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There is speculation that they might have finished the 5th world as well based on the snow and giant hand in the trailer

What's this, a map for ants?

https://i.imgur.com/zxZ3KUp.jpg

That's good but I wonder why they felt it necessary to comment on his football club of choice

I saw some reports yesterday that mentioned that a number of people taking part were known to be from football hooligan groups, so might be because of that?

I was introduced to it from listening to a female sociology(?) professor from SOAS referencing it in a discussion about something on R4 a few years ago.

Google to the rescue, possibly.

https://blogs.soas.ac.uk/decolonisingsoas/2019/02/28/bbc-radio-4-i-cant-be-racist/

leading to this. I'll give it a listen certainly

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002rkq

But in this space I thought it was worth mentioning.

Absolutely, this is all about being better people so any pointers towards that or failings/blindspots are helpful. Thanks

I genuinely don't think that racism needs a negative discrimination;

FYI that's an opinion that now runs counter to the norm in academia and among the main thought leaders on the subject.

Is that based on something like this; so its useless to call out racism since everyone is inherently racist and instead you have to specifically change/challenge the negative discrimination?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/05/racist-racism-racially-white-ethnic-minorities

Is there anyone / anything you would recommend reading on it

Edit: I suppose the distinction here is "is the harm caused by the act itself, or the power dynamic/imbalance between the two people" to which I have no answer, and would appreciate other peoples input

(and to be clear, my issue with the waiter was that he repeatedly ignored my response, that "no, really I like hot food", rather than the inital statement which is valid in terms of trying to ensure a guest has a good experience)

Second edit: Others have pointed out that the necessity for negative discrimination is useful since it focuses on harm done, rather than bias, which everyone has to a lesser or greater extent. Will leave my initial thoughts below so the replies still make sense

genuinely don't think that racism needs a negative discrimination; my feeling is that it encompasses any distinction based primarily on skin colour (or other signifiers of race) because otherwise it opens the door to people using ignorance or arguing good intentions to defend their biases, rather than having to face them and potentially change

It might be a more mild version, but I still think its relevant - however I'm open to people saying this is wrong.

Equality is the same idea as meritocracy (or IMO the free market), a useful tool for those with privilege and power to maintain the status quo whilst arguing that they are unbiased

I also think that people mistake racism for recognition of privilege. And then get offended by being called out on it.

In a similar vein I remember choosing to walk around HCM city in Vietnam and being constantly accosted by taxi drivers because being white was a good signifier for being (relatively) wealthy, and so they assumed I would want a ride. It was annoying for me, but I could understand why they would do it.

I can think of two acts that I think were genuinely racist, one also in Vietnam where my friend took me to see her Grandparents, who asked in ignorance if I bleached my arm hair (they had, as far as I know never seen someone with blonde arm hair), and a more recent stereotyping where a waiter in India repeatedly refused to serve me a dish because he was certain it was too hot (spicy) and I should order something else (I didn't and it wasn't).

Both are so abnormal, that I could likewise laugh them off, and certainly don't make me think that I was hated for my skin colour.

I've seen it speculated that Activision are actively un-optimising CoD so that it monopolises users HDD space and stops them from buying / playing other games

Yeah Stag beetle grubs are pretty big. They are weird looking things; used to find them a lot on my dad's allotment when I was young

But to qualify what do you mean by that? Is it all a bit “standard”?

Basically what neu said; that unless your idea of a fun night out is sinking a couple of pints of larger in a Weatherspoons and then going to a shit nightclub then there isn't too much happening of an evening

Can't really speak about schools, but yeah its nice enough in terms of green spaces. In many ways I think the slow trains are good as long as you can schedule time for them, means you get more time to decompress if you're commuting, also the bus connections are not bad.

I think its pretty boring but I don't think thats a reason to not consider it.

What do you want to know? Good access to the parks (Richmond and Bushey), relatively quick ride into Surrey (but, urgh, Surrey), good Waitrose/John Lewis. Other shopping somewhat focused around it being a University town.

Edit: Somehow I forgot the River, which is nice, but also gets heaving on a summers evening.

I tend to use hello@gmail.com

Is this, I think?

Local News Stations Run Propaganda Segment Scripted and Produced by Amazon

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4ayvwb/local-news-stations-run-propaganda-segments-scripted-and-produced-by-amazon

Obviously this is a pretty unique (hopefully) period, and also you haven't exactly had any time off/WFH, but having a nice garden has been an amazing thing these last three months, I would definitely value having a nice garden over a bit more space

I thought this was a good image that shuts down the ALM "argument" in a positive way

Right, me again, it turns out that the app is still supported, but that I'd actually run into a separate issue.

It seems like the app is a node.js skin for open VPN, which runs fine when I launch it normally, but will not start if I launch with admin privileges. I have no idea what could be causing this issue so I am asking the hive mind (It needs to be launched with admin privileges so that it can set up a VPN).

Its actually a portable app; so I have tried copying the old install from my previous machine and it still throws the same error. So I'm left with it either being something missing in the config of the new machine (clean new build of Windows 10), or something weird in the set up of admin rights

I think there would be a fairly clear line in terms of durability; so whilst a 7 speed block is more advanced than a fixed wheel, it doesn't fundamentally change the durability of a drivetrain.

Drivetrains from (9?) speed onwards has compromised durability for weight and brought little material advantages to the average cyclist. If you can't make it smoothly up a hill on 9 speed STIs, then 12 speed EPS isn't going to make a difference. Similar things with BBs, headsets, handlebar widths etc.

I don't know if it is a valid line in terms of is it a useful distinction, but I think the distinction is there.

Also @mtsdw I would theoretically suggest disc brakes, since they mean that instead of wearing out and replacing the rim you just replace the disc, but they are an ever evolving minefield of standards which is funny given the context

What does it cost to do a session at Glasgow? I know that Lee Valley kinda self selects for these types of people, since the fees price out the large majority of riders who would turn up on less expensive bikes.

Also, FWIW I'm probably an outlier but haven't been ever been a KOM chaser.

For my own sins I have upgraded my (older than me) Saracen Road bike with a NOS disc brake fork since it makes a lot of sense for an all weather commuter, allows me to run significantly better mudguards (with eyelets) and a front rack, and swap to 650b at some point, but I generally agree with the consensus that force obsolescence has become far more prevalent in bicycle kit over the last ~10 years

Jeez I'd entirely forgotten this incident (from 2018)

https://features.propublica.org/weirton/police-shooting-lethal-force-cop-fired-west-virginia/

Ah, you know what, when you mentioned contract stuff I got confused with (Antonio Brown?) and Oakland. I don't really follow AF much

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation

Genuine question, is Cam not teamless because of the contract shenanegans? (i.e. teams think he's not worth the risk)

I suspect the answer to this is no; but is there a way (short of just cloning the whole windows install) to copy an installed programme from one machine to another?

The company providing the software has a default "installer" which is just a script to download files off the internet, and they no longer support Windows (even though I paid for a "lifetime" licence), but I still have an old version on another machine so wondering if I could copy it in some way.