So this part: https://mashable.com/2018/06/07/google-salad-emoji/?europe=true
is actually true? That's completely insane
I googled the one about the Netflix executive fired for saying an offensive word, in a meeting about offensive words. Also true.
Has political correctness actually gone mad?
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I googled the one about the Netflix executive fired for saying an offensive word, in a meeting about offensive words. Also true.
is it actually completely insane? like, google changing their salad emoji on their android devices is completely insane?So this part: https://mashable.com/2018/06/07/google-salad-emoji/?europe=true
is actually true? That's completely insane
despite multiple versions of googles salad emoji still existing as seen above, would it really be completely insane if they only let you use one without eggs?
While I wholeheartedly agree with it being good that I'm not in charge of it, how are you figuring I'd deem a polio vaccine irrelevant?
Studies into stuff I'd say are mostly irrelevant:
Do Woodpeckers Get Headaches?
The answer is no, they don't, because they have small heads and a sturdy beak.
@Silva
These emoji's are not insane in the slightest, the fact that anyone cares is. As if anyone is offended by any sort of salad emoji. Or perhaps my jaded and cynical soul has gone numb to the point that I no longer feel any sort of emotion over emojis.
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the yellow and brown parts on the first one don't look like anything i've ever seen in a salad
Now THAT's completely insane you have to admit. Who puts kiwi's in a salad.
This one's an amazing (harhar) actual study too:
1. Spiderman doesn’t exist.
After an extensive analysis, researchers at Cambridge University have concluded that the larger a person is, the more adhesives he would need to stick to a wall, making it virtually impossible for a normal sized human being to have the characteristics of Spiderman. “If a human, for example, wanted to climb up a wall the way a gecko does, we’d need impractically large sticky feet -- and shoes in European size 145 or US size 114,” saidWalter Federle, senior author also from Cambridge’s Department of Zoology. As for Batman, the jury’s still out.
Oh or:
3. Playing Tetris for just three minutes stops your craving for sex, alcohol and food.
I actually take a real good look if it is some type of parody website like the onion these days. Some of the stuff is hardly believable.
Or to get equally bogus papers published in different subfields and across disciplines.
Bad research happens, bad papers get through peer review, and there probably is a trend towards orthodoxy in the peer review process (especially in small subfields where the number of people able to review things are quite small). Most of those problems are already known about, but they're not only problems of this field.
Falsifying data (as they have in places) and writing articles which correctly and coherently analyse your false data to point at peer review as inherently flawed is just a waste of everyones time. Some of their other examples are more worrying, even if they're little more than anecdotal evidence, but we also know that lots of shit gets published in niche journals, and that not all publications are equal.
It's simply a hit piece and nothing more. The sad fact is they wasted a year of their life on it.
And another example of why the study and write up was terrible:
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DAM YOU BERNIE BROS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tommy Robinson fan told to 'get out' of class on first day of college
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/ne...235089?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/ne...235089?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
Doesn’t ring true for me.
Amazing how many comments I've read on this story like this that can't figure out that a students union is not actually a department of a university. I saw some comments on the Evening News site calling for the leaders of the university to lose their (well, they spelled it 'there') jobs over this and asked how much time and money had been spent/wasted on it. It's nothing to do with the uni!
If there's anywhere 'daft' new rules are commonplace and on the cutting edge of political correctness, it's going to be a student union. I don't understand why people are so outraged about something that will only ever effect a tiny number of people, most of whom have that have voted for the new rule.
As TAs, we were explicitly told to never ever mention politics or anything related to it. (this is the US though).
So this part: https://mashable.com/2018/06/07/google-salad-emoji/?europe=true
is actually true? That's completely insane
saw this too earlierBen Shapiro is tiresome, as most of his likes on YouTube.
I occasionally tug one out to Lauren Southern though
I occasionally tug one out to Lauren Southern though
shes a racist too, so thats not surprising
You can't even fathom how arousing a hot young blonde talking about border control, destroying feminism and ridiculing gender fluidity is to someone like me.
congrats on idolizing this piss soaked white nationalist i guess?
Golden showers
Sounds like bullshit - there must be far more to even if it is just some miniscule private training organisation.
I wouldnt let my dog hump Lauren Southern.
Doubt she cares though, my dog's black.
Doubt she cares though, my dog's black.
I *think* Tomi is less right-wing than Lauren, but I can never remember who is who - there is Laura Loomer, Lahern, and Lauren - all right-wing blondes (all Canadian?)
Laura Loomer is the one that looks like a proper American History X nazi. Always thought she was the worst, but that's based solely on the way she looks.
They're all people that give me the urge to post ban-worthy stuff, which I self censor in to lame jokes about my fictional dog.
They're all people that give me the urge to post ban-worthy stuff, which I self censor in to lame jokes about my fictional dog.
There are several other somehow decent looking alt-right females on the Tube. I actually think it is a huge scam to attract fanboys who will donate to them out of stupidity and a sense of common ground, plus wankabillity.
Not a bad idea tbh.
Not a bad idea tbh.
I kid you not, I once saw a picture posted that had on one side all these blonde right wing ladies, and on the other side had a fair bit of women who looked like they were from an lgbt protest, you know the purple hair and what not, and it was captioned “the reason liberals are always so angry is because our women look like this while their women look like that” pointing to the two groups of women. I don’t doubt that conservatives probably use these women to lure in simple minded men.
Yeah, I saw a short clip of Milo on YouTube which has now been deleted shortly after he got "excomunicated" from the alt-right, and he said something along the lines of atleast not being one of the profit based and posing newcomers from Canada.
Quite a few of them made their name via that ridiculous pizzagate thing also. I figure most of them have scripts written for them and their research done by others, and they just read them up on the Tube to draw in donations from fools.
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Just watched a few clips from the show Married With Children. Holy hell, that show would not fly today.
"Now wait a second, Peg - the kids are here. If you want to have sex, they'll have to leave. And if you want it to be good, you'll have to leave."
People get so outraged against PC I wonder how they react to the real feckries that occur in the world everyday. Ironically most don't even bat an eyelid... But students restricting one's ability to express themselves for example? What is the world coming to?
Meh, he's alright but usually just makes sort of fairly obvious statements while shouting loudly. There's not much substance behind him.
New study out by More In Common, one of the charities set up in memory of murdered MP Jo Cox called Hidden Tribes: A Study of America's Polarized Landscape.
It's all about discovering attitudes and opinions on various topics for different groups within American society. Key to this thread there is a section on political correctness.
A majority of people in every age group that was asked agreed that political correctness was a problem. 24-29 year olds thought it was less of a problem than other age groups but 74% still said it was.
People in every racial group said it was a problem. Native Americans really think it's a problem:
People at every level of education agreed that it was a problem:
The study split people into 7 groups based on political beliefs: progressive activists, traditional liberals, passive liberals, politically disengaged, moderates, traditional conservatives and devoted conservatives.The progressive activists, who made up 8% of the people surveyed were the only group who disagreed that political correctness was a problem with 30% saying yes. Every other group overwhelmingly said it was a problem.
Who are the progressive activists?
It's all about discovering attitudes and opinions on various topics for different groups within American society. Key to this thread there is a section on political correctness.
A majority of people in every age group that was asked agreed that political correctness was a problem. 24-29 year olds thought it was less of a problem than other age groups but 74% still said it was.
People in every racial group said it was a problem. Native Americans really think it's a problem:
People at every level of education agreed that it was a problem:
The study split people into 7 groups based on political beliefs: progressive activists, traditional liberals, passive liberals, politically disengaged, moderates, traditional conservatives and devoted conservatives.The progressive activists, who made up 8% of the people surveyed were the only group who disagreed that political correctness was a problem with 30% saying yes. Every other group overwhelmingly said it was a problem.
Who are the progressive activists?
New study out by More In Common, one of the charities set up in memory of murdered MP Jo Cox called Hidden Tribes: A Study of America's Polarized Landscape.
It's all about discovering attitudes and opinions on various topics for different groups within American society. Key to this thread there is a section on political correctness.
A majority of people in every age group that was asked agreed that political correctness was a problem. 24-29 year olds thought it was less of a problem than other age groups but 74% still said it was.
People in every racial group said it was a problem. Native Americans really think it's a problem:
People at every level of education agreed that it was a problem:
The study split people into 7 groups based on political beliefs: progressive activists, traditional liberals, passive liberals, politically disengaged, moderates, traditional conservatives and devoted conservatives.The progressive activists, who made up 8% of the people surveyed were the only group who disagreed that political correctness was a problem with 30% saying yes. Every other group overwhelmingly said it was a problem.
Who are the progressive activists?
but here this seems like a problem with their methodology
In a way it might be a problem if you wanted to argue that their categories are not well defined or that any categories they attempted to make might create blurry (for want of a better word) results between the categories when it came to those groups.
Bottom line, however you want to shake it is that an overwhelming majority of people think it is a problem even if you think the group boundaries/distinctions are poor.
Bottom line, however you want to shake it is that an overwhelming majority of people think it is a problem even if you think the group boundaries/distinctions are poor.
thats a fair conclusion but yes i would argue their categories exist to reach the conclusions they want to reach