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Comment Re:Everyone knows... (Score 2) 63

I'm very liberal but I do not in any way excuse what happened on Oct 7th, quite the opposite. But choosing to back Palestine is a moral decision isn't the same as the willful ignorance and lies told by the right.

Is it even "backing Palestine" to oppose genocide of Palestinians? I can't stand either religion whose followers lay claim to Gaza, but I don't think that disliking someone's religion is sufficient justification for genocide. Israel was founded on the British partition of Palestine by the USA through the UN and it immediately began literal and self-described colonization of as much land as it could get its hands on, whether or not it was included in the lands which were handed to it.

Hamas is terrible, but it was founded in the eighties and in response to Israeli terrorist organizations which were murdering Palestinians, and Netanyahu has repeatedly and publicly told us that he makes sure Hamas receives funding which is sent to it as part of his Gaza strategy — so not only does history not start October 7, but Netanyahu deliberately made sure that something like the October 7 attack would happen, and then proceeded to go from semi-genocidal behavior to fully genocidal behavior. Therefore it's clear that his goal was always genocide. What did the world expect Palestinians to do, roll over?

To me, both Hamas and Israel's terrorist organizations are the enemies of not just all people who even believe in morality, but also the future of humanity because this conflict increases the chance of nuclear war day by day. We are closer to it today than we have ever been because the US-Russia cold war was between two nations with some things to lose. But Hamas was also inevitable and the blame for their successes falls on Netanyahu's willful insurance of their funding. And We The People of these United States of America have in turn enabled both him and Israel to do what they are doing in the region.

On that basis, we've already picked sides, and we've chosen the side of genocide.

Comment Re:Better yet, don't use buzzwords. (Score 0) 133

"Let's touch base offline to align our bandwidth on this workflow." isn't jargon, it's buzzwords. It just translates to "Let's meet after this and make sure you understand how I want that to work.".

It isn't just buzzwords, it's jargon with specific meaning... but your comment highlights the problem, because you didn't understand it.

One part you didn't understand was "bandwidth", which in the management context means "available work capacity". This means it's a discussion about resource staffing and constraints. Also, "align" means there's going to be some two-way negotiation, in this case to figure out whose employees are going to take on what part of the work based on their availability. (Well, probably. "Align" could have been used out of politeness, implying a fictional intention to negotiate when in reality the speaker does plan to dictate.) In addition, the use of "workflow" implies that the plan to be developed isn't just for one project, but for an ongoing effort.

Try translating all of that nuance to standard English, and you'll convert a ten-word sentence into a paragraph or two. Like all jargon, its purpose is to increase communication by compressing a lot of detailed information into a few words that have context-specific meaning that goes beyond their normal English definitions.

Of course, the downside of the jargon is that it prevents those who don't understand the contextual definitions from understanding, causing them to come away with interpretations like "Let's meet after this and make sure you understand how I want that to work."

In fairness to you, I have to point out that often the users of business jargon don't know what it means either, and are just using it to make themselves sound "businessy". That's less a jargon problem than evidence that the company isn't hiring the best people.

Comment Re:Shocking, but... (Score 0) 97

and your subtle intimations that somehow the cost of fossil fuels might not be enough to counter the literally billions of people who would not be alive today without their advent

Oh shit this is precious AF, keep going with your absolute proof that your reading comprehension skills are shit.

Comment Re:Beer is ass (Score 1) 66

A real lightweight could get quite tipsy on a single Big Little Thing tall boy, 19.2 oz, 9.5% ABV. They're like four bucks at my local grocery outlet, too.

I used to have a fairly unfortunately serious drinking habit, but I've scaled back, and one of these gets me a nice buzz on. And I'm a big dude.

I also genuinely enjoy IPAs, while I would generally rather not drink a Pilsener and despise sours. But I'm not mad at people who want to drink those other beers, and a lot of people think an IPA tastes like Pine-Sol. People should let people like things, yeesh.

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