weird that they picked a name so similar to the longstanding (not gmail based) seemingly unrelated service mailinator.com
Hey thanks for the reply, didn’t notice you were the author, I wasn’t intentionally speaking to you in the 3rd person.
I figured you probably didn’t intend anything racist by the word “ricing”.
And I know that it’s about “overly-customized shitty cars”, going back to the “Gentoo is for ricers” blog. Did you know it’s about Japanese overly-customized shitty cars?
This forum thread seems helpful: https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-the-term-ricer-racist.103962/
Yes, it started to mock Asians that decked out their cars. There was no term for white people, it was meant to put Asians down in the automotive scene due to their early success.
I think it is. I have only heard it used to describe Asians. I couldn’t imagine going up to an Asian and calling him a “ricer”
Oh my god. I haven’t heard that term in over 15 years. People still say Ricer?! And yeah, I always heard it in reference to Asian street racers. So I assumed it was at least a little racist, whether that was playful ribbing or full on go fuck yourself racism, I dunno. I wasn’t really in that scene.
(It also mentions the “Racing Inspired Car Enhancements” theory of the word origin, which I’d never heard, but I agree with folks there that “RICE” is a backronym, i.e. it was invented after the fact, like “RAP” = “rhythm associated poetry”)
More sources:
Be kind to yourself for what you do manage, look for any ways you can make things easier for yourself. Can you keep your toothbrush, and a bottle of water and something to spit into, near where you sleep, if you don’t usually get to the bathroom before sleeping? Or if you do make it there, could you get out your toothbrush and toothpaste in advance, when you’ve got more energy, so there’s not so many steps when you’re in there when you’re tired? Do you have mouthwash, as a quick fix if you’re too shattered for brushing and flossing?
On flossing, I couldn’t motivate to floss my whole life, same as you, waste of time - I wasn’t getting cavities, and when I flossed my gums would bleed and when I didn’t they didn’t, so it felt totally counterintuitive.
Since I got a filling a couple of years ago I’ve been trying to find something that works, before I need more.
I’d seen the disposable single use picks with a piece of floss, but I couldn’t feel goodabout that much plastic waste, and it was still too hard to reach back teeth when I tried a couple.
Then I got a kit like this, it was the equivalent of about $4:
Between the two different sizes, the whole process is closer to 2 minutes vs closer to 10 with floss (I’m sure both would be quicker with practice), I’ve seen blood a lot less, there’s a satisfying amount of gunk that comes out even after brushing well, and I tell myself (hopefully accurately) that any time I manage to use them, even if it’s only once a week, is a favour to myself vs before, when literally the only times those places got regularly cleaned was at the dentist.
I understand if some anarchists need a space to process negative experiences they’ve had with communists, like folks on Lemmygrad have !okbuddyanarkiddie@lemmygrad.ml (don’t go there imo 🙃).
Myself, I would like to do more outreach to other leftists. I’m not an ML but it’s really interesting being on Lemmygrad, I’d want non-anarchists to feel at least that welcome on some kind of lemmanarchy.space.
Call me naive but instance-to-instance blocking / defederating feels like it should be the absolute last resort; it’s like saying an entire community (lemmygrad 5600 and counting) is toxic and not salvageable.
I appreciate you explaining, it doesn’t sound idiotic, I think we have different ideas about what makes a positive community, and I’m not sure I fully understand what you’re saying.
Would you be OK with seeing these things, which I don’t think would be “calling for direct physical harm” to anyone, on a Lemmy instance?
- Posting someone’s legal name, home address, government ID number
- Calling for a person to be hacked, harassed online or in person, or for someone to steal their bike/car/pet, or kill their pet
- Child porn, revenge porn (nonconsensually posting private nude pictures), edited / deepfake porn
- Copyrighted movies, music and TV
- Classified government documents
If you’re OK with these kinds of posts, then I can see what you mean about only having one rule; I feel like a site like that would be under constant legal threats, and I think it would be pretty toxic, but I’d be interested to hear how it goes.
If you wouldn’t be OK with them, is that because of legal stuff, or you morally disagreeing with it?
If a site follows the law, then you’ve got to ban holocaust denial (Germany), “hate speech” (UK and France), blasphemy against god or the monarch (Saudi Arabia, Thailand), leaking government secrets (US, UK), piracy (basically everywhere), harassment (a bunch of places), revenge porn (US, UK), child porn (basically everywhere)… the list goes on.
And if you have a moral problem with any of the above… what would you add to your free speech policy to make those exceptions?
I think the Lemmy authors run both lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml, so What is lemmy.ml might be helpful to you.
Also the default Code of Conduct in the Lemmy documentation.
I can’t speak for the creators, but it seems it’s more important to them to have an inclusive community than to protect “free speech”. Looking at the “free speech” Lemmy and Mastodon / Pleroma instances out there, I think they made the right call…
Yes.
Brave Software’s CEO is Brendan Eich https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich
Eich resigned from Mozilla in 2014 after it turned out that he’d made political donations against California’s same-sex marriage equality bill. Since then, he’s got press for being some kind of COVID denialist https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/business/brave-brendan-eich-covid-19.html
So, as well as the crypto bullshit and advertising cooperation that others mentioned, company’s run by a shitlord.