shiftymccool @ shiftymccool @programming.dev

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If you're from the US, you're going to talk about the US. You want people from other parts of the world to speak for you? No? Then shut up

"Sweatie"? Could be "sweetie", could be "sweaty". Stay in school kids!

Yeah, yeah... This government is shitty, that government is shitty, let's have a big, shitty government dick swinging contest!

So, we're destined to make new words for colors because all the color words we have now are taboo?

Blackmail was used in England and Scotland to describe money paid by tenant farmers to a chieftan: https://www.history.com/news/where-did-the-word-blackmail-come-from

Black sheep literally comes from black sheep. That one is really obvious... https://www.etymonline.com/word/black%20sheep

Black market was more associated with anarchists that used black as their color than actual black people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_market

The goal here shouldn't be changing peoples' view on the concepts of white/black. We need to stop people from using those words to describe people. People (outside rare cases) are not BLACK or WHITE or YELLOW or RED, or.... how about we use actual people names for people?

White and black as colors and concepts are too important to have to tippy-toe around. If something is black, I should be able to say so without getting internet-spanked. Etymology means something regardless of what anybody thinks. You can't just make something racist because it has a color word in it.

Can everybody just stop looking for things to be mad about for a hot minute?

These aren't even racial terms, they were used for unionized vs. ununionized workers. Maybe we should be working on not calling people by color names. Not being able to use colors to describe things in the world because it is racially-adjacent is getting a bit difficult

The only way I see that is a dependency update is if you're versioning your node_modules or

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Keep changes small, we use git patch stack https://github.com/uptech/git-ps

Unpopular take: pain/discomfort is the only way nature can teach us what NOT to do until our brains can comprehend logic and consequence. Without the ability for a parent to cause pain or discomfort, the child (who has underdeveloped logic and concept of consequence) will percieve the parent as "that thing that makes angry noises but can't hurt me" and won't listen to them.

It's all fine and dandy to be "friends" with your kid, but you also need to be the judge, jury, and executioner too

Just pick a different fucking video platform. There's something wrong about a thing when people call their senators and threaten suicide if they take it away

Any chance we can get a Lemmy-wide ban on minions? Pretty please?

I needed something dead-simple to keep homelab documentation. If it's not simple, I probably wouldn't keep up with changes. I landed on An Otter Wiki https://github.com/redimp/otterwiki