• gerikson@awful.systemsOP
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    Apparently now “a death is being investigated”, which is a form of passive voice I have not yet encountered.

    Also, “shelter in place” is one of those examples of American English that I really don’t get. I suppose it’s something from school shootings? Or hurricanes?

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              I’m sorry you guys had to go through that.

              During the Stockholm terror attack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Stockholm_truck_attack) I had my first interaction with Facebook’s “mark as safe” feature which was pretty dystopian. I quickly figured out that this was an isolated incident, but all subways were shut down so me and a coworker walked homewards together. She was legitimately terrified and I did my best to reassure her it was going to be OK.

              Sadly I’m just waiting for another thing to happen, which is more and more likely as obvious agent provocateurs are burning the Quran every chance they get…

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                oh wow, I was living in Tokyo in 2011 when the earthquake and subsequent tsunami and nuclear plant disaster happened. I think this was the event that led to the creation of the “mark as safe” feature.

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                  Yeah, I’m not mad at FB, I’m mad at a world where this is needed (at least when humnas are doing the bad stuff)

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                  I looked it up and apparently the safety check feature was invented by a couple of Facebook engineers who were on a research trip to Japan in 2011 and had to evacuate when the Fukushima disaster happened.

                  But according to that article, Facebook used unpaid volunteers from non-English-speaking countries to translate their UI and now I’m angry again.

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        In Texas, it certainly does not mean the police state is coming. If anything, maybe a come of hicks with badges to stand around for 15 minutes, but usually just means “stay were you are because we don’t know wtf to do and aren’t funded to do anything anyway.”