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I think they were addressing an implied specificity in your question. You were asking about American-based media or media for US audiences without explicitly saying that.

For instance, Get Out wouldn’t have hit the same if the entire cast had been white. The racial tension is the point.

Because it sounds like you are saying we accept The Ring remake being a white cast. But if Ringu had been remade with a non-white English speaking cast it would be called woke by US right-wingers. (Even though it’s Japanese fiction. At least I hope it is fiction)

Siothe other person is asking, I think, if Japan remade Get Out for the Japanese audience and used Japanese speaking white and black people, would Japanese right-wingers lose their shit and call it woke for not casting ethnically Japanese actors?

The follow-up question becomes: is it a right-wing issue regardless of the race or nationality of right-wingers or is it a uniquely US problem because of the ignored national diversity of the overall population?

I’m using mint in fluffy warm house socks. In my defense, I’m using Mint because I may have to install a super user-friendly linux on the old computers of two boomer family members who are using win 11 and macOS respectively.

I need to make sure I know it really well and can do whatever tech support I need to do. And lock it down for them.

But I’m also digging it. Especially since it’s not Weyland, I’ve been able to lock all the inputs and still watch movies

Edit: to protect from my cat, who just knocked my phone out of my hand and butt submitted this before I was ready. Now to clean my screen

The reasons are not irrelevant to the question being asked though. Vegan for health reasons? Sure the question is irrelevant if you get sick from any animal products. You aren’t going to eat them. Same way celiac avoids gluten.

Vegan for ethical reasons? Then the question is very relevant. Is it ethical to have a pet cat? They are carnivores and will suffer and die on the wrong food. No pets at all would be most ethical. Are you concerned about mass farming of vegetables? If machinery is used, field mice and such are getting killed to harvest your vegan diet. Are you concerned about human trafficking of migrant workers or just farmed animals? If a bear kills a deer in your yard in Montana, eats half and fucks off, is it ethical for you to eat the rest? You had no hand in it’s death and suffering. You’ll have to do something with the carcass or you’ll have more predators in your yard. Are you only eating locally grown, in season fruits and vegetables, hand harvested by fairly paid workers?

If ethics is the reason, it’s fully legitimate to debate and figure out where your personal line is drawn. We live in an imperfect world and there’s no perfect solution.

You made me literally laugh out loud. Thank you

Also, love this one! I should get a framed version.

No, I get it. But everything is hard to fix until you know how to do it.

To me, This is about owning things you or someone else can repair with readily available parts. The problem now is remote bricking of purchases by the manufacturer through the internet. And things so cheaply made, the parts either don’t exist or the too much of it broke. Or having to pay subscriptions for the privilege to use the things you bought.

It’s just that if you have a electronics nerd friend or curiosity, there’s a lot of basic electronics that can be repaired with incredibly cheap parts.

For example, if your microwave completely dies, it’s probably a common $0.10 fuse. It’s not on the circuit board but it’s technically part of the electronics. You have to be careful to not touch the capacitors. But watch a video and you’ve brought something dead back to life.

If you don’t trust yourself, call that friend that loves that kind of stuff, share a pizza and avoid buying a new microwave that spies on you.

My husband loves building elecronics. And there’s a lot of cool low-tech tech. I feel like basic circuit board stuff should be allowed, as it can be easy to repair if you know how. Just have the schematics available.

The problem for me is when it needs an Internet connection for remote access on top of a lot of flimsy parts that wear out too quickly.

Just can’t branch out into vacuums. Unless sold as the Suckless Sux-a-lot

Yeah, for sure. My husband and I are both like this. Waving my arm often works for getting his attention.

But a frustrated parent could definitely blame it on headphones or think the kid is going deaf. Especially if they are not the kind of person that immerses like that.

Unless the parent can hear the headphone music themselves from a few feet away. In which case, they have a point that it might be too loud.

The issue is probably more that you don’t hear her when you are focused.

My husband is like that. Especially if he’s listening to something with headphones.

It’s not the volume (he’s not got them loud) it’s that he’s locked in. I’m the same way, except if you say my name and pause a beat, I snap out quicker.

I have to say his a couple times. Just starting to talk without a cue and the focus makes us miss the beginning, if not all.

Also happens with reading, programming, writing Which are immersive. quiet activities

Yeah, one of my best friends is a boomer lesbian. Because of her, I know and know of a community of lgbt+ boomers here. Plus she has other friends she regularly talks with in other parts of the country.

She was one of the many that ran away from backwoods bible belt to San Francisco in time to be there for the Summer of Love.

I don’t understand your point. Is this because of the vegan point of view that that’s what happens to the livestock?

If you are really asking, I have answers.

But, if your questions are about animal consumption, I’m not in any way saying people shouldn’t be vegan.

I was taking issue that equating someone who goes to church once a week (and does nothing else) is NOT the same as a vegan who is vegan 24/7.

Someone was trying to say it was the same thing. Like vegans are only vegan when it’s convenient, or one meal a week only. So it would be super easy for a butcher and a vegan to be partners in that case. My argument is that while it could happen, someone is compromising a lot or not really walking the walk.

Religious people are to vegans What Non practicing people are to omnivores that eat vegan sometimes.

If you’re only doing it once a week, there’s not going to be much friction.

Saying otherwise about people who live their beliefs 24/7 is minimizing the strong beliefs of religious people and vegans.

My point was that religious people aren’t just perfomative one day a week. It’s going to bother the true believers to see their partners doing things that go against their beliefs.

Including a lot of vegans.

Some exceptions always, because humans are complicated.

UU was fine. I’m not looking for a congregation, so not my cup of tea.

I really liked Buddhism until it got into the mysticism and some of the suburban converts were super obnoxious. I also don’t believe in any mysticism, so Wicca and similar are out. I’d love to believe. I want to be able to do magic.

My best friend is Jewish (converted) and I appreciate the lack of judgement from her and her friends. But they still live varying lifestyles that seem important to them, but I don’t see how it gets me closer to god. Plus, it doesn’t seem appropriate for me.

Honestly, the Satanists resonate the most. But it’s also a religion to make sure religion stays separate from the American government. The point of it is that people who want to live a certain way can do it without a sanctioned religion breathing down their neck or burning them at the stake. You are right about Satanists/Atheists. The Satanists like you aren’t believers, you are just trying to be good people. But you are also going to get judged in the Bible Belt if you are public about it and told you are going to hell. Other than supporting the cause, I’m already doing my best to live by the tenets, since before I knew about them.

You are correct, not all religious people, some are super tolerant.

My lived experience is that being an out atheist means the religious people that love you are worried your soul is going to the Bad Place (whatever that happens to be) and people who don’t care for you don’t trust you because an atheist doesn’t have fear of eternal punishment to stay in line.

But even the super tolerant seem to really want to convert you, because they don’t want you to suffer eternal punishment. Tell one you’d like to know more and see.

Evil was a bit much, but people who think you’ll suffer eternal damnation for not believing in the same thing (or an acceptable thing), the end result is that they think you’ll be in hell with the evil people after you die.

But I grew up in the Bible Belt of the USA. Maybe the religious people where you are don’t care about conversion and salvation.

People who are religious and “just go on Sunday” but don’t live their beliefs the other 6 days, aren’t religious. They are social, peer pressured, or whatever.

My point is that vegans live their beliefs and lifestyles 24/7. Religious people live it 24/7. If you are religious are you okay living with someone sinning 24/7 by being an atheist?

A person who only goes to church once a week and otherwise lives without a thought to their religion is like a vegan that eats meat voluntarily everyday except Sunday.

Why are you upset that I believe atheists are judged because of the lack of belief in a god? Being judged worthy is a huge part of religion.

Can you name some organized religions where no one is judged? Some that are completely tolerant of all others? (Lgbt+, women, competing religions, heretics, etc etc)

I’m asking earnestly. I’ve studied many religions when trying to figure out my place in the world. It’s about finding the one that most aligns with the kind of person you want to be. Or aligning with the one your community or family follows. Or giving up and just trying to do the best you can to be a good person.

Both the vegan and religious person are judging their partner for how they fundamentally live their life. And low key (if not full throated) simmer in the evilness of you not living right and want you converted to save you.

Religious people don’t “just go to church on Sunday” and are atheist the rest of the week. (Does not apply to closet atheists)

I only know Shinjuku from anime/manga. When a certain arc gets animated, I expect it’ll be wild for a while. If the hype stays strong anyway.

While I love manga and the artwork… I read and comprehend words much, much faster. For a massive opus like One Piece, I would love a novel version of the manga that I could dig into, with the novel and manga chapters lining up or notated, so I could go back and read chapters of the manga and enjoy the artwork for especially key or poignant scenes. Then I could start just consuming the manga and anime in real time… Right now it’s just too daunting to start. I’ve seen the first season of live action and anime. I’m very interested, I just can’t justify the time commitment.

Was looking for this.

As an atheist/agnostic, I believe the 9% are indeed people who think end-timers will kill us all in a man-made catastrophe while screaming the fire they set themselves is proof of god’s final judges.

Maybe you don’t remember your hallucinations, since you didn’t write them down? I’m thinking like how a lot people’s memories of dreams fade.