tomenzgg
@tomenzgg@midwest.social
- Comment on Buzz Off! 1 week 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! 1 week 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! 1 week 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! 1 week 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 Couple from Kazakhstan allegedly used hidden camera and earpieces to win $1.18m from Sydney’s Crown casino 1 month ago:
Personally, I’m of the opinion that if a particular crime entails a certain (high) degree of effort/coordination and you succeed, you should just be let off and get to keep whatever you’d initially gotten away with.
- Comment on If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save? 1 month ago:
- Sonic 2
- Oddworld
- Patrick’s Parabox
- Crash Bandicoot 2
- Dead Space
- 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 Recession indicator 2 months ago:
How you doing, r4venw? Any luck, yet?
- Comment on Who was your first childhood videogame crush? 2 months ago:
I was convinced, until the end of the game, there had to be some way to bring her back.
- 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…
- Comment on Is it really worth the BS for a couple more years? 2 months ago:
How’d grampa die?
BASEd.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 months ago:
No but it is very neurodivergent to singularly pursue a special interest without any regard for social awareness.
And very neurotypical to label that person as annoying or just doing it for attention.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 2 months ago:
Cutting up pickles with boxed Mac. and Cheese was one of my favorite go-tos, in grad. school. If not pickles then I used to put canned tuna in; also quite good.
- Comment on Banana 2 months ago:
You can order them from Hawaii (or maybe you have to physically be there).
It’s just no longer worth mass producing and shipping any more due to the potential to lose your entire crop.
- Comment on Banana 2 months ago:
That last one is just something that could’ve realistically existed.
…and would continue to exist, unaltered, well up until the 70s when, finally, it was modified due to growing public awareness; and only because of that.
- Comment on grocery shopping 2 months ago:
This; as much as I have no moral qualms about the practice, there’s massive risk that’s not always obvious to see.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
- Comment on Just an FYI 2 months ago:
- Comment on Cuddly gerbils 2 months ago:
Pair-bonded? This is just what we in the field of Gender Studies call homosocial.
Just in Case
/s
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
But we can still wish.
- Comment on wax on 2 months ago:
Almost definitely; I don’t know if there’s a degree that’s necessary to qualify as I can still look at it without breaking eye contact (though I hate it). But I have a deep desire to rip that shit up the entire time; deeply repulsive, whatever the reason. Honeycombs don’t bother me, though; I dunno.
- Comment on wax on 2 months ago:
Haha; I think the wool’s too fuzzy and not rigid enough to bother me. I’ve been trying to get more into the fiber arts in the last few years, too, so definitely not a problem that I’ve noticed.
- Comment on wax on 2 months ago:
Definitely the latter, for me; something about segmented holes just grosses the absolute Hell out of me.
- Comment on Which one and why? 2 months ago:
You’re also going to keep cutting the sides of your mouth with #2 (maybe not at first but if it’s the only one you can use, forever?).
- Comment on 3 months ago:
How would you pin down something like this? If it happened to me, I expect I just wouldn’t understand what’s going on.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 3 months ago:
Sure; but we won’t close that gap immediately. Intermediate progress can be helpful for further progress.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 3 months ago:
Loved that video until I looked at some of the creators other videos.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 3 months ago:
I dunno if sufficiently so but their new model is less bulky: furilabs.com/shop/flx1s/
Loses the removable battery and headphone jack (sadly), though; but you do gain hardware switches and an extra 2GiB of RAM.
