Because no one feels threatened by an obscure reference to a religion whose prominence was in the distant past, but they are by a current dominant religion, the adherents of which are aggressively trying to impose it on others as the “default” belief system?
Next thing- there is no, and likely never was- buried pirate treasure. Yes, Kidd buring a small amount to use as a bribe to get himself a pardon- but instead it was used as evidence against him, and the treasure was easily and quickly found.
The Pirates didnt bury treasure- they spent it. And the Captains didnt get that much anyway- generall a double share, along with the quartermaster (sailing master is a better term today- they did the navigation, siling etc, the Captain only did the attacking). So the ship get 50000 pieces of eight- the captain gets 2000 rather than 1000 out of a crew of 50. So much for the myth of Pirate captain treasure. And they spent it like… well…, drunken sailors. Accounts tell of sailors spending 1000 pieces of eight in a single nite of debauchery in Port Royal.
Oh, and there never was any treasure on Oak Island.Most of the tales are myths- starting with the “teenaged boys”- they were young men- maybe, since supposedly they found a pit in 1799, but the first records were not until 1857, 60 years later, and the tale obviously grew in the telling. No one really knows what the 3 young men found in 1799. Certainly no treasure. There were supposedly other digs before the article was written, but facts are scarce until the late 1800s. The so called “cypher” stone is also a myth. The only time the stone was examined by an impartial observer, he was told the glyphs had “worn off” but since the stone was basalt- very hard- this was unlikely. But if anyone could recover all the money spent on the fruitless attempts to find a non-existent treasure- that would be a treasure indeed.
Not to mention that it’s been standard practice to use CE and BCE in academic work for decades, perhaps longer. No one is a “hypocrite” for using the standard words for things. Whining about that is like whining about Canadians using Celsius.
I add it to the growing list of terms that changed since I was a wee lad. They all sneak in to published works over the decades and eventually terms or words we grew up with are seen as dated, at best, if not downright inappropriate.
I grew up with BC and AD, though I was not raised as a Christian, and it seems weird to switch terms. It’s not infuriating to me (in the sense of this thread) but it does feel like the new terms are saying “Hey, look at ME!!! I’m better than the words you are used to”
The standard euphemism treadmill is a great source of these terms that make me feel old. “Huh? We don’t say that anymore? We say this instead? Ok…”
I wish I could go back in time and have strong words with those who were designing the original USB-A connector.
I often wonder how many cumulative years have been wasted by all of humanity in trying to plug in a cable, finding it’s upside down, and flipping it over, only to find that they had it right the first time around–I just went through this with the dongle for my Bose headphones.
And the USB folks took a crappy plug and added more suck to it when they made Micro USB.
Thankfully all of the older variants are dying out as the pleasant-to-use USB-C jack takes over.
I know that a lot of times they’ll put the USB logo on the “top” side of the cable, but it doesn’t really seem consistent. I feel like the standard should have included some very prominent bumps or something on the topside of the cable so you could easily feel how it should be oriented.
(eta: I don’t feel like Micro-USB is that bad… it at least has those little “latches” on one side so you can feel which way it’s oriented in your hand.)
I may have to resurrect my old technique: I would paint a dot in bright red nail polish on the “top” side of all of my connectors.
The problem with Micro-USB is that the female jack is not so easy to classify, and these are usually on small gadgets with no obvious “up” direction, so we fight them.
Good riddance!
One more annoyance: for some reason manufacturers that include SD card readers on their hardware have a tendency to install them upside-down. I think this must be a cost saving measure with board-mounted components, but it’s annoying to pay hundreds of dollars for a premium dock only to find I have to flip SD cards upside-down to get them to go in the slot.
I love this idea but is it illegal and/or does a vendor have the right to not accept it? I don’t use cash all that much but it would give me personal satisfaction.
That’s fine for young punks with nice soft lenses in their eyeballs, but that ain’t me anymore. If I need to go find my glasses to successfully plug in a USB cord, then there’s room for improvement. USB-C and Lightning are infinitely better than USB-micro.
Then you just have to remember which is the “bottom” side of each of the jacks you plug into. It’s not always the gravitationally lower side, especially when the jack is oriented with the long axis vertical.
