How many fucking letters can I use? I’m sick of editing this shit, just fucking accept the bio, damn.

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Cake day: October 14th, 2023

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  • The majority of people actually are imposters, but that’s not a reason to stop improving. I’m apalled at the people considered to be professionals in the industries I work in. Reps for billion dollar companies can’t tell me what their products actually do, they can only repeat bullshit marketing terms. An IT manager for a very large insurance company told me i needed to call linux to find out why the broken download link they hosted didn’t work. A plumbing inspector wouldn’t inspect my work because I’m not a licensed plumber, ignoring the fact that everything was to code, he just didn’t want to actually inspect when he could sign off without looking if I hired someone. An ophthalmology practice missed retinal cancer on a patient I sent to them because I had found a rapidly growing tumor in their eye. They saw that I had billed an imaging scan, figured they didn’t need to run another one, and didn’t see anything looking in from the outside. Faxed records are rejected all the time because no one in most offices know how to turn off error correction to allow internet faxes to come through, which I have to use because no offices use hipaa compliant encrypted email servers. A company I hired to lift a massive beam into place for my house measured to the front of the beam on one side, and the back of the beam on the other, so there’s a ten inch slant to my entire second floor. The guy working the window at taco bell asked me what fresco style meant. My partner is lactose intolerant, and the vast majority of restaurant workers seem to think mayonnaise is dairy.

    I see people talking about imposter syndrome a lot lately, and i don’t think half of them are good enough at what they do to be imposters.





  • While I loath windows, I would still put it above Mac if only for the ability to put windows on whatever you want. Even if Mac is more polished, the fact that it only works reasonably on vastly overpriced, mostly unrepairable hardware kills any appeal it would have. Add in apple’s tendency to gimp devices as if a three year old machine is at deaths door, and I’ll go to a customized windows os every time.

    Also the gaming thing. It’s not pinnacle, but it’s also not trivial.



  • I would argue taking words out of reasonable vocabulary makes them more hurtful, and also just leads to more words that have negative connotations. Retarded is a word that has a definition. Calling someone a retard was common when I was in elementary school, but then we were told it was a slur, and we shouldn’t use it. So the accepted words became handicapped, disabled, special, etc.

    So guess what we called each other on the playground? Instead of one word, with a scientific meaning, there was now a slew of terms to hurl as insults, and they all meant the same thing. Any term that was trying to be more PC was going to be turned into a slur simply because nobody wants to be retarded.

    Nobody wants to be handicapped. Nobody wants to be less-abled. Nobody wants to require special accomodations.

    It doesn’t matter what “friendly” word combination you use, it will always become a slur, because it’s not good to be retarded. So by changing the accepted term every few years, we’re just narrowing the vocabulary, and creating even more hurtful terms.

    Outside of all of that, the other comment was using a slur as a slur, because fuck those particular retards. They didn’t call them that to be friendly. They called them a hurtful term because they believe they deserve to be hurt. The purpose was the hurtful nature of the term.