Also the babies that were never conceived due to women in socialist countries getting silly things like rights, bodily autonomy, and careers. According to that one black book.

We don’t actually have an issue with the label

I’ll keep proudly calling myself a tankie as long as it pisses the libs off

Jean Luc Picard’s fake French accent.

Actual French accent doesn’t even come close.

Maggie and the Ferocious Beast (the first English cartoon I remember watching), Rolie Polie Olie, Martha Speaks, Franklin, Little Bear, Total Drama Island/Action, and 6Teen taught me English when I came to Canada.

Star Trek got me started on my path to tankiehood and sci-fi writing. Futurama also significantly contributed to the latter.

Pokemon, Wonderpets and Redwall (and many of the cartoons from the learning English category) got me interested in writing animal characters. Zootopia pissed me off so much with its inconsistent world building that it sealed the deal and made me obsessed with perfecting my own fictional animal world.

Family Guy taught me how not to write characters and their interactions.

How It’s Made is just awesome and satisfying, no further comments.

I find lot of seafood disgusting, and the unsustainability of wild caught seafood is just the cherry on top.

Unagi. Doesn’t taste that special and has a texture like dried out overcooked fish complete with the occasional sharp scale or bone that stabs your throat. Definitely not worth decimating wild eel populations for.

Related, any kind of fish eggs. Whether caviar or salmon roe sushi. They’re like those popping bubbles in bubble tea but instead of a nice sweet fruit syrup it’s concentrated fish stink that coats your tongue and overpowers everything else.

Oysters and clams (bivalves in general). You’re literally eating its entire digestive system complete with poop. The crunchy sand is just a reminder of that. And eating it raw is a great way to get parasites and hepatitis.

One that’s not seafood: asparagus. People say it makes your pee stink but somehow don’t talk about how much the vegetable itself stinks going in. Maybe I’ve just never found a cooking method I like but I’ve never tasted an asparagus that doesn’t make me wince when swallowing. I personally love the vast majority of vegetables, many of which I prefer compared to meat, but asparagus (and Chinese bitter melon) are exceptions.

Any kind of alcohol in general. I think beer tastes and smells like the liquid at the bottom of a dumpster, so does wine, and any kind of spirit tastes like literal poison. Whatever psychoactive effects it has is not worth the constant nausea during and after drinking. If I’m looking for psychoactive effects, I prefer edible cannabis extract, still doesn’t taste that great but you only need a tiny amount to get high which you can chase down with regular food to make the taste go away.

I think they are just expensive because they are rare and fragile, not because they are magically delicious.

Most of the snooty rich people food are like this. It’s also why they’re so threatened by cheap mass produced alternatives. If the knockoffs were actually significantly inferior in flavour they wouldn’t be threatened.

No shit.

So the Raspberry Pi would be better in this regard?

“Because we’re copying all the shitty parts of Apple like thinking we know what’s best for you but without any of the improved UX or ease of use.”

You already can. Use sunlight to generate electricity to power a laser. Blah blah “not economically viable” that’s a skill issue. /s

Do you remember how much RAM it was?

Still, I feel this would have been much better received if they made an extension. That’s literally the point of having an extension system, so people can download optional features they like without it being forced on everyone. Nothing about their AI features I’ve seen requires direct integration with the app and can’t be done with the already very powerful extension APIs (then again I didn’t develop it so there could be details I’m missing).

Or if it supported custom Ollama APIs as an option, so people can host their own AI. People tend to be more supportive of that since you directly control both your data and the energy consumption. Instead your options are the biggest commercial cloud AI providers that people have by far the most problem with. For something like summarizing a webpage a small local model running on CPU works fine. If they truly see generative AI as the future, then they should know there’s more to the technology than just using commercial APIs.

I actually don’t blanket hate generative AI as a whole, but their implementation of it is the exact same as every other software company and has all the same problems with no unique solutions that differentiate Firefox from proprietary browsers with much more mature AI features. That’s what I don’t like about the direction they’re going. If you specifically want AI in your browser, there’s no reason to go with Firefox over Chrome or Edge; if you care about privacy or FOSS, AI on Firefox is no better because you still can’t use an open source model you control; and if you hate any generative AI in general, they’ve just alienated you, possibly permanently, by including it by default. Firefox keeps wanting to be like the mainstream browsers while forgetting about the niche that’s allowed them to thrive when every other browser fell to Chrome.

I see your point and accept it. However, I don’t think that takes away from the broader fact that this is significantly less likely to happen to white people compared to Middle Eastern.

Lesson learned for all the non-whites: if you see white people in danger, walk away because they’re not going to let silly things like “literally saving their lives” get in the way of assuming you’re the bad guy.

If this is genuine, please touch grass. If not, please fuck off.

Again, the “assuming you’re the bad guy based on your ethnicity regardless of what you did” part has been shown to actually happen to non-white people much more frequently than white people in white majority countries. And by “lesson learned” I was referring to the fact that this is something many people will inevitably think after seeing a story like this even if they don’t say it, though I should have made that more clear.

I admit I was too snarky/aggressive/us-vs-them with my wording, I see your point there and deleted that comment as I no longer wish to say those exact words. But, is the fact that THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENS not a bigger problem that plagues society than how politely people articulate it? How about we work on not having this happen or at least not having it be more likely to happen to certain ethnicities than others so no one makes those comments again instead of dismissing it as the person who points it out needing to fuck off? Do the people responsible for causing this racial injustice not also have the responsibility to contribute to mitigating it in the future?

What’s the real race war? Making random snarky comments on Lemmy or literally attacking a guy trying to save you because he fits the collective description of a “terrorist,” or defending those attacks as an “inevitable” part of saving people when it’s clearly been shown it’s many times more likely to happen to ethnicities perceived to be more likely to be terrorists?

Are all the large scale studies showing that police/the public in white majority countries are much more likely to assume a non-white person is a perpetrator whenever any attack on the public happens also pushing race war shit? You can’t imagine how this could have possibly played out differently if the guy wasn’t Middle Eastern “like the terrorist who shot at us?”

How else are people supposed to fight terrorists? Say please and thank you?

kicking the gun

Because someone intent on helping them shoot people definitely does that.

with his hands up

Oh so they could clearly see he wasn’t holding a weapon.

So why did the public mob the guy then? They saw him literally fighting the gunman and still assumed he’s one of them? If it was a pale skinned blond guy they 100% would have believed him when he said he’s trying to help, but because he’s Middle Eastern they refused to see past the “terrorist” stereotype.

And if they didn’t see him fighting the terrorist, that’s worse. They attacked a random Middle Eastern guy assuming all of them are terrorists. Why didn’t they go after any of the white people on the beach in the same way?

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