It's worse than "very ignorant". It stinks malice and stupidity at the same time - because the person is rushing conclusions (aka assuming, aka making shit up) about another person, based on little to no information.
I never saw this in real life, but if some acquaintance told me that they avoid dating people without social media presence "because it's a red flag", I'd look for further signs that the person is unjust and/or assumptive and consider avoiding them altogether.
(I don't care about USA enough to discuss its specificities. I'll talk about fascism.)
It's a mistake to conflate two enemies. Even if you hate both for the same reasons, once you conflate them, you lose the ability to fight against at least one of them.
And what the video describes as "friendly fascism" has barely anything to do with fascism. And it has already a name - plutocracy, or "government of the rich".
Once you disregard witch hunters and their brainfarts, fascism has a rather consistent bundle of traits:
By far #0 is the most important trait of fascism, as the others come from it. In the meantime plutocracy (or "friendly fascism") would fit #3, arguably #7. And the contempt for liberalism and electoral politics appears for different reasons for both - ideological and pragmatic respectively.
Once you make this distinction, this video becomes specially interesting to watch, as it allows you to notice how one of your enemies is using the other to kill you with a borrowed knife.
Misleading name, on the same level as calling water "non-explosive hydrogen". That said the material looks promising, as a glass replacement for some applications (the text mentions a few of them, like armoured windows).
(It is not a metal; it's a ceramic, mostly oxygen with bits and bobs of aluminium and nitrogen. Interesting nonetheless, even if I'm picking on the name.)
Relevant link. Emphasis on "Not applicable to free-of-charge open-source software".
It shouldn't affect the open source environment itself. Only the corporate leeches.
They hire specialised people in Cuiabá (where this vid is from) to do it. Picture related:
(I'm joking. They have a herd mentality and cars look threatening, so I think that this behaviour pops up naturally.)
I'm always amused by shitty corporate attempts to boss people around on language usage. They're bound to fail, even if you screech "noo! muh traremurrk!" nonstop.
Although... this is smelling a bit like advertisement disguised as "brand awareness". If that's correct the HN OP is biting the bait.
Is this a uniquely US thing?
Among Portuguese speakers in my chunk of Brazil I've seen at the least the following genericised brands:
(Pronunciation for reference, it might vary quite a bit depending on individual. For example I tend to use [ks] for "xerox", but plenty people add an epenthetic vowel to it.)
As I said above, ‘salt allowance’ isn’t a terrible guess. But I strongly suspect it’s much more metaphorical than that. [...]
A modern equivalent of that would be "beer money". Same idea - you're representing the whole (goods that you're supposed to buy with that money) by one of its parts (salt, or beer).
I'd probably look for an instance that does not federate with instances that federate with Reddit. Yes, two levels of separation.
Because only a small part of my hate against Reddit is about the stupid, backstabbing, obnoxious and disingenuous administration. Most of it is about the userbase. I do not want to deal with 90% of the Reddit userbase and its stupidity.
It reaches the point that I don't know if "I dun unrurrstand, u think dat 50 is not 100? than u think dat 50 is zero? dats dumb lol lmao [insert same emoji 10x] EDIT: WOW THANKS FOR THE GOLD KIND STRANGER!" exaggerates or accurately represents their [lack of] reasoning.
Drinking game: look at the comments in the HN thread and sip some beer every time a Redditor LARPing as H4x0r uses a false equivalency. (I've counted four.)
Probably mayo, but I need to know on what.
It was both case and position: for uppercase you'd use ⟨V⟩, for initial lowercase ⟨v⟩, else ⟨u⟩. For example, check "view" in the last line of the excerpt.
Classical Physics breaks in three situations: if it's too fast, too massive, or too tiny. To address that, new theories appeared. Among them:
What researchers are looking for is a theory that is able to handle all three things at the same time, superseding both the relativities and the quantum theories. That's the Theory of Everything that everyone is looking for. (Except me. I'm looking for my cup of coffee.)
And most people look for it in a specific way: they try to adapt relativity to quantum phenomena. Those researchers however are doing something different: they're imposing a limit on the quantum theories, saying that they break under specific situations, because spacetime would work more like in classical physics than like in quantum mechanics - in other words that quantum theories need to be fixed to relativity, not the opposite.
The researchers then devised a stupidly simple experiment to test their hypothesis out.