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Cake day: August 8th, 2023

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  • “Someone else will do evil if I don’t agree to do evil so I might as well do evil myself” is a bullshit argument. And your point is directly addressed in the article:

    By resigning publicly, I am saddened by the knowledge that I likely foreclose a future at the State Department. I had not initially planned a public resignation. Because my time at State had been so short — I was hired on a two-year contract — I did not think I mattered enough to announce my resignation publicly. However, when I started to tell colleagues of my decision to resign, the response I heard repeatedly was, “Please speak for us.”


  • JoBo@feddit.uktoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlAmazon
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    6 months ago

    If you are forced to use them:

    1. Do not use the app
    2. Find what you want on the website
    3. Copy the description with a reasonable amount of detail
    4. Paste description into your less evil search engine of choice
    5. Click through and buy

    That way, Amazon has to pay the search engine.










  • It’s a great thing to do when you’re young and child-free, or starting your retirement. Just don’t expect it to be cheaper than rent and do make sure you understand the basics of keeping your engine in good condition. It is your source of electricity, water, and sewerage. You cannot afford for it to break. Also brush up on your understanding of batteries because you’re going to be relying on them, a lot.


  • Might as well?

    There are no global services which can offer practical assistance to get someone out of an abusive situation. If you or someone else needs help, they need help from an organisation which physically operates where they live.

    If you are, in fact, in the US, you will get more helpful answers if you state which state of the US it is.

    If you’re too concerned about confidentiality, a simple search will bring up a lot of sites. If you can’t find one local to you, a national helpline will likely know where to refer you to. As long as it is a national helpline for the country where the person lives.


  • JoBo@feddit.uktoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlIs "female" offensive?
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    7 months ago

    No, I was responding to your perfectly correct comment about the way we learn language, which is as little kids gradually working out the rules from exposure, not by being taught them.

    We pick up on how language is used, not why it is used like that.

    And that is exactly why some people with a condition like autism or epilepsy find attempts to rehumanise the language used to refer to them patronising or unhelpful. In my examples, “an epileptic” would be the dehumanising nounisation. And because of those attempts to rehumanise the language, people sometimes avoid the adjective too (in exactly the same way it’s happened with woman/female).