by Rosario Dawson), was fantastic.
Sexist if you do, sexist if you don't. Don't try to cater to social justice. They will hate based on the author's skin and gender.
I think the point was none of them were very intelligent to begin with.
Or, he is at the top and wants to get people bickering over petty bullshit to keep his position secure. This way he can get funding for Avatar 2, 3, and 4; since other directors are busy bitching about who is the most oppressed.
Today I learned that Thor and Steele are actually their names and not pseudonyms.
If a woman does what a feminist wants, it means feminism is working.
If a woman does something a feminist does not want, it is systematic patriarchy.
Yeah, if they left it to "SO users are hostile to new users", I think most people would agree. Hell sone would even suggest "lurk moar, and don't use us to do your homework".
But that doesn't generate clicks and get media involved. Make it a race/gender thing, and now you have a flood of people caring, that might otherwise ignore you.
I use StackOverflow for work, and am proud to is my real name there. Of course I don't post any politics or religion or anything else that I would discuss in front of my co-workers.
And I certainly don't post anything that would limit my career opportunities, left wing or right. But having worked in offices for a long time, I know that a lot of people just can't shut their fucking mouths.
Keep your shitposing to places like slashdot... Which is exactly what I do :)
My guess is that easily offended people will treat "question closed, duplicate of..." as "they are discriminating against me."
And I am willing to bet those people put in a picture or a username like "BlackOverflow" (I don't care who you are, that is a funny username.) That is how they can ensure they can play the discrimination card.
But I think it's pretty rare. I don't recall seeing any pictures of peoples avatars or trollishly obvious usernames.
In fact, if I was a conspiracy theorist, I might suggest those users are posting stupid questions for exactly this reason.
I enjoy that a white and male director says that its the fans that are racist and sexist because most directors are white and male.
Hey, we aren't the ones picking the directors.
Except they would send letters out claiming you actually did win. (with maybe some fine print saying actually you didn't win)
On the front "CONGRATULATIONS YOU WIN 1000000 DOLLARS"
Inside the letter in fine print "is what you will hear if you actually win". Legal or not, this is how you trick old people in to things.
And, as k6mfw pointed out, ever notice how those commercials with Ed McMahon were always some suburban home with a family with 2.3 children and plenty of room for a camera crew? I am not saying they were fake, I doubt they could hide that. But there is no way in hell those were random.
I don't blame a 7 year old for getting duped, but your parents are pretty stupid.
I can remember asking my mom, "Why don't you reply to these Publishers Clearinghouse letters? They say you won a million dollars. Look, they have pictures of them giving giant checks to people. It has to be real!"
It was when I learned that, yes, people would just lie to you to make money. She didn't have an answer as to why it was legal. I still have no idea why.
Don't pretend the right doesn't do this with Fox News.
They are all garbage. The problem is that people WANT biased reporting. I almost can't blame them for pandering to the far left and right. Almost.
Criticized the point system -1000 points.
Except that every politician and law official will get to see your score.
You are popular and speak out against an official? Oops, your entire history gets dumped on to the internet.
You want the power to ban people from voting and getting benefits?
You are exactly the person who does not get this ability. In fact, no one person gets this ability.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.