Ok. Let's say that you have an email thread with 67 emails in it. And you want to keep two of them for doing stuff with later. How does one do that with gmail conversation view?
I frequently get that many responses to a post on LJ, and they all get threaded together. If I want to save a couple of proper replies later, then they're in the middle of that.
I also frequently start the day with an email saying "Hi" to a friend or two, and then we're still replying when I leave the office in the evening. There'll be at least 50 emails in that thread, and freqently a fair bit more.
Fortunately I don't have to worry about using workarounds like that any more - I can just read them all individually. Context is rarely a problem with email for me, so having them all grouped together doesn't gain me anything.
All of my stuff goes to andrew@ducker.org.uk. It's the only email account I actually use. I used to also use andrew@notzen.com, but I haven't even checked that in an age.
I don't know, it's still not as good what some threaded email clients or newsgroups were doing 10 years ago. Yes, gmail groups together connected messages, but that's all it does. Email is like a tree, with branches; gmail flattens all those the branches together into one disorganised bundle, at best ordered by date.
Labels instead of folders on the other hand, I like.
The shotgun has been welded to a micrometer-accuracy positioning rig and adjusted using laser interferometry, the fish nailed to the bottom of the barrel have been stunned into immobility using copious quantities of Rotenone, the trigger mechanism has been polished and tweaked until a mere thought would set it off and you think, "Why bother?" and walk away.
To mix metaphors, the wet spot under the necrophiliac bestiality crime scene dried up a long time ago. Just walk away.
Imagine if "Irish" was used to mean "stupid". Or "Jew" was. It wouldn't matter whether people actually wanted to hurt Irish or Jewish people. The constant effect would be one where it felt like people were being nasty to you, all the damn time.
I think possible Andy's commenting on what he sees as the culture that allows these kids to feel this way. If 'gay' and 'crap'/'stupid' weren't still pretty much synonymous to most teenagers then we might be a little further along the path to acceptance and a detachment of stigma from the word 'gay' and the state of being so.
Oh yeah - I get that, and understand that, and disagree with that, BUT I thought there was something specific in the article (or some connected to it that I'd missed) about the connection.
... in 147 out of 150 of the biggest cities in the U.S., the median full-time salaries of young women are 8% higher than those of the guys in their peer group. In two cities, Atlanta and Memphis, those women are making about 20% more.
Not sure about Memphis, but my understanding is that Atlanta has a significant black population. US has all those silly drug laws in place that target black males. Making 20% more than an ex-con isn't hard.
(Hispanic and black women are twice as likely to graduate from college as their male peers.)
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Also, if you forward them and change the subject, they fork off.
When do you have 67 emails in a thread? Mailing lists? I hate mailing lists; they're completely unusable and antiquated.
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I also frequently start the day with an email saying "Hi" to a friend or two, and then we're still replying when I leave the office in the evening. There'll be at least 50 emails in that thread, and freqently a fair bit more.
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I think cilantro is American for coriander. I'm not keen on the stuff.
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Labels instead of folders on the other hand, I like.
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I needed that Tuesday, damn it. (No, srsly...)
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The shotgun has been welded to a micrometer-accuracy positioning rig and adjusted using laser interferometry, the fish nailed to the bottom of the barrel have been stunned into immobility using copious quantities of Rotenone, the trigger mechanism has been polished and tweaked until a mere thought would set it off and you think, "Why bother?" and walk away.
To mix metaphors, the wet spot under the necrophiliac bestiality crime scene dried up a long time ago. Just walk away.
(But Han shot first, remember!)
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Where does that follow in the story...?
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Imagine if "Irish" was used to mean "stupid". Or "Jew" was. It wouldn't matter whether people actually wanted to hurt Irish or Jewish people. The constant effect would be one where it felt like people were being nasty to you, all the damn time.
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Yes, just imagine... oh, wait...
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Or if "girly" was used to mean "weak and womanish".
Sorry, I mean "weak and ineffective".
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I don't agree, but understand why you feel that.
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Not sure about Memphis, but my understanding is that Atlanta has a significant black population. US has all those silly drug laws in place that target black males. Making 20% more than an ex-con isn't hard.
(Hispanic and black women are twice as likely to graduate from college as their male peers.)
Exactly.
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Also this. Fuck, I hate the world sometimes.
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