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Is there any significance to people using emojis that match their skin tone?

I’m asking because as a light-skinned male, I always use the standard Simpsons yellow. I don’t really see other light-skinned people using an emoji that matches their skin tone, but often do see people of color use them. Maybe white people don’t naturally realize a need to be explicit with emoji skin-tone or perhaps it’s...

kent_eh , (edited )

Everyone simply saw the yellow ones as neutral toned.

I use those ones because they’re closer to the top of the list, therefore faster to scroll to when I’m choosing an emoji.

Southern Baptists are poised to ban churches with women pastors. Some are urging them to reconsider (apnews.com)

From its towering white steeple and red-brick facade to its Sunday services filled with rousing gospel hymns and evangelistic sermons, First Baptist Church of Alexandria, Virginia, bears many of the classic hallmarks of a Southern Baptist church....

kent_eh , (edited )

Hardly.

They’re becoming extremists - even more so than they already were.

Alex Jones agrees to liquidate his assets to pay Sandy Hook families, in move that would end his ownership of Infowars (www.cnn.com)

Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Thursday moved to liquidate his personal assets, agreeing to demands from the families of Sandy Hook victims whom he owes more than $1.5 billion in damages over his lies about the 2012 school massacre....

kent_eh ,

Sometimes when the cult of personality is gone, the cult doesn’t last

I’m hoping that happens with the red hat cultists.

kent_eh ,

He probably would’ve announced this anyway, even if politics were much more normal than they are now

If politics were “more normal than they are now” it wouldn’t have been a statement he would need to make.

It’s a pretty low bar that a politician shouldn’t be assumed to be abusing their power.

kent_eh ,

isn’t just a vehicle for revenge against a former President?

Trump is the one who needs to learn that lesson

kent_eh ,

Of course that comes with the double standard that he is free to attack other politicians families, but his own is off limits.

kent_eh ,

I’d say it is ,at least partly, an education problem.

Sure, education is less likely to correct a deeply engraned false belief, but education is one of the most effective tools to prevent the lies, misinformation, and manipulation from taking hold in the first place.

However, like most preventative measures, it will take a long time to see results.

kent_eh ,

Widespread homeschooling is definitely problematic.

kent_eh ,

I don’t really care who originally came up with a good idea, I only care that it gets implemented.

kent_eh ,

think that if you have the personality for it and something unique to talk about, i dont think that its that unlikelly. Especially if the target is $20 a day.

It is possible, but not likely. And even if you can succeed, it usually takes months or often years to build up to $20/day.

Until you build a youtube channel up to 1000 subscribers and 4000 hours of watch time, you are not even eligible to apply to be in the youtube payment program.

kent_eh ,

All income is required to be reported and taxed.

If you are below a certain threshold annually you will get that tax refunded.

kent_eh ,

As a country, we’ve made deliberate decisions to ignore developing mass transit,

But as an individual, I need to have an income, and I need a place to live that my income will support sustainably.

I don’t get a say in where the affordable homes are in relation to where my work needs to be done. And I don’t get a say in the transportation infrastructure between those locations.

kent_eh ,

but it’s kinda hard to mop the floors where I work from home.

Yeah, the “everyone should work from home” factions seems to ignore those of us whose work requires us being able to touch the things we’re working on.

kent_eh ,

A “starter home” is still a home, is still a roof over your head and a place to sleep.

And you’re not subject to the whims of some slumlord.

Owning your own home (even if it’s not “keeping up with the Jonses” compliant) is not a horrible position to be in.

kent_eh ,

i tought i heard somewhere about her being a fascist?

Without any background or context or evidence on that accusation, I am hesitant to accept “I thought I heard somewhere” .

Actual fascists and nazis have been projecting that accusation onto their opponents for a while now.

Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge to state's abortion law over medical exceptions (apnews.com)

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday rejected a closely watched challenge to the state’s restrictive abortion ban, ruling against a group of women who had serious pregnancy complications and became the first in the U.S. to testify in court about being denied abortions since Roe v. Wade was overturned....

kent_eh ,

some dudebro will make an app for crowdsourced “Health Experts” who look you over briefly and then prescribe opiates.

“Well, don’t want to sound like a dick or nothin’, but, ah… it says on your chart that you’re fucked up. Ah, you talk like a fag, and your shit’s all retarded. What I’d do, is just like… like… you know, like, you know” what I mean, like…

kent_eh ,

I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that more desirable places to live can be more expensive. Demand does often drive prices up.

kent_eh ,

“99 years” is the kind of number uneducated people use to mean “a very long time”.

It’s why the Bible is full of references to absurdly huge numbers.

kent_eh ,

At least not without a waiver.

kent_eh ,

will have a widespread impact on how people perceive AI

Here’s hoping.

kent_eh ,

Or possibly 2005

kent_eh ,

The true die-hards are too spread out now

And a few hundred of them are still in jail after January 6th…

kent_eh ,

where would you put secret service for example?

In the guard room where they could watch him from far enough way that they wouldn’t have to listen to his constant complaining.

kent_eh ,

“playing the trump card”

Yet another thing the big orange loser has ruined.

kent_eh ,

if there was an actual politically motivated prosecution

Which is, of course, the unsubstantiated claim that Trump has been making.

Despite this entire trial not being under the jurisdiction or control of his political rival.

kent_eh ,

4 years maximum.

Which is not typically given to people convicted of this sort of crime, especially on their first conviction.

We're Watching Facebook Die (www.wheresyoured.at)

In the first quarter of 2024, Meta made $36.45 billion dollars - $12.37 billion dollars of which was pure profit. Though the company no longer reports daily active users, it now uses another metric: “family daily active people.” This number refers to “registered and logged-in users of one or more of Facebook’s Family...

kent_eh ,

We’re Watching Facebook Die

It’s not happening fast enough.

kent_eh , (edited )

I think it also depends on the locale.

When I look at both Kijiji and Facebook marketplace, I see far more listings on Kijiji.

Men with 'toxic masculinity' are more likely to make sexual advances without consent, study finds (phys.org)

A team of researchers, including Binghamton psychology professor Richard Mattson and graduate student Michael Shaw asked men between the ages of 18–25 to respond to hypothetical sexual hookup situations in which a woman responds passively to a sexual advance, meaning the woman does not express any overt verbal or behavioral...

kent_eh ,

noticing passive response

I don’t know how unique or widespread my personal (male) experience is, but I’ve always had a very difficult time noticing anything less than a blatant response.

I’ve discovered (in retrospect) that I have missed tons of hints, clues, and subtle responses that I have been shown over the decades. Absolutely oblivious.

And in my attempts to be a decent person, I have always treated what I perceived as a lack of interest/consent and not pushed forward.

I suspect my romantic life and even friendship circle would be much more lively had I been better able to notice many of those subtle clues.

Even now approaching my grey-hair years, I am not very good at “picking up what people are putting down” unless they are quite blatant in their intentions.

kent_eh ,

You’re not owed a girlfriend or sex.

Wow… you are assuming a helluva lot from what I wrote.

Nowhere did I even imply that I thought I was ever “owed” anything by anyone.

Don’t know what your motivations are to assume that.

kent_eh ,

His response will be to throw his wife under the bus.

Again.

kent_eh ,

In America, it’s starkly divided by generational lines,

Not as much as the “lol boomers” crowd would have you believe.

There’s a lot more <50 at Trump’s rallies than >60.

Same with the Jan6 traitors. Lots of them were <40

kent_eh ,

So they market themselves as the just the strong man you need to deal with these problems

Without ever specifying how they’re planning on fixing those problems.

And more often than not, the problems they claim to be able to deal with were not anything people were thinking about until that same candidate told them they should be concerned about it.

kent_eh ,

From your first link:

Across the country, small business owners who attended the pro-Trump event are facing backlash

That gives me some small measure of hope for the future.

kent_eh ,

My videos are also randomly going from 4k to 360p, and having long hitches/pauses

I’m seeing this as well. Except I’m not using an adblocker on youtube, and I am paying for youtube premium…

I don’t think it’s entirely caused by youtube fighting adblockers. I think it’s more likely just a regular, boring, old fashioned fuck-up.

kent_eh ,

I have my reasons. You may not agree, but you also don’t live in my house.

kent_eh ,

Think it’d be fixed by then if it was a fuck up

Who knows. If it’s not impacting a signifigant percentage of viewers enough for them to complain it may not be a high priority yet.

kent_eh ,

Once again further diluting the meaning of the words “bought” and “sold”

kent_eh ,

just don’t die

So far that’s been working for me.

kent_eh ,

Reddit also has vote fuzzing where you can get the number of votes, but it’s always manipulated for some reason.

The stated reason is to prevent abuses like “piling on”.

Pronouns and tribal affiliations are now forbidden in South Dakota public university employee emails (apnews.com)

A new South Dakota policy to stop the use of gender pronouns by public university faculty and staff in official correspondence is also keeping Native American employees from listing their tribal affiliations in a state with a long and violent history of conflict with tribes....

kent_eh ,

Francis Scott Key is your enemy?

kent_eh , (edited )

Putin is welcome to cease firing and get his army back on the other side of the fucking border any time he likes.

kent_eh ,

He’s one of my favorite rednecks on youtube.

kent_eh ,

Do you realize there are 5 cases already like this? Do you know why? Because this mistake is super common.

Maybe it’s common for Americans to be this lax with their weaponry?

I don’t see the citizens of other countries making the same “common” mistake.

kent_eh ,

It would be cool if they sold the thing in (or were willing to ship to) my country…

kent_eh ,

I didn’t say it wouldn’t work for me, only that they make it hard to get here.

kent_eh ,

Those aren’t mutually exclusive terms.

kent_eh ,

Because most countries are not like the US.

It’s odd to see this level of American exceptionalism in the wild.

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