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  • So there is this guy, best friend of my father since before I was born, I knew him for my entire life. He always worked with food trucks and when I was teenager I worked with him and we would often work until 4am. All kinds of people would show up, early it would be families with kids, later people coming out of clubs and nightlife, then even later it would be cops, drunks, prostitutes, transvestites, crackheads, drug dealers... he always treated everyone equally, he'd give free hotdogs to homeless and beggars, the guy had a huge heart and everyone liked him.

    Later I had moved to another city and comes Facebook. I add him, see a lot of right wing bullshit content he liked and shared, even stuff coming from openly homophobic people and it was shocking because he is gay. We have an ugly argument and I didn't speak to him for about two years, felt like shit the whole time, kept remembering what an amazing and generous person he is, that was always up to help everyone around him. Next time I was back in town I went to his house to apologize, he said he didn't even remember we had an argument.

    People are complex as fuck, and social media got us building walls for believing they are bad for not being perfect.

  • thanks, exactly what I'm looking for

  • /0 @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Recommended Fediverse instances?

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  • three in the same day?? you don't eve get a day to prepare between each??

  • But did you see them IN PERSON? How good is your score now, uh?

  • I tried the link in another browser that is not logged on lemmy and the links were there... the blog name is "apocalyptic head" and the tag "just art", so I presume they are censoring blogspot

  • A mix of artstation, instagram and devianart profiles for modern artists, a few with their own personal sites, and online galleries and art wiki for older artists... I have thousands of random art I liked saved on my HDD, and I used to share them randomly on this blog (which was a backup of a Facebook page but included content that got zucked) https://apocalyptichead.blogspot.com/search/label/%23%20Just%20Art(and here there's a list of the artists I had posted so far https://apocalyptichead.blogspot.com/p/art.html - but I had thousands more pictures to post before dropping Facebook and that Google blog)

  • I don't think I watched the blackface episode, but if it was an accident that caused a misunderstanding (basic comedy trope) the joke was on people being over sensitive and raging without knowing and/or purposely ignoring context of a situation (I could as easily say "if you want to do something racist, just claim it was a dark elf"). What was being criticized there became the norm, and the consequences are in this thread - people can't say the name of that Agatha Christie's work in the comments, nor you can have a dark elf in Community, because context doesn't matter.

    editing a day later: This was a half-assed argument, the shows did it just because it was funny. In all the cases people jumped to conclusions that were completely fair, people should be shooed for doing what the main characters were doing, but it was funny because it wasn't on purpose, they got in a bad situation by mistake. However, the critique on this kinda of humor, and also satires and parodies that humorously references problematic stuff, because "offensive" is absolute value, is what led to "people can't say the name of that Agatha Christie's work in the comments, nor you can have a dark elf in Community".

  • That flag episode the joke was that everything he was doing was taken the wrong way. He had accidentally set on fire a flag that was behind him and tried to put out the fire, then someone shouts "Hey, there's a guy stomping the Puerto Rican flag!" and he is chased by a mob...

    It's like that Monk episode where he has to shake hands with a lot of people from a group and the last one is black, and right after shaking hands with the black person he cleans his hands with rubbing alcohol, so everyone thinks he is racist and everything he does in the episode just makes him look even worse - because it was taken out of context (he is a germophobe, he cleans his hands with rubbing alcohol after touching anything and anyone).

  • What’s wrong with the last one? Seems like a pretty standard critique of “science” as evil destroying humanity. In Brave New World they had reservations for the savages who still had religious beliefs, and it was a touristic attraction.

  • Oh, before "setting in", test out all the sites you need to use regularly, because of its hardened fingerprinting protection webgl and webgpu are disable, also canvas and other scripts, and I believe they completely stripped the browser DRM checks, so some streaming services won't work as well.

  • It needs a bit of fine tuning for daily use, but it's nothing cryptic: If you don't want to save all cookies, then you gotta add exception to sites you want to stay connected to (unless you are ok with having to login every time you enter a site). I think saving history is disabled by default, and this is quite inconvenient. You also gotta allow saving passwords if you want the browser to have them.

  • At one time, a man seeing a female fully naked was the equivalent of a man seeing a female today too... because, you know, everyone was fully naked all the time, clothes hadn't been invented yet...

  • I’m here saying Proton has servers in 127 countries and they are widely different, so how do you decide to which ones they are "tied" (protip: They are tied to none, getting an exit node in a country benefit users from the countries next to it, and it also opens that country's geolocked content to the world). Get a brain.

  • Is the word you are looking for "confirmation bias"?

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

    When boomers said they wanted to "protect children" from the media, they created MPAA ratings and the Parental Advisory stickers. When Gen X said they wanted to "protect children" from the media...

  • Brasil @lemmy.eco.br

    Acontecimento inusitado

  • cats @sh.itjust.works

    My Cute Pet Page

    pirahxcx.neocities.org /pets/petindex
  • cute dogs, cats, and other animals @lemmy.ml

    My Cute Pet Page

    pirahxcx.neocities.org /pets/petindex
  • cats @lemmy.world

    My Cute Pet Page

    pirahxcx.neocities.org /pets/petindex
  • Crawling the IndieWeb @lemmy.ml

    What indieweb sites you like?

  • GOG @lemmy.world

    Can't Unsubscribe from Newsletter, anyone else?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world

    Can't instances and communities set a default language for posts/comments, and are language tags available for everyone in the Threadiverse?

  • Personal Websites @lemmy.ml

    Trying to scale site correctly and perhaps future-proof it?

  • HTML @programming.dev

    Trying to scale site correctly and perhaps future-proof it?

  • Games @lemmy.world

    Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually)

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world

    Custom arcade controller I built to play any system emulator

  • Brasil @lemmy.eco.br

    Investigação na Suécia encontra cerca de 4800 usuários de IPTV, mais ou menos o tanto que você encontraria numa cidade Brasileira com 5mil habitantes.

    torrentfreak.com /iptv-piracy-crackdown-in-sweden-exposes-4886-subscribers/
  • cats @lemmy.world

    my male cat nursing rescued kittens

  • cats @lemmy.world

    ... perhaps my cats are gay?

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev

    Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal 2011 09 08

  • Music @lemmy.world

    Elza Soares - Comportamento Geral (2019)

  • LibreWolf @lemmy.ml

    No more Captcha Hell?

  • Anarchism @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Were you following the Ukrainian anarchists in 2014?