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Conservative US influencer Candace Owens is barred from New Zealand weeks after a ban from Australia
  • Makes her rich. She knows racism, as she's had to sue successfully in the past, but it's easier to get money this way. There's this podcast where atheists make fun of bad Religious movies (mostly Christian, with a few Jewish, Hindu, scientology, culty, and just plain weird Woo/conspiracy ones) and they are constantly surprised how bad they are yet still profitable.

    They joke about just switching sides for the payout. Some people don't have enough standards to not do so.

  • ugh i wish
  • A lot of people take humor as fact, either by not understanding it as satire or by thinking it's funny because it's true etc. So while a bit of a party pooper, I don't think some light correction is all that harmful.

  • his dad is a cop what did we expect rule
  • I don't really have much on other native ethnic groups aside from the Ainu people, which as a minority group went through colonialist oppression similar to other native/aboriginal groups in other locations. Some site links: https://minorityrights.org/communities/ainu/#%3A~%3Atext=These+policies+and+legislation+aimed%2Con+their+traditional+economic+activities.

    https://www.ff-ainu.or.jp/web/english/details/post-5.html

    As for colorism, the culture trends conservative. I don't mean strictly politically, which it probably does too, but as in don't act out and stick with traditional values. Due to that, white skin is generally considered better looking and proper, and there is a negative stereotype for darker skin.

    They are similar to S Korea like this, and there is a sort of blatant implied racism towards dark skinned and especially black people in the culture. There is of course some fetishizing of dark skin too, but mainly in a fling but don't settle down kind of way.

    Some younger people are of course bucking some of these trends, and I'm not quite up to date as stuff in my own country, but it's definitely still there. There are people who have given personal experiences, some positive, some definitely not.

  • Embarrassed Teslas Drivers Buying Huge Numbers of Anti-Elon Bumper Stickers
  • Some people never heard. I see a lot of people accusing people of not listening, but for the first couple years I heard anything about Musk I didn't hear any negatives. I wasn't looking him up, I'd just see a joke or meme, and since I didn't care much I probably didn't even go into comments. I think the first real negative news I heard was the sub pedo incident.

    Maybe the Model E Model 3 S3X thing, but at worst I considered that an immature joke and didn't think much further about it, nor heard anyway say anything seriously negative about it.

  • decent
  • It's not a joke based on nothing. It's based on how many of the people who want mass deportation will always assume someone is an immigrant based on looks, language, skin color. I've seen lots of right wing people talk about seeing illegals at an airport or non Americans. How do they know? Did they check their papers, passport, etc?

    No. They just looked at em and knew somehow.

  • Fear of birds is real!
  • Basically the idea is based off the... forget the words, but something in the ear canal. It gets damaged by loud noises, and since it appears ones closer to the edge process higher frequencies; we lose those first.

    So older people should have less. It's not always that way in practice though. Some older people didn't listen to loud music, never went to concerts, etc, and have less damage. When I was 30 or so, I worked with some 18 yesr olds and 40 year olds, and we tested. The young ones could hear well into 20k+, while the 40 year old was pretty bad at 8k or so. I personally could hear 16k or so and feel 17-18k.

  • Trump Completely Humiliates Elon Musk in Front of House Republicans
  • It works. Most "cool kids" aren't really, they just use (often misplaced) confidence and attract others to praise or envy them. Then when you get to the real world the rules are similar but still vastly different. Some adapt, some don't. Also contrary to TV, not everyone is even interested in the "cool kids."

    Some never were interested, not in a weird hipster way, but just in a "I don't get it" way. Lots of weird right wingers think Trump is cool for some reason. Aside from hate and spite, I don't really get it. He's funny to mock, but I would never want a clown to lead me.

  • American live-streamer indicted in South Korea over offensive antics
  • My intent was not to actually complain too much about Socrates, but just use him as a more tolerable example. I generally agree with your opinion on who was in the wrong there, but part of my consideration was the reports that they knew he could flee and supposedly were OK with that, but he decided to stay on principle. Also the joke he made about them treating him like a hero for his punishment, probably not quite in good taste given the circumstances.

    That aside, while I do agree with your last statement, there have also always been conmen, fame seekers, and less influential but more... annoying people throughout history, especially if they had nepotism or class differences in their side.

  • American live-streamer indicted in South Korea over offensive antics
  • Eh, bards and other old actor types are kinda similar. They're doing public actions for fame and money. Wasn't Socrates also considered an asshole? Not that I'm equating these influencers to philosophers, but at the time the people considered him to be mocking their culture (religion). Not nearly as bad as mocking tragedies, but the idea of living off of attention, including being a troll, isn't new. It just usually resulted in much harsher consequences than the modern day, and usually paid less.

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  • I can't tell my hours, because I left it open while doing other stuff, and overnight etc. Same with Ark. Both have 8k+ hourly, but FFXIV has more (but isn't in steam for me).

  • Dr. Seuss book banned by GOP after right-wing blamed “woke left” for “canceling” him
  • It wasn't even canceled. His estate pulled the books themselves, 6 of them. If I find something I said earlier in life I don't agree with (extremely easy because I used to be religious and in a cult, now neither) then have I been canceled by the radical left? (I mean, I am far more left, but not sure I qualify for radical).

  • Twitch sucks!
  • As the op points put, it's going to be used as a reporting harassment. If it requires human intervention to decide, they might have bots or automatic actions based on number of reports.