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by overscore 1y ago
> I would argue that you have a moral and ethical responsibility to say no when your manager asks you to do something illegal, even if it does cost you your job. When your access to food, housing, heating and healthcare for your family a
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by overscore 1y ago
Tinker was a Traveller slur long before the verb - denying that is just wilful ignorance itself. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tinker
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by overscore 1y ago
Yes, it is, and 37 years later, it is no longer acceptable to use such terms.
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by overscore 1y ago
The formation etymology (whether from tin or onomatopoeia) is uncertain. The part that is certain is the semantic chronology. The noun tinker was used from at least the 13th century for an itinerant mender of pots, the Travellers. By the 16
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by overscore 1y ago
The colloquial meaning carries all of that baggage. You just weren't aware.
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by overscore 1y ago
It's definitely not forgotten? What makes you think that? Commonly used in Ireland, the UK, Australia, Canada, parts of the US. > they're probably due for some self-reflection on what offends their sensibilities. Or maybe what
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by overscore 1y ago
> Almost anything can be a slur in some context. Eh, this is a very particular and long-standing racist term, and the meaning used by the authors is derived from the slur, so it's not incidental.
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by overscore 5y ago
How so?
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by overscore 5y ago
> Wow. I put myself in your shoes for a second and felt fear. It is actually the only thing that keeps me up at night. I am crew on a lifeboat and need to live within a certain distance from the boathouse, otherwise I would move tomorrow
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by overscore 5y ago
I was an infantry soldier and learnt very fast how fragile the logistics of necessities can be in the modern world. I don't believe that world civilisation will collapse (at least not in any way that can be prepared for), but I have mo
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by overscore 5y ago
> If you've got integration tests that include state, now you've got to either run your tests serially or set up and tear down multiple copies of the state to prevent tests from clobbering each other. That is a very normal setu
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by overscore 5y ago
In some jurisdictions. Certainly not all.
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by overscore 5y ago
> Google’s core business is now ads, not search. It has been for over 20 years now, since October 2000.
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by overscore 5y ago
General Aviation - the category that encompasses private plane ownership.
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by overscore 5y ago
GA in the EU is definitely the preserve of the rich.
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by overscore 5y ago
> Patents are incentives. They are also regulations. You can't opt-out of the patent system. > You can weigh the benefits or lack thereof and chooses to opt-in or opt-out. What is your proposed mechanism to opt-out? Do you mean
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by overscore 5y ago
Environmental and consumer rights regulations are also compatible with a free market.
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by overscore 5y ago
> Of course they need cookies (or some other form of session management) In the UK, cookies used for only that purpose don't require consent. In their cookie policy, you can see they don't ask for permission to set such cookies
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by overscore 5y ago
After reading your comment, I did Google "elevator death", expecting to be dismayed. I came away oddly reassured. It seems that fatal elevator accidents are rare, and that you have much more to fear from your fellow elevator passe
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by overscore 5y ago
I also believe anyone in Northern Ireland who consider themselves to be British are British. However, does that imply usage of the term "British Isles"? Simply Britain and Ireland (or Ireland and Britain) is far more commonly used
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by overscore 5y ago
No-one is obviously hyperbole, but it's extremely uncommon in Ireland. It's a shortcut to start an argument, for sure.
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by overscore 5y ago
As your own link states, it's a controversial term and its use is objected to by the Irish Government: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles_naming_dispute The talk pages and edit history for the Wikipedia
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by overscore 5y ago
I think nurses do get a lot of respect in the hospitals I've worked in. You certainly wouldn't be long tolerated if you were dismissive to them, at least.
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by overscore 5y ago
We have a similar system in Ireland, but where volunteers take shifts on call with an AED. It has been severely scaled back due to COVID-19, but prior to that, volunteers would frequently reach patients with an AED more than 10 minutes befo
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by overscore 5y ago
Right - four months in, there hasn't yet been any divergence, but the GDPR no longer applies to the UK. You don't have recourse to EU enforcement measures or courts.
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by overscore 5y ago
The GDPR no longer applies to the UK (although it does apply to UK organisations operating in our marketing to the EU). From ICO: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/dp-at-the-end-of-the-tr...
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by overscore 5y ago
There are almost always these exemptions for military/law enforcement use cases in EU Directives and Regulations, because while the constituent countries in the EU have miltary and law enforcement co-operation, they would veto new legi
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by overscore 5y ago
That is location tracking.
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by overscore 5y ago
That sounds like a nightmare to me - the antithesis of something good.
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Child unknowingly tweets from US nuclear command's account(rte.ie)
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