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Reminds me of when GitHub kicked out a paying customer for using the word "retard" as a verb in the mathematical sense.

vincnetas 5y ago
had to look that up Retarded differential equations (RDEs) are differential equations having retarded arguments. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377042700004763 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037704270...
- MikeDelta 5y ago
  And quantum physics has degenerate energy levels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_energy_levels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_energy_levels
trollied 5y ago
Large planes tell pilots vocally to “retard” when landing…
- bombcar 5y ago
  Which can be amusing if you don't know what's going on, it suddenly sounds like the autopilot is pissed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmbzKsqKQoI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmbzKsqKQoI And for those who would like to change this, any change to a pilot's routine has a chance of being the thing that pushes an incident over the edge into a crash. Would it be worth it?
  - knorker 5y ago
    I would predict that the same people who say we should defund the police (the ones that mean it literally), and say that "being on time", "work before play", and "be polite" is part of the white oppressive culture[1], and needs to be dismantled, would also argue that flying, and the methodology of the NTSB (and foreign equivalents) that has reduced airline accidents of the decades, is also part of the structural racism of white dominant culture. I'm not saying this is a large set of people. But it looks like some of them have power at github. I guess if you're doing software for the airline industry you cannot use github. Well, honestly I wouldn't use github for anything if money depended on it, because of their record of "firing" customers who don't toe the line on their exact politics. [1] I'm quoting training material that even passed HR review in corporate education DEI here. It's not hyperbole.

had to look that up Retarded differential equations (RDEs) are differential equations having retarded arguments. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377042700004763 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037704270...

MikeDelta 5y ago
And quantum physics has degenerate energy levels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_energy_levels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_energy_levels

trollied 5y ago

Large planes tell pilots vocally to “retard” when landing…

bombcar 5y ago
Which can be amusing if you don't know what's going on, it suddenly sounds like the autopilot is pissed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmbzKsqKQoI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmbzKsqKQoI And for those who would like to change this, any change to a pilot's routine has a chance of being the thing that pushes an incident over the edge into a crash. Would it be worth it?
- knorker 5y ago
  I would predict that the same people who say we should defund the police (the ones that mean it literally), and say that "being on time", "work before play", and "be polite" is part of the white oppressive culture[1], and needs to be dismantled, would also argue that flying, and the methodology of the NTSB (and foreign equivalents) that has reduced airline accidents of the decades, is also part of the structural racism of white dominant culture. I'm not saying this is a large set of people. But it looks like some of them have power at github. I guess if you're doing software for the airline industry you cannot use github. Well, honestly I wouldn't use github for anything if money depended on it, because of their record of "firing" customers who don't toe the line on their exact politics. [1] I'm quoting training material that even passed HR review in corporate education DEI here. It's not hyperbole.