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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What about vaping? It may be somewhat "less" dangerous but likely shares most of the same risks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Bug bounties refer to specific programs that companies put in place to essentially reward white hat hackers for doing freelance offensive security audits.

I get what you're trying to say, but you're specifically referring to black hat hackers. Referencing bug bounties is muddying your meaning.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Influencers. And more broadly, almost anything to do with marketing.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

People need to get the fuck off twitter.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

I'm really holding out for Ladybird.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I'm personally a fan of "it's not rocket appliances"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

It's often called an eggcorn, and here's a really good video that touches on it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JTslqcXsFd4&pp=ygUMRWdnY29ybiBlcmlr

The weirdest one I used to hear often was "for all intensive purposes," like wtf is an intensive purpose?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Roma people have historically been very persecuted because of racism and ethnocentrism. Case in point: the holocaust killed up to 500,000 Romani people, but the actual figures are not known. Roma people are among the groups that are rarely talked about when the Holocaust is mentioned, despite losing up to 50% of their total population at the time.

Arab and North African folks are usually considered white on the US census but that isn't really an accurate picture.

Race is a social construct that doesn't have clear borders. Racial categories mostly exist as a way of creating division and limiting access to resources, to flatten the diversity of individual cultures represented by a racial category... or to inflict direct and systemic violence. The experience of being a racialized person is entirely the creation of the society that a person lives within; for example, African folks usually don't self-identify as "black," within Africa, but that's an important racialized experience that people can speak to in a place like the US.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago

Sooo high urgency with zero consequence for missing targets?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

That most likely is due to you being fixated on your thumb. We can and do consistently wire our nervous systems, and in this case you've probably wired yours to produce a pain sensation in your thumb.

In a nutshell, this is how chronic pain works. There most likely is nothing physically wrong with your thumb.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

It's highly innervated (sensitive) and it's cartilaginous. Cartilage is mostly nonvascular, meaning that it doesn't have blood flow to it, and which also means healing takes forever.

Because it tends to hurt for a while due to the actual physical trauma, our nervous systems also tend to send the pain messaging well after the actual trauma, even if healing has taken place. This specific pain presentation is a form of chronic pain (mostly a nervous system disorder) that is usually onset by some sort of physical trauma.

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