TheRealKuni

I mean…better that than Skydance…but also maybe let’s stop consolidating properties.

But fsck (file system check) instead of fuck is a Unix joke. I think it’s fine.

Otherwise I broadly agree with you. It’s why I’ve adopted the swearing from Stormlight Archive for use around audiences that I shouldn’t swear around.

Fascinating, I didn’t realize the Roman Catholic Church didn’t have deaconesses. The Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches do, and several Protestant denominations do.

Ah, right, okay, reading the Wikipedia page, the presence of deaconesses fell off when the church became institutionalized under Constantine and started removing women from leadership roles. Just went downhill from there.

Good job, Roman Catholic Church. Ignore your own holy text which contains examples of deaconesses in favor of a patriarchal system that was mostly enforced after the Roman government took an interest in the church. 🙄

A man who left Rockstar five years before they fired people for discussing unionizing?

How much cough medicine was involved in the creation of this video?

Guten Morgen Klaus.

If only.

He does such a good job. I wish he’d be a bit less clickbait-y, but I understand private equity investment means he kinda has to play the game, like many other very good YouTube channels (Veritasium springs to mind).

Like the flight where the pilots got lost above Kathmandu and flew right into a cliff like driving into a wall.

(I saw an Air Disasters/Mayday/Air Crash Investigation episode about that one years ago and it really stuck with me. Recently Mentour Pilot did a good episode about it.)

Technically, the 10 commandments tell believers not to be envious. Not to envy your neighbor’s stuff.

Envy is “I wish I had what someone else has.”

Jealousy is “I’m worried someone else will take what should be mine.”

(Though in modern English “jealous” has largely absorbed the meaning for “envious,” I think the distinction is worth making because both concepts are individually useful.)

Since the first commandment is “you shall have no other gods before me,” God being “a jealous God” fits the 10 commandments well.

And it’s sinking enough that they’re trying to move capitals to a new city. Oof.

You don’t need wood glue? Just the toothpicks?

They are literally, physically and governmentally, separate.

I’m not trying to say that Israel isn’t being horrible in the West Bank (they are), nor am I saying that the pattern of behavior towards Palestinians is not the same in both places (it is), nor am I denying that the overarching conflict is one and the same (it is). I’m saying that the genocidal siege of Gaza, and specifically the ceasefire negotiated with Hamas, do not directly deal with the West Bank nor the Palestinian Authority.

So it isn’t that the settlers got an “exemption” from the ceasefire, it’s that the ceasefire didn’t deal with that region to begin with.

Right. Sure it isn’t

That reads as sarcastic so I’m not sure what you’re trying to say.

West Bank isn’t part of the ceasefire as far as I know, since it wasn’t part of the conflict in Gaza.

Patternless. Plain white. Which works well, because if you break a plate you don’t have to worry about whether they still make that pattern.

In the Netherlands? What a shame to learn that level Americanesque idiocy has found a foothold.

(Sorry, I didn’t intend to write an essay here. It just sort of happened. This is a subject I have some amount of passion about.)

I can see where you’re coming from. I’m probably a little triggered by the word. I find the idea that any use of or participation in another culture is “appropriation” to be problematic.

Culture and language (which are largely inextricable from one another) are meant to be shared. That’s their entire purpose. If you participate in aspects of someone else’s culture in a respectful way, that isn’t appropriation. Appropriation, rather, is one part of the broad spectrum of behavior with regard to other cultures.

Humans do this innately. We adjust our manners of speech and behavior subconsciously to better reflect that of those around us. We are social creatures and by nature will act like those we interact with.

Societal views operate on pendulum swings, going from extreme to extreme around the nuanced truth. We went, as a society, from “acting however you want about other cultures is fine, even if it’s offensive,” an unhealthy extreme, to “participating in a culture not your own is not okay and is always offensive,” an equally unhealthy extreme. We like extremes because they are easy to categorize and require much less brainpower to contemplate. They are mental shortcuts our brains make.

But the world doesn’t operate on those extremes. The world is a nuanced place.

An example: a Nigerian-American opera singer was telling me about a time he was teaching a spiritual to a choir of white people. He corrected them when they said ‘they’ instead of ‘dey,’ saying, “The West African slaves who sang these didn’t use the ‘TH’ sound, it didn’t exist in the languages they had grown up with or the accents they had handed down. The proper way to approach this song is to sing it like they would. So you should say ‘dey’ instead of ‘they.’”

But this idea made many of the white singers uncomfortable, because we have shifted to seeing that type of cultural mimicry as offensive. I have seen white people even suggest that they shouldn’t sing spirituals at all, an idea that same Nigerian-American singer found silly. Singing is a way that humans connect with one another, and the best way to do it is to do it as genuinely as possible. It’s a shared experience. But where we are as a society these days, we find that uncomfortable.

And it’s understandable we do, because the extreme, blackface minstrel shows, is rightly seen as horribly offensive. But accurately performing a spiritual is so far removed from the horribly offensive and inaccurate mockery that were minstrel shows that the comparison isn’t a useful one.

We should strive to understand context, strive to be respectful, but also strive to share in the culture of others in constructive ways.

(Also, not that this matters at all on Lemmy, but for the record I wasn’t the one who downvoted you; I upvoted you. I like constructive conversation. 😅)

Edit: fixed a mistake

The use of the word “appropriation” and “appropriated” seems unnecessary when discussing someone’s name, IMO. Especially given you also used the phrase “a celebration of the Western Australian aboriginal culture.”

The connotation of “appropriation” just doesn’t fit.

This is an old screenshot. The Quesarito, God rest its soul, has been gone for a while. And the scroll at the bottom is talking about George Floyd.