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  • jon-nycJ Online
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    jon-nyc
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    I wonder what would happen if I said “I’m Jon, a homosapiens, and my gender and pronouns should be inferred from my appearance. Like happens to all of us 1000 times a day.”

    Only non-witches get due process.

    • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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    • F Friday

      Are they saying all that because blind people will be watching?

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      @friday said in Self-identification at Microsoft:

      Are they saying all that because blind people will be watching?

      Yeah that's what I figured, too.

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      • CopperC Copper

        That's right honey

        Those Indians were there since time immemorial

        That means they slaughtered everyone that was there before them, then they melted down their statues and destroyed their history texts so nobody would know that they slaughtered everyone

        Clever indigenous people

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        @copper said in Self-identification at Microsoft:

        That's right honey

        Those Indians were there since time immemorial

        That means they slaughtered everyone that was there before them, then they melted down their statues and destroyed their history texts so nobody would know that they slaughtered everyone

        Clever indigenous people

        Pretty darn accurate. That's my biggest beef about respecting indigenous people. Humans have been killing others and stealing land since the dawn of time. Only in this last sliver of humanity's time on this planet are we civilized enough to start feeling bad about it.

        People are mad about Columbus? He didn't do anything different than the natives had been doing, except he had a puffy shirt and a couple boats with rhyming names.

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        • 89th8 89th

          @copper said in Self-identification at Microsoft:

          That's right honey

          Those Indians were there since time immemorial

          That means they slaughtered everyone that was there before them, then they melted down their statues and destroyed their history texts so nobody would know that they slaughtered everyone

          Clever indigenous people

          Pretty darn accurate. That's my biggest beef about respecting indigenous people. Humans have been killing others and stealing land since the dawn of time. Only in this last sliver of humanity's time on this planet are we civilized enough to start feeling bad about it.

          People are mad about Columbus? He didn't do anything different than the natives had been doing, except he had a puffy shirt and a couple boats with rhyming names.

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          @89th said in Self-identification at Microsoft:

          People are mad about Columbus? He didn't do anything different than the natives had been doing, except he had a puffy shirt and a couple boats with rhyming names.

          Indeed. All those folks in Mexico complaining about how Texas was "stolen" from them should look backward about 10 generations and see who lived there before the Spanish speakers.

          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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            Copper
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              Sam Harris made me LOL:

              "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

              The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                If you want to work for a big company, more and more it's a prerequisite that you have to fit in with this sort of stuff. Indeed that you have to think it's all good and not ridiculous at all. In fact there are millions and millions of indoctrinated mediocrities that think and feel exactly that, for whom fitting into these cultures is like a fish fitting into water. It helps to be younger, and it helps to be dumber. As for the actual work accomplished by these young blinkered people, don't count on anything of any value coming from any of them.

                Education is extremely important.

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                • HoraceH Horace

                  If you want to work for a big company, more and more it's a prerequisite that you have to fit in with this sort of stuff. Indeed that you have to think it's all good and not ridiculous at all. In fact there are millions and millions of indoctrinated mediocrities that think and feel exactly that, for whom fitting into these cultures is like a fish fitting into water. It helps to be younger, and it helps to be dumber. As for the actual work accomplished by these young blinkered people, don't count on anything of any value coming from any of them.

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                  @horace said in Self-identification at Microsoft:

                  As for the actual work accomplished by these young blinkered people, don't count on anything of any value coming from any of them.

                  I had a great career, at least in part, because of that fact.

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                    My wife heard part of an extremely long-winded corporate conference call Wednesday, that my daughter was participating in. Nobody on the call had less than a Master's degree. A high percentage held doctorates.

                    After about 20 minutes of this stuff, my wife said it was extremely obvious to anybody listening, who could actually think and problem solve. She said it was no more than one in three.

                    “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                    Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                    • JollyJ Jolly

                      My wife heard part of an extremely long-winded corporate conference call Wednesday, that my daughter was participating in. Nobody on the call had less than a Master's degree. A high percentage held doctorates.

                      After about 20 minutes of this stuff, my wife said it was extremely obvious to anybody listening, who could actually think and problem solve. She said it was no more than one in three.

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                      @jolly said in Self-identification at Microsoft:

                      My wife heard part of an extremely long-winded corporate conference call Wednesday, that my daughter was participating in. Nobody on the call had less than a Master's degree. A high percentage held doctorates.

                      After about 20 minutes of this stuff, my wife said it was extremely obvious to anybody listening, who could actually think and problem solve. She said it was no more than one in three.

                      Your wife is generous.

                      Please love yourself.

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