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- Comment on Most legible scottish person 11 months ago:
Wikipedia does explain that Scots and English are sister languages, they both descend from Old English. Neither is a dialect.
- Comment on Most legible scottish person 11 months ago:
Scots isn’t just an accent, it’s a language in its own right.
Although honestly I’m not sure how much of this is Scots and how much is just specific to Scottish twitter lol
- Comment on 1.1 History 11 months ago:
Inestimable also means “of great value”
- Comment on Title 11 months ago:
Do you think we should abandon all gender entirely?
- Comment on Title 11 months ago:
Why do we have to reduce it to “good” or “bad”? They have reprehensible methods, but the fact that they exist is an inevitable consequence of the conditions that the Palestinians have been living in for decades.
The idea that Hamas and the IDF are two “sides” is itself absurd. Hamas have absolutely no chance of victory against the IDF. There is no world in which they can even compete! They are a desperate attempt to take action by a people who have been pushed to the brink.
They aren’t a side, they are a symptom. They’ve done terrible things! But those things are a consequence of the circumstances that caused Hamas to exist.
- Comment on this AI thing 11 months ago:
But it isn’t artificial intelligence. It isn’t even an attempt to make artificial “intelligence”. It is artificial talking. Or artificial writing.
- Comment on Gen Zers are turning to ‘radical rest,’ delusional thinking, and self-indulgence as they struggle to cope with late-stage capitalism 11 months ago:
Consider chaos magick which quite openly admits that it might not actually be magic. Magic-ised placebo effect.
- Comment on Ultrasound can push vaccines into the body without needles 11 months ago:
Huh, I have never heard of such a thing! Sounds very annoying to say the least
- Comment on Ultrasound can push vaccines into the body without needles 11 months ago:
Surely that’s the vaccine, not the needle.
- Comment on 'The Witcher 4 will channel the “freedom” of CDPR’s Cyberpunk 2077' 11 months ago:
What? That isn’t what I said at all.
- Comment on 'The Witcher 4 will channel the “freedom” of CDPR’s Cyberpunk 2077' 11 months ago:
I’m not suggesting it should be at all. Not sure how you got that from my comment. I liked the Witcher 3, honestly, but it isn’t a game about freedom and it shouldn’t be imo. It tells character focused stories well, which is harder to do the more choice you give the player.
- Comment on 'The Witcher 4 will channel the “freedom” of CDPR’s Cyberpunk 2077' 11 months ago:
I feel like the kind of “freedom” players want from an RPG is somewhat inconsistent with playing as a specific character, i.e. Geralt. For me, I want to be my own character and decide who they are and what they do. I never really got on with Geralt because I don’t want to be a moody medieval jedi, I’d much rather be a whimsical wizard or something.
- Comment on Survive the zombie apocalypse 11 months ago:
ಠ_ಠ
- Comment on Lucid dream startup says engineers can write code in their sleep. Work may never be the same 11 months ago:
DM me hun x
- Comment on Lucid dream startup says engineers can write code in their sleep. Work may never be the same 11 months ago:
If this is the same startup I read about a while ago… Well the technology doesn’t actually exist. There’s a vague suggestion that maybe lucid dreams could be induced through techniques that are not properly understood yet, and that’s about it.
- Comment on Yes, ‘Australian sushi’ exists. Get over it, argues Adam Liaw 11 months ago:
It’s a complex and multi-layered topic, as I alluded to in my previous comment, but I’ll do my best to answer this. I’m by no means an expert on this, and I’m a white English dude so far from qualified really… But I have read a lot on the topic in addition to my own gut reactions to these things.
So… First let me clarify that by “wearing someone else’s culture as a costume” I am really talking specifically about people in wealthy Western countries wearing the cultural clothing of (almost always) historically colonised peoples from elsewhere. With that being said the first point to call attention to is a kind of dry economic one - the outfits you see being worn as a Halloween costumer are broadly mass produced by companies with no affiliation to the cultures they are imitating. They make huge amounts of money selling these costumes to Westerners like me, while giving nothing back to the people they’ve taken them from. This follows a long and difficult history especially in the context of colonies - historically (not at all that this doesn’t continue today) the West has plundered the world for all its worth, and this is just a relatively subtle modern example. So even before anyone puts the costume on I’m uneasy about it, personally.
The second point is specific to certain cultural garbs which are ‘closed’ within the cultures they come from. While the other reply points out that they, as a Mexican, don’t mind seeing people dressed up in Mexican costume, you would be very hard pressed to find anyone Native American who is happy seeing anyone in a mass produced war bonnet. I won’t pretend to understand the full significance of the headdress, but its well known that it is not something you just ‘put on’ if you are a Native American, and divorcing it from that cultural context both cheapens it and shows a general lack of respect towards the people whose clothing you’re wearing.
I think that lack of respect is really the main part of my problem with costume-ising culturally significant clothing. Obviously there are clothes from all over the world which are just clothes, and quite likely the people who make those clothes would be delighted to see them being worn all over the world! But if you don’t give enough of a shit to a) learn about the culture they come from and what the significance is and b) buy them from the actual people who created them, then you lose that connection and it ceases to be cultural exchange and becomes instead appropriation.
- Comment on Yes, ‘Australian sushi’ exists. Get over it, argues Adam Liaw 11 months ago:
That’s reasonable. I suppose there’s something distinct in the “costume” based on how significant the cultural garb is. I don’t know much about mexican culture so correct me if I’m wrong, but is the stereotypical sombrero/poncho combination more a product of convenience and weather than culture? Contrasting with the Native American headdress or Hindu bindi which are culturally significant in (I believe) a different way.
- Comment on Yes, ‘Australian sushi’ exists. Get over it, argues Adam Liaw 11 months ago:
Cultural appropriation is such a strange issue. It’s obvious to me that wearing someone’s culture as a costume is fucked up… And it’s pretty obvious too I think that opening a restaurant selling food from overseas is almost always cultural exchange… I don’t really think you can open a restaurant without a solid understanding of the food you’re making (quite unlike putting on a headdress and getting hammered on Halloween)… Somewhere in between there’s a line, perhaps, but I have absolutely no idea where it is. White people with dreads is in there somewhere, no one seems to agree on it, personally I think it’s pretty far removed from its origins and is basically a white hippy thing in it’s own right, regardless of how it began, but I know a lot of people disagree.
- Comment on Why does it seem like women are more wont to make noise in sexual situations while men don't? 11 months ago:
Yeah. I mean if he’s blowing it the she probably feels left out.
- Comment on Susan Sarandon dropped from talent agency after pro-Palestine remarks 11 months ago:
Did she? I watched the video and it just sounds like she’s expressing support for Palestine and suggesting others do the same.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Haha, good point. I can’t say I find, for example, Nazi views being downvoted a bad thing, no matter how reasonably they are presented.
- Comment on Super Mario Bros. Wonder sells 4.3m worldwide 1 year ago:
Although I haven’t tried much, I feel like the expert badges can bring some of that challenge at least, no?
- Comment on Scientists Are Researching a Device That Can Induce Lucid Dreams on Demand 1 year ago:
Hmmm, yes … “Scientists are researching a device” aka “this device does not exist nor does the technology required to build it”
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 1 year ago:
Is the word for race & species in French the same? Just trying to understand the mix-up!
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 1 year ago:
Agree 100% I embarrassed myself thoroughly in the sack race as a child and would like all future examples banned.
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 1 year ago:
Just because you don’t like crumpets doesn’t mean there’s a need for genocide
- Comment on xkcd #2848: Breaker box 1 year ago:
They didn’t even invoice me for over 6 months 🤷
- Comment on xkcd #2848: Breaker box 1 year ago:
Ah, sounds like it was added by an amateur. I had an electrician come round to move a socket once, he removed it but then promptly ran away because there was so much amateur garbage in our walls.
- Comment on X adds video calling — and lets strangers ring you: Turned on by default, tool lets anyone you follow potentially call you up 1 year ago:
Omg this might actually be a good reason to get back on twitter
- Comment on Neil DeGrasse Tyson explains science 1 year ago:
How dare you assume that I’m not only full of myself but also uneducated! I’ll have you know I was schooled by the finest scholars of YouTube, and received several diplomas from both Udemy and Coursera. Frankly, I am above this debate and will be removing myself henceforth! Good day!