Emptybee
18d ago
Out of curiosity, did the movie specify how the witch was originally killed? It always bugs me when someone claims one of the Salem witches was burned at the stake.
Emptybee
18d ago
My apologies. I mistook your phrasing "academics often specifically pick terms" to mean you thought those academics deliberately created said pejorative terms. If your meaning was simply that they deliberately adopt and misuse any such term they come across, then I completely agree.
Emptybee
19d ago
"Toxic masculinity" is actually a perfect example of nuanced concepts reduced to silly caricatures. Originally, it was coined by the men's movement, not academics, and referred to masculine traits carried to unhealthy extremes. The classic example being men's reluctance to seek medical care until far too late. The goal was to get men to realize a need for balance; to understand that things like self-reliance could be taken too far. The modern Internet version is, as happens so often, a perversion of the original.
Emptybee
23d ago
In the sense that no one has an accident in a non-moving car, this is trivially true. But, when it comes to cars that are actually being driven, the leading cause of accidents is drivers being inattentive or foolish, not maneuvering per se.
Emptybee
23d ago
I follow a dash cam channel on YouTube and, yes, while there are occasional black swan, no-one-could-have-seen-that-coming events, the vast majority of them come down to one or more drivers being inattentive, distracted, or just plain foolish.
Emptybee
23d ago
It's a perfectly understandable mistake, if you've never had direct experience with either.
Emptybee
24d ago
It's not a discrimination suit because, despite the name similarity, the Boy and Girl Scouts are two different private organizations. Make no mistake, the Girl Scouts were not happy with this decision. They view Scouting America as poaching their girls. Which, yeah, they kind of are. Although I'd have much more sympathy for the GSA if they hadn't spend decades making themselves into an organization with no place for girls who just want to go camping and do outdoors stuff.
Emptybee
25d ago
I can see how it might be read that way. I'm not sure it matters though. Greater maneuverability could be misused by the driver is an argument that can just as easily be applied to power steering.
Emptybee
25d ago
The flying part was certainly cool but I was disappointed we didn't get a demo of down fan-enhanced cornering. That seems like the more practical feature. (To the extent any of it is practical.)
If a job isn't performed correctly, that's an employee issue. If a job is consistently done incorrectly, that's a management issue.
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