I supported Target (until they showed their true colors)

Target is a massive corporation that never hid its true colours. Its true colours: a massive forensics lab in a private-public partnership with the police to create a network of surveillance tied to facial recognition, racial profiling, and building enormous databases of biometric data on everyone in the US.

Supporting them because you thought they saw you as a human being and not a resource to be exploited and a data point to be sold is just proof of how well you fell for the corporate DEI-washing they briefly underwent when it was in vogue and seen as profitable. Corporations, and especially the police lab that is Target, have never cared. They aren’t people. They can’t care.

DEI (or IDEA, where I am, for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility) is about more than race, yes, but as a shibboleth for right-wing chuds it is the new AA, PC, CRT. Incantations they utter to summon the spectre of an insidious plot to dethrone white supremacy.

I don’t know who that is, I assume whoever first said it which is why Melian put it in quotes, just wanted to offer up that even if it’s in quotes, when you uncritically repeat demeaning insults like that you contribute to a hostile atmosphere that alienates people already on the margins of society who should be your comrades

edit: glad whoever that is stopped using that word, shouldn’t have taken so long. he desperately needs further introspection

I’m sure this wasn’t intentional, but using dwarf as an insult can be rather hurtful to people with dwarfism. There are reasons to be upset with Kruschev but that’s unrelated to his stature, and certainly has nothing to do with being a dwarf/little person, which he was not.

This is a fantastic album! I also highly recommend this performance by oklou https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADtPzdWiTQ0

It’s three tracks done live in the middle of a skating rink while figure skaters do a choreographed routine around her, and it’s super beautiful <3

Or perhaps he has come to the truth that two unites into one, and that permanent tariffs can coexist with open borders as humanity unites in its next stage of social development.

Yes! Olivi is a sweet gem, been in love with her music for years but she doesn’t make much because she’s in grad school.

Hell yeah <3

As Kuro said below, gua (melon) is an insult meaning stupid (though in Sichuan it is used to mean a drunk, and this song is specifically about drunk foreigners, or party boys/fuckboys, who come to Chengdu to harass women). Xie Di is from Chengdu, all the best Chinese hiphop is from CDC or Xinjiang (in my opinion).

I don’t care about DNA stuff, and to be honest there is a lot of weird race science wrapped up in people’s obsession with DNA. Nor can DNA actually tell you how someone looked in real life; it is simply one of the many factors that go into someone’s complexion and skin tone.

I gotta say though, there is something a bit uncomfortable about asserting that Egypt is being “secretive” with their cultural honoured and revered dead, when the history of “Egyptology” is the pillage and plunder of Egyptian history at the hands of white scientists seeking to build their own civilizational narrative.

No one owes western science unfettered access to their history or the right to assert western science as some objective truth-building endeavour.

This would also kill everyone in Gaza. If seeing people suffer and die upsets you, the response should not be a belief that people should die on a larger scale, but that you should be looking for the people that are also opposed to suffering and death to try to create something that uplifts people. New futures are built through the dedicated application of human imagination: not through wishful (or vengeful) thinking, but through a conscious effort to create better possibilities.

There are billions of people on this planet, and wishing death on all of them is what the fascists are doing. Please try not to join them in that line of reasoning.

It’s probably because in real life Ramesses II had red hair, and a lot of white people seem to have a hard time imagining someone with natural red hair having dark skin and eyes, even though that was sort of a big deal for Egyptians at the time.

That being said, fair skin and light coloured eyes are not an entirely uncommon trait for the area (North Africa and West Asia, Egypt’s sphere of influence at the time). Not likely they were traits possessed by Ramesses, though a very questionable race science examination tried to assert he was a fair-skinned man of Amazigh (Berber) descent in the 70s, which is probably where they drew this idea of him from. Though they nailed his big beautiful nose.

Edit: On further inspection it sort of looks like they just made a beefier blue-eyed version of Yul Brynner from the Ten Commandments

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/01/former-acting-ag-whitaker-confirmed-as-us-envoy-to-nato-00006035

Edit: this was not unanimous. I think people are confused because the motion to invoke cloture was reached by unanimous-consent agreement (at a previous date). This just means that everyone agreed not to debate anymore about the nomination and set a date for the vote, which was Tuesday, and which was 52-45.

Most Americans have very little idea of how their government works, so it is not surprising that this misunderstanding has spread so much; I’ve seen quite a few people saying he was appointed through unanimous-consent. Appointments are never passed through unanimous-consent agreements, they always go to vote.

This article posits that at least 1% of scribes of medieval manuscripts were women, potentially more, but that’s a far cry from “most”

What type of book recommendations? Maybe that will help

Ah, so the imaginary backlash is even more imaginary because it’s just an unimplemented feature in an unfinished game

So I’m not a video game type but I know a few girlies who were excited for this one and were really disappointed that there are no gay NPCs. So you can make your character gay in the character creator, but if you do then you have no one to date because every NPC is straight. They’re not outraged or anything, they just went back to the Sims lol.