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| Cerebus:
--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on June 12, 2020, 02:58:35 pm ---Good intentions are good, but we don't actually have any way to make wishes come true. --- End quote --- Being a non-native speaker you may not be familiar with the common English dictum: "The pathway to hell is paved with good intentions". |
| Simon:
--- Quote from: lukego on June 12, 2020, 01:01:34 pm --- --- Quote from: engrguy42 on June 12, 2020, 12:48:53 pm ---Does anyone else see the insanity in people taking it upon themselves to decide what OTHERS might find offensive? --- End quote --- I've actually delved into the "General Chat" section today to try and understand why other people have been saying that they don't feel comfortable in the EEVblog community and perceive the community as e.g. hostile to women and minorities. I'm taking them at their word that they are in fact offended by the way people talk here and I'm trying to understand their perspective. --- End quote --- I suggest you change your pot/weed supplier! |
| Marco:
Why is master/servant never even considered as an alternative? Minimum change of meaning, minimally invasive. This works in all contexts instead of just a subset like most the other alternatives ... so why not? |
| tggzzz:
--- Quote from: pepelevamp on June 12, 2020, 01:11:15 pm --- --- Quote from: lukego on June 12, 2020, 01:01:34 pm ---I've actually delved into the "General Chat" section today to try and understand why other people have been saying that they don't feel comfortable in the EEVblog community and perceive the community as e.g. hostile to women and minorities. I'm taking them at their word that they are in fact offended by the way people talk here and I'm trying to understand their perspective. --- End quote --- ... i am super conscious though about the tendancy for those who mean well to self-cull their own communities until there is nobody left. ... its better to have an army of people who-dont agree-on-everything but have their heart in the right place, rather than try to sanitize your soldiers into nothing. --- End quote --- On re-reading your post, I think it is worth highlighting those two statements. In general self-censorship is more destructive than externally imposed censorship, because there is nobody complaining about the censorship. |
| bd139:
Oh it's gone full retard now: https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1271253144442253312 Master branch on github may be renamed main etc etc. There are not even slaves in git. |O This is just erasing language for the sake of it. We're going to end up with a shallow dialect of newspeak and fuck all else by the end of this. |
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