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WindyMiller
3y ago
If this happened because you're in the UK, it's not the EU's fault we left and you're blaming the wrong people.
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> If you're cycling, this kind of intersection is only dangerous if you fail to yield/stop appropriately to auto traffic. Or if auto traffic fails to yield/stop appropriately to you. Of course it's almost always the c
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WindyMiller
3y ago
Personally I think women are people.
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WindyMiller
3y ago
I don't think 'people' is really an edge case.
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3y ago
Don't worry, I get it. I just think it's a bit daft that the title is now so thoroughly associated with a fairly mechanical part of how the film functions, when it's not only a pre-existing word but also refers to a much more
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3y ago
Wildly annoying that this isn't called 'Brickursion'.
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WindyMiller
3y ago
Those UK limits are for what is considered legal tender—that is, if someone has offered you 20 pennies to settle a 20p debt, you can't sue them for non-payment, but if they offered you 200 pennies to settle a £2 debt then you could.
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4y ago
It's more a matter of precision than offence. Trans men who give birth aside, there are lots of mothers who didn't give birth (adoptive mothers; lesbians whose partners give birth). 'Mothers' simply isn't the same c
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WindyMiller
4y ago
Don't forget to include the health benefits when weighing up risks! More chance of being flattened by an SUV now, less chance of a stroke/heart attack later.
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4y ago
It does say 'in the United States'. And it doesn't say that any of these are unique to that culture.
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4y ago
Fair enough. I think a lot of these concerns are based on misrememberings and misunderstandings. I think it would have been helpful to mention when you posted the link that you had misremembered it, though.
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WindyMiller
4y ago
But this doesn't say what you said, and isn't a "racial sensitivity guide" for employees.
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WindyMiller
4y ago
If there's one thing academics at British universities are more scornful of than third parties trying to dictate their curriculum, it's parents of students sticking their noses in.
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4y ago
> The QAA themselves don’t explain what decolonising means. Presumably this is a good thing, given the complaint: > But by requiring that all subject areas include these topics, the QAA is homogenising university teaching and diminish