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- Comment on That damnable radical left! 1 day ago:
- Submitted 1 day ago to conservative@lemmy.world | 29 comments
- Comment on Why do i see so many americans obsessed with the concept of "this is a thing that [Ethnicity] does" 3 days ago:
That tension continues in the USA between recognizing and celebrating cultural differences, and becoming a melting pot of many cultures becoming one.
This is the crux. It’s a uniquely American take on how you deal with a country that has seen dozens of waves of immigration (starting with the illegal immigration of colonization) from many different places over a fairly short timeframe. American culture is kind of like a fork, with a unified base that has integrated but very distinct tines (bear with me… combining the “melting pot” and “salad bowl” tropes is HARD!). At their best, memes and jokes like that can be an invitation to genuine dialogue. At their worst… well… not that. A lot depends on who is putting them out and with what agenda in mind.
Statistically, most European countries seem to be estimated at somewhere between 80%-90% “white,” likely to mean “of exclusively European extraction beyond any sort of family memory,” and I wager the vast majority of those people are from the core borders or frontiers that might well have shifted in the last few centuries. America hasn’t had that sort of percentage for over 40 years, and even then the white population was more “assorted crackers.” Even back into that era, most areas will have had at least two and likely three to five statistically significant populations that would have been visually and culturally distinct (not that this in ANY way implies that these groups were treated equally by the power structures… OMG far, far, FAR from it). These people don’t have to give up their distinctiveness to remain American, and when considered in good faith, particularly by those who mostly live in the base of the fork, the sorts of things you’re describing can be more celebratory than divisive.
I’m not going to suggest Americans are particularly good at multiculturalism (another understatement), but we’ve been at it a long time and specific practices and trends have grown up around it. The balancing act of racial and ethnic awareness without descending into judgment is probably one of the more complicated aspects of navigating American culture, regardless of whether you were born to it or looking on from the outside. So much so, in fact, that certain small-minded people think we should just snap the tines off the fork and pretend the nub was always a spoon.
- Comment on Fanhome Reveals Next Star Trek Starship Models, Including the USS Dauntless from Star Trek: Prodigy 4 days ago:
I really enjoyed Prodigy, but good lord the Dauntless is fugly.
- Comment on PSA: Some of y'all are overly afraid of scorpions 5 days ago:
Yes, but that is less fun for my dad-joke purposes.
- Comment on PSA: Some of y'all are overly afraid of scorpions 5 days ago:
So the one in the old fable was even more of a dick than we’d been led to believe. Got it. Image
- Comment on How would he have 6 limbs otherwise? 1 week ago:
It clearly pissed him off enough that he refuses to finish the next book.
- Comment on How would he have 6 limbs otherwise? 1 week ago:
Perhaps the wings are articulated ribs?
- Comment on Audiologists raise concern over headphone use in young people 1 week ago:
I poked around a few other articles. A few are identical. Most are slight variations. Few are as different as these two. My guess would be that the original submission from the author or initial editor locks in a headline for the tab/title bar, but then the CMS lets them edit what appears in the main body of the webpage.
- Comment on Audiologists raise concern over headphone use in young people 1 week ago:
I am glad to see us respect our link-aggregation heritage of ignoring the article and starting heated discussions based on what we infer from the headline. 😂
It also seems that the headline currently on the article is different and switches out clickbait tactics from misleading omission to absurd pearl-clutching: “Are noise-cancelling headphones to blame for young people’s hearing problems?” If you combine them, you get something closer to actual content of the article.
- Submitted 1 week ago to history@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on The Engine’s Lifeblood: A Museum of Motor Oil History with Modern Analyses 1 week ago:
Lifeblood
More like the engine’s synovial fluid, amirightoramiright?!?!?
- Comment on Best Beige P/S2 keyboard and mouse for retro gaming build? 1 week ago:
There are buckling spring Model M and M2 keyboards that will use PS/2 or the easily converted AT. Also look for Focus boards (Alps white) or various Cherry boards (usually Cherry black) with either of those connectors. Arbor, I’ve been trying to offload a Tai Hao with Alps clones and an AT plug for a while now.
Quality of boards takes a nose dive once they start coming with “Win” keys, but you can find decent ones even with that. Gotta be more careful if you want anything other than a run of the mill rubber dome though.
If you want new, you could try to contact Unicomp at pckeyboard.com, they may still have some beige ones in the warehouse, and they already offer special orders for other stuff, so at a minimum they won’t think you’re crazy for asking.
- Comment on Retro tech: Using the PSION Series 5 in 2023 2 weeks ago:
I had a “Diamond Mako,” aka a Psion Revo. Neat device, but I just wasn’t “on the go” enough to really need it. It was slightly smaller than the 5, IIRC, and it definitely wasn’t as good for typing as even a Netbook (another good candidate for a “writerDeck” btw), but it was very slick. IIRC it had NiCAD or NiMH AAA batteries hard-wired into it.
- Comment on Autodesk Fusion 360 is moving it's cloud storage to Fusion Hub. Upgrading is Mandatory 2 weeks ago:
PLM is the current buzzword for lower-end CAD. Alibre just added it. OnShape tries to embody it. Solidworks hobbyist options only continue to exist in order to market it. Even the Ondsel startup that hired some FreeCAD devs built their (failed) business model around bolting PLM on.
This looks like it’s taking a more traditional “cloud storage” model and replacing it with something more PLM-like so they can sell to low-end corporate users and the hobbyists just get rolled in because ain’t nobody maintaining something just for the freeloaders, who can be forced to get used to it anyway and might push for it if they ever get work in the field, simply because they know it.
My guess is it’s not inherently worse than what it’s replacing, but it’s likely complicated and kinda clunky for a random person designing gears and project enclosures.
- Comment on Haircut 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on What do you think about centralised clients? 2 weeks ago:
hexbear: 1.9k users per month .ml: 2.3k users per month lemm.ee: 3.8k users per month .world: 17.2k users per month
Unwanted centralization is a fair enough complaint, but honestly us normies are mostly just… normaling.
- Comment on What is your favorite app for Lemmy? Include Platform 2 weeks ago:
Voyager on iOS has worked well enough I haven’t gone huntig for anything else. On desktop I like the Alexandrite front end.
- Comment on Also available in chocolate. 2 weeks ago:
The UAE in general is an interesting experience. I’ve only been once, but my wife has been several times for work.
The face they want to present has a kind of a Pan-European middlebrow banality (i.e. you want to impress many people who may or may not be all that thoughtful and who definitely speak many different languages and have different cultural touchstones… I am thinking of stuff like the old BASF “nothingburger” ads), combined with an American-like sense of recklessly cheerful enthusiasm for development and economic growth, but wrapped in a cloak of religiosity and always with a barely concealed underpinning of oligarchic authoritarianism.
To be perfectly honest, it felt a lot like what I expect the evil, but less mustache-twirlingly evil, hope America will be. Still open for business, and even superficially welcoming, but with true wealth only going to those selected by the entrenched power structure, with all others allowed to serve at their pleasure and under a bedrock expectation of not disturbing their preferred social order.
- Comment on Also available in chocolate. 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had chocolate made with camel milk. It was good, though being positioned as a premium thing it probably would have been just as good with cow milk.
- Comment on I mean I would totally give it a try 2 weeks ago:
Love After Lockup is full of extremely healthy relationships.
Yes, yes, I know, and in fact one does lost interest after a while. Still, some reality trash can be interesting in the first season or two when they’re gathering the initial crop of free-range crazy instead of raising their own herd. Frankly, I’m surprised we haven’t seen a proper “SovCit” reality franchise.
- Comment on *56k modem noises* 2 weeks ago:
56k modem noises
I particularly remember the heart-dropping feeling of the repeated changes in pitch as it negotiated a lower baud rate to account for the shitty wiring my dad DIY’d.
- Comment on Molly of... McKinley? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Funny this never made it into a James Taylor song 2 weeks ago:
TIL James Taylor has a song called “Country Road.”
It is not about West Virginia.
- Comment on We're in the endgame now 2 weeks ago:
I mean, he did go to the notorious third-tier toilet known as… Yale.
- Comment on We're in the endgame now 2 weeks ago:
Yup. The word “legitimate” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, and he’s just hoping that no one asks the follow up, “How do we determine whether a use of power is legitimate?”
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- Comment on Handful of users claim new Nvidia GPUs are melting power cables again 2 weeks ago:
Strolls nervously through room with RX 580…
- Comment on Might be fun idk 2 weeks ago:
The pace of American football is utter shit, and I think it relies too much on in-game coaching, but the actual strategy and feats of athleticism are equally impressive to any other version and have their own charm, but none of it is important enough for me to tell anyone they have to give it a try.
- Comment on What job do you need this hard hat for? 3 weeks ago:
If they got pissed off enough, I bet you were glad you had it.
