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Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by knighthack on Monday July 15, 2024 @11:19PM (#40973432)
The word "striking" in the title initially made me think this was an article about the feminine beauty of women working in the Samsung semiconductor industry - i.e the adjective, not the verb.

I thought a more apt phrase should have been "on strike".

Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by wavemode on Monday July 15, 2024 @11:30PM (#40973477)
Somewhat similarly, I had to do a double take at a billboard I saw recently - "Southwest Pilots Are Ready to Strike"
Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by m463 on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @12:04AM (#40973584)
After the mh370 murder-suicide theories...
Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by Am4TIfIsER0ppos on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @02:43PM (#40979115)
Or the not-theory involving Germanwings 9525
Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by locusofself on Monday July 15, 2024 @11:26PM (#40973464)
same
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Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by dvt on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @12:10AM (#40973599)
> a deliberately hostile act intended to make this subgroup of workers feel unwelcome in the tech industry

Flagging. Even ignoring the broader context of your post, this comment breaks HN gudelines[1]: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by trealira on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @10:51AM (#40977171)
This comment also breaks HN guidelines:

"If you flag, please don't also comment that you did."

Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by arktos_ on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @12:07AM (#40973589)
i thought people like you were only an internet charicature but wow
Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by rexpop on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @12:17AM (#40973621)
That's both vague and unkind.
Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by madaxe_again on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @02:41AM (#40974114)
Big news: people don’t owe you kindness.
Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by bowsamic on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @03:04AM (#40974213)
Yes they do
Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by madaxe_again on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @03:09AM (#40974231)
I’m not your mother, buddy.
Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by bowsamic on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @04:15AM (#40974522)
Huh?
Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by rTX5CMRXIfFG on Monday July 15, 2024 @11:51PM (#40973539)
I mean, I thought “striking” referred to their intelligence
Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by __MatrixMan__ on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @12:59AM (#40973744)
I was looking at the pictures of their thumbs trying to figure out which thing was being struck against which other thing.
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Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by knorker on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @01:49AM (#40973924)
The title is? It's in that direction with the suggestive pun, sure, but I wouldn't go as far as you. Especially since it appears to be an accident while shortening the original title.
Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by bowsamic on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @02:47AM (#40974138)
No, the comment I replied to
Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by madaxe_again on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @03:08AM (#40974229)
Any negativity you read into it was a projection.
Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by rsynnott on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @05:26AM (#40974851)
This might be a regional thing; "striking workers" in a standard usage in, at least, British and Irish English.
Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by 1970-01-01 on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @05:11PM (#40980371)
Striking in American means it will be shocking and arresting to view or behold. The Grand Canyon is striking in size.

Striking in EU is put on the calendar for Monday. The pilot union is striking until the coffee is served at the perfect temperature.

Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by makeitdouble on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @07:05PM (#40981147)
> The pilot union is striking until the coffee is served at the perfect temperature.

Getting third degree burns at 35000 feet in the sky would sure ruffle some feathers.

Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by knorker on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @05:57AM (#40984130)
Gotta strike while the iron's hot.
Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by knorker on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @05:51AM (#40984096)
I think it's a context thing.

"A striking man" I would not read as a man on strike, unless the context is already labor relations. And with only the title to go on, there's no existing context. "He was a man of 25, rugged features, and striking". You can't say that anywhere in the world does this mean he was on strike.

"Striking workers" sounds like workers on strike.

"UFC employee strikes" sounds like a deliberate pun title that The Economist would use when talking about UFC fighters either go on strike, or a UFC fighter decides to invest during low prices.

Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by sameoldtune on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @08:25AM (#40975864)
That says more about your relationship to women than the headline
Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by hju22_-3 on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @05:35PM (#40980537)
No, it really doesn't. It does, however, say something about the region wherein such phrasing fits. And it says more about how the title becomes misleading due to linguistical differences.

And, since we're already doing this: since this is the way you reply, it says even more about you.

Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by twen_ty on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @11:38AM (#40977545)
Peak HN right here. Top comment is on semantics but not on the original content.
Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by jiveturkey on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @02:19PM (#40978927)
I thought so too. I suspected clickbait but this is a paraphrase by the submitter. The original headline is reasonable.
Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by robertlagrant on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @05:22PM (#40980455)
Sir! The workers are revolting!
Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by undersuit on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @06:02PM (#40980744)
I would need a definite article on women to consider striking to not be a verb.