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Bollocks more like.

A fraudulent contract is not a contract.

Shady AF.

Equity is not equality.

The Irish have always been white. Ireland isn't old enough for them to have been anything else.

I initially felt similarly to the person that wrote the OP.

Then I thought - would anyone be offended if we use the term "holocaust" for wiping a hard drive.

The language we use does impact how we think and frame things, that's part of being human.

This is interesting. I'm white.

The word master doesn't occupy this space in my head and never has. I've associated this term primarily with teachers from a very early age. There's obviously the master-slave terminology in tech, but that really doesn't map to slavery in my head. This is probably because I'm from the British Isles which has a very different history in terms of slavery.

For me, I felt this change was really about the impact this term has for people who have been impacted by slavery having to continue to use these terms, which I thought many must felt comes across as, at best, insensitive.

Hence, I felt the cost of doing this seems reasonable. I mean, if we used the term holocaust for wiping a hard drive at some point people would probably have said - "err, yeah, no that's just a bad idea", because it would be offensive.

I'm guessing this ends with someone being offered a choice of colourful pill...

The comments here are like that bit in the original Robocop:

"Ooo, guns, guns, guns!"

https://youtu.be/z5-1nVswz0I

Hate speech exists as a concept, but it's entirely subjective.

Hate speech can be defined as anything that those in power choose they want to suppress, which means in practice its really just censorship.

Besides which, it's counter productive.

No, just makes it edgier for the kids. Takes longer to crystalise but crystallises harder.

Choosing not to be part of an audience (and encouraging others not to be) is not the same as denying others from being part of one they wish to be part of.

The CCP is a dramatically larger threat than Russia has been for at least a decade probably two.

Stop buying Chinese goods.

Countdown to "War of the Blue Stones" initiated...

Yeah, but the Chinese masks likely overwhelmingly wont meet the standard.

The first batch might...

Exile is a bit of a silly suggestion.

Profiling you to increase revenue.

No more so than Twitter.

Censorship I don't like...

THEY are the people that can openly game the market pricing mechanism with no implications.

If there are 5 apples in the world, but I can go to the market and sell 10 of them, that market does not reflect the real price of apples.

Even more so if after that I can pretend to sell apples at even lower prices back and forth between me and my mate, who's also been selling apples.

The bigger issue is how a problem caused by hedgefunds doing stupid things that verge on criminal (naked short selling) ends up getting weaved into a narrative about normal buying action in the market being market manipulation.

Based on the world most people see, that's fairly accurate.

With naked short selling and ladder attacks it absolutely is us versus them.

This is a ridiculous take in context of some of the things that institutional names get up to on national television.

Maybe they should be looking at the mass of naked shorting by Hedge funds - which is the REAL manipulation...

And NOT people engaging in the normal market mechanisms that the market uses up establish value - i.e. buying.

If there are 5 bananas in the entire world and people are still allowed to pretend and sell 500 bananas - you dont see how this is a problem?

Have you actually thought this through?

Stop using apps whenever you can.

Use your browser.

The mainstream media narrative behind this story just shows you how legally and illegally corrupt and unfair the entire system is, and how the media and regulators happily stand behind it.

The narrative behind this story just shows you how legally and illegally corrupt and unfair the entire system is, and how the media and regulators happily stand behind it.