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> I would argue that you have a moral and ethical responsibility to say no when your manager asks you to do something illegal, even if it does cost you your job. When your access t…

Tinker was a Traveller slur long before the verb - denying that is just wilful ignorance itself. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tinker

Yes, it is, and 37 years later, it is no longer acceptable to use such terms.

The formation etymology (whether from tin or onomatopoeia) is uncertain. The part that is certain is the semantic chronology. The noun tinker was used from at least the 13th centur…

The colloquial meaning carries all of that baggage. You just weren't aware.

It's definitely not forgotten? What makes you think that? Commonly used in Ireland, the UK, Australia, Canada, parts of the US. > they're probably due for some self-reflection on w…

> Almost anything can be a slur in some context. Eh, this is a very particular and long-standing racist term, and the meaning used by the authors is derived from the slur, so it's …

How so?

> Wow. I put myself in your shoes for a second and felt fear. It is actually the only thing that keeps me up at night. I am crew on a lifeboat and need to live within a certain dis…

I was an infantry soldier and learnt very fast how fragile the logistics of necessities can be in the modern world. I don't believe that world civilisation will collapse (at least …

> If you've got integration tests that include state, now you've got to either run your tests serially or set up and tear down multiple copies of the state to prevent tests from cl…

In some jurisdictions. Certainly not all.

> Google’s core business is now ads, not search. It has been for over 20 years now, since October 2000.

General Aviation - the category that encompasses private plane ownership.

GA in the EU is definitely the preserve of the rich.

> Patents are incentives. They are also regulations. You can't opt-out of the patent system. > You can weigh the benefits or lack thereof and chooses to opt-in or opt-out. What is …

Environmental and consumer rights regulations are also compatible with a free market.

> Of course they need cookies (or some other form of session management) In the UK, cookies used for only that purpose don't require consent. In their cookie policy, you can see th…

After reading your comment, I did Google "elevator death", expecting to be dismayed. I came away oddly reassured. It seems that fatal elevator accidents are rare, and that you have…

I also believe anyone in Northern Ireland who consider themselves to be British are British. However, does that imply usage of the term "British Isles"? Simply Britain and Ireland …

No-one is obviously hyperbole, but it's extremely uncommon in Ireland. It's a shortcut to start an argument, for sure.

As your own link states, it's a controversial term and its use is objected to by the Irish Government: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles_naming_dispute The talk pages a…

I think nurses do get a lot of respect in the hospitals I've worked in. You certainly wouldn't be long tolerated if you were dismissive to them, at least.

We have a similar system in Ireland, but where volunteers take shifts on call with an AED. It has been severely scaled back due to COVID-19, but prior to that, volunteers would fre…