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by monksy 3y ago
Alternative explanation in the same vane as your theory: The cognitive and time cost of compliance for language policing takes away from valuable programming and planning involved in developing solutions. (i.e. "banned words" [swe
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by monksy 3y ago
It's amazing how nosey Utah is. They want to scan your DL to find out who's buying alcohol, they're demanding id based age verification for watching porn online, and apparently they want to enforce monitoring on your phone+ca
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by monksy 3y ago
In the last year it's been 2-3 weeks for me. That's really quick. Some things come in 1 but that's absurdly quick.
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by monksy 3y ago
I know it went thorough ssl based confections to send the email.
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by monksy 3y ago
Tammy duckworths emails on encryption always results to hysterical claims that it literally harms a child for every character you encrypt. Durbans response is 3-4mons later and just says thank you for your feedback.
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by monksy 3y ago
You're suggesting checking a firearm with weed in the same bag. Are you out of your mind?!
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by monksy 3y ago
I mentioned in another comment, I think I may have been incorrect in the usage of tankie. I meant authoritarian. I've been active in contacting my senators for the bills that came up that were a threat to privacy and destroying encrypt
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by monksy 3y ago
Authoritarian. I think I may have had a bad understanding of what a tankie is.
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by monksy 3y ago
The state reps seem to be better. But our federal senators are pretty awful tankies. (Durban and Duckworth.. they'll full on send you a tone death letter about why encryption is awful after you send them your concerns)
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by monksy 3y ago
Historically speaking, it has been incredibly rare for subs to be taken over like that. Subs have run with rules about banning members with at least 1 comment in subs they don't like (usually the_donald, mra, conservative, etc) [bannin
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by monksy 3y ago
> A subreddit, is not 'owned' or property of a moderator. That is exactly how reddit works. Reddit does not compensate the mods.. this is a minor compensation that they get to maintain their fiefdom. Don't like it, create
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by monksy 3y ago
> they would have mute sex dolls that cook their favorite meal every night. I can see how you could believe that under the current conditions and stereotypes that men are subjected to. I don't believe that would last for very long.
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by monksy 3y ago
> It is also true that women perpetuate these dumb stereotypes of masculinity as well. The ones who are complaining that men lack emotional maturity or inteligence are the same ones that will post on 2xc and say: "Am I a bad person
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by monksy 3y ago
> Claiming it's not is not the hill I'd choose to die on. Me either, also I'm for banning all flags in the workplace. But people who vastly generalize large swaths of the population in a negative light in an inaccurate man
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by monksy 3y ago
That page is there making a statement of examples of "bad language". It's an organization shooting it's shot on language change. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11714189/Latest-phr...
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by monksy 3y ago
Another strong reason is that the work they're willing to take doesn't require a college deplomia. (On top of that a university degree not demonstrating the value to the struggle it took to get it)
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by monksy 3y ago
> he has no desire to become desirable? Funny thing about that, it's women (for hetros) that are the determination of what is 'desirable'. As a man, I agree with a lot of those who are discouraged with dating and running t
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by monksy 3y ago
People are afraid to be direct and call the article/researchers sexist in their framing of the situation.
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by monksy 3y ago
Is it overly dramatic to have HR dictate formally non-offensive speach? (I'm talking about non-derogatory and non-slur based language) Right now there is a wave of people that are upset over "violent language" ( https:/&
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by monksy 3y ago
I've been in multiple organizations now that have the redefinition of whats appropriate. Many times there is training sourced from a third party company that does this. I've had one organization call the "confederate flag&quo
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by monksy 3y ago
It's not artificial. You can and will be isolated, excommunicated, wrong think, and separated based on your acceptance of new language definitions and sensibilities. There have been groups out there that have enforced this via "Co
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by monksy 3y ago
ModCoord Response: (Suggestion for indefinite blackout) https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/148ks6u/indefinit... Some subs have moved from a limited time blackout to indefinite (r/Chicago an
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by monksy 3y ago
Lemmy is the federated version. https://lemmy.ml/
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by monksy 3y ago
> may be a minority, their voice is amplified by social media. The same organization that is dealing with that, also accepted that when they entered a market to where their potential profibility reaches a vast higher amount of people. T
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by monksy 3y ago
RedditSync and RIF has also made the same announcements.
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by monksy 3y ago
It's a good extreme example of something that the work place really claims that is way out of the bounds of what they expect you to do during work. On top of that, it's considered to be less appropriate than gossiping at the water
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by monksy 3y ago
Not only does it rely on the labor of mods and dealing with a lot of bad behavior. However, the admins also enforce a "code of conduct" on the mods and threaten the loss of the sub for lack of compliance.
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by monksy 3y ago
Back office workers is the least of IBM's concerns. Most of their problems are self creating. They have demonstrated over and over that they can't get out of their way from doing bad things.
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by monksy 3y ago
If you're getting paralysis: That means that you need to write down how you feel and you need to write down what you know about the problem. From there: 1. Write down and solve/suggest for what you know on the edges of the proble
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by monksy 3y ago
I completely disagree with your claims here. Communicating about your work, your discoveries, your work is one of the aspects of being an engineer. Developing and maintaining a blog takes work. Grinding out code alone is not productive, nor

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