It’s not.

But obviously their affirmation is as credible as the tweet. Surprise, surprise, narratives are trying to get the upper spin. The tribes continue. Nothing is learned; nothing is gained. It goes on…

I mean, it’s still pretty good in the free world. There is decay, but it’s not like living in countries like Russia, USA, or China. There’s a reason why Murdoch left Australia.

So a person that never spoke as or acted as a white supremesist, said they weren’t a white supremecist, and very regularly condemned white supremecy and implored for its removal from society, was indeed actually a white supremecist in your mind because…what, you have a hunch? You just prefer it that way for your narrative? It’s just totally fine to twist things into other things when it suits what you want?

There are so many things to be said about this piece of shit but you’re just not winning hard enough you gotta do exactly what they do. Except I’m sure you think it’s okay when you try push misinformation onto others, huh? Because it’s either that or you genuinely have no idea what you’re talking about, actually believe it, and choose to disregard the put forward to you as hopefully not for realsies, even though a quick search will show you that they are and very abundantly so.

Cultural chauvinism is the belief that one’s own culture is superior to others, often leading to prejudice against different cultural groups. This concept is commonly discussed in the context of international relations and communication, highlighting how such attitudes can affect interactions between nations and ethnicities.

A subset of…

Chauvinism is the unreasonable belief in the superiority or dominance of one’s own group or people, who are seen as strong and virtuous, while others are considered weak, unworthy, or inferior The Encyclopaedia Britannica describes it as a form of “excessive and unreasonable” patriotism and nationalism, a fervent faith in national excellence and glory.

Which is not the same as…

White supremacy is the belief that white people are superior to those of other races.The belief favors the maintenance and defense of any power and privilege held by white people. White supremacy has roots in the now-discredited doctrine of scientific racism and was a key justification for European colonialism.

Here you go… https://www.routledge.com/Cultural-Chauvinism-Intercultural-Communication-and-the-Politics-of-Superiority/Ibelema/p/book/9780367710033

You would also do well to pay attention to the events of Daryl Davis.

On top of books and many studies on this, there’s also documentaries and reports if your attention span so needs this.

Or, you know, it’s all bullshit and you know best!

A sponge is wet. The ocean is wet. Therefore sponges are oceans. And saltesc is dumb.

What’s your point?

It’s okay to redefine what White Supremecy is just so we get to call someone one?

This is cultural chauvinism or cultural imperialism; it is not white supremecy or any racial superiority ideology for that matter. These are two different, well-defined, and bad things. You don’t have to try force them together to make a bad thing. It’s already done. You win. Being either one or both is bad.

But it’s not exactly good to shift the goal posts to try frame a person you didn not like into being something you want them to be but cannot confirm that they were. That’s my point.

Yeah, but people that aren’t white supremecist also say that. White supremecist from non-westrrn cultures say the same of their culture instead. White supremecist enjoy and emerse themselves into other cultures without it impacting their position of being genetically superior.

What you’re trying to explain is called cultural chauvinism and it’s as related/unrelated to many other things as it is/isn’t to racial ideologies.

No dog whistles here, just already very established and understood stuff.

Plus, it’s White Supremecy here. There’s so much already there to work with. There’s no need to apply assumptions onto it and sell it as a new package.

That’s not true at all. Some do, plenty don’t. Multiculturalism is unrelated.

Culture has nothing to do with White Supremecy or any other form of racism or “scientific racism”. We can indeed have good and bad cultures; this being entirely subjective to individual opinions. Cultures are a social outcome, not a genetic one.

People can “define white Supremecy” however they like, though it’s already well defined, so their personal definition may be confusing or discredit any other views they may share.

I don’t think Charlie Kirk was a white supremecist at all, but there’s many different ways of being a total cunt. At a certain point of cuntiness, it really doesn’t matter if he was one or not.

Yeah, this is what I end up doing. SQL does all the heavy lifting, and python or M usually doing the rest. Though M can be soooo slow.

God, I’m so over SQL.

It’s great, but it is so old and shows it. Feels like 99% of my SQL queries are just cheese.

Works though, and quick.

Friend’s colleague needed Excel to, “return the month where the majority of days in the week fall into”. Had Copilot do it and sent it to my friend, apparently impressed by making such a robust looking formula.

The formula:

My friend’s solution a minute later:

I can see it could be slimmed even less, but I assume the table is large so LET is doing performance stuff.

I have a use case too, but it comes down to wine and VM increasing hardware latency which I need as close to 0ms as possible. Even 20ms is too much. Fortunately these situations are minimal but it’s still annoying.

…why would a professional whatever make a remark for technology doing their job for them and making their career redundant?

Farmer, coder, driver, whatever. “I can’t wait for the bots to do this” is not a common muttering. Except maybe if in the c-suite…

This is another fine example of where assumptions get you no where on the internet. My job isn’t coding but it requires knowing to do it well. If I exit the job market, as per your request, I cannot be replaced by a coder. Believe it or not, most jobs that require a coding skillset are not about coding. Crazy, right? 😲

God, I’m so sick of coding. Please. Bring it.

As of right now though? 5-6 years fie the basics

I have the confidence level turned down too but lately it doubles down on itself.

The usual conversation…

VI: “You could do this.”
Me: “That won’t work because XYZ.”
VI: “No, you can definitely do that. XYZ has nothing to do with it.”
Me: pastes it’s own suggestion in.
VI: “Almost, but that won’t work because of XYZ.”

It’s most notorious one is adding an s to Table.AddColumn() then proceeding to make a full snippet around this newly made up function. This specific example is so regular it’s become a joke at work for giving someone an unhelp response,

“What do you want to do for lunch today?”

“Have you tried table add columns?”

Toaster is good. We’ve used that for years and it’s memed hard. Its origin is toward AI and physical robots. Even though it’s a slur based on the first model Cylon having a toaster face, it implies robots are simple and they generate ridiculous amounts of heat to do a simple task.

We don’t need to reinvent the wheel here just because someone had a viral video on TikTok. Clanker sounds so dumb too. Especially for protocol bots that have no moving parts beyond data centre fans and pumps.

🤦

Y’all living under an authoritarian dictator. Well, he’s trying his hardest to be. Literal parallels with Putin but also more Hitler-ish.

At least all the WW2 vets are gone and didn’t end up seeing this.

Our society does. Our ability to overcome challenges of nature when we work together. When we’re unchallenged by any immediate threat, something we have less and less due to our intelligence, we exercise that nature on ourselves.

I often say every war and nasty thing we do to each other is just masturbation. The guilt afterwards, the promise to never do it again. But in the timeframe of civilisation, give it a week and we’ll be rubbing one out to the nastiest shit we can find to scratch the itch, cycling back into the loop of guilt again… Repeat, repeat, repeat… Why do we do it? Human nature has it’s dark side.

You don’t get to be #1 species by being a forward thinking and peaceful being. But while our modern legacy is more about every generation swearing it won’t be like the one before it, in nature genetic traits don’t just go away as fast as we’d like.

Hence the attraction of tribalism still beats long-term sense.Gender, skin colour, and income are at the forefront of minds instead of climate. We don a team’s sport jersey to fil that hole, but it’s just a useless thing—the team of people kicking inflated leather around don’t even know who we are, afterall. We ignore those we don’t have immediate connection to but see them in the daily news. We do things to make us feel better and exercise the nature, but overcome the guilt of being judged by others by masking it with a “good cause” that’s easy to achieve but ultimately a low priority overall.

People want to be seen and remembered for dying on a hill. But it’ll be over social issues that ultimately are self-made issues.

If you were born the only person on earth, you would not have ever known about gender in society or what it is to be a different one. You wouldn’t know of the hardships of skin colours, hair colours, or your breasts or penis being big or small. You could be slim built, your could be robustly built, you wouldn’t know if either is good or bad because no one was ever there to make up and claim that idea. There’d be no people controlling for balance of these things and no people controlling entitlement or belittlement of these things. You wouldn’t know any of that would ever exist; you couldn’t even guess what thing would become a positive or negative in society.

That’s how valuable those things are and it gives an insight into how much they should be at the forefront of people’s minds.

And if you were to suddenly meet another human one day, you’d be elated. You would love them. You would share everything you have learned and learn everything they shared. That’s the light side of our nature. If you are fortunate enough to be able to recognise and try reject the dark side, the society side, then you’ll live a more fulfilled life and one that helps others much more than any other 5-year acronym trend or socially conservative ideology could.

But most of all, you would never take actions involving other people based on the corpse they animate, actively or subconsciously. That way if thinking is reserved for those that will ultimately tear us apart and end us. I say again, always thinking they have the best of intentions for people, not realising the true diversity of us all and the right people have to be different.

That was indeed the intent. Our human nature denies us having nice things, though. And far too many people are invested in and governed by society’s artificial ideologies and what others think.

Every time a cause is ruined by tribalism. Natural segregation and opinions formed around the corpses we animate but had no say in, not the person within. I find this incredibly ironic tactics for the claim of inclusion. But bad people fight fire with fire without any humility or respect for those around them. It doesn’t matter their intention at that point, they’re just another biggot denying people opportunity or respect because of their corpse. Where you statement was true, it’s really whatever makes the company photos look best for the DEI Manager’s LinkedIn and that comes with huge discriminatory bias.

There’s no indifference of background, there’s focus on hiring or not hiring based on the corpse. That’s literally discrimination fundamentally no different then the pieces of shit on the other side That’s the person they are and the social view they have is of utter irrelevance, especially when they’ll always say it’s the right one.

DEI is riddled with enough self-absorbed and opportunistic people, it has begun to faulter. It was always going to happen because it’s the perfect sheep disguise for a wolf. People really underestimate how much psychopathy drifts around in our society and seem to be shocked every time things fall apart.

Our human nature denies having nice things.