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ealoe ,

The only people this should ever be used on is the assholes who came up with it. Black Mirror wasn't meant to be a playbook people!

ealoe ,

Damaging an aircraft is a serious felony, and you don't own the airspace above your house so you legally can't interfere with them. You think the people at Amazon haven't thought about this? That thing will be covered in cameras and microphones, you won't be able to touch it without being charged.

ealoe ,

This captures why I don't enjoy Harry Potter (in addition to JKR being a shitter)

ealoe ,

I guess, no one NEEDS a video streaming platform. It's not like a transportation or a food or power company monopoly, it's one specific form of entertainment. Try going outside?

ealoe ,

I understand not calling disabled people the word, because mocking people for something about themselves they didn't choose (like a disability) is cruel, I am totally on board with never using words in this way to target disabled people.

I don't understand why I can't use the word to mock someone who is not intellectually disabled for choosing not to use their perfectly well-functioning brain, it seems like a very apt analogy. It communicates "you aren't disabled, you have no excuse for acting like it, start choosing to use the fully functional brain you have".

Additionally, only the "r-word" seems to be the bad one, despite there being many other words in our language that originally began as a medical descriptor for intellectually disabled folks. If I call someone a moron for running a red light because they're playing with their phone nobody bats an eye, but if I call them the "r-word" I'm a terrible person?

ealoe ,

What is wrong with calling people unintelligent when they are doing unintelligent things that are directly causing me problems (for example, people on their phones blowing through red lights?) If someone tries to change lanes into me and I say "are you blind? You almost hit me!" is that similarly bad?

ealoe ,

Well I guess that's where we disagree. It's clearly offensive to make fun of a blind person for being blind, no one should do that. But I do not see how it is offensive to actual blind people to call a sighted person "blind" for refusing to use their eyes. It is of course not polite to the person I'm speaking to, but that is the point, there are plenty of times it is ok to be rude to people, such as when they're harming you. Offending purposely harmful people like bigots, racists; and negligently harmful people like inattentive drivers, people who leave knives pointing up in the dishwasher, etc presents me with no moral quandary.

I'm not sure if you're saying it's offensive to disabled people to make the comparison, offensive to the abled person you are speaking to, or both.

ealoe ,

Foolish seems like a useful word, probably could be substituted and keep the intended meaning intact.

ealoe ,

It's only an "established slur" to some people (mostly in online niche communities), to a lot of people it's just everyday speech. Words such as retarded, special needs, intellectually disabled, moron, imbecile and more are all terms used to describe a disability, just like "blind". I'm tired of this artificially accelerated pejoration sped along by people who just want to correct others to feel good about themselves, the euphemism treadmill for people with intellectual disabilities in particular spins faster than for any other topic. We haven't invented 15 different phrases for blind in the last 50 years, there's no reason to do it for disabled brains any more than for disabled eyeballs.

Instead that energy should be focused on ensuring people don't use someone's disability to put the disabled person down. Those people are the real problem, not normal folks criticizing people for their shitty behaviors they can control, not immutable characteristics about themselves.

ealoe ,

Seems like a good word, I like that

ealoe ,

That is infinitely funnier, using solely LoTR quotes would make road rage much more humorous

ealoe ,

It's not stating that group has less value, it is stating that that group has less ability to think which is just as true as blind people have less ability to see, or physically disabled people like me have less ability to walk than people with normal feet.

That doesn't inherently make someone less valuable, and my point when using such a term as blind or retarded directed towards a non-disabled person isn't to attack their value but instead to attack their behavior, specifically to point out that they aren't utilizing their abilities to their full extent. If you hear the word retarded and think that means the person is less valuable, maybe check your assumptions about disabled people's value.

ealoe ,

Wtf would a low level IT contractor turned spy know about that? Quoting Snowden just makes you look like a moron

ealoe ,

My stream deck, which I use to resize windows, lock my computer, handle Spotify and discord, and more, does not work at all with Linux. Switching to my dual boot option feels like cutting off my left thumb, sure I can still do most things it just takes longer and feels awkward so why would I?

ealoe ,

Haha no worries, I also own a Steam Deck handheld, to make it extra confusing, but I was talking about a Stream deck by Elgato, a little device with programmable buttons.

ealoe ,

I can switch to Matrix and talk to the two other users on this platform! Can't wait!

ealoe ,

Linux is only free if your time has no value, and this is why.

ealoe ,

Showers vs rain is a great lesson in consent. I did not consent to be rained on, I do not want to be wet just then so I don't like it. When I turn on the shower I consent to be rained on, so I like it.

ealoe ,

I consider myself fairly terminally-online but now and then I see a post like this that may as well be a foreign language, and I go to the comments for clues and they're all just random words strung together and it makes even less sense. What a time to be alive!

ealoe ,

Haha that sounds pretty funny, thank you for explaining!

ealoe ,

Indeed, but only one of them can you openly criticize while living within its borders without fear, and it ain't China.

ealoe ,

Stop trying to reset stolen iPhones then, IDK what to tell you

Linus Tech Tips (LTT) release investigation results on former accusations (x.com)

There were a series of accusations about our company last August from a former employee. Immediately following these accusations, LMG hired Roper Greyell - a large Vancouver-based law firm specializing in labor and employment law, to conduct a third-party investigation. Their website describes them as “one of the largest...

ealoe ,

If you're one of the people in this thread insisting this does nothing to exonerate LTT, what would you accept as evidence that they're innocent? I don't follow YouTube drama much at all, I just think it's wild when people form an opinion based on on set of statements and then are never open to learning more facts about the case ever again.

ealoe ,

What if that standard were to be applied to the people making the assertions? Shouldn't the burden of proof be on the accuser, not the accused? Seems kinda backwards the way you described it, someone can just say some things about you and now you are obligated to release internal documents/chat logs/emails or whatever else to prove their assertions wrong?

ealoe ,

Facebook (Meta) actually has a cutting edge team that researches and fights disinformation, they publish some really cool research every few months I recommend reading it. Unfortunately, their efforts amount to pissing on a wildfire that the rest of the company is doing its best to dump gasoline on, since that team is under-resourced compared to the teams tasked with increasing user engagement.

ealoe ,

A wise Jedi once said, "The ability to speak does not make you intelligent"

ealoe ,

Ok, don't buy it online then go get it from the thrift store yourself. Oh that takes valuable time and effort? Guess that's why it was marked up, peoples' time is worth money.

ealoe ,

My case rests, the seller of the book provided you a valuable service then by making a product available to you that you otherwise wouldn't be able to get, and you're mad that they made a little money for their time?

ealoe ,

Unironically yes, at least the US government is something we can openly criticize and attempt to change while living within its borders. Try criticizing the Chinese government from within China, let me know how that works out for you. I'll take homegrown American spyware any day.

ealoe ,

I have an unactivated windows computer I've been using for 3 years, it works fine and even gets updates it just says "activate windows" in the corner of the screen.

ealoe ,

Probably true, but that particular computer just runs a Plex server and a few other things so the wallpaper doesn't matter to me

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