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Bob’s Guns is an excellent track by Ludique.

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bobs_guns,

wow what a lovely website to find cool people to add on linkedin

bobs_guns,

so basically don’t mix bleach with stuff.

bobs_guns,

we actually did see this happen with the internet archive case. harrowing stuff

bobs_guns,

I’m doing my part.

bobs_guns,

I recommend the Livable Low-carbon City podcast for information about building techniques like that.

bobs_guns,

The only real point of contention I really saw in that thread is about whether the Uyghurs are Turkic or not. Due to the social construction of ethnicity it's probably something that cannot really be proved one way or the other. All the thread says is that it's fascists who claim the Uyghurs are Turkic and that the Uyghurs were oppressed in the distant past by Turks at war and that the ethnic group is partially assimilated due to time and generations. Is the claim that Uyghurs are not Turkic really all that important to the question of whether or not there's a cultural genocide in the first place? From the outside, it seems unnecessary to me to even mention it. If there's anyone here who's willing to put this claim in more context I'd appreciate it.

bobs_guns,

Thanks for the additional context.

Advice for new engineers

Hi! I hope all is well. I am loving this instance and all the communities so far! As I am a new grad software engineer who is gonna start working in the next month, I was wondering if there are some tips, advice and some nuggets of wisdom you want to pass to this clueless person making this post lmao.

bobs_guns,

don't objectify women. don't be afraid to ask for help. don't trust people who think meetings are work.

Linus Torvalds -- Creator of Linux -- defends gun regulation, woke communists, womens rights AND trans rights. Linux is political! (cdn.masto.host)

Linus' thread: (CW: bigotry and racism in the comments) https://social.kernel.org/notice/AWSXomDbvdxKgOxVAm (you need to scroll down, i can't seem to link to the comment in the screenshot)

@morgthorak I think you might want to make sure you don’t follow me. Because your “woke communist propaganda” comment makes me think you’re a moron of the first order. I strongly suspect I am one of those “woke communists” you worry about. But you probably couldn’t actually explain what either of those words actually mean, could you? I’m a card-carrying atheist, I think a woman’s right to choose is very important, I think that “well regulated militia” means that guns should be carefully licensed and not just randomly given to any moron with a pulse, and I couldn’t care less if you decided to dress up in the “wrong” clothes or decided you’d rather live your life without feeling tied to whatever plumbing you were born with. And dammit, if that all makes me “woke”, then I think anybody who uses that word as a pejorative is a f*cking disgrace to the human race. So please just unfollow me right now.
bobs_guns,

historically speaking, when you consider its domestication by indigenous people in South America, its appropriation by Spanish colonizers, its resistance to looting by marauding armies compared to grain crops, and the freaking Irish potato famine, I think it becomes quite clear that the potato is a politically relevant crop and could reasonably be considered political.

bobs_guns,

it's not more of a political thing, therefore they would both be political. although I'm not convinced that a crop that's strictly nonviolent would even exist

bobs_guns,

you are out here acting like something being political is a high bar when it really isn't.

bobs_guns,

Would you seriously say that food is NOT political? With famines being a major driver of social unrest and mass death? With government power being highly linked from ancient times to the distribution and taxation of grain crops? With its impacts on public health and chronic diseases? With the many land reforms throughout history? With the freaking Food and Drug Administration and the Farm Bill and the US Department of Agriculture and the presidential candidates at the Iowa State Fair eating corn dogs as rustically as they can muster? With the existence of the vegan movement? I could easily go on but I think it's pretty clear that you at the very least picked a bad example of something that's not political.

bobs_guns,

Potatoes are commonly described as a comfort food so I think it would be fair to describe them as emotional, although it would be a bit of an odd way to word it.

bobs_guns,

Not among foods at least.

bobs_guns,

I mean at this point you're just making my argument for me. my point in the first place was that most things are political and you're asking me to give a counterexample. if you believe that most things aren't political come up with the counterexample yourself.

bobs_guns,

I just don't see the issue with a lot of things being political. I don't think it diminishes the meaning of the word and it matches the way the word is commonly used.

bobs_guns,

If everything is political then surely that's a product of the political times we live in. When you're trans like I am, politics isn't something you can choose to engage with or not. Politics is something that people use to hurt you. And while I certainly envy those who think they can opt out of politics somehow, we live on a planet with a rapidly changing climate and an ongoing mass extinction event. Politics is going to come for you too, whether you refuse to see it or not, and the time it does may not be so far away.

That's not to say that the "political lens" through which I see the world takes away the other meanings of things. The things I interact with in the world have other meanings and other aspects too, and in a lot of cases the political aspect is not the most important one. But the political aspects of things and the relations involving things are pervasive and important to fully understanding the world, so it is fairly accurate to say that everything on Earth at least is political in some way. Even your denial of the political aspects of things is part of this, as it's part of your privilege to ignore politics.

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bobs_guns,

Is the amount of politics something has supposed to be measurable somehow? If something is relevant to politics or has a political aspect it's not inaccurate to describe it as political.

bobs_guns,

I don't think it makes sense to determine what is or isn't political by measuring the amount of politicality either. What makes something political is that some people say it's political. And since I'm a person and I say that everything on Earth is political, that makes it so. QED.

bobs_guns,

lemmians

bobs_guns,

you can teleport large quantities of vehicles all together into the enemy base, can make them invisible in an area of effect, have a somewhat fragile personality for a capital ship, and don't have much attack power

bobs_guns,

it's gotta be short for Prothean

bobs_guns,

I don't believe you.

bobs_guns,

It's not a ridiculous comparison because the person I'm replying to said earlier "wait until you hear the actual offensive words in the English language." Slurs are obviously included in that category.

Additionally, it is certainly rude to call someone "buddy" or "bud" when they've repeatedly asked you to stop, which this thread is full of people doing. And if you were to call me "buddy," you would be misgendering and infantilizing me and that would certainly be offensive. It's a word that you can only reasonably call a 5 year old boy and one would hope there aren't many folks like that on here.

Learn to read the room a little, huh?

bobs_guns,

none of how rude something you've said is or whether someone perceives something you've said as gendered is for you to decide. that's all something that depends on the other person and their experiences in the world. being polite necessarily means that you have to take into account what other people are likely to think of what you've said. I don't know how to explain this any more clearly. What are you not understanding here?

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