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- Comment on What team would you put and why? 5 days ago:
Packers or the White Sox.
- Comment on Anon watches Super Size Me 1 week ago:
This was exactly my thought; feels similar to people’s response to PSAs regarding forest fires: “you had to be told to put out camp fires or check they’re fully put out?”
Clearly, history indicates that concepts don’t stick unless drilled into “common cultural sense”.
- Comment on Fetish 2026 goals 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Five Europeans denied US visas for combating hate speech online, accused of censoring ‘American viewpoints’ 2 weeks ago:
he was a closeted, self-hating, practicing homosexual
- Comment on Buzz Off! 2 weeks ago:
I expected (hoped?) you’d educate yourself a bit; there’s a wealth of information and research and theory on this subject so it’s not like you have an excuse to so wildly misuse terminology which is well-known and well-defined. Continuing to use “racism” without defining what race is is cartoonish but I did hope for more from you; I guess, at least, good faith. Oh, well.
For others who come across this thread and would like creators who sometimes cover these topics with some depth, here’s some video essayists:
www.youtube.com/@FDSignifire www.youtube.com/@olurinatti www.youtube.com/@lilbilliam
- Comment on Buzz Off! 2 weeks ago:
I expect, at this point, we will just agree to disagree and there’s no way we’ll see eye to eye but no: it’s very much not. Race is an ill-defined social construct whereas xenophobia is basedon prejudice against cultural and national lines and, while those are also socially constructed, they are more concrete than the boundaries of “race”.
As such, racism seeks to (and is more defined by its attempt to) construct a sense of identity against something to maintain a status quo (hence why the definition of “white” has been able to expand to include ethnicity such as the Irish) to better position itself against others.
While cultures and ethnicities can certainly change over time, they’re not remotely as nebulous (and made up) as race is and, thus, don’t operate in that same way; people are also much more invested in cultures and ethnicities beyond reasons of maintaining hegemonic status quo so that impacts things, as well.
- Comment on Buzz Off! 2 weeks ago:
That would be xenophobia; not racism.
I also never said that Europeans were a pest or plague; as I said in the previous comment, “My only response was that you statement that Europe’s history of colonization is still relevant.” You never alleged that I was saying that Europeans were a pest or plague (probably because I never said that) so I was never attempting to refute such a claim.
- Comment on Buzz Off! 2 weeks ago:
Europe’s a race, now?
My only response was that you statement that Europe’s history of colonization (which, again, isn’t even true as Europe still has colonies) is still relevant as the effects of that colonization is still present today.
Something you haven’t refuted or even contested; how is acknowledging history racist?
- Comment on Buzz Off! 2 weeks ago:
If you strip the land of resources when you owned it such that people can no longer use it, your colonization of that land – while in the past – is still relevant to the people now trying to eke out an existence on that land.
Playing prescriptionist with definitions isn’t going to absolve Europe of the still ongoing effects that their colonization has caused.
- Comment on Buzz Off! 2 weeks ago:
Is there a definition of relevant that, for you, doesn’t include the impacts and effects of the thing in question?
Are you going to argue to me with a straight face that the only relevant aspects we should be concerned about with colonialism is whether ownership is current and active?
- Comment on Buzz Off! 2 weeks ago:
You’d be correct; a country which suffered from colonialism by a European country; the effects of which continue today. Therefore, the effects of colonialism by at least one European country is still relevant.
You said colonialism by Europe isn’t relevant in the modern age.
- Comment on Buzz Off! 2 weeks ago:
If France wants to reimburse Haiti for the independence debt, it’s welcome to start at any time; I’d hardly begin to say that colonialism isn’t relevant – even in the modern age –, for Europe.
- Comment on handling strays 3 weeks ago:
Yeah; this one’s been my experience, as well.
- Comment on Two types 5 weeks ago:
The former; the person you’re thinking of, as the latter, is Thomas Edison.
- Comment on We're going backwards 5 weeks ago:
The caveat being if they are so bad they are climbing to the ceiling and literally falling on you.
New nightmare fuel unlocked.
- Comment on "Whatever You Get Your Podcasts" 1 month ago:
I do, actually, use Antennapod so it’s feasible there but I also use Elfeed in Emacs and Podcasts, on Linux mobile, which (I believe) both require you to find the RSS feeds yourself. So that’s usually where I run into the need to manually hunt down RSS feed manually.
Like I said, it’s possible that I just missed how Apple Podcasts exposes the RSS feed transparently but I’ve never been able to find it via just browsing the site to then put into the latter two programs.
- Comment on "Whatever You Get Your Podcasts" 1 month ago:
Just realized this was in response to a comment I’d made and not the post, proper…; sorry about that.
I do, actually, use Antennapod so it’s feasible there but I also use Elfeed in Emacs and Podcasts, on Linux mobile, which (I believe) both require you to find the RSS feeds yourself. So that’s usually where I run into the need to manually hunt down RSS feed manually.
- Comment on "Whatever You Get Your Podcasts" 1 month ago:
I think you’re reading this as me having trouble finding podcasts; I find it mildly infuriating that Spotify and Apple are becoming the face of finding podcasts in a way that obfuscates how things actually work. I don’t like that these two entities become the only listed means to find a podcast when others exist and will cause lay people to associate podcasts with just them, if that makes more sense.
- Comment on "Whatever You Get Your Podcasts" 1 month ago:
Oh, I know; that’s why I mentioned
there’s a convenience to going to a centralized service to browse for a particular thing
And I don’t necessarily know the right solution; I was somewhat just venting about the issue I recognize, even if I don’t have the countering solution. But it’s definitely a part that needs to, also, be considered, for sure.
- Comment on "Whatever You Get Your Podcasts" 1 month ago:
I couldn’t quite say but finding the RSS feed has always been a massive pain for me, whenever the only source someone gives is Apple Podcasts. That said, maybe it’s my fault and I’m just not looking carefully enough; always possible.
- Comment on "Whatever You Get Your Podcasts" 1 month ago:
I think my wording might not be the best as I didn’t mean proprietary in the sense that they could or were able to paywall things right now, as things are.
I just think that putting more control into infrastructure that we don’t control always leads to monopolization, where feasible, by corporations. So relying more on this infrastructure owned by Apple and Spotify is inherently bad.
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- Comment on Recession indicator 2 months ago:
That’s awesome! Haha, yeah; I know what you mean. Still, super glad that worked out.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 months ago:
If we strip all context from the original circumstance, I imagine we could.
But that’s not what happened, is it? You elected to editorialize that the user is doing it to be fake-different and to gain attention, despite them never going out of their way to do so, never once that I’ve seen actually say it has anything to do with poisoning AI (not that it matters, either way), and never responding when people disparage them to their “face”; literally, just typing the way they want to type and not responding to the behavior of others, the literal opposite of seeking attention.
Which any autistic person could tell you is highly relatable: they’re just off doing their own thing and it just infuriates the allistic folk who now have to make fun of them and say shit about them because, “Can’t they tell how annoying they’re being? Can’t they read social circumstances? I mean, I’m all for tolerance but they should really understand the way their behavior inconveniences me and makes me uncomfortable and now I’ve got make it their problem.”
It annoys you; fine. Different strokes; but you didn’t just say it annoys you: you assigned motive and character to this person because you’re so annoyed and any neurodivergent person would recognize that behavior from when it happened to them.
That’s clearly what AstralPath was referring to and you, then, lined up the plate to participate further.
That’s what I was pointing out; it’s not a generalized argument: it’s a capturing of an explicitly neurodivergent experience and taking it out of that context is, of course, going to make it fall apart.
- Comment on Time to update your bingo cards 2 months ago:
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
Explains the Joke
- Comment on Banana 2 months ago:
😄
- Comment on Banana 2 months ago:
You’d reminded me that I still wanted to try these, someday, and I went looking, again, for if there was an easier means (other than travelling to Hawaii); I found this place that delivers within the contiguous states: miamifruit.org/…/gros-michel-banana-box-order. If you had wanted to try one; more expensive, due to the fragility of the crop, but viable.
- Comment on Recession indicator 2 months ago:
How you doing, r4venw? Any luck, yet?
- Comment on Ok, boomer 2 months ago:
Unc’s a term that’s been in use since at least the 90s (but maybe older; I’m not a historian or was alive then); it can sometimes be used disparagingly though, generally, it’s usually an sort of familiar way to refer to someone that’s older. Kind of similar in the way “cuz” doesn’t literally refer to someone who’s your cousin but someone you’re familiar with, who’s like family in the same way a cousin might be (you didn’t grow up with them, didn’t see them all the time, but you’re familiar with them).
So it’s not hard to see how this new definition came about but it is, still, sort of just plucking the word and modifying it to a very different context (the disparaging form was definitely not the predominant form). While this is a phenomenon that is far from new, it’s felt particularly manufactured in the last decade and a half or so (probably due to the ease with which things can become viral in our current Hellscape-form of Internet); a lot of the “slang” that’s hit mainstream awareness has felt almost more like buzzwords than actual slang or even natural language in the way it’s been used. That’s not directly relevant to your question but just something I’ve been thinking about.
Also, thanks for asking, rather than downvoting; it’s (obviously) not everything but there’s a non-negligible segment of Lemmy that just seems to have an emotional tantrum every time race comes up.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 2 months ago:
Notably, – yet again – it’s also cribbing/misusing black slang/terminology; disappointing…
