Just writing here a line in defense of Rothko. His paintings are far harder to paint than it looks like. There were hundreds of layers, thinly applied, and carefully thought and with a developed technique. Try to paint that by yourself and you'll see.
I hope this fixes my issues with bluetooth on Linux. When I'm on battery the audio breaks all the time. I've tried all sorts of obscure config tweaks with Pulseaudio.
I think it's easier to port everything elisp to Scheme (with some help by automation perhaps), than having an Emacs implementation in a Scheme that runs in all implementation of Scheme. I've worked many years in Scheme and the differences between compilers and interpreters are too large, especially when it comes to low-level functionality necessary for good performance.
I mostly agree with your comment. My main counterpoint to this angle, which is strictly correct, is that many people lack the same kind of context that you described, and do interpret “Spanish flu” and “Wuhan/Chinese flu” as “caused by them”, and in some cases even missing the historical perspective. There might be something to be said about blame in one case and the other, but I don’t think is that relevant (although perhaps at some point there should be some debate on the responsibility of China -if any- in this pandemic)
Correct, my comment was devoid of opinion or arguments, it was just that, a comment. I also don’t see how your last paragraph contributes any better to a healthy debate though.
Regarding the false equivalence though, I didn’t imply that, since I don’t think you need to go so deep into the interpretation of words. If any point was to be made in my comment is just the plain wording “Spanish/Chinese flu” associates the location and its people to the stigma. This, repeated over time, contributes to the social imaginary. Not every one knows the historical facts so well, and many people hearing the words “Spanish flu”, missing the context, will still make the negative associations. And let’s not forget that for a considerable part of the population in USA (not in Europe though), Spanish means “speaks Spanish”.
I agree with the stigma associated to locations. I believe this stigma also affects past events, even if less so. So I think the argument for renaming the 1918 pandemic holds as strongly as not naming any new one based on the geographical location.
I find it interesting that it’s ok to call it Spanish Flu (while it wasn’t even originated there), but is politically incorrect to call this one the Wuhan virus or the Chinese flu. Political correctness has always a political intention I guess.
Very cool! I use Clojure on a daily basis for coding, this is a great addition to the arsenal :)
Actually, my main argument against _not using it_ is that Bash has this awkward syntax that is hard to remember if you don't use it often...
But anyway, I keep forgetting it after years so I might as well embrace it and take the leap to use this.
Thanks for the initiative!
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