Here’s a good test for whether it’s a slur. Would you say it in front of someone with Down’s Syndrome, or would you find another word?

The escalating bans are reaching new heights of absurdity, with officials in Balkh province in northern Afghanistan banned from calling female patients by their actual names. In May, officials reportedly ordered all hospitals, private practices and clinics to use the word “Bibi” instead of women’s names. They emphasised that this instruction must be observed even on medical prescriptions.

The other absurd restrictions notwithstanding, this feels like such a complete lack of respect for women’s personhood, humanity, existence even. Fuck the Taliban.

Bro.

the few that do use bluetooth to adjust settings.

That may be the intended use, but it does not imply the system is secure.

Here’s an example of an insulin pump vulnerability from a few years ago that enabled attacks from up to six meters away. Think about how many potentially-compromised devices you’re ever within six meters of. The vulnerability enabled remote control over the insulin pump, which IIUC can be deadly.

https://www.aha.org/h-isac-reports/2021-11-29-h-isac-tlp-white-vulnerability-report-researchers-identify-high-severity

My point being — it’s not a good thing to be in the midst of a hacking epidemic! Real people will be harmed as a result of increased hacking.

But it’s also not a bad thing

Say that to the folks with implanted medical devices

Or maybe it’s just a reaally slow exponential backoff

Goddamn, that’s good

Absolute zero regards?

If their claims are true, it’s more like a gun company boasting about their auto-targeting gunbot escaping containment and shooting civilians.

If they’re lying, it’s just idiotic. Are we supposed to be impressed that you made a dangerous machine and failed to keep the world safe from it?

Logically, I don’t think so. They said basically that if something’s released, it’s in their best interests. So, Released(x) --> BestInterestsOfICE(x).

You can’t derive !Released(x) --> !BestInterestsOfICE(x) from that statement.

Surely my phone bill will reflect the hours where I didn’t have service, right?

What does it mean?

I guess I’m too old to understand the new hieroglyphics.

What’s this mean? 🧍🧍➖➖

You need to look up what the word “nominally” means, it completely changes the meaning of the sentence you’re objecting to.

How do we keep the fediverse niche?

Selective federation with servers that only give accounts to humans?

I think “break fast” is one of those things you don’t know until you do. You can know what a word means without guessing its etymology.

Bro, the reason the school calls them “volunteer hours” is because the places that need help are asking for volunteers. Even though it’s mandatory for students, these are hours at a volunteering opportunity. Interacting with the community is part of growing up, and part of their education. It’s not slavery.

Like she could have you bend over and she’d put a paper on your back and write on it?

There’s a lot going on here, so I won’t try to respond to all of it.

My point is merely that there are population clusters with genetic differences. It’s incorrect to say that we are all human, therefore scientifically we are all the same. In aggregate, the people of Japan are not the same as the people of Ireland. (This paragraph makes zero claims about individuals; it is scoped to large groups of people.)

I just want to clarify that I’m not claiming that “race” per se is a thing, nor am I claiming that there are any mutually-incompatible human species. I’m not attempting to say anything about nationality, country borders, or deportations. The political madness happening in the USA is truly disgusting. I am deeply saddened by the cruelty and hatred that’s on display.

Dutch, Japanese, Mexican etc, those are nationalities and are all meaningless scientifically and biologically.

I hear this point raised somewhat frequently, and I understand the sentiment, but it’s just incorrect. There are physical and genetic differences between different groups of people from different parts of the world. We are all human and all deserve respect, but I think papering over our differences and declaring we’re all the same introduces an unnecessary level of doublethink to the discussion.