It’s also a children’s song that I was taught as a child in kindergarten or maybe church. That’s what i associate it with.

Nothing is wrong with double entendres depending on intent. My humor and language is about as crass as it comes depending on my audience.

I’m saying that there are so many terms like this, gender and similar is built into english technical language.

Personal experience, hired a black woman when I was running a shop. Half the crew has the maturity and grace of drunk squirrels. I easily pass as het. I say something about a female thread being buggered. Now I’ve got two knuckleheads in the back giggling even though she gets that I was not being offensive. Still, that sucks for both of us and I want to slap the shit out of the knuckleheads and I feel like shit for causing it.

And we wonder why all minorities are so underrepresented in STEM. It’s a minefield.

In my perfect little world, we don’t change the terms and instead reduce the dumbass level. In reality, we navigate the minefield as best we can and change the things that cause the most offense.

You tell someone to go lube the shaft in complete seriousness, and they’re going to giggle and pull a, “That’s what she said…”

Not a probelm, per se, but it is a good example of just how much of technical language can be perceived as a double entendre. I generally don’t realize I’ve said anything like that until a new kid starts snickering.

This is also part, not all, of the reason there is resistance to changing these things. A good chunk of that resistance is because those using these words have no bad intent whatsoever. It’s not even on the radar.

And of course, there are plenty of bigoted shitheads who don’t want to change.

I still often say trans/tranny when referring to a transmission. It’s hard to train those language patterns out of yourself. Not to mention things like master and slave cylinders, hermophradite/mophradite calipers and fittings, gender changers.

Reamers and reaming, bastard files and bastard threads, deep hole drilling, male/female fittings, shafts and lube, prongs, orifice.

Open source has tried to redefine master/slave in things like SPI to controller and peripheral, ie. MOSI/COPI but the rest of the documentation and all of the documentation that came before it still uses it.

Technical language is full of this stuff and is often the clearest way to express something. It is the standard and changing industrial standards is very hard.

It’s funny, is changing this stuff performative or does it really matter?

I would say it matters. However, it is likely that new terms being created today will become offensive in the future.

I could see Big Endian and Little Endian becoming offensive if it isn’t already considered offensive.

I like the “No Kings!” messaging, simple and pointed. We need a slogan that is short and sweet for the soldiers to use. Something that shows them they have agency in this.

The whole Tankie thing. Just like MAGAts but on the other side. They’re authoritarian left with lots of Chinese and possibly Russian influence. Far left most of us support are on the opposite end of the authoritarian/individualistic axis from both Tankies and MAGAts.

Was looking up tracks in a field guide the other day and ran across this super cute rodent, The Mountain Beaver.

Jerboa has served well as the replacement for me.

Very true, and more efficient.

For now, I can mute all that I’ve found, it also looks like the pump has crashed, which is fun.

It quits working, I may adopt your method.

Not OP, but I was unaware of that. That must have caused most all the AIDS that was caught through transfusions.

You sound like one of them Lake Wobegone types. We don’t cotton to that around here, too uplifting.

So, most pump POS used to have a labeled or unlabeled mute button. That has become rare.

So far, I’ve been able to kick all of them into a diagnostic/trouble menu by pressing pairs of keys on each side of the monitor in sequence from the top.

Some of them have a timeout on this screen, but the counter resets when you hit a key.

Passwords can be entered from the keypad, with ok/enter also working. I bet the passwords are the manufacturer default, probably a 5-7 digit number. I was able to find partial training manuals and setup docs from one of the POS vendors but I didn’t find a default password or deeper technical docs for the one brand I looked into.

Fucking ads in my face fucking piss me off.

Narzishit is the new word I’ll be using.

So other than clit-mouse, what’s the actual name of the nubbin thingy?

Wasn’t Harvard and such mixed up in it as well? Phrenology and race. If people knew history, we wouldn’t be staring down the barrel of the current nightmare.

Nah man, he popped out and his mama slapped a beret on his head right then.

‘feral’ is a dog whistle for poor urban black folks.

June 13th, 2020 from the heading. Didn’t bother reading the article. Not sure why we’re posting orange menace ragebait from 2020.

My son and I laughed our asses off over that presentation. Brilliant but kind of disgusting.

24 was another one that legitimized brutality.

I’ve occasionally seen early episodes of Cops, the difference in uniform is notable. Don’t know how you’d ever measure it, but I bet Cops is actually responsible for a lot of deaths due to the cultural shift.