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These two examples are quite different, I think.

Gay was not originally a slur, AFAIK. It was adopted as a less clinical descriptor by gay people, especially gay men (again, AFAIK). There have been concerted efforts to make it into a slur and it is often used in a derogatory fashion, but it does not have a pre-history of being used as a slur.

Queer is the opposite. It was used as a slur and it is a rare example of successful reclamation of a word. A slogan in the 1980s on Gay Pride protests was "We're here, we're queer, we're fabulous, get used to it". At the time, queer was very much a slur so the chant had a bite that you wouldn't hear in it today.

...the only ones who can provide an identity to the nation are its enemies. Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged. The easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia. But the plot must also come from the inside: Jews are usually the best target because they have the advantage of being at the same time inside and outside. In the U.S., a prominent instance of the plot obsession is to be found in Pat Robertson’s The New World Order, but, as we have recently seen, there are many others.

Ur-fascism

Just to pre-empt the usual misunderstanding when these badly reported stories get posted: this is the equivalent of an appeal, initiated by Knox. Not the Italian courts persecuting her.

Amazing scientist and all round decent man. I'm glad he lived to see his particle found, or probably found, or whatever the current state of the debate is.

I especially appreciate him for saying these sorts of things, to colleagues, journalists and anyone else who might listen:

Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system

A long life, lived well. RIP

There's a link, to an article. You can read it if you want to.

Hope that the antifa prisoners get a successful appeal against their excessive sentences out of this.

And that the fash judge is forced to retire immediately, with a review into all their sentencing decisions.

That's sort of correct. But she would have devoted her entire life to getting Corbyn out of office if 2017 had turned out differently. She's a Tory through and through, and so is fucking Starmer.

No but Kuenssberg was interviewing him. Any decent journalist would point out that allies of these authoritarian powers are gaining power in the US and UK and elsewhere, and ask how worried should be we about Russian money funding the Tories or the Republican love-in with Putin.

But she won't because she is not a journalist, she's a political gossip and Tory suckup.

I'm all for blaming Dems for being ineffectual cowards but this is one topic they have been very happy to shout about. As the artice points out, the media does not have to report it:

There’s also the fact that we have a very divided media and the media a lot of people get — and, more importantly, trust — does not tell them about things like this.

So, none of you have stipends and it is a group project for class. See my original answer. They're not going to have the same priorities as you and, if you're going to work with a group, you need to accept that.

Throwing mountains of documentation at them isn't going to work. Talk to them and find out what it is they are finding difficult. Break it down into more manageable chunks. Rough-code it and work out the details when they have a big picture to work from. Or whatever it is that makes sense given what you're doing.

so I brought on some people to split the work.

Grad students are underpaid and overworked. Do they have any reason to care as much about the project as you do?

Did she have vacation time and chose not to use it?

Teachers typically can't take vacation time during the school term.

(and generally everyone I have worked with at school so far)

The context is a group project you have to do for school?

The reason I am checking is that these often turn into one person desperately trying to get the others to do something and ending up doing it all themselves. You're not really talking about "people" so much as "students who half-arse it until a few hours before the deadline".

What is it you're trying to get them to do? Why do they need to read the stuff you're sending them?

particularly documentation for tools and programs, data sheets, and application notes.

No one reads this stuff unless they absolutely have to. What is the purpose of asking them to read it?

It's not incompetence.

They're trying to minimise the additional abuse she will get because of this story.

I think our current monetary system is more than only slightly useful.

That has nothing to do with the quote you're responding to, about economic models that don't reflect reality. The problem is economic models built without an adequate understanding of the current monetary system.

Many trillions of words have been written about this since the crash. This is a useful short summary which links to some of them.

who the fuck keeps receipts for stamps?

They're charging (fining) the recipients £5 to collect the post so the people they're robbing couldn't possibly have the relevant receipt anyway.

They better have some very good evidence that the problem is not with their stamps given the decades-long saga with the Post Office (which started years before Royal Mail was sold off as a separate entity).

You're nitpicking the headline while agreeing with the article.

“What is striking is that the uncool, mean standards of FOSS conduct that many of us have decried for years, and that many defended as authentic, tough, etc., ended up not just being exclusionary loser behavior, but a significant attack surface.”

There's only 23 players in a squad and, traditionally, only the numbers 1-11 used on the pitch. There are no good reasons for 44, let alone 88, to exist.

"Ban" is a clickbait word. Adidas has decided not to make any more of them because it doesn't want to be associated with Nazis. Oh noes.

gay != trans