To me, 'smart' watches aren't any more useful than the dumb ones of the past. Everything has a clock now, and like clocks, the new functionality is already duplicated with better results on other devices.
Since the internet boom of the 1990s, jealous mediocres have been crying discrimination because projects did not have codes of 'conduct' allowing them to grab power and respect without having to earn it. Since these lamers can't compete, they want everyone thinking that those who can are bigoted assholes so they can use consensus to deplatform them if necessary.
Look, we're all into some nerdy shit around here, but meeting some of these social justice types with the blue/red/green hair, grotesquely overweight, unbathed bodies, and personalities that make aspies cringe, makes me (someone who has no problem with earning respect via accomplishment) worry for the future of western society. I can only imagine how fast the real talent is running away.
You mean like the mental gymnastics feminists use to excuse companies entirely run by women? How about colleges asking for white students to stay home for a day?
Of course, like you say, I will not get a straight answer from you on this because you are no different than the ones you target.
Civil Rights laws have rather loose "result based" standards that probably seem counter-intutitive to a lot of civil libertines.
That's one hell of a way to put it. There's nothing counter-intuitive about it at all. It's a retread of some of the most illiberal policies ever conceived.
Generally not because now feelings have to be coddled in addition to the technical explanation. These CoCs just blow the doors open on subjective interpretation on what is considered abusive language and what is not. They are not simple cases of banning ad hominem.
They don't act that way. Tone policing and CoC are just powergrabs by the insecure who can't handle criticism. If the project leads capitulate to this, it's game over. It might take years to manifest, but it'll happen.
No, usually it's when management decides that 'cloud' versions of services that really should be local are good ideas because it saves a little money short-term. The only thing retained by IT is responsibility for all the user-confusion, down-time, and mysterious transient failures that they now have no control over whatsoever.
About as much as dunning kruger has to do with having a negative opinion about a TV show. Big bang theory is unfunny, predictable, and boring to sit though, and the look-at-the-nerds-and-laugh plot device was hardly meant as reflective humor (humor that was unfunny enough to keep the laugh track around no less). I'm sure the creators knew the vast majority of the audience was laughing at them, not with them. Then it got even worse when they turned it into emasculated geek 90210. None of this is 'smart' by any definition of the term.
No. This show was designed for others to laugh at them, not for them to laugh at themselves. This is why it is so popular. Far be it for me to agree with the guardian on anything, but they're right. It's not smart. It was actually stupid from the get-go.
I don't see much independent thought anywhere these days. It's not just the states. People prefer the comfort of propaganda regardless where they live.
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To me, 'smart' watches aren't any more useful than the dumb ones of the past. Everything has a clock now, and like clocks, the new functionality is already duplicated with better results on other devices.
No. Bogus sex charges are used BY the new communists in the US.
How does that demonstrate hatred?
Since the internet boom of the 1990s, jealous mediocres have been crying discrimination because projects did not have codes of 'conduct' allowing them to grab power and respect without having to earn it. Since these lamers can't compete, they want everyone thinking that those who can are bigoted assholes so they can use consensus to deplatform them if necessary.
Look, we're all into some nerdy shit around here, but meeting some of these social justice types with the blue/red/green hair, grotesquely overweight, unbathed bodies, and personalities that make aspies cringe, makes me (someone who has no problem with earning respect via accomplishment) worry for the future of western society. I can only imagine how fast the real talent is running away.
You mean like the mental gymnastics feminists use to excuse companies entirely run by women? How about colleges asking for white students to stay home for a day?
Of course, like you say, I will not get a straight answer from you on this because you are no different than the ones you target.
Civil Rights laws have rather loose "result based" standards that probably seem counter-intutitive to a lot of civil libertines.
That's one hell of a way to put it. There's nothing counter-intuitive about it at all. It's a retread of some of the most illiberal policies ever conceived.
I'm willing to bet there's a correlation between the attractiveness of the sales staff and sales stats for almost any product bought in-person.
but omg it's fat shaming! Everyone is beautiful! etc ad nauseum. Social Justice: it's a slippery slope all the way down.
Up to you.
Nope. False dilemma. Not agreeing to social justice derived conduct codes is not the same thing as "being dicks."
Generally not because now feelings have to be coddled in addition to the technical explanation. These CoCs just blow the doors open on subjective interpretation on what is considered abusive language and what is not. They are not simple cases of banning ad hominem.
I thought merit had no basis in reality..If you don't need the meritocracy, you don't need science at all.. just feelings and group consensus.
They don't act that way. Tone policing and CoC are just powergrabs by the insecure who can't handle criticism. If the project leads capitulate to this, it's game over. It might take years to manifest, but it'll happen.
However, tone policing destroys brevity and conciseness for the sake of feelings.
No. It's just one of the most popular right now. A Big fat target for those with ideological axes to grind.
No, usually it's when management decides that 'cloud' versions of services that really should be local are good ideas because it saves a little money short-term. The only thing retained by IT is responsibility for all the user-confusion, down-time, and mysterious transient failures that they now have no control over whatsoever.
Yup. That was much preferred over the gambling casino model they use now.
says the guy who resorts to passive aggressive ad hominem.
They don't have to understand the jokes. For them, the joke is the characters themselves.
About as much as dunning kruger has to do with having a negative opinion about a TV show. Big bang theory is unfunny, predictable, and boring to sit though, and the look-at-the-nerds-and-laugh plot device was hardly meant as reflective humor (humor that was unfunny enough to keep the laugh track around no less). I'm sure the creators knew the vast majority of the audience was laughing at them, not with them. Then it got even worse when they turned it into emasculated geek 90210. None of this is 'smart' by any definition of the term.
Claiming a sitcom isn't high brow is hardly a case of superiority complex.
It was a hit, just not with the geeks. It was a hit with everyone else who loved laughing at the stereotypes.
No. This show was designed for others to laugh at them, not for them to laugh at themselves. This is why it is so popular. Far be it for me to agree with the guardian on anything, but they're right. It's not smart. It was actually stupid from the get-go.
t may have been capitalism in the past, but at some point, everything consolidated into too few owners and now, America is paying the price for that.
and socialists want to consolidate it further into one big corner: the US federal government. Fuck that.
I don't see much independent thought anywhere these days. It's not just the states. People prefer the comfort of propaganda regardless where they live.