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Another woke company wakes up too late The Serious You: How Current Events Affect You
Started 5/26/22 by WALTER784; 9070 views.
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From: WALTER784
Jan-1
None of them are free here in Japan. Of course, you can buy your own used pachinko machine for about $300 ~ $450 and play it at home all you want, but even that is not free because you have to buy the used machine.
And after you play it enough times, the little nails/pins that the balls go through get slightly bent out of shape and need occasional realignment too!
FWIW
From: $1,661.87 in cats (ROCKETMAN_S)
Jan-2
Showtalk said:California started a lottery for education. They never quite said what happened to the money but education was and still is quite broke.
Yep. Classic bait and switch scam, just done by a state legislature rather than a typical street hustler.
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From: Showtalk
Jan-3
It was a home machine. It didn’t work as well as a professional one. There is a novel called Pachinko, too, by Min Jin Lee.
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From: WALTER784
Jan-8
Speech police at woke Stanford cancel words like ‘American’ and ‘man,’ claim they constitute ‘harmful language’
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
by: JD Heyes
(Natural News) The far-left world of academia, long taken over by Communists and Marxists hell-bent on destroying the freest society in the world, is continuing its attack on every aspect of our country, especially our language.
The latest example of the left’s cultural destruction is occurring at woke Stanford University, where a new ‘speech guide’ has removed words like “American” and “man” over the ridiculous claim that they constitute “harmful language.”
The Epoch Times noted in a report:
The university created an index of forbidden words that it plans on eliminating from its websites and computer code, with a list of alternative terms to replace them with.
Stanford published in May what it calls its “Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative,” (EHLI) a “multi-phase, multi-year project to address harmful language in IT at Stanford,” according to the guide revealed by The Wall Street Journal.
The attempted changes to the English language are part of a decades-long campaign by far-left groups to impose Marxist “critical theory” on the whole of society, resulting in the “woke” movement.
By any measure, the culture warriors are winning — and what’s more, they have no plans to take their feet off the gas pedal.
“EHLI is one of the actions prioritized in the Statement of Solidarity and Commitment to Action, which was published by the Stanford CIO Council (CIOC) and People of Color in Technology (POC-IT) affinity group in December 2020,” the guide says without a shred of irony, noting that any group designed by skin color is, in and of itself, patently racist.
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The overarching stated objective of the EHLI project is to deep six “many forms of harmful language,” such as “racist, violent, and biased (e.g., disability bias, ethnic bias, ethnic slurs, gender bias, implicit bias, sexual bias) language in Stanford websites and code” (again, not a single hint of irony here).
The university website explained that the purpose of the guide was, ostensibly, to ‘educate’ people on the alleged impact of words and that the “suggested alternatives” aligned with those implemented by “peer institutions within the technology community.”
See, it’s not important to train and educate people in the field of technology if they have no idea how to use the ‘proper pronouns’ or shun ‘words that hurt.’
“According to the university, EHLI is part of a ‘multi-phase’ project compiled by Stanford’s IT leaders, which took ’18 months of collaboration with stakeholder groups’ to complete,” The Epoch Times reported.
Translation: Collaboration with anti-white, left-wing groups.
Unbelievably, the index’s preface contains this ‘warning’ for users: “This website contains language that is offensive or harmful. Please engage with this website at your own pace.”
The guide goes on to invent terms as well as a reason for people to be ‘offended’.
“Ableist language is language that is offensive to people who live with disabilities and/or devalues people who live with disabilities. The unintentional use of such terms furthers the belief that people who live with disabilities are abnormal,” the guide says.
In addition, and of course, students and Stanford U staffers are strongly advised to downplay their own nationality by shunning the word “American,” instead being advised to use the term “U.S. citizen,” lest it be ‘insulting’ to people at the school who are not Americans. The guide says there are 42 countries in the Americas and that ‘American’ only applies to citizens of the United States, thereby suggesting that citizens of those other countries are somehow less valuable.
The guide says not to use the word “abort” because it may ‘trigger’ concerns about “abortion.” The guide advises people to use
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From: WALTER784
Jan-8
It looks like they learned very quickly about their actions... perhaps every woke attempt needs to be met with a big backlash!!!
Stanford University Walks Back Plan to Eliminate ‘Racist’ and ‘Harmful’ Words Like ‘American,’ ‘Grandfather’ After Backlash
By Cristina Laila
Published December 26, 2022 at 8:20pm
The woke losers at Stanford University recently released a list of ‘harmful language’ to eliminate in an effort to be more sensitive to marginalized groups.
The guide, titled “The Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative,” featured “10 ‘harmful language’ sections outlined in the index: ableist, ageism, colonialism, culturally appropriative, gender-based, imprecise language, institutionalized racism, person-first, violent and additional considerations.’”
The ‘woke’ guide was released earlier this year but the Wall Street Journal opinion piece made the ‘list’ to go viral.
Stanford University eliminated the word “American” because “This term often refers to people from the United States only, thereby insinuating that the US is the most important country in the Americas (which is actually made up of 42 countries)”
The words “brave” and “grandfather” and “long time, no see” because they are insensitive to indigenous peoples and women.
Below is a partial list of banned words:
Swap: drop-in, open office
Reason: ‘Ableist language that trivializes the experiences of people living with disabilities’
Original: grandfather
Swap: legacy
Reason: ‘This term has its roots in the “grandfather clause” adopted by Southern states to deny voting rights to Blacks’
Original: guru
Swap: expert, subject matter expert (SME), primary, leader, teacher, guide
Reason: ‘In the Buddhist and Hindu traditions, the word is a sign of respect. Using it casually negates its original value’
Original: brave
Swap: none/do not use
Reason: ‘This term perpetuates the stereotype of the “noble courageous savage,” equating the Indigenous male as being less than a man’
Original: man hours
Swap: person hours, effort hours, labor time
Reason: ‘This term reinforces male-dominated language’
Original: American
Swap: US Citizen
Reason: ‘This term often refers to people from the United States only, thereby insinuating that the US is the most important country in the Americas (which is actually made up of 42 countries)’
Original: whitespace
Swap: empty space
Reason: ‘Assigns value connotations based on color (white = good), an act which is subconsciously racialized’
Original: prostitute
Swap: person who engages in sex work
Reason: ‘Using person-first language helps to not define people by just one of their characteristics’
Original: kill(ing) two birds with one stone
Swap: accomplish(ing) two things at once
Reason: ‘This expression normalizes violence against animals’
Original: trigger warning
Swap: content note
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From: Showtalk
Jan-8
Didn’t I post about that earlier? It’s not going well for them. They are getting lots of ridicule.
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From: WALTER784
Jan-8
There is so much wokeness going on, it's hard to keep track of all of it.
FWIW
From: Dee (DLAINEDEE)
Jan-8
This is so 1984. They'll get their way eventually, considering, Eric Blair, on his death bed, said his book was not fiction...
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