astutemural

@astutemural@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mexico’s first homegrown EV faces a bumpy road⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough, I learned some things today. I was under the impression that indigenous languages were a lot more normalized than they actually are. I still think that using more indigenous language in everyday stuff is low-key a win, but for it to be commericalized while denying it elsewhere is just a slap in the face.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mexico’s first homegrown EV faces a bumpy road⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Enh, it’s at least a little more complicated than that. Native or mestizo people are much more common in Mexico than the US. For example, Nahuatl has somewhere between 1.3 and 1.7 million speakers, mostly in Mexico. This is not counting over a dozen other languages that have hundreds of thousands of speakers apiece (wiki. By comparison, in the entire US there were only about 372,000 people that speak any indigenous language.

  Depending on how you want to look at it, this could be just…a normal name, or even a tribute to the Nahuatl community. Or just a cynical attempt to sell more cars by looking inclusive. How many people need to speak a language before it’s ‘normal’, after all? We don’t go asking Italians before we put stuff in Latin. Or the Irish before we sell St Paddy’s Day shirts. Etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Americans can't coo-"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  …where do you live that people DON’T have a dishwasher? Everyone house I’ve ever seen in MN has one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wrong again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Am I the only one who was mildly upset that they weren’t? Like shit, we somehow got to bio-transhumanism before techno-transhumanism, that’s rad. By all means, let’s research new ways of being transgender, I wanna see what people come up with next.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our local newspaper is trying way too hard to insert these casino ads on their site.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is not a newspaper. That is AI slop masquerading as something useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1987⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually that wild rice dish looks fine. Mirepoix, wild rice, cream of mushroom… bit of seasoning and it’s a nice hearty dish in the winter.