Ashen44

u/Ashen44@lemmy.ca
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Yes sorry, I did assume a western context, that's my bad. I've only ever lived in Canada so I'm not too knowledgeable on progressive movements outside of the west. I would imagine though that the best course of action would be to state your alliance with those marginalized ethnicities in those cultures. For example, if you live in Kenya and want to see Somalians treated equally there then you should express your support for the Somalians, because not expressing that support will cause others to assume you hold the culturally "default" position, which in the case of widespread discrimination would likely mean they would assume you are anti-Somalian.

Basically all I mean is that if you want to show that you don't care about race or ethnicity then show support for whatever group needs it the most in your community. By doing so you're showing that you're willing to accept those groups even though they aren't identical to you. Sure that might seem like you absolutely do care about race, since you're supporting those groups on basis of who they are, but a truly "neutral" position doesn't exist in situations like this, as choosing not to say anything at all is showing that you're okay with whatever the current dominant ideology is.

it's the same issue as the "black lives matter" / "all lives matter" distinction. On the surface, sure, "all lives matter" sounds more appealing because all lives do matter. But the point is that most people support white people, it's the people of colour that you need to voice your support for, because they're the ones being targeted with constant discrimination and racism.

I think back to the post about liking pancakes not meaning hating waffles. It sounds ridiculous but it's very easy to fall into that mindset, especially in scenarios like this. "I stand with people of colour" doesn't mean "I don't stand with white people", it just means "people of colour need my support more than white people do right now".

If that sounds weird to you still, and you'd still rather say "I support everyone" that's totally fair, but if you're going to do that you need to be aware of the cultural meaning given to those kinds of phrases beyond what the literal words mean, as the type of people who say that sort of thing are usually saying it to delegitimize messages of support for marginalized groups, and so by saying it yourself you may end up being associated with those people as well.

As someone with ADHD, the whole comic is me exactly. I'm never late to anything ever because I literally can't think of anything except the event until it happens, and I'm also super stressed about missing things so I always leave early.

When I had this problem in the past it was actually other addons causing the problem. Do you have any other addons? If so, try disabling all your addons (except ublock) and checking if the problem is gone. If so then you can re-enable them one by one until you find the offender. For me it was actually an addon which shouldn't have affected YouTube or ads at all which was causing the problem.

If that doesn't work or you don't have any other addons, try going into the ublock settings (click the icon in your taskbar and then click the gears) and click restore to default settings at the bottom. If that still doesn't work then you might have to seek help elsewhere (the official support page is r/ublockorigin if you're okay with using reddit)

Toys "R" Us is a chain of toy stores which went bankrupt and shut down all US locations in 2018, although it has recently returned to the US as of 2022.

R is a statistics focused programming language which sees wide use in the field of data science.

The meme features characters from the cartoon "The Regular Show". In the first panel, all the characters are together, interestingly one character for each letter in Toys R Us. In the second panel, only the character representing the R remains, indicating the transition from childhood (toys) to adulthood (statistics). The science part of the meme is mostly just the statistical analysis reference.

That's certainly an interesting take. I loved the first game but DS2 blows it out of the water. It's pretty much a direct improvement in almost every way in my opinion. The only downgrade I think is the difficulty, but death stranding 1 had abysmal combat so I can easily forgive the game becoming easier while also becoming more fun.

on iron rule · c/onehundredninetysix · 2 pts · 190d

Yes, but not most people with several million followers. Staying human with that much fame is the impressive part.

They're responsible for one challenge in society and it's that they have all these amazing men and women and I have no way of telling them all how awesome they are :(

on Not impressed · c/memes · 40 pts · 273d

Animals are one group or "kingdom" of life. Plants (such as trees) and fungi (such as mushrooms) each have their own kingdoms, and so do bacteria and a few other forms of life. They're organized this way to represent how closely related they are. Every single living thing in the animal kingdom is more closely related to every single other thing in the animal kingdom than to anything in any other kingdom.

As an example, chimpanzees, starfish, and earthworms are more closely related to each other than to a sunflower, so we call chimpanzees, starfish, and earthworms animals but not sunflowers. This is called "taxonomy" and there's a ton of different levels of how related things are, ranging from very distantly related to so closely related you can barely tell them apart. Kingdom isn't even the most broad!

You might have also heard that fungi are more closely related to animals than to plants, but that doesn't mean that fungi are animals, just that the lifeform that branched into fungi and animals did so a lot later than the one that branched into plants. In the end they're still distinct enough that we call them different kingdoms!