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Black scholars criticize white writer's 'dehumanizing' use of blackface to write book on U.S. race relations
  • I question whether he really even did it or if he just lied and wrote what he imagined would happen. He would've been immediately identifiable as a white guy in blackface, and I'm guessing he would've just gotten his ass beat. He also claims he interviewed actual black people but doesn't name any of them afaik. If it turns out he made the whole thing up to write the book, I wouldn't be surprised at all.

  • Did everyone stick to yesterday's agenda?
  • I woke up at 6 to get a head start on desecration, but then I had a bbq to attend later so I got way off schedule. I really need to be on the ball today if I want to destroy the sanctity of straight marriage and groom children by telling them that they're valid and deserving of love no matter how they identify. It's a lot of work for a Sunday, honestly.

  • White Canadian writer self-publishes book on race after traveling US in ‘Afro wig and Mocha shade foundation’
  • You know when people complain about privileged white men who always feel like they need to make every conversation about them? This is the man. He's the one we're talking about. If this isn't a very late, bizarre April Fool's joke, he really thinks he did something with this. What an absolute clown.

  • Fan suing Madonna for ‘forcing’ them to watch sex acts during concert
  • I haven't listened to Madonna since the early 90s and don't give one single fuck about her. As others have pointed out, it's not doxxing if the guy publicly filed a lawsuit and his name is featured in most of the articles about it. His social media is (or was, as of yesterday) public and when you google him, his dad's firm is one of first things that comes up. And they're relevant because their motto appears to be, "we will sue somebody for you," so it's clear he's following in his father's footsteps. Suing Madonna, a performer who has had sexual content as part of her performances for 40 years is clearly a money grab and he deserves to be mocked for it.

    Unless you are Justin, I'm not sure why you're going so hard for this dude.

  • Fan suing Madonna for ‘forcing’ them to watch sex acts during concert
  • I'm not saying look this guy up, but I'm not not saying that either. He's a complete dweeb who apparently clerks for daddy's law firm (which looks like a bunch of ambulance chasers but I didn't care enough to do any research) and is almost certainly just looking for a payday. Then again, that may have been the first time he was ever in the presence of anything even close to sex acts, so who knows.

  • I'm baaaaack, with frens this time
  • I think that's probably true - Japan has such a sanitized reputation now (which, frankly, isn't entirely deserved), and most people probably don't ever take a history class after high school, so a lot of people probably genuinely don't know how bad it was. I did a little over 3 years of an undergrad history major and never heard a word about it. The only reason I know anything about it is because my AP US History teacher in high school told a few of us about it after a class on WWII. I had nightmares about some of the pictures for a few nights. I see why they don't generally teach it to kids.

  • Bribery schmibery. Make them pay for their stupidity
  • Even that wouldn't always work. This woman found out I was working on my birthday (I always do, but I guess that's s big deal to some), so she came back with cake, a bottle of prosecco, and flowers. My mom was like, "Was she trying to date you??" That woman was one of the most beautiful people I've ever seen in real life, I fucking WISH she was trying to date me. I am not that lucky. It's only the men my dad's age that are trying to hook up.

  • Bribery schmibery. Make them pay for their stupidity
  • I work in government and we're not allowed to accept gifts over $50, but I really prefer no one give me anything. Any time someone has, it's been a thank you for work that's already done, but I don't want there to ever be any question about it. Plus, when you're a younger woman (so not so much these days, but early career), people question if the gifter was angling for something else, which is awkward.

  • Meet my new puppy: Ass!
  • Oh I tried, but he undermined everything I worked on. I went home to work every weekend so she'd pee on the carpet and he'd just leave it until I got back, so the idea that peeing in the apartment was bad never really stuck. He let her chew a red marker all over the floor, too, and when I walked in to see her doing it and him in the couch ignoring her, he sat up and was like, "oh, uh, bad dog!" It was impossible.

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  • Oh my god, finally. I've been wearing my Internet Cringe Police shirt all week and you're the only one who has thanked me for protecting the American people with my life or my wifi or whatever.

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  • My area has near constant posts about a vehicle driving by someone's house, accompanied by blurry footage of absolutely nothing of note, and half the commenters are convinced that it's for a crime and the other half are like, "you know this is a public street with other residents, right?" God forbid a realtor ever takes photos for comps. It's the fucking mafia, out to steal all of Janice's lawn ornaments, obviously.

    It's just an absolute black hole of suck, but I work for a nearby city, so it's a good way to find out if there are resident concerns that aren't batshit crazy, so I keep my account active. I can only tolerate about 5 minutes at a time, though.

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  • Some did point that out - about 200 other comments fell all over themselves to thank him and blame "kids these days," though, so it was pretty much the worst. My ex-husband spent a couple decades in the military, and he was suuuper uncomfortable being thanked, so I know that attitude is by no means universal. It's just cringey as hell.

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  • Brb, bout to post this on nextdoor and watch all my neighbors fight.

    Seriously though, this dude made a post on there today about how he's "been wearing his army gear the last few days and no one has thanked him for his service." I would walk into traffic if I was ever that embarrassing.

  • Meet my new puppy: Ass!
  • Waffles. But my roommate in college bought a puppy before the summer, named it Waffles, took her home, and came back in the fall with an untrained dog that peed in the house and he never cleaned it up. Poor Waffles, she didn't ask to be raised by terrible owners but I ended up moving out early because of her.

  • InsanePeopleFacebook @lemmy.world frickineh @lemmy.world
    This is somehow one of his saner posts

    This guy has been running for local office and losing every election cycle for years. His latest thing is that he is a victim the same way George Floyd was because DEI has made it hard to be a white man, I guess?

    For the record, his "wife" literally left the country over a decade ago and I think his son has also moved to her country. The last picture he has with them is easily 15 years ago, so I don't think they really give a shit if anyone votes for him. Oh, also, they're Asian so he regularly refers to himself as a "person/father of color."

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    How to choose a model?

    I don't do much handheld gaming, but I'm going to have some overseas flights and long-ish train rides later this year, and may also be having surgery that will keep me fairly bedbound for about a month. I'm just not sure how much money it's worth spending on a deck that I likely won't use much outside of those specific cases - I bought a switch when I got covid in 2020 and used it a ton at the time but I've only used it a few times since, though I miiight use a deck a bit more just because I already have a pretty extensive steam library.

    Is it better to stick to the cheapest model or is there enough of a difference that it might be worth spending a little more for a nicer one?

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    Getting wild on NYE

    This is one of the first kits I got really excited about and I finally grabbed it on Black Friday. I've never done buttonhole stitch and it's a lot of fun now that I have the hang of it. It's a party at my house, as you can see.

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    Hard-up this holiday? Amazon flyer tells workers to ask company mascot for help
    www.theguardian.com Hard-up this holiday? Amazon flyer tells workers to ask company mascot for help

    Workers making $17 an hour not impressed by holiday offer from company that just tripled profits to $9.9bn

    Hard-up this holiday? Amazon flyer tells workers to ask company mascot for help

    Yeah, definitely don't put any of those profits toward a living wage though. Make your employees trauma dump for the chance at a few extra bucks! Probably comes as an Amazon gift card, too.

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    Considering calling this one finished

    I don't know how to cross stitch (and did absolutely zero research before starting this kit), but this is a mood, especially after I realized I miscounted and put the s one space off and now have to pull it back out.

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    I finally finished these two!
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    Well...mostly. I need to fill in a couple of gaps on the bear, but I lost my mind and decided to try to finish a whole new pattern by 10/1 so I'll have to worry about that later. I'm overall really happy with how both came out. I can see mistakes up close, but I think from a distance, they're both nice. Also, this was before ironing both, please disregard any wonky satin stitch - the thread moves when I wash off the pattern.

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