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Gross! Couldn’t even let schools decide, somehow it’s important to ban them state-wide? Piss off.
Meep :3
They/Them, also “It” when the critter calling me that is being cute ior affectionate :3
Very cute, but also weird and sometimes kinda sharp
Has been rescued…? ominous music plays
bites life for being a butt >:(
Gross! Couldn’t even let schools decide, somehow it’s important to ban them state-wide? Piss off.
Did startup Flow Computing just make CPUs 100x faster?
No.
Did you enjoy humans spouting bullshit faster than humans can debunk it? Well, brace for impact because here comes machine-generated bullshit! Wooooeee’refucked! 🥳
Idunno where you got the idea that I’m for slurs or against disabled people but it’s kinda insulting, especially when you took “sometimes said as a derogatory word” and ran it like it’s the whole point or the article over the complaint that got its own paragraph (the Pulp Fiction bit) and shared the same sentence the disability bit is in, or the one that got the whole rest of the article (that it’s vaguely unprofessional). In fact I’m getting more irked every time I go look for evidence that I’ve misinterpreted it. Reading through a couple crap anecdotes to one that actually says something, we get a VP smirking at the name, which makes me wonder whether that person’s just a hateful prick smirking at a disability term or one of the many who giggle at any reference to anything associated with sex. The other three are just “some people dislike the name.” I conclude that the article does not take issue primarily with the name being an abusive term and wonder why you’d say that.
I muchly dislike careless use of abusive terms (I’ve probably got an essay or two ranting over the usage (and existence) of “crazy” and “insane,” for example) so I really don’t disagree that abusive terms should be treated much more seriously.
My entire point was that the author seems to be throwing things at the wall hoping something sticks, not seriously worrying some spooky scary BDSM critter (hi, it’s me :3 ) is gonna tie them up (of course not, the ropes are for me :3 ), nor that anyone’s getting bullied by the tool’s name or it’s irritating old wounds or really anything at all. I don’t think they’re taking any of this seriously. If the term’s abusive in a way that can’t be neutralized by taking it from abusers and making it something else (an arguably valid thing to do) then that’s worth actual serious discussion and not just part of one sentence in a six-page essay.
tl;dr: The article barely even mentions anything about disability and, I think, does so more as an excuse for itself than out of any serious concern for anyone. My complaint/point is, to be clear, exclusively that the article is crap and not that abusive terminology is okay. The article has failed to demonstrate any actual problem with the name itself other than handwavey “some people say” that it’s vaguely unprofessional.
WOOOOO RIVEN!! \ö/
This really isn’t the article it wishes it were :-\ It kinda reeks of “I’ve picked a thing I want to argue and now I’m going to make up an argument for it” down to admitting that good sources aren’t available (which makes me wonder whether there are no good sources at all or just no good sources that support the author’s argument).
Bonus unpoints for the BDSM reference, just because I hate seeing that term held up as a negative or scary kind of thing and I feel like and/or choose to believe that’s the point in such an unprofessional article, rather than simply meaning “Look, it means sex stuff and that’s unprofessional.” So there. Nyeh! 😝
Also, I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone who actually used or contributed to the GIMP (or intended to) complain about the name. I’m interested in seeing some actual data on that, if there is any. Personally I wouldn’t particularly mind a name change but I can’t say whether it’d get more attention and interest than it’d lose to irritating people accustomed to the current one.
There are mods for the first to make it more blaster-friendly! The impression I get is that blasters are much more effective in t he second game and are, it’s claimed (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1606481748), viable even for Hard playthroughs.
I’m playing on Normal; it’s mostly reasonably easy. Paying a bit more attention to keeping my defences in order would probably serve me well but I’ve not hit any walls or anything like that.
Knights of the Old Republic 2 :3 I’m doing a blaster Jedi run. It’s pretty neat, actually :3 I think I’ll play the first game next. Kinda want to get back into City of Heroes if this laptop runs it well and maybe only if I can acquire at least one adventure-buddy-critter to play it with 🤔 🤷
[Sarcasm] See, they really do care about us! They care so much they’re unhiring everyone whose job it was to pretend they care about us! Twitch is a great company and not an evil ball of shit! I respect Amazon and its owned companies and subsidiaries and whatnot because I know they respect me!
Almost instinctively downvoted after reading what’s gotta be a bot post or a bad joke. Gross.
Thanks!
Thanks for the ideas! May go for Tello soonish.
Oh hey, I heard the funding for that dried up. … Because I went looking for ways to not spend $50/mo for a working phone while I’m sleeping in somebody’s closet and have no income 🙃 Happen to know people who don’t even have the closet, but I’m sure they don’t need phone service either.
[Maximum Sarcasm] I’m sure the money’s going somewhere more important, though.
Hey, how many gig workers are barely scraping by and need programs like this or everybody’s Uber Eats orders are gonna uber eat dirt? Just a thought. Maybe taking a little care of the people at the bottom who prop up everything else is kinda asinine to not do. Grr, I say.
Thanks, though something keeps keeping me from Factor 🤔 Maybe I’ll have to just try it some time, if I get a chance. CodeWars katas should be a good option for that. Hopefully they’re not all those horrid mathsy ones like Forth has! v.v
Stack-based funs! Forth, min, Cat, something like that :3
Which isn’t to say that I think they should necessarily take over for C or Kotlin or Lua or anything at all, just I think they’re kinda neat and like to see more neat things around. Also please someone Forthify some CodeWars katas or otherwise bring us Forth enjoyers some fresh ones 😅
I don’t hate you, I just hate your one-indexed table-shaped horror language ;P
But actually would anyone really hate someone for liking Lua? I hope not. That’s weird, even as someone who finds the language kinda obnoxious. Maybe I’m reading too much into the “hate” part and it wasn’t meant so severely 😅
[Very sarcasm] We can just burn more coal or just huck poor people into furnaces or something! Wait no, give them cars! Coal rollin’ cars!!! Why are we even pretending that racing toward extinction isn’t our goal? Embrace doom! Down with humanity! Up with constant fucking around with no regard for costs or consequences!
May I please have some painkillers before being tossed into the furnace, though :-\ Or maybe just like, toss some naproxen in after me I guess?
Oh joy, more cramming “AI” into absolutely every damn thing. Maybe we can get some kinda scalable AI blockchain synergy going on so we can buzz whilst we buzz.
Good thing I use Sprint! … Wait, crap. Oh well, I need to get my own carrier/account anyway. Which one’s actually good? (… Ha ha ha!)
[Sarcastic ‘translation’] tl;dr: A lot of people who are relatively well-placed to understand how much technology is involved even in downvoting this post are downvoting this post because they’re afraid of technology!
Just more fad-worshipping foolishness, drooling over a buzzword and upset that others call it what it is. I want it to be over but I’m sure whatever comes next will be just as infuriating. Oh no, now our cursors all have to change according to built-in (to the cursor, somehow, for some reason) software that tracks our sleep patterns! All of our cursors will be obsolete (?!??) unless they can scalably synergize with the business logic core to our something or other 😴