RoomAndBored [he/him, any]

Pray for the troops

Osprey for the troops

All g. We probably wouldn’t call them buzzwords, since that implies that they’re ephemeral or faddish.

More often than not we’re using terminology that is specific to the left, or defined differently in leftist academia and discourse to the common usage (see, liberal, imperialism, etc.).

If you’re unsure about the meaning of a given word, it’s worth searching online first, then asking further in your replies if it still doesn’t make sense. Citing your sources is invaluable so you and your interlocutor can interrogate the same info and talk from the same page. We have a (relatively inactive) comm for these types of questions too, and a space for neurodiverse members too.

I don’t have autism so feel wary giving specific advice on how to navigate. However I do find that signalling -why- you are asking a certain question (as you have done elsewhere in this thread), and providing further context, can help people understand your thinking behind a given comment or post, and may help against them assuming the worst and responding with a knee jerk reaction. We get many people trying to cause trouble (‘wreckers’) and some people consider it better to shoot first and ask questions later, since it saves time if the person turns out to be malicious.

I was fortunate to have lurked for a very long time, way back to r/srs and the r/srs rehab equivalent comm. It’s been a long journey but I’m glad you’re asking the same question I had around then, as it shows self awareness.

Have a good one.

What if ‘log off and touch grass’ but actually constructive and well-intentioned advice.

No worries. I’m glad we could resolve this. Please try to engage with the other comments in this thread with the same approach you afforded me. I assure you that each and every other poster in this thread is motivated first and foremost to dismantle harmful tropes.

We usually resort to ridicule and close ranks after people show no intent to engage with any one of us sincerely, like for example when posters ignore one person’s effortful response, only to take issue with another’s elsewhere in the thread.

Also I have to say, I’m not the only one ‘actually’ explaining it to you. My comrades in this thread appear to have taken pains to unpack what’s wrong with your attitude and word choice multiple times before me. I just rephrased what they have by and large already said, so they deserve credit too.

Vile.

Tomato tomato, alternatively, if it walks like a slur, talks like a slur etc. etc.

Hey mate, I’m glad that we can agree that it’s racist. Whether it’s dated (replaced by other slurs) or not is a moot point, since its current usage as a term meaning ‘backwards’ calls upon the same racist tropes of barbarism and tribalism amongst black people.

If you’ve been able to avoid seeing the term used explicitly in this way til now, consider yourself fortunate, and now you are aware of its racist origins and current usage, please reconsider your advocacy of the word.

Oh no improper fraction does not compute initiating emergency reboop

I give it about 80/30

The libs scratch themselves now? They scratch themselves now.

Mate, I’m sending up your solipsistic comment that everyone you’re taking issue with online can only exist in that online space, and that they’re only “communist” when you can identify them as “being obnoxious”. We’re still communist even when we’re not engaging in internet shit fights.

Remove the kettle from your own eye before removing the pot from your neighbour’s

I saw a person doing a thing. This must be the only thing they do, since I haven’t seen them doing other things. I am very smart.

Oh damn is that a nafo pfp dude your off.the chain please give me mlre.of.yojr opinions

Thank you for the citation. The issue here is that ‘out of work’ is not a very useful phrase. Taken at face value, it just means not working and is not necessarily synonymous with unemployment in the way economists use it (i.e. actively looking for work but unable to find it).

This is possibly why queermunist expressed confusion about whether it included students. At first blanch, a ~20% unemployment rate does sound high.

I did turn up a useful SCMP article which highlights:

Since 2018, China has used a monthly survey-based unemployment rate as its main indicator. The data captures all regular urban residents, does not include an upper age limit and the [National Bureau of Statistics] claims it also includes migrant workers…

… to be considered unemployed, a worker needs to have been actively looking for a job in the past three months and be able to start work within two weeks; otherwise, [they are] not counted as employed or unemployed.

I’d like to refer back to the CNBC article (also using a 21.3% unemployment rate for 16 - 24 bracket) which notes that the unemployment for the graduate cohort appears to be temporary rather than structural. It’s not an enviable position to be in, definitely, but I wouldn’t say it’s at the point where students will demonstrate en masse like you suggested.

Who cares about China anyway?

Yeah, I mean, who cares about roughly one sixth of the people who share this planet?

The sources OP is likely citing, such as this one from CNBC (not an archived link, sorry), say it’s the youth unemployment rate, which I would assume does not include students or individuals not actively seeking work.

OP if you’d like to link your own preferred sources please do.

Remember when the USA experienced two consecutive quarters of negative growth (commonly recognised metric for a recession) and then they just said “Ope, sorry! It’s not recessionary enough for us to call it a recession”

Someone to clean my apartment. I don’t want my family to have to do my dirty dishes when collecting my personal effects.