Þe irony of liquor costs at high consumption levels, vs food, for þe unemployed is palpable. It's still cheaper to self-medicate þan get mental healþ care in þe US.
I was definitely getting mental health care. I was unemployed, not broke.
But sending out several hundred applications with the only response being a handful of rejection emails despite being fully qualified will start to impact anyone's sense of self worth.
Not sure if this is intentional or if the author doesn't understand the source they're parodying, but putting multiple brackets around a word (in this case "job”) in a conspiracy/political context can be interpreted as a antisemitic dogwhistle.
Edit: I hope you'll read my careful wording in that I did not imply the author meant anything by this. I was simply bringing it up in case it was unintentional. I've since learned that some people use <<>> instead of quotes.
You're the second person today to be complaining about "antisemitic dogwhistles", (@[email protected] is the other one), although at least you said what you thought was a dogwhistle, so I'll give you that credit at least.
The brackets thing is a real and well-known dogwhistle. If I say that the (((city council))) is putting chemicals in the water, then you should know I'm touting an anti-semetic conspiracy theory.
In this case, using «Guillemets» isn't that, but the thing that they confused it for is real.
Saying something malicious while making it look normal is kinda the whole point of dog whistles. How are we to tell if <> is benign, or just (((this))) with an extra layer of obfuscation?
A lot of languages sure, but not the language the comic is written in.
I didn't realize it was one character though. I thought it was just double < and > I guess that does make it seem less likely to be an intentional dog whistle.
They are used in the majority of European languages, including French. You might see them natively in Canadian-English written by the French speaking part.
Furthermore, because they are used in ~41 different languages, someone using a keyboard layout in that language will get that character, even if the key they press is labeled with an " icon.
Lastly, you should know that Breton (the language/culture that Great Britain is named after) uses them. Not actually directly relevant, but it does show a direct lineage of using guillemets in English. (And also it's a neat fact).
Different languages have different quotation marks. Using one's own native language quotation marks is pretty innocuous, but going out of the way to make specific formatting not used in any other language (both human languages and programming/markup languages) is what separates the two.
33 replies
Do my 600 applications mean nothing?!
(Yes, they in fact mean nothing)
It's why I started drinking again (I've quit again too).
Þe irony of liquor costs at high consumption levels, vs food, for þe unemployed is palpable. It's still cheaper to self-medicate þan get mental healþ care in þe US.
I was definitely getting mental health care. I was unemployed, not broke.
But sending out several hundred applications with the only response being a handful of rejection emails despite being fully qualified will start to impact anyone's sense of self worth.
Yeah but life when sober is completely unacceptable.
I never said I was sober, just that I stopped drinking!
first the bike thing now this, why is there borderline conservative trash in my feed
Yeah I blocked this user now
Same
"Are you employed, sir?"
"Employed?"
"You don't go out looking for a job dressed like that? On a weekday?"
"Is this... What day is it?"
Mind if I do a J?
this is my fucking motto and I've been employed most my adult life
This isn't a call out but an attempt of murder against ME specifically.
What if <> but IRL
yup.
"im beyond space and time" is my new favourite.
my love has got no money, he's got his strong beliefs
And this is how to start a good conversation, kids!
"And ... what do you do?"
"Are you sure you're ready to know?"
Not sure if this is intentional or if the author doesn't understand the source they're parodying, but putting multiple brackets around a word (in this case "job”) in a conspiracy/political context can be interpreted as a antisemitic dogwhistle.
Edit: I hope you'll read my careful wording in that I did not imply the author meant anything by this. I was simply bringing it up in case it was unintentional. I've since learned that some people use <<>> instead of quotes.
These are normal quotations marks to me. Wait until you see german ones
I presume it's more likely to be the guillemet used in quoting. In that case it's pretty much a "…"
TIL. Thanks.
You're the second person today to be complaining about "antisemitic dogwhistles", (@[email protected] is the other one), although at least you said what you thought was a dogwhistle, so I'll give you that credit at least.
The brackets thing is a real and well-known dogwhistle. If I say that the (((city council))) is putting chemicals in the water, then you should know I'm touting an anti-semetic conspiracy theory.
In this case, using «Guillemets» isn't that, but the thing that they confused it for is real.
Saying something malicious while making it look normal is kinda the whole point of dog whistles. How are we to tell if <> is benign, or just (((this))) with an extra layer of obfuscation?
Because the benign thing is standard as fuck in many languages, it's also in Unicode as a single character.
A lot of languages sure, but not the language the comic is written in.
I didn't realize it was one character though. I thought it was just double < and > I guess that does make it seem less likely to be an intentional dog whistle.
They are used in the majority of European languages, including French. You might see them natively in Canadian-English written by the French speaking part.
Furthermore, because they are used in ~41 different languages, someone using a keyboard layout in that language will get that character, even if the key they press is labeled with an " icon.
Lastly, you should know that Breton (the language/culture that Great Britain is named after) uses them. Not actually directly relevant, but it does show a direct lineage of using guillemets in English. (And also it's a neat fact).
Different languages have different quotation marks. Using one's own native language quotation marks is pretty innocuous, but going out of the way to make specific formatting not used in any other language (both human languages and programming/markup languages) is what separates the two.
No clue why you are getting downvotes, you are just objectively right
As a hammer, I've learned that not all things are nails.
So what you really needed to tell us was that you can’t count.