The “gift” of life is sort of like if someone decided to give you a “gift” of bedbugs.

The correct response in this scenario is to challenge another family member (that you think you can beat) to an arm wrestle. If they lose, they are therefore also weaker than the 12 year old and can no longer talk shit.

We need legislation against the unending encroachment upon our daily lives by advertisers.

Having racial diversity at all levels of performance doesn’t mean that you’ve made it fair, just that the unlucky late-start white racers got absolutely screwed and the lucky early-start black racers got an even bigger advantage. The whole event should just be declared unfair and breaking the analogy, economically struggling people of any race should receive equal support, while wealthy people of any race don’t need to be further propped up based on the color of their skin.

Race is a poor proxy metric. Economic status would be a more accurate metric as well as helping people who weren’t necessarily systemically disadvantaged, just really unlucky. It’d be sort of like declaring the whole race unfair and giving everyone who did poorly some bonus time.

So you disagree with my more accurate analogy because it leads to a conclusion that doesn’t fit your agenda? Rich black people and poor white people exist. Not sure why you’re trying to say they don’t. I don’t know why people are so obsessed with dividing things up by race. The us vs them split is not about race or any other demographic except wealth and ownership. It’s the ruling class vs the rest of us and only propping up some poor people depending on the color of their skin is racist and vile.

Or instead of focusing on skin color, you could just try to balance out the times so that the next leg of the race is more even for everyone who had a disadvantage.

The analogy would be more accurate if everyone started at a random time, but darker-skinned runners started later on average. Then, the event organizers decide to deduct an hour from every dark-skinned runner’s time regardless of when they actually started.

The real problem with AI is that you have to be so damn skeptical even of real posts.

Why does the flag have no stars?

The name may be really stupid, but America is the name used to reference the United States and is recognized by hundreds of millions if not billions of people. North America: continent. South America: continent. The Americas: 2 continents. America: 1 country. Just because it’s dumb doesn’t make it not true.

Choosing the price per-customer like that should be illegal.

Here’s a Wikipedia article on the subject. Nazis still exist today (as neo-Nazis) and they desperately want hating them to be a matter of political opinion instead of a matter of humanity. Don’t give them that.

Interrobangs always make it look like the text renderer is bugging out, at least to me.

Don’t you know that adding your pronouns to an email costs an entire 6-10 bytes? There are children starving in Africa and you’re wasting your bytes on pronouns! Shame on you.

Pronouns are optional. Nobody is forcing you to list them.

I don’t think hating Nazis should be considered a political statement.

Nobody mentioned that specifically, actually. That does add more context.

Ohh, thanks. I can see why that would cause a lot of anger.

I’ve noticed that lemmy.world is delisted from most instance lists, so it’s interesting that they’d choose that one. Thank you for the answer!