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notaviking , in Botanists vote to remove racist reference from plants’ scientific names

The flower in the picture reminds me of a Erythrina lysistemon, whose name in Afrikaans, in my opinion, is very racist, translated would be like n*****tree. Luckily I am hearing from a lot more people, compared to when I grew up, starting to name this beautiful tree a different name, kanniedood, which translates to cannot-die.

I love that we look at language and ask are there hurtful words, even if it was not meant, and trying to improve on it. Sounds similar in the IT industry awhile ago where they tried replacing terms like master and slave with alternatives like primary and secondary.

SloppyPuppy , in Israel Bombs Yemen Saturday in Escalation with Houthis.

After 8 months the Huthis reached the find out phase.

Cort , in Tesla Sales Drop 17% in California

Ok, so it’s not surprising to me that musk/Tesla is down. But wtf did Stellantis do to get below even Tesla?

ArbitraryValue , in Outrage grows over Evan Gershkovich’s 16-year sentence in Russian penal colony

I wish Americans would stop going to Russia (or at least stop going to Russia and attracting attention) so that the USA can stop trading prisoners for them. That way Viktor Bout would still be locked up, and who knows what wonderful human being will go free in exchange for this guy.

(And I do have sympathy for Brittney Griner but maybe Russia would stop doing this sort of thing if the USA didn’t cooperate.)

jeffw OP ,
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Gershkovich wasn’t on vacation or anything. He was working on an assignment for the WSJ

diffusive ,

Right but maybe the WSJ should have hired a Russian (or 3rd nationality) journalist for the role.

It’s not different on how things were in Cuba few years ago where it wasn’t possible to send US citizens there

jeffw OP ,
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I don’t see how it would’ve ended differently. Other than maybe the US govt wouldn’t care

billwashere , in Slow recovery from IT outage begins as experts warn of future risks

Still say not allowing untested updates in a production environment fixes this. I don’t care if it’s a README file, don’t update without testing.

squirrelwithnut , in Trump Blows a Kiss as Hulk Hogan Rips His Shirt Onstage in Surreal RNC Scene

One step closer to Idiocracy.

Marduk73 , in The Microsoft/CrowdStrike outage shows the danger of monopolization
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The title reminds me of the microsoft monopoly issue ages ago. They had to bail ou Apple so ms could have competition.

zarkanian , in Trump Blows a Kiss as Hulk Hogan Rips His Shirt Onstage in Surreal RNC Scene
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Put Trump back in the ring, not the White House.

werefreeatlast , in Pro-Trump multimillionaire and election denier boosts funds to far-right voter-conspiracy groups

In all honesty, Air makes you gay. I breathe and I’m gay. It could be water too though. Republicans might wanna stop in taking both of these dangerous substances. Thoughts and prayers for all of them to figure out how to stop being gay like me.

lennybird , in 8 More Democrats in Congress Urge Biden to Step Aside.
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OP, ignore the trolls. I just had a discussion with one who argued in extreme bad faith absent of any evidence. There is clearly a brigading effort taking place.

Z3k3 , in Slow recovery from IT outage begins as experts warn of future risks

This would have been a fun MIR had my systems be impacted.

SirDerpy , in Jan. 6 defendant, who also attended 2017 Unite the Right rally, sentenced to 5 years

As a society we’re very quick to discard individuals, to judge and cancel them. But, some of the best people I know are that way in total rejection of the people they once were. They only shared after I figured it out and began talking about myself.

Here’s what happens if the white supremecist in the OP is given the benefit of the doubt in interpretation today, and by his own commitment makes it to “the other side”.

The state taught a man to hate. They didn’t teach him how to stop. A soldier had no war to fight, no principles of his own. The MAGA cult provides.

On the day of the attack, Dykes, a marine veteran, ripped down fencing that helped his platoon advance to the entrenched position outside the building, wrenched a riot shield out of the hands of an enemy soldier, and then watched as the outnumbered enemy line guarding entrance collapsed. Inside the building, Dykes joined a concerted push by disorganized units attempting to breach an enemy position.

Prison will give him time to think. It’s also hell. But, one does have time. If he uses that time to engage a gang then he’s probably lost forever. But, If he realizes his mistakes and consequently begins to reason his principles for himself, then he’s exactly the type of person I want on my team.

SkyezOpen ,

The state taught a man to hate. They didn’t teach him how to stop. A soldier had no war to fight, no principles of his own. The MAGA cult provides.

The dude joined after the unite the right march. He was already a nutjob. Also the military is sworn specifically to defend the constitution. Jan 6 was explicitly meant to subvert the constitution.

SirDerpy ,

Spend some time with some E1-E3 soldiers. I don’t have firsthand experience. And, I don’t think it’s appropriate for me to try to explain.

nucleative , in Microsoft-Crowdstrike issue causes 'largest IT outage in history'

Happy I’m not in IT anymore.

One of my first major outages was caused by the iloveyou.vbs virus that emailed itself to your contact list. It brought our exchange server to its knees in minutes and took quite a while to clean up.

Nobody really understood at the time that attachments could be dangerous.

return2ozma OP ,
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I’m in IT :(

nucleative ,

Sorry man, good luck 😅

TokenBoomer , in Christina Sandera, Clint Eastwood's longtime partner, dies at 61

Boomers dropping like flies, I better take my vitamins.

billwashere ,

I hate to say it but 61 is pushing an older gen-x… I mean still a boomer but barely.

TokenBoomer ,

Better get some ginseng too.

EatATaco ,

She’s definitely a boomer. Funny thing about this is that it’s Clint who isn’t a boomer.

RootAccess , in Tucker Carlson Hails Trump as ‘Bravest Man’ in RNC Speech After Telling Staffer, ‘I Hate Him Passionately’

Unpopular Opinion:

I think Tucker Carlson is a piece-of shit and a coward. That said, there is no contadiction in someone hating the bravest person they know.

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