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| langwadt:
--- Quote from: Simon on June 30, 2020, 07:39:35 pm --- --- Quote from: paulca on June 30, 2020, 06:20:41 pm ---This is Jonathon Pie, a UK "angry" political comedian. EDIT: People slag the BBC off, especially when they ask us to pay like $200 a year whether we watch it or not.... but, the thing is, they aired that. They aired Frankie Boyle. No commercial TV network would dare to air that. But because they do not rely on commercial sponsors and advertisers they can show whatever they like that's of interest to the public. --- End quote --- I love this guy, I wish he would put himself up for election. He always says exactly what i feel and struggle to articulate. --- End quote --- you do realize that is a fictional character played by Tom Walker ? ;) |
| langwadt:
--- Quote from: paulca on June 30, 2020, 08:18:04 pm ---Hopefully this is a side storm that will fade. Let them make their changes. In 6 months when school starts back up properly and a few more of the younger realise it's always sucked and... we already know that. In a year we won't even remember this. EDIT: They are lighting a beacon, the purpose of which I hope we all support, but it's badly aimed, poorly focused and will be ultimately ineffective. --- End quote --- I think it is worse than ineffective, it makes it all to easy to think there is no purpose and it is just the language police that want to try and stay relevant |
| langwadt:
--- Quote from: Simon on June 30, 2020, 08:58:04 pm ---but one did get a gender change so is the other one into transgender? --- End quote --- RP-SMA is basically an SMA that had a sex change so the pokey bit is now on what was the female |
| donotdespisethesnake:
--- Quote from: paulca on June 30, 2020, 06:47:20 pm ---Sounding like I've changed sides. Would you.... Consider a protocol which referred to roles and relationships such as Pimp, Whore, Trick inappropriate? --- End quote --- I think that is indeed the protocol used by Facebook. |
| donotdespisethesnake:
--- Quote from: nuno on June 30, 2020, 04:16:53 pm --- --- Quote from: ElectronRob on June 29, 2020, 05:38:58 pm ---Comments already disabled, I guess telling people what they can and cannot say is easier if you also delete all the historical words you disagree with. --- End quote --- hackaday also closed comments on the related article ( https://hackaday.com/2020/06/29/updating-the-language-of-spi-pin-labels-to-remove-casual-references-to-slavery/ ). Looks like they are supporting the initiative to the point of closing comments. I am not liking where this is going, at all. I guess I'll have to re-think some of my usual sites and suppliers. --- End quote --- Almost as many comments as the article about Arduino pin headers or how long should lines in source code be. Hackaday know how to do clickbait. Hackaday have had a long series of profiles of women in science and engineering, mostly very obscure with a minor role (like most men in science and engineering). It seems they forgot to include profiles of people of color... |
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