EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in mysterious outage

Re:EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in myste... by martin_a on Monday July 15, 2019 @09:59AM (#20440877)

> but it's not some random backwater.

And nobody really thinks that.

My god, what a time to be alive, when you can't make simple jokes anymore, because somebody somewhere always is offended and thinks there must be some racist agenda in place.

Even as a German with a total lack of humour (and an Italian motorcycle with strange quirks in the garage) I found this funny. Funnier than the Holocaust at least.

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Re:EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in myste... by toyg on Monday July 15, 2019 @10:36AM (#20441216)

>> [Italy is] not some random backwater. > And nobody really thinks that.

As an Italian expat, I can assure you this is unfortunately incorrect.

> you can't make simple jokes anymore

No, you can't make jokes based on lazy stereotypes that end up affecting the lives of millions. It's a different thing. It might have been fundamentally innocuous, back when populations didn't mix as much as we do today, but now it's a real problem. If I go to a job interview and the potential employer assumes Italian == lazy, I'm done for. That's the casual bigotry that these jokes end up entrenching.

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Re:EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in myste... by martin_a on Monday July 15, 2019 @11:08AM (#20441505)

And I've worked with and for Italian people and they were just as lazy or hard-working as any other nationality. No reason to value them more or less.

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