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by mlyle 2y ago
OK, so if we accept that something that is a neutral term can turn offensive (retarded) and that we should stop using it as a result... why not do it for other terms that have the same problem?
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by mlyle 2y ago
Cheap tools are usually adequate to judge whether this is a type of tool you need and will frequently use... and cheap tools may be adequate to meet your entire need. I frequently buy cheap tools while I am learning about whether I need a &
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by mlyle 2y ago
Writing referring to a person repeatedly without using a third-person pronoun is often wordy and obfuscatory. Accepting "they/their" is a far lesser sin. (Of course, having the tools in your toolbox that one would use to avo
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by mlyle 2y ago
That's pretty different from calling the kid with the obvious intellectual disability by the term every day as he waits to board the bus home. And given that there's people with that experience, perhaps it's time to heavily d
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by mlyle 2y ago
Using "chairman" to describe a position implies that it's occupied by a man. And the writing may need to be revised for someone who is female who doesn't want to be referred to as a chairman or mailman. Using "patr
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by mlyle 2y ago
https://meridian.allenpress.com/idd/article-abstract/48/2/12... 36% of youth in 2009 reported having heard the word "retard" directed towards someone with an intellectual disability. My wife&#x
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by mlyle 2y ago
> but neither would it be an attempt to demean everyone who suffers from a learning disability No, but it might have that net effect, to whomever is in earshot. > And anyway, in practice, overwhelmingly such language is aimed at peopl
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by mlyle 2y ago
> I don't understand how you reconcile your argument with the fact that many people insist that using terms like, say, "patriarchy" to describe all that is wrong with the world - or "toxic masculinity" to describ
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by mlyle 2y ago
> I disagree that words "become" slurs, in principle. Outside of a very few specific examples, where the term was constructed to insult, I disagree; perjoration is a well understood linguistic topic, and it tends to happen in p
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by mlyle 2y ago
There's stuff on the edge, though-- like there was a post here a few days ago, where the commenter was talking about deploying monitoring and measurement into workplaces and finding lots of stuff wrong, and everyone panicking. On the
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by mlyle 2y ago
Words used in trade don't just appear organically, either. Someone with some kind of reason-- whether it's being funny, selling a product, or wanting to say things in a way that doesn't offend someone else-- coins them, and
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by mlyle 2y ago
> it's not a consensus opinion. It's been favored in pretty much every style guide for decades at this point. I am presently in the middle of the political spectrum, but I've spent the majority of my life pretty right-lea
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by mlyle 2y ago
I don't think you're going to be run through the gauntlet for saying Latino. Yah-- using gender neutral terms when possible is nice, and someone has to coin those terms. But what I'm talking about: there's a whole lot of
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by mlyle 2y ago
I agree that we should try and be understanding when people inadvertently use language that has become offensive. At the same time, there are a whole lot of people who want to staunchly defend using language that has become offensive, and e
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by mlyle 2y ago
But a word other than "retarded" may not organically appear; indeed, it's going to wait for someone to say "wait, the word we're using has become insulting-- time to deliberately do something else." Do you cha
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by mlyle 2y ago
The new word that you're using may become a slur in 10-15 years, and you may have to change again. But I'd hardly say it doesn't help: it means that today, you've not made someone wonder if you're insulting them on
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by mlyle 2y ago
At the same time, perjoration is real-- names associated with disadvantaged groups take on a derogatory meaning. While it's maybe not your fault that "retard" has moved from a neutral, medical term to an insult, it's no
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by mlyle 2y ago
You'd only be off by a factor of 3 instead of 4, then. In any case, comparing it to a solid ball isn't so useful. Even the idea of "density" for something that is dispersed as small particles isn't too useful; prop
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by mlyle 2y ago
Most plastic is like 1.5 grams/cm^3; that's like 9 cubic centimeters, or less than 1/4 the volume of a golf ball. When you're saying "about" and then cubing the number you can have a pretty significant differen
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by mlyle 2y ago
If a hospital becomes aware of a death, they need to let the medical examiner know. In turn, they or the medical examiner issues a death certificate, etc. You can't just truck the body off to storage and then forget about it.
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by mlyle 2y ago
You know, I think if there was a little more tendency to explain, and trust in those explanations, people would like airlines, local transportation departments, etc, a whole lot more. Without information, it is easy to assume incompetence,
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by mlyle 2y ago
Yah, but Roblox weird money dynamics is that he's showing up and is overpowered in the games because he's paying to win, but fellow kids likely view him as exceptionally skilled :P
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by mlyle 2y ago
The text now says that, yes, but the original did not according to archive.org.
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by mlyle 2y ago
I presume they want to preauthorize a decent amount just in case, but this tends to really upset debit card holders because it steals money from them for a week.
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by mlyle 2y ago
Man, -people- are bad at counting tasks like this.
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by mlyle 2y ago
For clarity, these are the two protocols listed in the documents shared, purportedly from Resorts World, for stays during Def Con, stating how security would act in block vs. not-obviously-convention-attendee rooms.
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by mlyle 2y ago
https://x.com/d0rkph0enix/status/1822814018643374260 The protocol for non-DefCon rooms: * Housekeeping services the room. * If housekeeping was unable to service the room, security will come take a look. The proto
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by mlyle 2y ago
https://x.com/d0rkph0enix/status/1822814018643374260 The protocol for non-DefCon rooms: * Housekeeping services the room. * If housekeeping was unable to service the room, security will come take a look. The proto
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by mlyle 2y ago
* SSE and other architectural extensions combined with supporting patents * Intellectual property minefields about how to adapt every new micro-architectural innovation to the mess that is x86 architecture. Finally, barriers to entry in dev
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by mlyle 2y ago
DEF CON's response reeks of petty; characterizing dmitry as a "subcontractor" rather than a volunteer for spin purposes, and the choice to remove Entropic's logo from the case based on this budget dispute.

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