BornVolcano

I was uplifted for a minute and then I read the comments.

Guys, why is it so hard to just respect that people exist that you might not fully understand?

Chances are they just don’t talk about it

The term has been removed from most recent medical literature, because the use of it has been inseparably tied with mental disability. You can’t exactly justify calling a black man the n-word because he is a criminal, no?

Trying to find situations where it’s “okay” to use slurs as insults is creating a loophole based on opinion that will broaden with time, implying that there are individuals who “deserve” to be called slurs and those who don’t. It’s creating a divide that can be easily exploited. It’s best just to find another word.

The only appropriate use I know of is when talking about flame retardants. The word inherently means “to slow down/reduce”, so using it to describe people inherently classifies them as “slow”, another common insult term for mentally disabled people. Using it towards fire is a direct use of its wording and doesn’t have the same risks.

Basically, the damage is done and the association is there, and it can’t really be removed simply because the slur is used “accurately”, you know? It carries the harmful context with it.

My dad gave me his old Razer 2 since he doesn’t use it anymore. It’s not in great condition, but it works

You just had me unplugging my cable to shine a flashlight down it to look for the pins haha. Thank you for the info!

Yeah, I recently made the switch from apple to Android after my second apple device in a row had a major internal hardware malfunction out of nowhere and the people at the store just went “yeah no I can’t fix this sorry, you need a new phone”, so I’m still figuring out the complex world of not apple. I didn’t even realize you had to clean the ports, but I guess it would make sense. I recently found out my android and my computer use the same port (usb-c) and I got really excited so that’s the level of “tech savvy” I’m on haha

Okay, so getting information and energy to and from the phone (what a cable does), how long it lasts, how many different types of cables you’d have to buy to work with similar devices you have, length and price are self explanatory, and whether or not apple is being apple.

I think I got it, thank you!

Yeah, I’m learning that, which is exactly why I asked the question

That, I believe, is what we refer to as an “abomination”

I’m also seeing things about not using the phone while it’s charging which is a rule I’m currently breaking as we speak. Whoops!

I may be stupid.

But I have no idea how people are comparing “better” or “worse” cables. I always just assumed they were just cables.

Edit: for people downvoting me, I’m not saying they are just cables, I’m just saying I don’t know what the difference is, and asking for an explanation. Please calm down.

I’m so used to hearing him called “Zucc” that it took me a second to figure out who “Mark” was

It started as one easy to read bean can and I extended the transcription with every update.

Also I’m magic.

Image Transcription:

[An image depicting two thousand and forty-eight light blue 13.7 ounce cans of ‘Heinz Beanz’ brand baked beans in tomato sauce arranged in a sixty-four by thirty-two rectangle on a white background. The image quality makes the words on the can impossible to make out and very blurry.]

^I’m a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^

Image Transcription:

[An image depicting one thousand and twenty-four light blue 13.7 ounce cans of ‘Heinz Beanz’ brand baked beans in tomato sauce arranged in a thirty-two by thirty-two rectangle on a white background. The image quality makes the words on the can impossible to make out and very blurry.]

^I’m a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^

Image Transcription: Meme

[‘Let me in’ - a two panel image of a man in a suit standing outside a closed metal gate, and shaking it vigorously in the second panel with his head tilted back and his mouth open screaming. The second panel also has small amount of motion blur. There is text at the bottom of both images.]

LEMMY IN.

LEMMY IIIIIIIN!

^I’m a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^

Image Transcription: Twitter Post

@nelson@tech.lgbt, @nelson

Lol the Twitter webapp is trying to load something from its internal graphql API and getting a 429 Too Many Requests response. Twitter’s JavaScript ignores the error and tries again, hundreds of times a second.

Twitter is DDOSing itself.

[An image taken from the sci-fi television series “The Mandalorian” that shows the protagonist “The Mandalorian” in their characteristic metal suit. Their face is obscured by their helmet. The subtitles underneath the image read the text “[sighs]”]

^I’m a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^

There’s a Lemmy ToR? ToL? I’m in. 30 transcriptions on reddit, time to carry on the legacy.