OBSESSIVE == make 3 EQUIVALENT REQUESTS in 3 days (after 5 years the code is in)
Maybe Rack2 made people pay attention. I have nothing to do with the other requests.
It’s super weird to me how you think this was ok for all this time (I only knew about it because of your post here).
At least you are aware now. Looking forward to see what you intend to do about it.
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Stirring up trouble again?
Don’t you have some commits to Cardinal to be getting on with or something?
I have done the unthinkable. I have unsubscribed from my Nysthi subscription. And all the plugins disappeared from the browser. A sight from nightmares. But then I re-subscribed, and now all the latest plugins have appeared in the browser. Hurra! Which leads me to this question: can you (for once) explain the name Rael? It’s been nagging me for some time now.
https://www.discogs.com/release/9280981-Genesis-Rael-Imperial-Aerosol-Kid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JszTrQdL314&ab_channel=NathanielBarlam
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I see. That’s a blind spot in my musical education, I (reluctantly) have to admit.
reminds me - a prog fave of mine, Van Der Graff Generator, were never popular at all. Except in Italy, where they were huge. 
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I love vdgg, I have tickets to see them but the dates keep changing for obvious reasons (currently it’s May). I recently read/heard their key board player Hugh Banton say that he never really got into synths because he just likes to sit down and play and the synths slowed him down
nice! yeah, for sure not a synth band! there was a time that hammill was playing clavinette, but that’s as “out there” as they keyboard choices ever got. I saw a solo Hammill show in a punk rock club in 1977 or so. It was pretty amazing. And maybe 40 people in the audience. He played grand piano only at that show (and sang, of course).
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In Québec too VDGG was quite popular and Hammill too…still are with me…
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What about “whiteout,” “black hole,” “black box,” “The Black Death?” Are those bad words/terms, too?
There is no doubt that there is systemic racism deeply engrained in many aspects of western culture, at least in America. But policing silly words is not going to change the heart of man.
Now preparing for my banishment …
To me if there are two phrases where
black x = bad/unacceptable
white x = good/acceptable
then it’s probably best rephrased however supposedly entrenched in common parlance.
The English language is a growing changing vibrant thing, terms and idioms fall into and out of common usage all the time, there are many ways to express the same thought.
My question, given the above, would be why would you fight to keep a particular term alive if there are perfectly decent alternatives available and some people have stated they find that particular phrasing problematic? Why choose that hill to die on?
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In my work, we used to say Blackhat (hacker with bad intentions) and Whitehat (hacker who is a security professional and has good intentions), but now we say RedTeam (Attackers) and BlueTeam (Protectors).
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so you are offending the communists ? 
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I’d say those are all fine…
Whiteout - There’s a corresponding blackout, but both a blackout and a whiteout are “bad” in the sense that neither let you see anything.
Black hole - Not necessarily a bad thing (although best to avoid getting too close to one). Good even in the sense that it gives a galaxy something to revolve around and stop it flying off into inter-galactic space. There are hypothetical white holes too - probably best not to get too close to them either. A very scientifically accurate use of the word ‘black’ here too - “an absence of light”.
Black box - Although a black box records an accident, it is itself a good thing, not a bad thing. There’s no corresponding ‘good’ white box that I’m aware of.
The Black Death - Definitely a bad thing, but there’s no corresponding ‘good’ White Death…
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Yet they’re all orange!
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I suppose you think logic and facts somehow makes your argument better? I’ve come across your sort before!
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