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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I'd expect front and back to go to different places, but those next to each other or even across just an aisle to have separate tanks.
Wait, what? Did you mean "shared tanks"?
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I'd expect front and back to go to different places, but those next to each other or even across just an aisle to have separate tanks.
Wait, what? Did you mean "shared tanks"?
Oops. Yes, I did.
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@boomzilla Not meaning to be a downer or anything, but why would they want to do that? One of the main functions of clothing is to prevent accidents from causing injury, and their… alternative attire doesn't really do much to prevent splashes of hot liquids from causing problems.
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@dkf One presumes that it performs market differentiation for them and gives them a competitive edge vs other over priced coffee. I, for one, would be much more willing to buy from them than from the Angry Studies graduate down the block.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
their… alternative attire doesn't really do much to prevent splashes of hot liquids
You're not talking about coffee here
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
their… alternative attire doesn't really do much to prevent splashes of hot liquids
You're not talking about coffee here
I was thinking about the… crema.
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Might be time for a field trip...
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TLDR: Where previously you would pay Patreon $1 for a $1 pledge, and the person you're supporting would get 80-90% or whatever, now you'll be paying $1.40 for that $1 pledge.
From their FAQ:
Q: What if I want to take the hit for my patrons? Can I pay those fees?
A: We understand that some creators might wish to take the hit for their patrons. That said, the service fee will be extended to all patrons on the site and there isn’t an option to remove the service fees from your patron pledges.
The best step is to make sure your patrons are fully educated on the benefits of this change for creators and we’ve made sure to send them notification of this."Want to be nice to your patrons? You can't; instead you should tell them it's not shit but chocolate!"
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@boomzilla If they only thought it was impressive enough to say its the first in West Virginia, does that mean somewhere else had it already, or that's the only place it's legal?
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@magus Well...
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/967777566/beltway-battle-axe-indoor-axe-throwing-at-its-fine
I think it's just a really cool sounding gimmick that will ultimately turn out not to be profitable, but throwing some axes still sounds pretty cool.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
There's actual competition here, often enough, just not enough of it. The supply is artificially reduced by the taxi guys and their buddies in government. They are orders of magnitude worse than Uber.
But the rates are set by the local commissions. There may be service competition, but there's no price competition.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@magus Well...
I think it's just a really cool sounding gimmick that will ultimately turn out not to be profitable, but throwing some axes still sounds pretty cool.One of my many favorite scenes in Kung Fu (TOS) was when Caine was chopping wood. Someone threw a hatchet at him from behind. He turned around, calmly parried it away, and without a word returned to his chopping. I hope they will teach that.
I see no inherent reason that they won't get enough interest to stay in business.
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
Someone threw a hatchet at him from behind. He turned around, calmly parried it away, and without a word returned to his chopping. I hope they will teach that.
They said there's a safety lecture, so I'm fairly sure they'll be teaching people not to throw axes at people.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@chozang said in In other news today...:
Someone threw a hatchet at him from behind. He turned around, calmly parried it away, and without a word returned to his chopping. I hope they will teach that.
They said there's a safety lecture, so I'm fairly sure they'll be teaching people not to throw axes at people.
I did note they didn't say anything about not drinking and throwing...
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
I did note they didn't say anything about not drinking and throwing...
I noticed that, too. If I had to guess I'd imagine a throw-then-drink rule, but eh? Things are different in WV.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Things are different in WV.
Have to admit, that was my first thought. "Well, it's WV."
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A person matching Roberts' name and age has an extensive criminal record that includes convictions for fraud over $50,000 and fraudulent use of personal information, but Hegarty couldn't confirm they are the same person. A message left at a number listed for Roberts wasn't immediately returned.
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@blakeyrat all the roads in MPLS/STP Minnesota Tuesday morning were skating rinks as well 😡
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@m_adams And there is still no snow in Montreal
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@boomzilla Axe-throwing is cool. I did it in Boy Scouts a few times, and at Renaissance Faires a few times. Granted, this was a couple of decades ago, so maybe they've
tightened up the rulesremoved all traces of fun since then. They did forbid the Boy Scouts from creating any structures taller than your shoulder during my tenure there. (Which was a damn shame, because towers were always the favorite pioneering project.)
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Might be time for a field trip...
Wish Ed Ames could have been here to see this....
Edit: just checked Wikipedia. Ed Ames is here to see this.
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
Today in Unintended Consequences:
LED lights are too efficient; they don't waste enough heat to melt the ice and snow that obscures them like the older bulbs did.
I think that's why Solar Roadways had heating elements in their LED panels...
Edit: Technical
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Might be time for a field trip...
I crew on a team at a major drag strip, they had an axe-throwing range right beside the pairing lanes the last time I was there. Run by some upstanding-looking-gentlemen who were definitely not travellers. They had a net round it but it was the kind of netting you use for a fruit cage..and it had suspiciously axe-shaped holes in it already. I drove as fast as possible past that each time.
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@cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
pikeys
I'm sufficiently not new here to know this forum doesn't require or even encourage courtesy, but are we ok with ethnic slurs?
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@carrievs said in In other news today...:
@cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
pikeys
I'm sufficiently not new here to know this forum doesn't require or even encourage courtesy, but are we ok with ethnic slurs?
Sorry if it offended you, not my intention. I've changed it to travellers.
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@pjh Wow, biting them off in court took some real... well, you know.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClpII09yeuEiNX1EQ_-6xHw/videos
Sample:
OK. What's wrong with the oneboxes today?
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClpII09yeuEiNX1EQ_-6xHw/videos
Sample:
OK. What's wrong with the oneboxes today?
Hmm...that one says "age restricted." Maybe the Youtube API won't return stuff for those (or unless you ask specially, which I am sure we are not). The channel link isn't handled by our youtube plugin and Youtube is blacklisted for iFramely.
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@cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
Sorry if it offended you, not my intention. I've changed it to travellers.
Give it a few years and someone will decide that "travellers" is a slur.
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@chozang shudders In the twelve years I've been working part-time in the health care industry I've lost count of the number of times the word used to refer to people with a handicap have changed. I wish they could learn that changing the word changes absolutely nothing.
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@atazhaia said in In other news today...:
@chozang shudders In the twelve years I've been working part-time in the health care industry I've lost count of the number of times the word used to refer to people with a handicap have changed. I wish they could learn that changing the word changes absolutely nothing.
The good old euphemism treadmill. As one word becomes seen as offensive, we switch to another. Then that one becomes seen as offensive, and it all repeats until there are no "safe" words left.
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@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
@atazhaia said in In other news today...:
@chozang shudders In the twelve years I've been working part-time in the health care industry I've lost count of the number of times the word used to refer to people with a handicap have changed. I wish they could learn that changing the word changes absolutely nothing.
The good old euphemism treadmill. As one word becomes seen as offensive, we switch to another. Then that one becomes seen as offensive, and it all repeats until there are no "safe" words left.
A side-effect (?) of this is that it serves to marginalize people whose memory is longer than ten years or so.
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
@atazhaia said in In other news today...:
@chozang shudders In the twelve years I've been working part-time in the health care industry I've lost count of the number of times the word used to refer to people with a handicap have changed. I wish they could learn that changing the word changes absolutely nothing.
The good old euphemism treadmill. As one word becomes seen as offensive, we switch to another. Then that one becomes seen as offensive, and it all repeats until there are no "safe" words left.
A side-effect (?) of this is that it serves to marginalize people whose memory is longer than ten years or so.
That's a major selling point for some people--it serves as an in-group/out-group marker, a shibboleth of sorts. An opportunity to attack people for something that has no ill intent but is still "wrong."
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@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
until there are no "safe" words left.
There will always be new words, or repurposed old words.
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@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
until there are no "safe" words left.
There will always be new words, or repurposed old words.
Repurposing the old ones keeps some fragments of the old invidious meaning. But yeah.
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@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
An opportunity to attack people for something that has no ill intent but is still "wrong."
A major part of the reason for the euphemism treadmill is that words that are coined as unoffensive start being used intentionally as slurs. I've seen it since I was in school with "special" or "special needs". Started as the official way to refer to people who the meaner people would call mental, stupid, retarded etc., then the word special started being used with a faux disabled voice and the last time I was in a school, those kids were referred to as statemented as in they have an official statement of the additional help they need
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@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
An opportunity to attack people for something that has no ill intent but is still "wrong."
A major part of the reason for the euphemism treadmill is that words that are coined as unoffensive start being used intentionally as slurs. I've seen it since I was in school with "special" or "special needs". Started as the official way to refer to people who the meaner people would call mental, stupid, retarded etc., then the word special started being used with a faux disabled voice and the last time I was in a school, those kids were referred to as statemented as in they have an official statement of the additional help they need
And language gets more and more stilted. Fact is, everything can be a slur. Intent matters more than exact wording. In Russian, the word for "horseradish" is one of the worse terms (basically "penis" ==> homosexual man), as is "sky blue" ==> gay.
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@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
In Russian, the word for "horseradish" is one of the worse terms (basically "penis" ==> homosexual man), as is "sky blue" ==> gay.
I've heard the "sky blue" one, but AFAIK horseradish is a minced oath version of penis, like "fudge" for "fuck" it just starts with the same letter. I've never heard it used as a derogatory gay slur.
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@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
"penis" ==>
Yeah, intent matters but when a word is used often enough with a bad intent that becomes the meaning of it, even if not everybody means it like that. If you'd been surrounded by people calling you a Mormon in the same tone of voice as they'd talk about a paedophile ("Mormon", to rhyme with "scum"), then you might see an appeal in not reminding yourself of that by calling yourself a latter day saint. Either that or try to do something like gay people have done with reclaiming queer, but that takes a big movement and a hell of a lot of work.
The treadmill also runs the other way. Fart used to be considered a pretty offensive word, but these days it's just mildly inappropriate. Cunt also seems to be coming down from the worst thing you could possibly call someone to a more "normal" swear word
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
TLDR: Where previously you would pay Patreon $1 for a $1 pledge, and the person you're supporting would get 80-90% or whatever, now you'll be paying $1.40 for that $1 pledge.
It's even worse around here.
I support a few things with $1 a month (e.g. the compiler explorer thing). I already pay VAT on top of that, so that's 25% extra. Then I get charged a shitty currency conversion rate and like 1.something% on top of that. Now they want to add another 2.something% and a flat $.35 on top of this? And then whoever I want to send this $1 to still only gets 95% of the original $1? Fuck it. Not going to happen. The overhead is now at like 65-70%.
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@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
"penis" ==>
Yeah, intent matters but when a word is used often enough with a bad intent that becomes the meaning of it, even if not everybody means it like that. If you'd been surrounded by people calling you a Mormon in the same tone of voice as they'd talk about a paedophile ("Mormon", to rhyme with "scum"), then you might see an appeal in not reminding yourself of that by calling yourself a latter day saint. Either that or try to do something like gay people have done with reclaiming queer, but that takes a big movement and a hell of a lot of work.
Actually, that's how the "Mormon" slur started. It was an insinuation that we worshiped the prophet Mormon, not God (or Jesus Christ). It was intentionally a slur that we co-opted. It's only recently that the LDS church has started reminding people that the official name of the church is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, not the Mormon Church. Members are still called Mormons just fine, and the domain name
mormon.org
is owned and operated as an outreach site by the church.I believe that the appropriate response to a slur is to either ignore it or to co-opt it. Not to give the bullies what they want by making it verboten (and thus powerful).
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
I did note they didn't say anything about not drinking and throwing...
I noticed that, too. If I had to guess I'd imagine a throw-then-drink rule, but eh? Things are different in WV.
In my experience, you're more likely to see drink-then-throw (up).
Anyway, I'm not sure that, with a bit of care, axe-throwing is really that much more dangerous than darts.
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
@cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
Sorry if it offended you, not my intention. I've changed it to travellers.
Give it a few years and someone will decide that "travellers" is a slur.
I only have any sort of faint clue about what this is about because of Brad Pitt in Snatch (and it wouldn't have occurred to me that there was any sort of slur involved).
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@boner said in In other news today...:
row
Is that what they call it now?
Filed under: it's hard keeping up with these euphemisms...
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@chozang said in In other news today...:
@cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
Sorry if it offended you, not my intention. I've changed it to travellers.
Give it a few years and someone will decide that "travellers" is a slur.
I only have any sort of faint clue about what this is about because of Brad Pitt in Snatch.
My first hearing of the word was from Wesley Crusher. It wasn't until a couple of hours ago that I realized that it is a synonym for Gypsy, which, judging by the Wikipedia page for travellers, might now be considered a pejorative by some.