What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[garbon]

For a brief time I had the speech coach turned on in Teams.  Every time I used the word "master", in any context, regardless of whether it was a noun, a verb, or an adjective, it complained about me not using inclusive language. 

On the one hand, this kind of stupidity is harmless.  On the other hand, it's the kind of stupidity that reveals how strong the culture of fear is.  Surely someone at Microsoft must've been aware that it would look stupid to make an m-word out of "master", but yet it has gone out in the final product.  As low as my opinion of QA at Microsoft is, they don't release things anywhere near that stupid that don't involve the w-word.

This was a silly post. I don't think any significant amount of real people are afraid they are going to lose their jobs or opportunities if they refer to a master document.

On the flipside, at my last job it was mostly a given that no one bothered to learn my junior colleagues name until they were called out as she had an African name.

[Savonarola]

For a brief time I had the speech coach turned on in Teams.  Every time I used the word "master", in any context, regardless of whether it was a noun, a verb, or an adjective, it complained about me not using inclusive language. 

 

Hey, Valmy, did they use the term Master-Slave Circuits or Master-Slave Flip-Flops when you were in college?  I would have thought that terminology would have been removed from the bible, Alphaville style, a long time a go, but a quick look through Duck-Duck Go makes it look like that's still the preferred terminology.  (Naughty, naughty)

My favorite bit of newspeak that I've come across in my professional life was shorter signals placed next to the track.  Historically these were called "Dwarf signals," we were told that we weren't supposed to use that terminology, but no one knew a replacement term, so everyone was calling them "The signals we used to call dwarf signals" (kind of like The Artist Formerly Known as Prince.)

[HVC]

At least they didn't go the route if calling them little persons signals

@garbon white people can't pronounce my weird ass name properly either, but I don't expect them to*. Was your coworkers name particularly difficult, or were the workers particularly lazy?

*there's a sound in the proper way to pronounce my name that doesn't really exist in English   Plus a rolling r that causes issues.

[garbon]

@garbon white people can't pronounce my weird ass name properly either, but I don't expect them to*. Was your coworkers name particularly difficult, or were the workers particularly lazy?

*there's a sound in the proper way to pronounce my name that doesn't really exist in English   Plus a rolling r that causes issues.

No, as far as I could tell, it wasn't a matter of her name having sounds unfamiliar to English speakers. But simply that rather than ask her how to say her name, they just went with their own assumptions.

Her manager was the person who highlighted the issue and noted the colleague had been upset that so few were saying her actual name. At the same time as one of the most junior employees she understandably didn't feel secure in correcting higher ups.

And, of course, people are lazy. My name originates in the UK and English people still get it wrong.

[HVC]

Yeah, then there's no excuse for being that inconsiderate.


*edit* this brought up a old memory that I had totally forgotten about. Once, as a new employee, I worked at a company where as usual I used my anglicized name and everything was fine for a few months. Then one day I was part of a larger meeting with the owner and some of the upper management. One of which was a Portuguese lady who said my name the Portuguese way. This peaked the interest of the owner who you could tell felt bad that he "mispronounced" my name all this time. I tried explaining that only my family pronounces it that way (and even then only those fluent in Portuguese). But he insisted so myself and the Portuguese lady tried to teach him with limited success. This was in the middle of the meeting mind you, so everyone was probably bemused, amused, or annoyed . He never quite got it right, but for the next 4 years it was like nails on chalk board when he said my name. I never said anything because it was both awkward because he was the owner and because I felt bad since he was trying to be inclusive. Thankfully it didn't catch on with my coworkers.

[mongers]

Yeah, then there's no excuse for being that inconsiderate.


*edit* this brought up a old memory that I had totally forgotten about. Once, as a new employee, I worked at a company where as usual I used my anglicized name and everything was fine for a few months. Then one day I was part of a larger meeting with the owner and some of the upper management. One of which was a Portuguese lady who said my name the Portuguese way. This peaked the interest of the owner who you could tell felt bad that he "mispronounced" my name all this time. I tried explaining that only my family pronounces it that way (and even then only those fluent in Portuguese). But he insisted so myself and the Portuguese lady tried to teach him with limited success. This was in the middle of the meeting mind you, so everyone was probably bemused, amused, or annoyed . He never quite got it right, but for the next 4 years it was like nails on chalk board when he said my name. I never said anything because it was both awkward because he was the owner and because I felt bad since he was trying to be inclusive. Thankfully it didn't catch on with my coworkers.

 

I found this interesting, though a minefield for someone with limited linguistic skills like me:


The enigmatic Portuguese R (long version)

[crazy canuck]

12,000 researchers terminated at NIH, and the training programs at the CDC are gutted.

The right wing has lost the thread on what made America great.  All this rhetoric about government being the problem appears to have been absorbed and believed. 

But of course, government kept people safe. And even if you were completely mercenary and didn't care about other people, government funded research is what made American companies great.

[Syt]

Seems Trump is putting pressure on Romania to "liberate" Andrew Tate and send him to the US.

[mongers]

Seems Trump is putting pressure on Romania to "liberate" Andrew Tate and send him to the US.

They could just deport time to his home country, UK (?), then we could try him for sexual/forced imprisonment crimes that took place abroad? 

That would annoy the hell out of el Caudillo Agarrarlos por el coño.


edit:
Well he could be considered an honorary Brits as he has a British mother and lived her in earlier years.

[Syt]

Seems Trump is putting pressure on Romania to "liberate" Andrew Tate and send him to the US.

They could just deport time to his home country, UK (?), then we could try him for sexual/forced imprisonment crimes that took place abroad? 

That would annoy the hell out of el Caudillo Agarrarlos por el coño.


edit:
Well he could be considered an honorary Brits as he has a British mother and lived her in earlier years.

[Tamas]

Sorry Andrew, Farage has your market cornered already.

[mongers]

What a tool he is.

Also didn't know he's in trouble with the tax authorities here. 

And:

Separately, Bedfordshire Police is seeking the extradition of the Tate brothers to the UK in relation to allegations of rape and human trafficking, which they deny.

[viper37]

Only the attorney general or the president can speak for the U.S. when interpreting the meaning of laws carried out by the executive branch

Can't find a better media for now.

President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order declaring that only the attorney general or the president, instead of federal regulators or bureaucrats, can speak for the U.S. when interpreting the meaning of laws carried out by the executive branch.

Will Scharf, the White House staff secretary and one of the president's attorneys, said the order that limits only the president and attorney general to interpret laws "reestablishes a long-standing norm" in the U.S. It comes as Mr. Trump's critics fight his agenda in court and raise accusations that he'll ignore judicial orders.
Other agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration, Environmental Protection Agency and the Federal Communications Commission have the power to impose fines and regulations.

"The President and the Attorney General's opinions on questions of law are controlling on all employees in the conduct of their official duties," the order states.

[Valmy]

So what does the Judicial Branch do? Is it the other suggestions Branch?

[Jacob]

So basically Trump's word is the law?