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RE: Social distancing vs a day at the beach
March 23, 2020 at 11:51 pm
I hear you matey... The only reason I made it about Iranians is simply because they were Iranian 
How else can I word it without stepping on eggshells? Should I also have to tread lightly because of eggshells?
What happened to saying it like it is? Shouldn't facts come before hurty feelies? I don't think that's even possible today without someone crying racism?
Funny old times we live in....
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RE: Social distancing vs a day at the beach
March 24, 2020 at 12:28 am
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(March 23, 2020 at 11:51 pm)ignoramus Wrote: I hear you matey... The only reason I made it about Iranians is simply because they were Iranian
How else can I word it without stepping on eggshells? Should I also have to tread lightly because of eggshells?
What happened to saying it like it is? Shouldn't facts come before hurty feelies? I don't think that's even possible today without someone crying racism?
Funny old times we live in....
It's hard work, yes. Takes mental effort to be even more mindful in our language, and can be annoying. I was annoyed at first when my thesis supervisor urged me to use people-first language when talking about people with disabilities. That meant more words to use in a thesis with a certain max word count limit.
But you learn and you come to realize there are good psychology reasons to be careful with how you word things because words do have strong impact not just on individuals but on groups. They can reinforce unfair stereotypes in subtle ways, and using exclusive words can further marginalize certain groups and make us feel even more justified in doing so.
Funny times, yeah. But me thinks it's a sign of progress, not a sign things are going wrong. Change is hard, though, I get it.
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RE: Social distancing vs a day at the beach
March 24, 2020 at 1:24 am
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Quote:The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant. Karl Popper described it as the seemingly paradoxical idea that, "In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance."
In the end, everything in life is a compromise, isn't it.
I'm not surprised at all actually. Natural cycles exist in every facet of our existence.
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RE: Social distancing vs a day at the beach
March 24, 2020 at 1:59 am
(March 23, 2020 at 11:16 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: So most people with sense are maintaining a bit of distance from others to slow the spread of C19.
BUT - not in California.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/23/us/califo...index.html
These twatwaffles are crowding onto beaches for swimming, sunbathing...
Good luck with that.
I guess we will call them the control group - in testing social distancing....
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You know, maybe Atlas was half-right about how we deserved C-19. If we're in the midst of a pandemic, with close contact being a prime vector in its spread, and the state has put a shelter-in-place order for all its residents, and we decide "let's go to the fucking beach," we deserve nothing less than Thanos' snap. Maybe have a Crake come along and create BlyssPluss so the rest of the human race can be destroyed and replaced with a species that isn't totally fucking stupid.
Also, is it strange that, when reading Oryx and Crake, I was less disturbed by Crake's omnicide and more by the fact that his replacement species was unable to grow beards?
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RE: Social distancing vs a day at the beach
March 24, 2020 at 8:11 am
The issue with saying it how it is, is that we're often just saying it how we see it. And how we see it depends on which side of the fence we belong to.
That's just how our minds work.
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RE: Social distancing vs a day at the beach
March 24, 2020 at 8:35 am
(March 24, 2020 at 8:11 am)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: The issue with saying it how it is, is that we're often just saying it how we see it. And how we see it depends on which side of the fence we belong to.
That's just how our minds work.
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RE: Social distancing vs a day at the beach
March 24, 2020 at 11:46 am
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(March 24, 2020 at 8:35 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: (March 24, 2020 at 8:11 am)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: The issue with saying it how it is, is that we're often just saying it how we see it. And how we see it depends on which side of the fence we belong to.
That's just how our minds work.
The best way to lie is to tell the truth as you see it, and no more.
Which makes it misinformation and not lying, since a lie is, by definition an " intentionally false statement."
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RE: Social distancing vs a day at the beach
March 24, 2020 at 2:47 pm
Hot sand. Now that's a hot tip. Someone should alert the CDC.
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RE: Social distancing vs a day at the beach
March 24, 2020 at 3:48 pm
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I'm sure they're looking into it. The first SARS virus reached thermal deactivation at around 56 Celsius or 132.8 Fahrenheit.
Guess how hot sand can get on a sunny day?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.100...004-0219-0
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RE: Social distancing vs a day at the beach
March 24, 2020 at 3:51 pm
(March 24, 2020 at 3:48 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: I'm sure they're looking into it. The first SARS virus reached thermal deactivation at around 56 Celsius or 132.8 Fahrenheit.
Guess how hot sand can get on a sunny day?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.100...004-0219-0
Maybe we can just bake or boil people back to health then. I mean from 98.6 to 132.8 isn't really all that much, is it?
Good grief.
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