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[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Is there a "young man yells at clouds meme" here?

"Yes, you're very clever calling out the hype train. Oooh, what a smart boy you are!" Until the dust settles...

Lemmy sounds like my grandma in 1998, "Pushah. This 'internet' is just a fad.'"

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

They have to take it home for homework.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Indicted on three counts involving money laundering and wire fraud

Oops. Picked on the big dogs by playing their own game.

Seriously though, probably more going on than what we read here.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Alien replays nicely if you haven't seen it in awhile and really focus on the experience.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Well, that backfired.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

In any case, I doubt the population doubled the capita count.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, I don't feel this is on the doctors. They're overrun with work and are just trying to get through it. I was unable to find a single GP in my town that takes both insurance and new patients. My wife can't find a heart doctor, no one is taking new patients.

An anecdote that illustrates my point:

Went to CVS one Sunday with what I had thought was a mild, post-surgery infection. Turned out it wasn't, I merely overworked my hand, and was in fact healing up great! This young doctor, having no other patients, sat and shot the shit with me for nearly an hour. I learned so much about my current and past problems. He spoke casually, fielded questions unrelated to my current issue, treated me like an old friend. "The hell made you think kayaking was OK 6-days out of surgery?! Damn, man..." All because he had time to kill. Imagine that. (LOL, he have me antibiotics anyway, knowing I was losing my insurance and would bank them against future need.)

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I still have a hard time digesting "gay" as a slur. We simply didn't use it that way, ever. F@g could go both ways and my gay friends happily slung it at each other. An attempt to take the word back from the haters I guess. At least that word was sometimes used as a real insult.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We're of an age, and I too try to bring perspective to younger readers. All true, I was there, I saw it.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Solid write up! You've changed my opinion. I had thought terms like "octoroon" were merely archaic descriptors, had never thought of the "one drop" angle and what that implied.

Holy shit! There's even a word for all this!

such terminology is a characteristic of hypodescent, which is the practice within a society of assigning children of mixed unions to the ethnic group which the dominant group perceives as being subordinate

1/64th: Sang-mêlé. My god, that's a laugh-out-loud racist word if I ever heard one. How far back did they want to go?!

For anyone else finding this interesting, this might be the opening of a rabbit hole:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadroon

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

That's a bingo!

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by shalafi@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

She had interviewed and met both remotely and in person, this guy was merely an HR drone confirming her documentation. I was a little bent when she told me he had asked her to remove her blur filter "to have a look at her working environment, make sure it's not cluttered" (something along those lines). No one else at this company requested such. Was he way out of line?

I should note, this is my PC in our living room and not where she will be working from. And this guy wants a look around our home?! Told my wife to bring this up once she's settled in, ask HR if this is policy. She started today!

She thinks it's a racism thing. I'm not so sure, but I don't have any other explanation.

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