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Coursera used to be good, and I've found the occasional good course on Udemy, but neither are particularly great right now in my opinion. Well curated learning
by AMerrit 5mo ago
Coursera used to be good, and I've found the occasional good course on Udemy, but neither are particularly great right now in my opinion. Well curated learning materials are such a unicorn.
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- chimpanzee 5mo agoThey’re not trying to control your speech. They’re trying to improve your communication so your message gets across better. Unless of course your primary message is “I’m an ass and proudly anti-empathy.”
- ffsm8 5mo agoThat's rich from someone using the username chimpanzee. If you consider "retard" offensive, then that's literally in the same league. Maybe just grow up and stop being a terminally online social justice warrior?
- chimpanzee 5mo agoPlease explain further.
- ffsm8 5mo agoWords aren't inherently slurs. They only become such when used as such. Which he didn't do. Just like your chimpanzee usage likely isn't meant as a slur, despite it being constantly used as one.
- chimpanzee 5mo agoHe used the word to refer to a hypothetical version of himself, one that failed to either notice or comprehend something simple. That’s the same context in which people use it as an insult against others. The only difference is that it was a self-applied insult in this case. More importantly, the word, when used as an insult, uses real humans with real difficulties as the referent. Those people and their caregivers are the one’s that feel the insult. Whereas chimpanzee is an animal and remains unaware and unhurt when its species name is used as an insult. (My pseudonym is also not meant as a self-applied insult, most days.) GPs usage doesn’t really matter to me though. It wasn’t an egregious thing to say. And, for me personally, the word has little value one way or another. It reminds me of grade school chatter. I just find it comical that there’s a lack of self-awareness regarding the effect of its usage. But again, perhaps there was no lack of awareness at all and perhaps that was the real point. Anyways, ta ta.
- sciencesama 5mo agopluralsight and oreilly are really good