namark @namark@qoto.org
Joined Jan 2020
@lucifargundam donut tho...
@josemanuel To clarify, what you described seems more like a "fear" of crowds. In any public space the more people there are the less that space is yours. That is obvious. Egotistical perhaps to hate that, but not xenophobic. The OP in the link does not seem to identify any specific "foreign" people either. It's seem just "more people = bad" as you described.
@josemanuel You misunderstand, I'm qoto's resident points-out-your-logical-mistakes reply guy, so what you wrote is the only thing that matters to me, really...
@josemanuel I look up, I get "Xenophobia is the fear or hatred of that which is perceived to be foreign or strange". I guess you meant it in a more primitive sense of some sort of location (even though virtual?). Still, the quote doesn't sound like it.
donut?
@josemanuel doesn't sound like xenophobia to me... "I'm not like them at all and I despise them" does though.
@freemo yes, yes, keep diverting. It was not about any imaginable location name, it was about specific name, and the thread went into an even more specific context of current events. And it is beside my specific point, as I did not mean tht the the first name is king, that was just an insignificant part of my argument, just remove the "when it already has a name" part, and there you go, your entire diversion thwarted.
Whatever argument you want to make about superiority of one name over the other as just names, I will not object to, I don't care. My point is that the name is often not acceptable because of the intent of people who commonly use, who when asked why, as a knee jerk reaction demonstrate that it is out of some irrational sense spite. You first comment serves as a nice example of that IMO, but again I entirely misunderstood it, of course.
@freemo No, the op was why not call covid chinese coronavirus, not why wuhan flu was called covid/coronavirus, nice diversion.
I'm glad that you are just arguing for the sake of a good name, and only that, and that it's exactly what you meant, when saying that random idiots attacking asian people all over the world is chinese government's fault, and that focusing all the blame on china by calling it chinese virus is valid. I must have misunderstood every single word initially.
@freemo That's beside the point. If the justification was to restore the original name or change it whatever else you wish, cause, say, you have hard time pronouncing the current trending one or something, that would be ok, it just names still, but you just can't resist going "china bad, we should call it china flu to punish china, I'm not attacking asians, who's attacking asians?".
@trinsec @rlamacraft
@freemo @trinsec @rlamacraft no you can't criticize it for originating the virus. Only if somehow china was producing more new viruses per whatever than any other place, will you be able to do it and even then calling yet another one they produced again THE chinese virus would be meaningless. You can criticize for handling regardless of origin.
Asking why british variant or spanish flu, you would go "well. first outbreak was there, it just something to refer to it, just a name". Asking why chinese virus when it already has a name, you would go on a rant of how "those filthy chinese with their meat markets eat raw bat all they by the nation wide decree of their evil government", revealing not only a bias, but a whole freaking agenda.
Is the object empty? Neither javascript nor lua know...
meanwhile:
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/types/is_empty
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/iterator/empty
живот живёт
compulsively installing videogames
Pesky misleading semicolon like this just cost me a couple of hours of going absolutely insanely bonkers crazy (in another language): http://ix.io/2Lu3
Very glad that gcc is actively ruining this guy's whole career.
Also something in this paste is breaking ix.io's html syntax highlighting. It turns <iostream> into an html tag:
http://ix.io/2Lu3/cpp
Wonderful.
@2ck it's cheaper thoooough, and also very slim and slick design, aaaand it's from the company that has a patent on the asteroid proof hull material.
@2ck quite the opposite, you cannot be accidentally ejected into space, when the system fails, you'll be safely locked inside, until you replace the whole ship. Because of this people start manually overriding the safety system, and yada yada
@2ck Haven't seen it, but just from this context: Major ship manufacturer makes the safety system unrepairable as a cost reduction. System eventually fails safely, not letting people out of ships. People start manually overriding instead of getting a new ship. Since people already keep manually overriding, the next generation of ships doesn't even include the safety system. Nobody cares about lives, cause... prominent ancap party says it's natural selection or something.
