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Gazan calls the pushback a distraction from the continued violence facing Indigenous women and girls, two-spirit and gender diverse people, along with federal funding cuts to programming aimed at prevention.
And I think the fact that we’re focusing on an acronym and not the funding cuts that are at the center of the discussion proves that she’s correct.
Dude holy shit I’m trying not to cackle in bed and wake up my partner
Even in the 2000s, many of the good servers on tf2 would ban for racism snd sexism. (Probably not homophobia tho). Gmod was worse for it, but there were still servers that didn’t allow it.
And it makes sense. Even if bigotry isn’t a problem to you, bigots tend to be really fucking annoying about it. You don’t often find bigots that are chill with it. When you cut the bigots, you cut like 90% of the shit disturbers that made the game less fun.
I really wish there was a pictoral way to indicate preferred language without tying it to a country or making people think I like the values of said place.
We could always do (ENG) or (DE) or something but that doesn’t offer much more clarity to the difference, and it reads as less scrutable than 🏴 or 🇩🇪 to me . Maybe something like (🗣️:🏴🇩🇪) would work?
Oh hey, I recognize your name! Did you also hop onto 2009 yesterday night? I think we were on Tutorial Island together haha
Did you read the comment you’re replying to? They already said it’s not your place to decide who does and doesn’t need a service dog. They didn’t say that to mean that it’s actually their place to do so.
there is multiplayer 2009scape, thus the need for ironman mode for those who want it
Okay just for fun, I wanted to take a stab at trying to understand some of the examples mentioned in the article.
We will actualize a renewed level of cradle-to-grave credentialing.
We’re gonna do a really good job of making passwords (or degrees?) that last a lifecycle.
By getting our friends in the tent with our best practices, we will pressure-test a renewed level of adaptive coherence.
By convincing people we can do our jobs well, we’re gonna prove we’re really good at listening.
For instance, a leaked 2009 Pepsi marketing presentation with language such as “The Pepsi DNA finds its origin in the dynamic of perimeter oscillations…our proposition is the establishment of a gravitational pull to shift from a transactional experience to an invitational expression …”
uhhh okay this is tough. how about:
Pepsi is known for waves (maybe lmao? i genuinely don’t know what perimeter oscillations is trying to say). We want to make people feel like buying Pepsi isn’t just buying something but is an invitation.
Our device strategy must reflect Microsoft’s strategy and must be accomplished within an appropriate financial envelope
oh this actually isn’t that hard: “Corporate cut our budget.”
Basically “tell us your secrets” or “show you’re not hiding anything”.
Back in the day, westerners thought samurai would open their kimonos to show they’re not hiding a sword. That wasn’t really a thing but that’s why it’s a phrase (or was anyway)
Aye aye captain! One swimsuit calendar with a raccoon coming up!
Putting aside the “White people tip-toeing the line of saying the n-word” vibes: Not sure how I feel at the casual implication that different races are analogous to different species… we could just as easily treat different races as different colors of fur.
I did genuinely think that this is someone attempting to parody academic jargon to poke fun at Butler. But re-reading the post seems like there can be something actually being said. But also in the context of OP’s title, I’m back to having no idea what the point is.
My reading of this is: The responder says that in a lecture, they (which are Butler’s preferred pronouns since 2020. Not sure why the responder decided on she/her…) said the book “Wretched of the Earth” undermines the idea of “decolonization” by saying it (decolonization) grows out of deeply entrenched desires for states to hold “masculine” values (like ex. independence, fighting ability, not-being-subservient to others). These “masculine” ideals are imaginary and only exist as conceptions we have in our head. But even so, they are desires being chased even if states don’t explicitly say they are chasing them.
These deeply entrenched desires manifest themselves through violence. Specifically, the kind of violence that only states get to do without major objections from anyone. Decolonization reframes (problematically, in Butler’s -alleged- view, if the responder is being truthful) this violence as something special that formerly colonized states get to do, in order to achieve “liberation”. Butler (allegedly) believes this reframing of violence in the quest to liberate these colonies will only entrench patriarchy. If true, that would make the current version of decolonization antagonistic to goals like feminism or gender equality.
These claims are (allegedly) what they believe the book Wretched of the Earth tells us about decolonization.
Where I get confused is by OP’s title. Butler is an outspoken critic of Zionism and critical of Israel’s conduct in Gaza. So how is their face an example of “how white people look at you when you don’t condemn Hamas”?
edit: I didn’t mention how the book fits into this. Whoops. edit 2: the word “phantasmatic” or phantasmagorical has a bit of nuance behind it I didn’t really capture originally.
Motorists are such crybabies
Figured it out! That was cool, thanks!
Once I saw it and heard “the solution isn’t obvious”, I got focused on the idea of digital roots cuz I thought back to the game series 999. But that didn’t work, so I focused on the shape of the pizzle and thought it looked like a thermometer, so I tried conversions of F to C, which also didn’t work. But when I heard other people say that it made then think about the “obvious” solution and work around the 7, I thought back to my digital root idea and realized I was applying it in a different way in 999 versus what’s happening here.
This was a fun adventure~
Thats unhinged, I’m trying that
In this thread: Europeans being casually xenophobic about immigrants in The Americas and the dishes they bring from home, thus proving this new community’s point.
Anyway while I’m on my European slander streak, let me tell you a story: One time i was staying in a hostel in Montreal and there was a French guy (like, a l’hexagon French, not Quebecois) there. He unironically said to me “A single tomato from France tastes better than this shit you call poutine.” That quote lives rent free in my head.
Also you wanna know why he was in Montreal? Cuz he couldn’t get a job in France. peak comedy
Lol love the old soviet car analogy, good lada memories but mannnn that one was a death trap
Give AnyOffice a try, I like it cuz it just works
Let’s not forget the very important and frankly complicated job of making up shit to withhold your security deposit over. Who else is gonna find that scratch that was pre-existing? That’s a job for someone with eagle eyes
My experience has been the adoption of Discord for communication in game has been a negative factor in the social aspects of gaming. Before, games needed to implement their own comms, which would encourage players to communicate as part of the game experience. But now it’s expected that you’d talk on discord instead, so there’s less need for games to be a social experience.