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Not an American, I would guess that blackface in particular looks more like a roughly made mock. And then I can see why mocking others based on skin colour can be seen as racist.

I would say that tanning usually looks more natural (even in failed cases), that’s why it would not be seen as racism, in worst case it would look like a person made a laughing stock of themselves in case of poorly applied tanner.

Then again, it is still just a guess, as I am not from the US

It’s wild for me how different that peer pressure in the line is in different countries. In Spain people would even try to make you slow down and take your time when they notice how stressed you are with trying to pack everything fast 🥲 that’s very considerate of them

I always thought that such jobs would be best replaced with universal basic income. Maybe even not universal, and only for those who need it

But very truly

leaves no one indifferent.

They may be made entirely of wood and paper, but as pointed out, fire hazard is still a thing

Well, that’s crappy wrapping for crappy content then, unfortunately

Thanks for your thorough explanations here

Yes, this seems to be the goal for most of the companies. That’s really awful, I don’t have enough words to comment on how much I hate that after playing one of those games for several months because I got addicted to it. Not a cent did I pay, though, let them fuck themselves

Don’t know if the others are correct about the reasons, but here’s what I felt to be a reason when I once installed such a scam. They do whatever they can to make you run the game and then try to hook you up by using every trick possible to increase engagement. Then they sell you worthless in-game resources for real money. The game I played didn’t even have ads aside from ads of purchasing in-game stuff everywhere

And then sometimes the browser forgets that it should reopen them and I’m like “noooooooooo… but actually, I’m free now” and pile another several hundreds of tabs right away ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I hope Lemmy is going to get a wider recognition with time. Wish you all the best 🙏

Tangentially related, but yeah, some usernames one can remember after seeing them for the umpteenth time and then one spots the same people all over the hot topics 😅 that doesn’t only apply to toxic ones, it’s just that an active core of Lemmy community is still small enough, a nice time to be a part of it

I’d say things look progressively grim in the world even outside the elections being another possible source of problems. I used to not know what anxiety was, now I can only wish I still didn’t

Seems like Sync only understands one-line spoilers, so you need each line in a separate spoiler

Once you’ve mastered the mini enema

And you must shout the name of the technique you’re about to use, otherwise you’re far from having mastered it

I’ll probably respond here instead of under the post: I use emojis to denote sarcasm or strong reactions usually, so I don’t feel the need to spray posts with them.

Otoh they do have an ability to make anything seem silly and/or advertising 😅 so for the comical effect, why not 乁⁠(⁠ ⁠⁰͡⁠ ⁠Ĺ̯⁠ ⁠⁰͡⁠ ⁠)⁠ ⁠ㄏ

It looks like he’s trying to heal a patient with bloodletting. I think it might help to revive the economy, but also may be a disaster. Also I think that the social guarantees should at least be in force after things get better, if not the whole time. Trying to work things out for the country by putting the citizens in even worse position does not seem like a humane thing to do even if it works :(

I think, you were right about muted all along. Muted in the sense of zero sound I can relate to but it didn’t make it into dictionary yet

My perspective is that when everyone is only loyal to their own interests this becomes an extremely divided and trustless environment. Whether it’s social or workplace this is quite toxic to my views