ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]

Mine’s sleeping and farting like a horrible goblin on my sister’s bed, so business as usual really. Apparently his 20 minute leisurely stroll around the park was just utterly exhausting.

Over at my parents, their little terrorist has been worn out for once by a half marathon, and is having some actually deserved rest.

I was never particularly bothered about the skulls in the Halo series, except Grunt Birthday Party. The games just aren’t right without that occasional pop and cheer.

Back in uni I discovered I can titrate perfectly. Normally you have to do at least 5 or 6 titrations and average the ones that match closest, but I never needed more than 2; A rough titration to get a ballpark figure, then a second to get the exact volume. Any more after that only ever confirmed the first figure.
My professor didn’t believe me the first time I came up to her and said my 2 measurements were identical, so told me to do it again in front of her. I produced the same measurement again, and she said she’d never seen anyone do that before, but I’d still have to do at least 3 measurements each time for my coursework.

Unfortunately I’ve never titrated anything since leaving uni.

No, before arguing back. Think first, then argue. Or, in this case, don’t argue if you can’t actually articulate an argument.

…she was actively revealing the winners identity. Please fucking think for a moment before arguing back.

Sure, but she didn’t use it for the same reason you’re using “she” and “her” instead of “they” and “their” - she knew the winner’s gender.

Gender was needlessly injected by the English language, which requires gendered pronouns. The boss had no choice about referring to the winner as “she”, she just chose to comment on it.

The Chronicon of Marcellinus Comes, apparently. Not sure why.

Taiwan is not a country. Just about the only thing the PRC and ROC agree upon is that Taiwan is part of China, the core of the dispute is who should control China.

It’s pretty simple - they don’t give a fuck. They have no incentive to do anything but the bare minimum. And the other day, the bare minimum meant you got a box and a half of free ice-cream.

I think the way you talk around the issue (e.g. “a man named after a certain plumber”) really demonstrates an underlying understanding that you’re in the wrong here: you’re avoiding direct confrontation with him and his motives in order to paint this as a simple murder. You linked to excuses about how Brian Thompson was actually innocent, because denying life saving medical coverage isn’t technically the same thing as personally murdering them, despite having the same effect. You paint agreement with his actions with pledging direct allegiance to him personally.

There are legitimate arguments around not lionising his actions (as Hexbear discussed at the time), but you’re just getting upset about civility and direct violence disrupting the indirect violence of capitalism.

While technically your intent isn’t that of trolling, it’s such an incredibly afactual statement that a reasonable person could not be expected to realise that you (claim to) genuinely believe it. It’s unreasonable for a person to genuinely believe such things after seeing the last decade with their own eyes, so even if you’re not a troll your comment only detracts from and muddies the discussion.

If someone told you that they genuinely believe the earth is a concave disk, you would look around at the horizon and assume they’re fucking with you because of how ridiculous a statement it is. Same thing here - there is no difference in your behaviour whether you’re trolling or genuinely believe it, so mods have to take the more reasonable assumption.

You’re insisting that trump is the worse option despite the last 4 years of democrat rule leaving Americans and the objects of America’s foreign policies materially worse than either trump’s previous term or current actions. If you’re not trolling then you’re deluding yourself.

Edit: if you read “the democrats left people in a worse state than trump” and think that’s endorsing trump rather than denigrating the democrats then you seriously need to reassess your privileges. To view that as praise requires complete detachment from either of their actions. Trump’s first term was bad enough for Biden to sail into the whitehouse almost solely on the promise of not being trump, and he fumbled everything so hard that the entire US has regressed by decades, becoming less safe for women and minorities and leaving the poor and working class in more precarious a position than ever before, not to mention the whole genocide thing. If none of that materially affected you, when it affected enough of the US that trump was voted back into power, then you are operating on the vibes emanating from your ivory tower and your opinion is completely irrelevant.

Edit for db0: You don’t need to edit your comments, I just can’t directly reply to you because you’re still banned from Hexbear for DM harrassment because you wouldn’t stop crying about a temp ban. Anyway please tell me more about your smol bean president theory while I read this article about Trump overriding the TikTok ban

edit for db0: Of course, everyone’s just making cruel rumours up about you, the admins just suddenly permabanned you for no reason a couple of hours after your temp. Half our community was there you dip, you had your meltdown in public. I suppose to a liberal criticising Biden would look like supporting Trump, though.

Edit: I mean you comments got stripped out with the ban but there are enough quotes to reconstruct your tantrum. The modlog tells a similar story, but I guess I misremembered the couple of hours - the admins got sick of you after 45 minutes of whining DMs.

It’s just a stereotype.

I need you to be honest - do you not know what stereotypes are, or do you not know what racism is? Stereotyping is one of the conceptual parts of racism, so saying it’s not racist because it’s a stereotype is like saying pizza isn’t Italian because it’s from Naples.

stopped being used offensively several decades ago, and was then repurposed into being a praise of sorts.

Could you give me sources for when this happened for “ricing” and “ricer”? Because there are a lot of people in this thread telling you that it’s still offensive, and I’m pretty sure they know a little bit more than you about racism.

It’s an app like tiktok. Symbolically you can interpret it as representing anything you want, that’s how symbolism works, but what it actually is is an app like tiktok.

Probably G2A you’re thinking of, I’m pretty certain GMG are official.

not exactly how I phrased it

Yeah, no shit buddy, and your “gist” can be pretty forcibly rejected by reading these, which use some form of the term without defending it: https://hexbear.net/comment/5821220 https://hexbear.net/comment/5819913 https://hexbear.net/comment/5821145 https://hexbear.net/comment/5819994

Citation needed, as they say. I only saw car bodies being modded.
body modifications. […] I only saw car bodies being modded.
body modifications. […] bodies being modded.

Bold of you to assume I have smth against groups of ppl based on their race

So it’s not that you have anything against asian people, you just think it’s ok to use a term that origtinated in saying japanese people eat so much rice they even run their cars on it. Uh huh. Would you defend the N-word on the basis that it’s a commonly used word and you don’t understand why it’s so bad?

just an assumption you’re from the US

Extremely unsafe assumption, but newsflash - your ancestors don’t need to be the specific ones who invented a racism for it to be racist to act like them. If you copy someone else’s racism you are still the one being racist. You’ve been told multiple times by multiple people that the term is racist, but you’re arguing it’s not racist because you don’t know how it’s racist. Have you maybe considered you’re just not very smart and need to study racism a bit more? Maybe learn what this whole “microaggression” thing people keep talking about it?

the “wrong” ones that used the “r-word” happened to be blocked

I’m sure you can find enough examples of the word rice, ricing, and ricer to put two and two together and realise the “r-word” isn’t what got them blocked.

there is a comment from another mod that explicitly tells they’ll remove stuff using that.

No it doesn’t, because that hasn’t happened.

nor is it derogatory in its current form

Are you really not able to put together how transferring a term used to deride body modifications (using ethnic associations) to UI modifications is derogatory? Do you think it magically lost context somewhere along the way, the history of the term just disappearing into the aether?

I’d also like to play along and give you folks another (and, arguably, a more worthy) which hunt target

Stop trying to worm out of this you wretched little shit. Defend using that on the site and you’ll also get your comments removed, but we’re talking about your racism right now.

Are you telling me that you have so little understanding of slurs and their use that you think people are getting banned for saying using the word rice? You cannot be serious. How dare you think you have the intelligence to hold an opinion.

I know what you’re arguing you fucking dunce, I just told you you’re wrong. There are plenty of slurs that aren’t as bad as the n-word, you’re not allowed to use any of them. And b) doesn’t matter. You don’t use the n-word even if a black person “gives you permission”, because that makes you a fucking racist.

It’s not like black people using the N-word, it’s like white people using the n-word because a stranger on the internet said it’s ok.

aside from the use of the “r-word”

You don’t think them casually dropping a slur might invalidate their opinion on whether a different word is a slur? Fucking LLM-ass logic right there.