Mexicans. And I don’t say that because I am one, we are genuinely hilarious. We always prank each other with the most racist of stuff we can possibly find, call each other such vile yet affectionate nicknames, etc.
Though I suppose it may not be limited to Mexicans only. Maybe just people with a good sense of humor that aren’t so sensitive and can take a joke? Dunno.
I got a Puerto Rican friend that loses her shit when you refer to her by any other Latino heritage. I’ve learned that’s an ongoing joke from all the decent people from different
And I want to highlight that I said “decent” people. Just like everywhere else, each place have their indecent people
Okay, risky topic, but I’ll give it a shot. Disclaimer: I’m trying my best to be forthcoming and just with special effort to being socially sensitive. If I offend anyone, it’s purely unintentional and would love to hear about it so I can improve. We can’t get better as a mishmash of ethnicities without having these discussions openly and respectfully, so here it goes 😬
For stand up comedy, African Americans are the reigning monarchs by far. Their ability to assess and critique culture is unmatched and their position as an oppressed community gives them freedom to speak freely without worrying too much about backlash. A Black dude can go on stage and point out all sorts of ridiculous things other ethnicities do, and most people would not be too offended. If a White person did that, they’d likely run into justifiable problems because of the implications. Allow me to illustrate:
Black comedian: Aren’t White people so entitled? There’s a reason she’s called Karen and not Aisha!
Audience: lol that’s so true 😂😆😅🤣🙂
White comedian: Aren’t Black people so <omitted>. There’s a reason…and it’s because of 400+ years of brutal oppression!
Audience: Wtf 🤨😠😧😳😬
I find women stand-up comedians validating and informative. Because I have difficulty with gender norms, hearing a woman talk about matters that most men wouldn’t is validating to me. Like when they talk about men being bros, I love that! Or how they discuss matters that imply perceptive and emotional sensitivity, which most men stay clear of. They’re also informative because I get to hear about their experiences and adaptations to being female, something that I would otherwise not have any idea about. It’s almost like hearing the perspective of another reality because their experiences are quite different from my cis-gendered male experiences.
As Latino myself, I like Latino stand-up too because they express things that I agree with, but generally aren’t discussed in public forums. So when someone says it in a show, it feels like I exist and am not crazy or alone in those matters. Like when they discuss how much more enmeshed Latino families are compared to others. Or like when G-Lo (George Lopez) said that as Latinos, we don’t care what the price of gas is, we’re still only gonna put $10. Omg, I laughed sooooo hard at that! However, they’re not as funny to me as African Americans because I mostly already think like them. It’s not new. Also, since Latino is actually a pan-ethnicity of many other distinct ethnicities, there’s a lot of variation.
With Asian-American stand-up, I value their perspectives on matters. I find their discussion on family topics interesting and informative since I have no experience with them. I guess it helps me empathize. I also like their perspectives on other ethnicities because it’s fun to hear how they perceive social matters, then compare them to how they are navigated in Asian-American communities.
White comedians are funny too, especially when they focus on matters that have to do with accountability or contradictions. I find that hearing them helps me understand how to navigate daily life since they are the dominant culture, so it’s not only funny, but informative.
In my daily life, I love autistic people because they’re so unique in their style of thinking…almost as if they were a different species in the same body. Just as a matter of survival, they have to assess social matters logically, which grants them an opportunity to point out things that no one else would even think about. They also have a strong tendency to consider justice, which makes them extra sensitive to social bullshit. I must be forthcoming that I am autistic myself, so I have a bias here, and find their perspectives quite validating as well.
Again, I’m solely sharing my preferences and opinions rather than claiming to describe universal reality. I hope I didn’t offend anyone! If anything, we could at least use this exercise to improve our ability to have these risky discussions.
Nobody can answer this because it depends entirely on how you set it up. It can be set up either way. Whatever you point your internal endpoint at is what it is.
I spend about 300 euros on a really high end usb DAC for my desktop. I honestly don’t hear the difference between the desktop output and the expensive DAC. But I do totally hear the difference between a decent and cheap pair of headphones. I do still like my DAC because it’s able to power basically all large headphones and it also powers my speakers, so I don’t see it as money wasted.
The same way to deal with depression about anything. Depression is an illness that renders one incapable of helping themselves or others and debilitates people from contributing to the solution to the problems which contributed to the depression. Depression should be treated as an illness to be cured before anything else.
As far as being not being depressed by events beyond one’s control, it requires effort since even being aware and concerned by such problems of this magnitude is highly unnatural and highly unintuitive. It is necessary to consciously come to peace with the world and humanity as it is. The universe is chaotic and we have as much control over the collective will of billions of completely ignorant and afraid people as we do over natural disasters just with less ability to predict when issues will occur. Although it is the case that we have a good grasp of the environmental issue, we have absolutely no grasp of how get plutocrats not to behave like plutocrats having no care for anything or anyone other than increasing their personal fortunes meaninglessly or to get the majority of people to understand the degree to which it is a problem that we continue to allow this. Being upset that humans are failing to achieve stable societies just as we have always failed for the entire 10,000 years we have been trying to achieve them is having unrealistic and unfair expectations of our species. Everyone is trying their best and no one knows what they’re doing really. It may be scarier to consider how much less agency people have than they believe they have initially, but it does allow one to have the comfort of more consistently helpful expectations of oneself and others.
I am very aware of the differences in quality but am mostly okay with bad equipment and/or bad settings. The most important thing is to be able to clearly see and hear what’s supposed to be clear and only especially incompetent or especially pretentious media doesn’t get mastered to work well on shoddy displays and/or speakers by those standards.
The one thing I absolutely cannot tolerate is HDR mode on TVs without enough of a maximum luminance to actually do HDR, so they and up looking way worse than SDR.
The idea of not caring about binocular quality is truly mystifying. Binoculars’ only job is to make things as easy to see as possible.
This sound a bit like depression, but I am no medical professional.
Imagine all the input you get every day both positive and negative. When we are depressed we do a worse job at filtering out the negative.
If this is how you feel all (or most) of the time for a prolonged period, I would consider talking to your doctor. Antidepressants can help a lot. They can take weeks to months to be effective, but they work.
If you are sceptical about medication, it does not hurt to read about it and how they work.
Depends. I’m aware of the difference, but how much I care about it depends entirely on how much I like the hobby or tech. If it’s food, PCs, and clothes (as in, no cheap materials that won’t last a year) I care and will go beyond reasonable expectations to ensure that whatever I buy or cook is the best within reason. Anything else, as long as it works.
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