I don’t know what rock you’ve been living under where you think base Firefox wasn’t ever improved

Yeah, black Americans have a very distinct culture. Started as slaves, were segregated in a lot of ways, they still often have ghetto neighborhoods, they created unique genres of music with strong black identity and they still have their own entertainment catered towards them. That’s America for you.

From my experience, black people want to be called black. I’m a white kid, but was raised in a foster family with three black siblings and other black family, including some that lived in a ghetto in another city. It was the 90s and early 2000s, so we watched some BET, we watched the Boondocks, we listened to thug rap, we watched shows with black characters such as All That and Cousin Skeeter. Because it was all a part of my brothers’ culture, and they felt attached to it, and “black culture” was cool to all of us. And in anything we participated in I’ve never heard a single African-American who didn’t call themselves “black” and be fine being called that. Maybe there are some rich people like Obama or Tom of The Boondocks who wouldn’t call themselves “black”, but they seem to be of a different lifestyle and culture than that.

I’ve also sometimes made the argument in defense of “black”, that “African-American” is mildly politically-incorrect itself— not that I have a problem with the term, just the hyper-vigilant enforcing of it. Because it’s not synonymous with skin color itself, it’s a statement about where they came from. We don’t call white people “European-Americans”; and what do we call non-black African-Americans from, say, Egypt or South America? So… yeah.

That sounds like the courts are fucking stupid and ill-prepared to do their jobs.

So if an instance is defederated from a second, I wouldn’t see any cross-posts from the second?

I don’t read on my phone.

Haha, I didn’t even notice that last part.

I tried Claude once and it was absolute garbage. Then again, it advertised that it could analyze a .txt document and send me results. It only hallucinated that it could give me results.

Update: I’m using Claude now, at least for a month. At first I thought I liked Gemini, but I’m not interested in an AI that can’t remember a conversation. Chat-GPT could at least do that.

So what you’re saying is, I can block a toxic community, but I am still forced to see when they post the same post again somewhere else.

Ugh. Can I just block literally every post with a certain word in it? Also every comment with that same word?

Not all the pointing people are old memes.

Why isn’t this illegal. Why isn’t anything that has to do with homes illegal.

It’s like people who say desktop Linux is currently good enough to be mainstream for everyone, and it will any day now, please? And that it’s everyone else’s fault that it hasn’t, they’re just lazy and afraid or something.

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Read all the comments in this thread that say “OP” next to the user. I don’t call people “trolls” very quickly because most of the time that’s wrong, statistically. But they are either a troll or— more likely— an annoying militant vegan.

Some animals are carnivores, but they don’t want to draw attention to that. Also, humans aren’t carnivores. We’re omnivores.

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A bigger pi-ness.

Wow, 5 friends is more than what I have!

…In 1936?

It’s weird to have that strong of a reaction. At the very least it sounds debilitating.

It’s not debilitating, it just means I don’t watch horror or thrillers.

It’s not even uncanny valley because Duo is not even close to human like (unless you know green bird like humans in real life, but then I’m not sure they’re human).

Okay, so that’s the point. The very definition of the uncanny valley is it maps a graph. You go from something that doesn’t look human at all, and then the closer you get to human, the more appealing it looks, until it looks completely human. Except when you start getting much closer and you’re not quite there, there’s a dip in the graph where it’s suddenly horrifying before it gets better. That’s the “valley”. That’s why clowns, marionettes, dolls, zombies, and yeah, sometimes very wrinkly old people are horrifying. Their faces are twisted, distorted, and/or malformed just enough to be horrifying. Studies show that even monkeys have the uncanny valley reaction when you distort a face in front of them. And the Duolingo owl is not just an owl-- its face takes on decidedly human expressions, which can therefore be uncanny valley. Hell, some monkeys’/apes’ natural faces themselves tiptoe on uncanny valley for me as it is.

Now, some people are less sensitive/don’t often see uncanny valley as much as average, while people like me are more sensitive to it. It doesn’t mean the valley doesn’t exist, or that I have a weird problem-- it’s just that some people are more sensitive to faces. It’s why autistic people are known for not making eye contact, yeah? With that said, it is not a debilitating problem. I live with it, I know which things I deal with are big problems (and there are several), and this isn’t one of them.