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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Political compass
« on: March 12, 2024, 02:21:44 AM »

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Status Notices / Re: Scheduled maintenance, 2023-07-08
« on: July 08, 2023, 10:28:20 AM »
Maintenance complete (somewhat later than expected). There are some remaining issues to be addressed, but I will schedule a separate maintenance window for those.

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The title did not make clear that I was looking for how FEers answered that question but the post did so.  I thought it was a pretty ordinary question.
Yet you posted it in Angry Ranting, a forum dedicated to not getting answers to questions, for which reason the rules are relaxed. Circumventing the rules by inappropriately posting in forums where there are fewer of them is not okay.

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Status Notices / Scheduled maintenance, 2023-07-08
« on: July 05, 2023, 12:08:45 AM »
The homepage, forum and wiki will be going offline for up to 2 hours on 2023-07-08 between 08:00 and 10:00 UTC.

In your local time (if you are logged in and have your time offset correctly configured), this is
July 08, 2023, 08:00:00 AM to July 08, 2023, 10:00:00 AM.


The server will be upgraded to a new stable release of its operating system. This introduces the risk that problems will arise afterwards. If you notice any, please create a thread in Suggestions & Concerns so that we can deal with it. Thank you.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Can't report PM
« on: May 29, 2023, 01:25:49 AM »
You might want to consider adding a reporting function in PMs.
Fair point, but in the meantime, you can add users to your ignore list if you don't want to receive PMs from them. I understand that this doesn't solve the core problem.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Eurovision
« on: May 23, 2023, 04:43:02 PM »
Exactly. I'm glad we agree :)
That was my point all along. I wanted to understand why you had made a claim about which you had no information that was irrelevant in the first place.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Eurovision
« on: May 23, 2023, 04:35:34 PM »
He neglects to mention his ability to speak Finnish in his profile.
That is fine, since I didn't claim that he was interpreting from Finnish. I only claimed that you do not know if he was interpreting from English (which is still the case, since he lists several other languages that he could have been interpreting from).

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Eurovision
« on: May 23, 2023, 04:17:14 PM »
Because that isn't his job. He works for the BBC whose main output is in English. So his job is to translate from English into BSL.
And given that less than 0.1% of the world's population speak Finnish, it is statistically improbable that he is one of them.
You aren't looking at a person randomly chosen from the world's population, or even from the world's BSL interpreters. The person in question is the BBC's interpreter who was tasked with interpreting a song in Finnish into BSL. If the BBC has even one such interpreter who understands Finnish, it is most likely they would give the job to that person.

Of course, it is also possible that he is interpreting from an English translation, but it doesn't make any difference whether he is interpreting from English or Finnish, so why make an unfounded claim either way?

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Eurovision
« on: May 23, 2023, 04:01:41 PM »
I think it's reasonable to assume that a BBC BSL signer doesn't speak Finnish.
Why is it reasonable to assume that someone whose job it is to interpret between languages doesn't speak one specific language?

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Eurovision
« on: May 23, 2023, 03:44:29 PM »
In the sense that the Finish original was translated into English and the bloke was doing BSL based on that.
But how can you or your church buddy know that's what he's doing just from watching it?

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Eurovision
« on: May 23, 2023, 03:12:34 PM »
Apparently that dude is signing an English translation of the song.
In what sense is it an English translation?

Apparently it’s about leaving work on Friday, feeling a bit silly at the pub and then loosening up after a few drinks. Or something
The Rebecca Black of Finland?

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Eurovision
« on: May 14, 2023, 07:47:48 PM »
I still wish they would stop singing in English. Half of the interesting stuff about Europe is the linguistic diversity that was wiped out by colonialism in most other parts of the world. Why suppress it?

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Quick question
« on: December 06, 2022, 08:26:01 PM »
This is covered in the rules. See rule 8.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Liz Truss
« on: October 22, 2022, 07:44:15 PM »
The only reasonable way out of any of this is a general election. Anything else is just prolonging the torment.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Your SSL certificate expired
« on: October 01, 2022, 10:56:48 PM »
Addressed. Sorry about that.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The Queen
« on: September 16, 2022, 12:25:47 PM »
You whoever seem to believe in "opposite day"  That a leader who governors with the will of the people is a tyrant.  And that a leader who has inherited his  title without any input of the people he rules is in fact more democratic than someone you would have to vote for.
The reason you think that is because, instead of reading what I have said several times by now, you continue to erroneously interpret my statements as applying to the monarch as an individual rather than the government as a whole. I am not sure what else I can do to progress the conversation if what I have already said is not being read or understood.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The Queen
« on: September 15, 2022, 09:21:35 AM »
So instead of me asking when Prince Charles wins an election, let me know when the UK has a head of the monarchy which was elected by the people.
Referring to the same individual with different words is not a fundamentally different response.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The Queen
« on: September 14, 2022, 09:20:04 AM »
Bro, I own a dictionary.  Let me know when Prince Charles wins the elections.
Once again, you are focusing on the monarch (an individual) and not the monarchy (a system of government). You are not listening to what I am saying, and instead replacing the subject of my posts with something else.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The Queen
« on: September 13, 2022, 01:20:24 PM »
I was perfectly content to discuss England's dragon problem but you had to take a far more farcical turn, that a monarchy is more democratic than a democracy, which I was happy to oblige for a time.
You continue to use those words as though they are contradictory. They are not. We are not comparing a monarchy to a democracy, but two different forms of democracy, and until you acknowledge that it makes perfect sense that you would not understand what I am saying.

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