A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words
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Gouvernail
Lottsa people don’t know I’m famous
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Bristol-Cruiser
Super Anarchist
Yah, what is 40 million people between neighbours.
SloopJonB
Super Anarchist
Yeah - the entire population of Canada is a rounding error in that game.
Ashli Babbit much BB?
Sol Rosenberg
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Total exoneration! Amirite bullshitters?
badlatitude
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Virgulino Ferreira
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My favorite:
Olsonist
Disgusting Liberal Elitist
I'm involved with a developer community with a reasonably strict code of conduct, LLVM. Consequently, it's actually a pleasure to be around that community. I was at a conference and someone tapped me from behind and asked, hey Olsonist, what are you working on? I turned around and it was frickin' Chris Lattner who is just the nicest and smartest guy you'll ever meet. Nice begets nice. It's nice when the guy at the top is nice.
I was involved with another community, Linux, and that boy needs help. Too toxic. One of my brothers worked with him at Transmeta and said he was personable in person. So apparently being a dick to his community is a choice. Ugh.
Speech codes are largely generational. My 14 year old niece is really good at dissecting my language and finding my errors. I'm OK with that. I'm in favor of a LOT of it, particularly singular they. Just LUV singular they.
So let's take an example from the Stanford list, white paper => position paper. Sounds fine, done. Still, I wouldn't that take as code, but rather more what you'd call guidelines.
One that I hated was transposing everything to be female, just to be fair this time. Secrets of Sand Hill Road was written that way and did it ever suffer from clunk. Singular they has no clunk. Shakespeare used it, he of the lack of clunk.
You may not agree with this but the kids will get it right.
I was involved with another community, Linux, and that boy needs help. Too toxic. One of my brothers worked with him at Transmeta and said he was personable in person. So apparently being a dick to his community is a choice. Ugh.
Speech codes are largely generational. My 14 year old niece is really good at dissecting my language and finding my errors. I'm OK with that. I'm in favor of a LOT of it, particularly singular they. Just LUV singular they.
So let's take an example from the Stanford list, white paper => position paper. Sounds fine, done. Still, I wouldn't that take as code, but rather more what you'd call guidelines.
One that I hated was transposing everything to be female, just to be fair this time. Secrets of Sand Hill Road was written that way and did it ever suffer from clunk. Singular they has no clunk. Shakespeare used it, he of the lack of clunk.
You may not agree with this but the kids will get it right.
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P_Wop
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Keith
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Virgulino Ferreira
Super Anarchist
Interesting, thanks for taking the time to write - and all your stories from the trenches are always appreciated!
I disagree strongly on this one, and I don't have much hope in today's kids. The only thing that gives me hope is that I am often wrong. Catastrophically, comically wrong.
SloopJonB
Super Anarchist
It's interesting that Haldeman, Erlichman and Mitchell all suited an S/S uniform as well as Miller and Kushner do.
Sol Rosenberg
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Sol Rosenberg
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Fat Point Jack
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They keep forgetting the rest of the line:
...of the United States in order to form a more perfect union...
...of the United States in order to form a more perfect union...
Olsonist
Disgusting Liberal Elitist
Kinda like the NRA forgetting the beginning of the #2 amendment:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, …
Hi Tom!
Sol Rosenberg
Girthy Member
Or “Congress shall make no law….”
