Serious question: when and in which contexts did calling people "individuals" emerge as a common practice, as a synonym for people? Or "an individual" for "a person"?
I ask because I'm noticing it in student writing, and I associate it with police-speak. I don't know if it's in some corners of social science or medicine too
@inquiline Oh that's fascinating. My inner cynic wants to see if the prevalence at all correlates with Citizens United v. FEC 😅 Police speak would be an even darker origin story.
Ce qui me fout dedans, c'est l'oubli que j'ai le droit d'être médiocre et les petits monsieurs "Il faut il faut il faut. il faut tout faire, et tout vite" qu'on trouve ds chaque organisation.
@VirginiaMurr@ParadeGrotesque@ccdudley85 Honestly, I wasn't even doubting God's existence or anything, I just had questions, but those questions usually end up in Well, you just have to have faith and we don't get to understand everything.
C'est sympa de ne pas habiter dans un désert médical. Du coup j'ai une liste longue comme le bras de médecins qui peuvent m'envoyer chier car « ne prennent pas de nouveaux patients » 👍
@sll@sebsauvage@gee : En Belgique, on est assez privilégié à ce niveau, ça fonctionne plutôt bien ! (rien n’est parfait mais, franchement, j’ai l’impression d’avoir de la chance)
BCS ITNow interview with me dropped today! It is about ethics and games. Apologies, there doesn’t appear to be an online version and it’s too long for alt text :(
"the United States is committed to serving as a model in the international community in promoting and protecting the collective rights of #indigenous peoples as well as the human rights of all individuals."
"The United States recognizes the SIGNIFICANCE of the Declaration’s provisions on free, prior and informed consent, which the United States understands to call for a process of meaningful
CONSULTATION with tribal leaders, but not necessarily the AGREEMENT of those leaders, before the
actions addressed in those consultations are taken." [emphasis added]
So in the U.S. consent = consultation but not agreement?
Imagine a foreign power said they were gonna bulldoze Gettysburg or Arlington Nat'l Cemetary to extract minerals for their economy back home. Told, not asked.
Say the US objected, and the foreign power invited the US to fill out a complaint form explaining why these are traditionally considered "sacred" lands to the local people.
Then the foreign power bulldozed them anyway, offering Americans bulldozing jobs as "mitigation."
This is what the US does to #Indigeous people. TODAY. Every day.
Ob die Radfahrer wissen das hier auch für sie Schrittgeschwindigkeit herrscht?
Zumindest ist das in einem Verkehrsberuhigten Bereich gesetzlich so vorgeschrieben. Scheint aber niemanden zu jucken, auch nicht bei engen gemischten Fuß- und Radverkehr.
Purtroppo LibreY dei Devol è stato preso letteralmente d’assalto e quindi non funziona in questo momento. Ci sono altre istanze di LibreY se lo si vuole provare oppure c’è il buon SearXG sempre hostato dai Devol che regge senza grossi problemi per ora: searxng.devol.it
Nell’articolo spiego che tra quelli alternativi non hanno avuto problemi Brave (che utilizza esclusivamente un suo indice), PriEco, Presearch, StartPage che usano sia Bing che altri motori e Mojeek (che però non fornisce molti risultati in italiano).
The contention that using high-filtration masks to prevent transmission of respiratory disease is “unscientific” and “lacking evidence” when we have reams of aerosol and transmission studies is a display of either unawareness/scientific illiteracy (super fixable! non-shameful!) or of an intentional disregard of the evidence for emotional or ideological reasons (common but troubling).
What we lack is consistent evidence of large-scale effects across communities, which is understandable even given all the evidence that high-filtration masks work very well, because the variables are nightmarishly complex. That gap has given motivated reasoners license to demand that everyone else accept their rejection of a solid and deep body of evidence for mask efficacy.
I don’t think it’s beyond the bounds of civility to sharply disagree with that whole maneuver.
Hahaha sorry actually a third secret thing, I never expect other people’s risk calculations to match mine, which is good because they mostly don’t! It’s all incredibly messy, and my own decision has been to just do far fewer things without being mad at people who elect to never think about it. (Y’all can lecture me about how my feelings are wrong but egh, maybe just don’t.)
The demand that we toss all the lab studies and case studies on transmission isn’t cool though. 🤷🏻
Indispensable chronique sur l’irrationnel sabotage de Google qui, contaminé par le virus de l’IA générative, s’apprête « à remplacer les sites Web qu'il indexe depuis 25 ans avec ses machines à régurgiter du polyester informationnel ». Ça va mal finir. 🗑️
❤️ « L'IA n'est pas une course aux armements, c'est un concours de prestidigitateurs, face auquel le scepticisme par défaut devient la seule attitude saine. » ❤️
@RunRichRun@burritojustice This is why I used to laugh out loud when I received emails about "think about your retirement vacations plans!" (20+ years from now)
I need a retirement brochure with "your choice of apocalyptic scenarios":