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Security guards are often losers wanting to feel like they have power who tried to become cops but failed. It's to an extent where you'll frequently see them (often illegally) put flashing lights on their "security vehicle" and plaster decals meant to mimic those of police on it. Some of them even buy a bunch of stolen police equipment to wear around them and put in their car. A large portion of the people that get arrested and charged with impersonating law enforcement is security guards. It's sad but it's also disgusting the lengths they will go to cosplay for their power trip.

These kinds of people are way more trigger happy than normal.

"May"? Are people still taking what this guy says to heart? Shouldn't he be in prison for treason or fraud or something?

Something people living in almost entirely racially homogenous countries don't often get is that you can't help the problem of racism by trying to ignore it. The only way to correctly address racism is to realize that it exists, that people do have biases based on race & ethnicity, that there are groups that are underrepresented, and to actively work to provide more ways for people to represent themselves and their identity. The fact of the matter is that more representation, even in seemingly minor ways like more emojis which they can identify with more, helps normally underrepresented people feel more comfortable with themselves and their identity and helps alleviate societal pressures for them to mask their identity/culture. Even small changes play a part.

Acting "colorblind" just makes the problem of racism worse, as it means you'd be acting blind to obvious biases based on race/ethnicity... including people who are part of a certain in-group (or multiple in-groups) being overrepresented and people of an out-group being underrepresented or represented poorly/highly stereotypically. There is no morally just approach to discrimination which attempts to pay no attention to the traits being discriminated against.

It's pride month, this is like one of the most relevant times of year to this... It may be easier to see from that point of view instead – what purpose does queer pride exist even in places where queer people are "legal"? Why are there pride flags and events and characters and such to represent LGBT people? A similar answer may be applicable to racial minorities.

I was raised in the part of the United States with likely the most racist/racially tense history in the nation, possibly one of the most in modern history (it was the heart of the Confederacy after all, one of the most significant historical events of our nation was burning down half the state and presenting my city to the president as a Christmas gift, I'm sure it'd make a top 10 list of the big racism or something), a place that still has extremely bad problems with racial discrimination, and I used to think the "colorblind" approach and avoiding race as much as possible was the solution to racism, but I've realized over time that this approach is a tool that racism uses to thrive – it makes people refuse to acknowledge the racism in the first place, and it causes people to be unable to find out what racism really means and how many minor things can have major affects on minority groups. It's a very common approach by (often conservative/"libertarian") people here who haven't subscribed to the whole calling people racial slurs and committing hate crimes, but still can't face the fact that racism is alive, everywhere around us, and that they're likely participating in it or propogating it regularly despite not actively trying to be racist.

Basically... let them have their variously skin-colored emojis

glassing middle eastern children is NOT the same as glass-making, believe it or not

A friend of mine is a poor, jobless, dark-skinned Slavic person in Italy with the whole alphabet of disorders that lives with their family in the middle of nowhere and mostly does language stuff and poetry and all that. What they do is Tinder and Grindr... it works pretty great for them apparently and they've gotten a lot of great friends and people who wanted to date on there, although they're still guaging what they want and who can fulfil it.

Personally I prefer meeting people in third places in densely populated areas, but that's not an option for everyone. Especially if you can travel (like by public transport) to urban areas, there's always options if you look in the right places and try to seem interesting (which basically just means letting go of the concept of "cringe").

JS or really anything you'd make a web app in (I use Rust with something like Dioxus/Yew/Leptos/Tauri), C#/.NET (I use F# because OO-style languages are ugly and a hot mess, especially C# and Java), Java/JVM (I use Scala whenever I can and Kotlin otherwise), C++ with GTK or Qt. There are a lot of options but obviously anything that's not C++ or web is gonna give you a lackluster experience (though I have a thing against web apps and will go through a lot of hoops to have my application use a native interface)

Would property taxes actually do much? They're so little even in high property-tax states that I think you'd need to do a lot more than that to FORCE rich people to utilize their other properties. High taxes would potentially push more costs on renters. Maybe we should just outlaw having more than 1 or 2 homes... including for real estate companies and banks :)

No idea what kind of wish.com etymology book you have, but "to each his own" and variations have been a common saying in English (and "Jedem das Seine" in German) since the 1500s, it's a calque of the Latin phrase "suum cuique". And it is still a common saying in English that is not associated with Nazis by normal people. It being plastered on the gates of Buchenwald has absolutely nothing to do with common usage of the phrase.

Even after the German variation was used in Buchenwald, it didn't become very controversial until a neonazi published a book of the same title in the 90s – still, most people speaking German won't think of Nazism if you use the phrase, and it's the motto of several German government organizations (including the Feldjäger/military police, who also have the Latin version on their insignia). Either way, it doesn't affect the English language at all, it is not a "Nazi slogan".

I can't imagine most Nvidia employees don't make enough to become millionaires within like 5-10 years if they aren't already. Their entry-level software engineering positions have a base pay of $147K and total compensation of $180K. The lowest paying level of senior engineers gets more like $300K... Even the ones who leave before then are highly likely to get a job with comparable pay or benefits considering they have Nvidia on their resumé.

Now, tens-of-millions-aires, I don't think most employees get there.

In most American dialects and some British dialects, "bore" and "tour" rhyme (called the "pour-poor merger"). But in some dialects it may rhyme with "sewer"/"two-er" or have the same sound as in "blue" or even as in "were".

Quaternions? Basis of quantum mechanics? Pretty sure that's not right at all. A lot of games use them for rotations in place of rotation matrices though I suppose.

It's much slower to decompress than DEFLATE ZIP though

Github Copilot and Microsoft Copilot are different things. Dumb, I know.

They brought them back after a while. Japan has started bringing trash cans back in cities slowly too.

They don't have them because they were removed after the Tokyo Metro nerve gas attack in 1995 as a precaution against future terrorist attacks. It's a pretty common response to terror attacks, France did it after the 1995 GIA bombings and the UK did it after the 1993 Bishopgate bombing by the Provisional IRA.

(shame I can't remember what exactly the question was. Please still me? 🥺)

I think about half the threads on stackoverflow fit this criteria

That's not something I would have expected. This is one of the only interesting things to me I've actually seen on a mildly interesting community

I like where you place your bets. I'm inclined to agree, either those or Rainbow Six. Maybe WoW

Many grasses are invasive species in North America, including most popular lawn grasses, so I guess it is in a way? Not sure that that's what the OP was going for.