spankmonkey
@spankmonkey@lemmy.world
- Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years 2 hours ago:
On that timescale, what are the odds that the checksum is still reliable?
- Comment on YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads 21 hours ago:
Firefox + ublock origin = no ads
- Comment on Reach out and touch someone rule 1 day ago:
The suit is there to reduce fatalities and minimize injuries, not to avoid every poasible injury.
Sometimes there are situations where touch and feel is critical, although my understanding is that the preferred approach today is remote detonation where even the suit is away from the likely blast radius.
- Comment on This should be the right address.... 1 day ago:
“Ethical”
- Comment on Due to AI fakes, the “deep doubt” era is here 1 day ago:
Are they verifying anything?
It isn’t like propaganda is a new thing.
- Comment on Snapchat Reserves the Right to Use AI-Generated Images of Your Face in Ads 1 day ago:
Name checks out…
- Comment on Is there a difference in meaning between the words *people* and *persons*? 2 days ago:
I can’t think of any sayings or phrasings that would be universal across the entire globe.
- Comment on [rant] I want computers to become personal again 2 days ago:
Are we maintaining computers?
I haven’t had to do anything beyond installing the OS after a hardware update or installing software for over a decade. Yeah, I’m lazy and using Windows, but my last hardware was used for about 7 years without needing any troubleshootijg and I upgraded a few years ago to keep up with modern games.
I guess I clean the filter sometimes.
- Comment on Is there a difference in meaning between the words *people* and *persons*? 2 days ago:
Adding “those” in front also alienates them further. So by saying “those people”, you are distancing yourself from them, despite them being your family.
Great observation!
- Comment on Is there a difference in meaning between the words *people* and *persons*? 2 days ago:
“Those people” can be a racist or classist dog whistle, but isn’t always, and also there isn’t really an alternative.
The vast majority of the time ‘they’ or ‘them’ works in the same sentence as ‘those people’ when refering a goup since you already need context for who you are referring to. I can’t even think of an example where they or them doesn’t fit.
Description of a group of white people from Georgia.
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I heard they like fried chicken.
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I heard those people like fried chicken.
Hell, the second one sounds racist even after making it clear I was talking about white people, and I typed the words!
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- Comment on Is there a difference in meaning between the words *people* and *persons*? 2 days ago:
For example, one time I was talking about how my sister and her family/household travel often, saying, “Those people travel a lot,” and the person repeated those people and gave a slight laugh. I’m wondering if I may be giving some sort of unintentional implied message when I use that word.
I joke around friends who accidentally phrase things in ways that could sound like bigotry/racism if taken out of context, and it sounds like that it what the person was laughing about.
‘Those people’, when used while judging or looking down on somebody is a common way for bigots and racists to avoid using slurs around non-bigots/racists. Something like “The park was a lot more fun before those people showed up.” while nodding in the direction of some people with darker skin. Or saying that ‘those people’ are doing something unacceptable.
It isn’t a people vs person thing, it is specifically the phrase ‘those people’.
- Comment on Do all there former Republican leaders endorsing Harris do her any good? 2 days ago:
A big part of where she excelled in votes was because she spent too much time in safe states and didn’t spend a lot of time campaigning in the states that ended up being decided on thin margins.
- Comment on It's best to judge people by their actions more than their words, but on social media, you only see people's words. 1 week ago:
If you have actions and words, then you should judge them based on actions because that is what they did and not what they said. The actions are more important than the words. If they promote peace and love, but spend their evenings violently attacking children, then their actions speak louder than words.
If all you have is words, then you work with what you have. At that point you are responding more to the message they are expressing, not necessarily to them as an individual.