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  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    Goddamnit Ron we've been waiting like 12 hours for this

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  • jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    Trace wrote: »
    dependency.png

    IT guy from Nebraska here.

    This is truth.

  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    Last of our stuff out of the old apartment

  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    For those keeping up it is now eight hours later and win10 has decided to settle down enough to not fuck up my scanning

    I decided today was a day I was going to try and plough through some of these boxes waiting to be scanned

    I have managed to get (checks) 68 images scanned in total

  • TuminTumin Registered User regular
    edited October 2023
    AC6 last last last boss is

    sigh

    I just love mobility immunity to everything outside a few weapons

    Fromsoft youve done Maliketh again (3rd times a charm, in a game)

    Tumin on
  • WonderMinkWonderMink Adventure! Candy IslandRegistered User regular
    *reads the first page of the thread*

    uh oh

    Quick, everyone shout your favorite word for an ethnic minority. You go first.

    and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
    but they're listening to every word I say
  • WonderMinkWonderMink Adventure! Candy IslandRegistered User regular
    Cancelled

    and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
    but they're listening to every word I say
  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    JebusUD wrote: »
    *reads the first page of the thread*

    uh oh

    Quick, everyone shout your favorite word for an ethnic minority. You go first.

    Yotvingian

  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    Tav wrote: »

    Allons enfants de la Patrie,
    Le jour de gloire est arrivé!
    Contre nous de la tyrannie
    L'étendard sanglant est levé

  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    japan wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »

    Allons enfants de la Patrie,
    Le jour de gloire est arrivé!
    Contre nous de la tyrannie
    L'étendard sanglant est levé

    You're never heard French until you've heard a class from an Alabama high school singing that in 10th grade.

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  • DoodmannDoodmann Registered User regular
    Well shit I was trying to mount the second hard drive on my Plex server and I think I fucked the whole thing up, not it's just not working at all.

    Hopefully I can figure it out today and don't have to start from scratch

    Whippy wrote: »
    nope nope nope nope abort abort talk about anime
    I like to ART
  • ChuChu poops peesRegistered User regular
    israel is very, very all-in on whatsapp- way bigger than sending conventional texts. reading these various group chats is harrowing, seeing the last time someone stopped responding, and that they didn't even read the message. just dropping off line entirely. i'm in a bunch of sometimes-overlapping groups and it's just so emotionally grueling. unfortunately it doesn't help with everyone i know because some of my family are real luddites who don't text (whatever the protocol). i wonder if this whole situation will lead to a cultural sea change in that regard, where even old people or tech dummies will embrace reachability and responsiveness.

  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    Apparently there is a coyote that lives around Tacoma that was born without his upper jaw.

    He's terrifying and I guess everyone there likes Jawless Jerry.

  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    Goddamn Chu and Ahava both, you have my empathy for everything going on.

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  • A Kobold's KoboldA Kobold's Kobold He/Him MississippiRegistered User regular
    Afternoon, y’all

    Switch Friend Code: SW-3011-6091-2364
  • thatassemblyguythatassemblyguy Janitor of Technical Debt .Registered User regular
    Incenjucar wrote: »
    Uh, just a heads up - G**psy is often a slur. Not sure it should really be a thread title!

    this one is complicated, with lots of groups, especially those in the UK and the americas, not having a problem with or even primarily identifying as "gypsy"

    there was a sizable population in my home town who did

    I generally go with "that's our word" logic.

    I go with "never be offended on behalf of someone else" logic.

    I've been told directly by people who identify as "gypsy" that they're sick of everyone else deciding whats offensive and what they get to call themselves. They are tired of outsiders and changing words on them that are central to their identity. See also american indian.

    So I do my best not to make anyone's words unspeakable, to not issue corrections about any words that are not mine, especially if they aren't being used as a slur.

    I'll of course try to never use this or any ethnic signifier as a slur, and honor whatever anyone else wants to be called, but going so far as to expunge the word from my vocabulary entirely is its own kind of oppression.

    Bolded emphasis mine: My understanding is generally it's very hard to accurately determine if someone is using specific words as a slur or not (and a lot of times they are being used as a slur by outsiders).

    I think Incenjucar has the right of it for a general purpose rule.

    Yeah strong disagree I won't say "gypped" and will sometimes mention to others that it's not good to say but "gypsy" is not, I think, something to get offended about unless you're Romani, as long as a large fraction of Romani use it.

    So as long as a segment of an in-group use a word that is controversial to describe one another then it's ok for folks in the out-group to use it? I disagree with this sentiment very much.

    They use the word to identify themselves, in a way that is not reclaiming a slur or affectionate in-group slang. They're using it the same way someone might say "my family is italian" and they bristle at the idea that their chosen word for their own culture is now a curse.

    Its a tricky situation to navigate because of course many people do think gypsy is a slur, but actively avoiding using the word, censoring it, and instructing others to never use the word are not value-neutral actions. They're erasure.

    I disagree that this isn't reclaiming a slur - it has definitely been historically used as a slur/pejorative.

    I understand the point about being aware of potential erasure you're getting at in the latest post and we're aligned on avoiding that.

    Language is definitely complex. For now the word holds two spaces: an identity, and a pejorative. For the folks you know, it's the former, and for other outspoken Roma folks it is the latter.

    It still holds meaning as a pejorative in the collective consciousness, so it's best to align with Incejucar and as an out-group avoid using it, especially in ambiguous ways, as the work to eliminate the usage of the harmful pejorative form continues.

    And it's why I disagree with not saying something (not necessarily being offended on someone's behalf) as you suggest. It's important, while there is still ambiguity, to speak up and be like, "Pardon?" to help drive the conversations that eliminate the pejorative usage and encourage the positive identity usage.
    The UK government performed a broad survey of travelers, roma, gypsyies and other related groups in 2019 to ask them how they self identify and how they would like to be identified and as a result, the word "gypsy" is featured prominently in government documents addressing discrimination and equality

    I wouldn't take this at face value. The surveys used in the 2011 Census data used had the language hard-coded as a category. The identies were not a self-entered field/no voice was given to specific preference.
    In England and Wales the Census questionnaire included a category for “Gypsy or Irish Traveller”; in Scotland this category was called “Gypsy/Traveller”; while in Northern Ireland the equivalent category was “Irish Traveller”.

  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    Tav wrote: »
    I really dislike people using asterisks on social media to censor things like “tw r*pe”

    Louis CK (*spits*) had a bit of a point with "now you're making me think the word!"

  • TuminTumin Registered User regular
    Irish is a slur tho right

  • ChuChu poops peesRegistered User regular
    Tav wrote: »
    I really dislike people using asterisks on social media to censor things like “tw r*pe”

    all you’re doing is ensuring that people who added that word to mute lists end up seeing the content because it’s no longer blocked

    obviously that isn’t a thing here with mute lists etc but still worth pointing out that it’s wildly counter intuitive

    it bugs me even more when it's verbal. i guess to avoid their videos being flagged or taken down for graphic content, people will call anything sexual or related to sex work 'spicy' and instead of kill, unalive, and etc. especially when it's a solemn topic, it comes off so ridiculous and pat. i don't know how they do it with a straight face.

  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    Scott Eastwood is hot.

    I dunno what else to say about him, I've only seen him in okayish action movies, but apparently God didn't break the mold when he made Clint

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  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    Tumin wrote: »
    Irish is a slur tho right

    can't wait to wander around boston this week accusing everyone of appropriating my culture*

    *drinking and repressing feelings

  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    I really dislike people using asterisks on social media to censor things like “tw r*pe”

    all you’re doing is ensuring that people who added that word to mute lists end up seeing the content because it’s no longer blocked

    obviously that isn’t a thing here with mute lists etc but still worth pointing out that it’s wildly counter intuitive

    it bugs me even more when it's verbal. i guess to avoid their videos being flagged or taken down for graphic content, people will call anything sexual or related to sex work 'spicy' and instead of kill, unalive, and etc. especially when it's a solemn topic, it comes off so ridiculous and pat. i don't know how they do it with a straight face.

    i'm fine with it for c o n t e n t but i've heard people using these terms in real life and i have such a visceral reaction to it

  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    edited October 2023
    I am watching the first Suicide Squad and it's holding up better than I remembered (extended addition)

    amateurhour on
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  • Havelock3.0Havelock3.0 What are you? Some kind of half-assed astronaut?Registered User regular
    I want a burrito

    You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    I'm decidedly undecided on the term "neurospicy".

  • ChuChu poops peesRegistered User regular
    Goddamn Chu and Ahava both, you have my empathy for everything going on.

    thanks. it sucks big time. it's also really alienating, because i'm only comfortable talking about it to friends. if someone else asks how i am, even a really anodyne 'just really worried about my family in israel' risks a gross, unwanted political diatribe. i'm sad, and don't want to negotiate responding to someone who's saying something uncool. reminds me of being sad about a partner fight or breakup and then someone tries to express solidarity by going full misogynist, like i want to hear you call this important woman in my life a crazy bitch or whatever. don't make me argue with you while i'm already sad about something!!

    anyways it stinks.

  • thatassemblyguythatassemblyguy Janitor of Technical Debt .Registered User regular
    Echo wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    I really dislike people using asterisks on social media to censor things like “tw r*pe”

    Louis CK (*spits*) had a bit of a point with "now you're making me think the word!"

    Tartt: "I changed the e to a u".
    Phoebe: "You owe me a £."
    Tartt: "Why? I didn't say it."
    Phoebe: "You made me think it which is just as bad."

    or something close to that.

  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    I want a burrito

    I had one yesterday, like straight up boilerplate mexican restaurant (the kind that has the "Speedy Gonzalez" on the lunch menu)

    I got a burrito (shredded chicken) with rice and beans and it was so good. I didn't even use hot sauce

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  • ChuChu poops peesRegistered User regular
    I want a burrito

    I had one yesterday, like straight up boilerplate mexican restaurant (the kind that has the "Speedy Gonzalez" on the lunch menu)

    I got a burrito (shredded chicken) with rice and beans and it was so good. I didn't even use hot sauce

    have you ever had a gas station burrito that's been sitting in its aluminum foil wrapper on the heat tray for 9 hours, and you open it and the tortilla is basically a gel at this point

  • TuminTumin Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    I want a burrito

    I had one yesterday, like straight up boilerplate mexican restaurant (the kind that has the "Speedy Gonzalez" on the lunch menu)

    I got a burrito (shredded chicken) with rice and beans and it was so good. I didn't even use hot sauce

    have you ever had a gas station burrito that's been sitting in its aluminum foil wrapper on the heat tray for 9 hours, and you open it and the tortilla is basically a gel at this point

    Yet again I am begging someone to help chu in his time of need

  • ChuChu poops peesRegistered User regular
    Tumin wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    I want a burrito

    I had one yesterday, like straight up boilerplate mexican restaurant (the kind that has the "Speedy Gonzalez" on the lunch menu)

    I got a burrito (shredded chicken) with rice and beans and it was so good. I didn't even use hot sauce

    have you ever had a gas station burrito that's been sitting in its aluminum foil wrapper on the heat tray for 9 hours, and you open it and the tortilla is basically a gel at this point

    Yet again I am begging someone to help chu in his time of need

    ten days ago i had a 225 dollar meal

    the world takes all kinds

  • ChuChu poops peesRegistered User regular
    hmmm today i might have to turn on the heat for the first time since february or something. it's 66 in here!! my little circulatory-inhibited diabetic toesies

  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    Had some hair six years ago.

    sfbfedw6dmwb.png

  • Paul GiamattiPaul Giamatti nah nahRegistered User regular
    edited October 2023
    What's on the bread echo?
    Screenshot-20231015-141733-575.png

    Paul Giamatti on
  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    I want a burrito

    I had one yesterday, like straight up boilerplate mexican restaurant (the kind that has the "Speedy Gonzalez" on the lunch menu)

    I got a burrito (shredded chicken) with rice and beans and it was so good. I didn't even use hot sauce

    have you ever had a gas station burrito that's been sitting in its aluminum foil wrapper on the heat tray for 9 hours, and you open it and the tortilla is basically a gel at this point

    no but I've had some questionable hot dogs*

    *they were hot dog shaped on a roller but not actual hot dogs

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  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    @Echo I want to learn a thing!

    I have shaved my head since I was 20

    What is the weekly care routine like for someone with your hair, then and now?

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  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    Spending so much time driving around West Texas in my youth I came to appreciate the gastronomic delights of the local Town & Country and Allsups convenience stores

    Chimichangas never disappointed, nor did the corn dogs.

  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    joshgotro wrote: »
    What's on the bread echo?

    Wild guess would be some dark jam, maybe blackberry.

    Second guess would be black caviar.

  • credeikicredeiki Registered User regular
    Echo wrote: »
    Had some hair six years ago.

    sfbfedw6dmwb.png

    Ok I have a question about this

    lfx also does the two elastic bands thing for his ponytail, when he wears his hair up; however, very few (basically no) white women do that, that I've seen (I'm trying to think if it's more common in black women's hairstyles and it might be)

    how did you decide to use multiple elastic bands and why?

    Steam, LoL: credeiki
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