Music still has a lot of terminology with a racist or patriarchal background. Let's change that.
- Black Sabbath
Deny Sabbath
- White Lion
Allow Lion
- The Killers
The Beloved
- Master and Servant
Mutual Respect
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I like his alternative terms. I also don't like going after people who don't see anything wrong with the current terms.
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Where it gets nasty is where he says "I'm simply suggesting improvements that cost little to adopt". They *always* say this. He's not forcing anybody, but if you resist you're lazy and mean-spirited.
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People who pull this move a) have no proof their neat new idea offers any benefit at all, and have no intention of trying to find any, and b) airily dismiss the idea that the policy could pose any inconvenience or difficulty to anyone.
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Generally they're high-verbal-IQ people 'accidentally' suggesting policies that will be easy for them personally but present less verbally adept individuals with frustration and ample opportunities for humiliation. It's obnoxious.
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That I agree with.
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also 'computer programming'
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Eh, programming doesn't count as 'little effort'.
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There are well-known SF series entirely and specifically about this - in the magic-via-programming genre - as I am certain you well know.
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Programming is more like demonology, in the sense that you're engaged in a continuous negotiation with an alien and moderately hostile intelligence.
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I would sell my soul for an interactive programming environment for my current applications
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s/for/to
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Grift 1: "We need to change blacklist to denylist, it's a bad message." Grift 2: "You'll never guess the racist origin of denylist!"
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What the hell is a whitelist? I've been living without that word just fine & u can forget allowlist. That is just stupid
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