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eskimofry ,

Young people may perhaps be even doing it deliberately as a protest.

eskimofry ,

Constant outrage isn’t healthy or productive. Context is important too.

eskimofry ,

That’s an incredibly narrow minded view.

eskimofry ,

I disagree. People who weren’t there when the term was racist are only aware of it being racist because it was revealed to be a old racist term.

eskimofry ,

Not OP but, You’re missing the point. This fact about the word rice is new to a lot of folks here, including me. You’re hellbent on proving that everybody is in on some racist circle that’s perpetuating the use of this word.

If a word changes it’s general meaning in normal day use… from something so bad to something that’s no longer associated with said bad thing… is it really bad? What about gay then? That term has be co-opted by homosexual men. Do you suggest we stop using the word gay? Then I would call you a reactionary.

eskimofry ,

It’s also something somebody can’t control. So it’s still shitty to ask them that.

eskimofry ,

If a word changes it’s general meaning in normal day use… from something so bad to something that’s no longer associated with said bad thing… is it really bad? What about gay then? That term has be co-opted by homosexual men. Do you suggest we stop using the word gay?

Why don’t you like that words are being declawed from their original poisonous nature?

eskimofry ,

Would you agree that a word that was so racist is now being demolished of it’s original bad meaning and something inclusive is being built in it’s place is a good thing?

A sort of reformation or curing? After all, racist words were not racist until racists started using those words to be racist.

eskimofry ,

My Opinion is this:

  1. Racist/Able-ist words were once normal words. Gay used to mean “Happy” (this applies for other words probably, but I am not able to recall at the moment)
  2. Many people had no idea that ricing was a racist slang. They wanted to use it to describe a cool new thing that’s inclusive.
  3. Would you agree that a word whose racist meaning is forgotten and it now referring to something inclusive and cool is a good thing in general?
eskimofry ,

What if we learn to make new meaning for these words and forget the old ones? Are you able to forget and move on? Or are you too stuck in your ways to see everything for what it was once and not reform the world around you?

eskimofry ,

Also nonracists using a racist term doesnt make the term stop being racist.

It does though. Gay was used to mean happy. Now it means homosexuals. Inbetween, it used to be a slang… now it no longer is. There’s nothing in humanity as fluid as language.

Curing doesnt start by not meaning it when you keep using the racist term. You dont bandage a stab wound by continually stabbing the victim.

Teaching people who are not aware that it’s racist IS stabbing a wound that was healing (by other people who were making it mean something cool and inclusive).

eskimofry ,

Just because there are some users that stumble upon content semi-organically doesn’t mean brigading and piling on isn’t happening

That’s some next level mental gymnastics to justify why people are disagreeing with you. Look, ricing isn’t racist. It’s better this way. Let the old meaning die. Let racist inventions be superseded. Don’t complain something organic is reminding YOU about some bad meaning associated with a word in the past.

eskimofry ,

Why are you stirring up shit about a word that a majority of users associate with Linux modding? What number of people exactly know the old meaning? Is your teaching the people that it’s a racist word help anyway?

eskimofry ,

Ok why is there a shit storm about this word now? Linux modding isn’t new. Ricing has been used to describe it for a long time. In many ways… isn’t it good to pave over bad meanings with inclusive meanings?

eskimofry ,

Why is there huge pushback in this thread from reclaiming a word by changing it’s meaning from a racist one to something cool and inclusive?

eskimofry ,

No, it has to work as a adjective, verb and a noun. (Check out my rice, Look how riced my setup looks, How do I rice my Linux Mint Cinnamon desktop the same way as this other rice?, etc)

eskimofry ,

Not OP, but… Looking for things to be outraged about is not good for a healthy community.

eskimofry ,

This post made sure that it will not be forgotten. Good job for opening an old wound!

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eskimofry ,

“Sure we destroyed the planet as we knew it, but for a brief moment in time, we increased value for shareholders!”

Row over restaurant ‘wealth screening’ boils over in French resort of St-Tropez (www.theguardian.com)

The Nice Matin newspaper quoted unnamed insiders as saying that some restaurants in St-Tropez, a favoured summer haunt of celebrities and the international jet set for more than half a century, had taken to checking customers’ names against their database and refusing reservations if a previous visit was not felt to have...

eskimofry ,

What usually happens is the area becomes too rich for the usual folk who have lived there since their birth. Now they can’t eat at a restaurant in their own home town.

eskimofry ,

Money can be a dictator too.

eskimofry ,

You think existing government can’t manipulate you into thinking we are in a democracy?

eskimofry ,

The truth is somewhere inbetween… not “reality” like you claim it is.

eskimofry ,

Actually a little bit of humiliation goes a long way towards diligence when conducting expensive space experiments. Russia used to be the leaders in these fields. The world used to rely on Soviet vehicles for launch. They deserve to be held at a higher standard.

eskimofry ,

just to teabag another nation.

Gestures broadly at the space race of the 1950s

eskimofry ,

Touch luck world, i will be too out of touch to care. Full boomerism here i come!

11 nations of West Africa commit to a military deployment to restore the ousted president of Niger (apnews.com)

Eleven West African nations have agreed to commit troops to a military deployment aimed at restoring Niger’s democratically elected president following last month’s coup, an official for the regional bloc said Friday after a defense ministers meeting.

eskimofry ,

Why did the coup occur? Do the citizens of Niger support the coup?

eskimofry ,

Its for yor benefit. And NHS actually saves lives.

eskimofry ,

No surprise. Land of the free… but also the land of the inconsiderate, and also perhaps selfish.

eskimofry ,

So it’s an inconvenience you would rather not put up with and let some old coot die.

eskimofry ,

It’s more depressing than we weren’t paying for lunch

Because billionaires lobbied congress to reduce budget for public schools

eskimofry ,

A fool and his money are parted

eskimofry ,

Ah the “I’m not crazy! You are!” Stage of deranged authoritarians

eskimofry ,

Because Redhat has IBM hands shoved up through it’s ass upto it’s brains so it’s days are numbered.

Don’t underestimate IBM honchos to fuck up a good thing. Recently heard Redhat dropping dev support for a bunch of packages in fedora or something.

The moment someone fucks up… open source always brings alternatives. See: open office vs. Libreoffice… the bunch of firefox derivatives.

eskimofry ,

Oh I am thinking of them… how to murder shareholders in various unique ways… could be neat game idea too!

eskimofry ,

That’s like saying we should gouge out our eyeballs if we don’t want to see banner ads in real life. Fuck that noise.

eskimofry ,

We already paid for the Internet though.

eskimofry ,

Ok then hear me out. Let free content supported by ads die out. Make everything paid.

eskimofry ,

Why don’t businesses do away with free and go to a completely paid model?

Let’s continue on this path of thinking: Customers already pay using their data. So if you want to show ads you have to pay customers since you are scrapping their data?

eskimofry ,

What you mean that won’t STOP them? That actually STARTs them again!

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eskimofry ,

I think I can distill many of the replies to this question in a few checks that may apply generally (exceptions abound, and i could just be wrong)

  1. Are you intimately familiar (subject matter expert level) with the nasty outcomes of what you would be doing on a daily basis at this company? If yes its better it was YOU and not somebody else.
  2. How much separation is there between what you do and the nasty outcomes? If you pull the trigger on a drone… I get thats unacceptable to some people.
  3. Does not doing the activity make something else even more worse? (Frying pan vs. Fire dilemma)
  4. Are you only doing this because there’s no other real choice? (Poverty)
eskimofry ,

It can’t exist without the government keeping the angry mob from chopping off the Capitalists’ heads off.

eskimofry ,

Sure… All the countries that were doing well before some 3 alphabet orgs got involved died because of communism, not because of manufactured coups.

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eskimofry ,

I guess most people can’t afford (both time and money) to run an LLM just to have a saner browsing experience. So i suspect the key to adoption would be for the community to band together and spawn some LLM servers for the community backed by donations or other sustainable practices.

The future is probably once again crowd computing. We could probably use the federated network to distribute LLM requests from the community and load balance among those that are running LLM endpoints.

eskimofry ,

It’s hilarious to see: Most Capitalists (or atleast those who are not actively opposing fossil fuel industry) complain about Doomers for the climate, but the moment the line stops going up you guys become Doomers yourself.

I have seen how capitalists scream when the line stops going up. But I never see capitalists suggest changes to how the economy is setup to avoid this phenomenon. I don’t trust people who can’t be objective when their baby has made a booboo.

eskimofry ,

I agree with you. These capitalists spit on climate activists calling them doomers and even worse terms. But the moment someone suggests that it’s ok when the line doesn’t have to go up always… it’s pitchfork time.

eskimofry ,

When you kill people who say otherwise… all there is left is people who praise you… either out of fear or out of stupidity.

eskimofry ,

The AFD disagree with you

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