Are we censoring “dumb” but not “damn” now?
this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2025
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Hey, fuck y*u!
fu*ck you t**!
No, fuck *** ***** ** *** cunt!
And the tip of the barrel
maybe a japanese model?
Just the tip.
I assume it says "damb"
L*AO
To be fair damn is not offensive where as dumb was used to label disabled people and then used as a generally derogatory term. I’d rather censor dumb than damn.
Overall, we use Mute not Dumb for quite a while now, and so those saying dumb to mean stupid generally are not conflating mute with stupid, so I don’t think it’s worth fighting people over. Just vocab that shifted, even if it had a derogatory connotation at the start, being this far removed from it it’s just too late to bother.
But does censoring a letter change anything? Does reading f*ck read any different to fuck? Does the reader get more or less offense from it?
Censorship doesn’t really seem to accomplish much and if anything draws extra attention to the censored word. I wouldn’t have given it a second thought without it.
Who’s benefiting?
Frankly, I think single-letter censoring like that is silly. It really doesn't achieve anything and nobody benefits from it
I think the reasoning is that if it's censored, it's an acknowledgement from whoever did so that "this word isn't appropriate in this context, but the text is worth sharing"
That's probably the reason it's been censored, but I didn't take the original screengrab so I'm not sure
The tip of the gun also appears censored. This is probably some misguided attempt to appease some algorithm somewhere.
Usually this is because they are posting to social media and many social media environments use OCR to scan screenshots for "offensive" words. If the scanner finds something it deems unacceptable, the post will get a smaller audience or might even be disallowed.
The censoring is for the machines, not the people.
edit: Fixed autocorrect.
This is not normal.
No one should drive a Jeep.
Fursuits are so expensive because of all the Ironman-like tech that goes into them. Of course they outshoot everyone when they have HUDs with targeting servos to control their arm movement. I thought everyone knew this.
Engineer friend once talked for 30 minutes about fursuit cooling and how mouth hinges work.
Dude isn't even a furry, it was pure love of the game.
Dude isn't even a furry
Mhmm. And do they go to conventions often but never invite you? Have a secret basement? Are a DBA?
have a paw sticker on their laptop but do not in fact own a dog?
Genuinely they are fascinating. I do cosplay and I have gotten a lot ideas and pointers from furries.
They've solved so much in literally the worst case scenario, it's foolish NOT to do research on them.
You don't need to censor "dumb". It's okay.
Aw h*ck. This kind of single letter censorship is typically done as a joke.
Don't you mean j*ke?
Why would I have meant Jake? This thread doesn't have anything to do with State Farm
That tracks because "half of the range" is inept Meal Team Six material?
lol I’ve heard of Gravy Seal, but Meal Team Six is new to me. Nice.
Semper Fry!
He said I should make my motto Sember Pie, then told me to 'relax'.
Stop this horseshit. You only see the fatasses because that's what the internet thinks is funny. You don't see what I see IRL.
But hey, if you want to continue seeing them as no threat, you do you. I'm armed and train every week, at the least, but there's only so much I can do against the inevitable Red Shirts.
suiters: i need a handler because my field of vision is 20° 🥺
also suiters:
Checks out. I don't know a ton of furries but all of the ones I do know are armedqueers types
Wherever furries show up, they always seem to represent the most capable subsection of whatever it is they're about - shooting, SysAdmining, fucking, etc. Some of this may be confirmation bias as I also don't know many furries, but....
At this point you should just include a headshot of a fursuit with your resume to bag a job.
An event I went to recently had an issue with an unknown number of "orphaned radioactive sources" being left on the trade tables. Luckily, one of the furries in attendance has a gigercounter with them. They confirmed that the sources were radioactive, and did a sweep of the camp to make sure no one had taken any away. They also had the contacts to properly dispose of them.
You can therefore add nuclear energy to your list of areas with competent furries.
An event I went to recently had an issue with an unknown number of "orphaned radioactive sources" being left on the trade tables.
What the hell kind of event was this? People were just leaving radioactive shit lying around? Someone had a Geiger counter on them? WTF!
EMF Camp. Its a geeky festival. It had a trade table. Basically bring geeky 'junk' to donate. If you find something you like, donate what you think it is worth and take it. Money goes to charity.
The furry worked for nuclear energy. When someone recognised what the objects might be, someone let him know. He had some of his work kit with him. It was several small sources, similar to those used in schools etc. Not actually that harmful when used properly, and not broken. They put out just enough for it to be worth a sweep to check for more out on the camp. Thankfully no one seemed to have taken any.
In the culprit's defence. It wasn't on the prohibited item list, though that was soon corrected.
Spent the time to print this out, yet "orphanded".
Interesting story though.
"that was soon corrected"
I get the feeling the sign may have been from later in the event, or a later iteration of the event.
All the ones I've met have always been super nice and all work in some form of IT.
I’ve heard the IT thing so many times that, in my mind, it’s moving from stereotype to reasonable probability
It's a neurodivergent magnet
Oh that explains so, so much.
Would a range allow costumes that big? I feel like showing up with a paper Halloween mask would get you kicked out.
Probs, but this was specifically an unsupervised one.
I mean, I'd imagine it's no worse than training with a gas mask, and I've never seen somebody kicked out of a range for that