the OP explicitly said no need for git

in the end, this will give more benefit to the corporations than the residents.

the residents might feel that the intangible benefits to themselves outweigh any “ground” (metaphorical) given to the fat cats.

but all the statistically provable data will show that the corporations benefited more in the long run.

that’s the only way these “public good” get done these days. to get off the ground, the planners have to conform to the tyranny of the “win-win” ideology which western societies have blindly embraced.

studies that look back at the history of win-win public projects show that the private sector gets most of the benefits, and the citizens usually get none or almost none.

does it work across LAN or p2p Bluetooth without WAN like Briar, Cwtch, etc?

if you would reread my comment, you would see i said twice that i don’t think you are trying to be racist.

however, the impact of harmlessly-intentioned statements is completely determined in the mind of the listener.

if you feel i judged you, that’s an example of how my intentions are out of sync with the consequence on your feelings. i apologize. it’s also reinforces my point.

to clarify, you might originate a statement, make a comment, then it leaves your mind and your body. the affect on you is done and any meaning in the words is frozen. people, myself included, tend to think our intended meaning is more explicit (denotation vs connotation) in our words than it actually is.

like a pebble in the air, that comment can land in the ground and not touch anyone, not trigger anyone’s feelings.

for comments about a person or about culture that’s tied to people, it’s hard to argue that no one could ever have any feelings about it.

i understand you’re implying that comments about funny sounds in languages are abstract and/or unavoidable, and that it’s harmless to enjoy. I’ve also made such jokes, and I’m not immune to my own criticism. and just because this type of joke has happened for generations, that doesn’t mean it’s an unalterable process of the physical universe. if a human does it, that human can stop it, make it better, make it worse, etc.

just imagine your native language being mocked everyday, by the majority group surrounding you, it started before you were born, over time you can sense that it affects your family members, reduced their confidence, maybe they’re highly educated but for some reason they don’t achieve “success”, whatever that means for your culture. maybe they were bullied in school or at work.

you might think I’m suddenly bringing up fiction and distorting the issues. scientific research has proven that culturally related mocking is linked with bullying and has racialized effects on the targeted people. racialized effects meaning, among other things, giving them the sense that if they try to participate in certain areas of life, like employment, applying for home loans, dating, politics, showbusiness, they might be rejected. that sense has also proven to be accurate in the sense that (in USA) people who have been mocked in relation to their race definitively do get rejected in all fields and endeavors more than non-mocked (majority) people. that’s after adjusting for income level, education level, skill gaps, language barriers, etc.

again, to repeat, i know you probably didn’t make the comment thinking “hey what’s something racist i can do”

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i recognize you probably have no racist intention.

non-English speakers and bilingual English speakers, including those who speak Asian languages, often experience that type of mocking of their language. if it happened once to one person in the history of earth, it’s not racist. but the collective effect over generations and across thousands of experiences creates accumulative pressure on specific identity groups of people. the pressure and related coping/denial behaviors can manifest in unpredictable and inconsistent ways which may be why not everyone understands that racial mocking causes measurable harm.

tl;dr

it really helps if you would not do that. even more so if you could help stop others who you observe doing the same.