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[-] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago
[-] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago

That takes me back to when I used to compete in athletics. Mediocre white men always challenged me because I'm short and they thought it would be an easy victory.

This also shows that an average man cannot beat a trained female athlete like they think they can. Those "biological advantages" only work if you're a trained athlete too, otherwise the trained woman will always win.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago

straight domapine to the brain, he brought his parents out!!

[-] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

average white guy who thinks he could take a wild bear 1v1

[-] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I could absolutely take a wild bear 1v1, name literally ANY board game and I would fucking smoke that bear

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

Idk why but I immediately thought of the EU throwing a tantrum about China not taking them seriously

[-] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago

Jfc if I have to hear one more fucking person say "youre gonna alienate the white working class" Im gonna scream

[-] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago

white (passing) liberals who think euphemistic racism isn't racism are fucking exhausting. we were driving my wife's friend home and were talking about a neighborhood in my city and how rents were going up. so I said, well, yeah, it's gentrifying. her friend started saying not really and my wife agreed, saying something about "urban youth" - apparently she meant the perceptions of bougie white people and was using the phrase tongue in cheek but it didn't land that way to me and her friend took it as an invitation to increase the level of racism. after a bit, I pretended to have spaced out for a bit and asked them to clarify who they were talking about - you know, inviting them to drop the euphemisms and walk it back a bit - but her friend just immediately jumped in with "problem people" so I just checked out for the rest of the drive, until I could properly chide my wife for the racist bullshit.

when I did, she gave the above clarification but dove straight into the lib racism of paternalistic stereotypes (it's not their fault, they're just traumatized so they do drugs and abuse their kids - bitch, all parents abuse their kids! you're trans, you know that!) so I called her out about that too. told her to eat the racist brainworms.

anyway, that's it. just venting. she wants me to be friends with her friend but I just don't think we're going to connect - I'm going to start a fight over bullshit like this sooner rather than later. I can't keep my mouth shut unless I'm already exhausted.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Does anyone here feel like a banana or coconut? (Asian on the outside, white inside)

Cuz I do... Idk how to deal with this...

[-] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago
[-] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

Well, because I don't feel much attachment to my nation of origin, the Philippines, with its culture, and language,

I guess that's in part due to the fact I was raised as a child of some skilled expats who worked in Dubai, in a more or less globalized environment...

[-] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

I have never heard of an apple before. Is this an American nickname? I do sometimes feel myself growing distant from Taiwan as I continue to live in Latin America and integrate more to the culture. There are times when I find myself thinking in Spanish before Chinese and it is a little concerning sometimes.

Are you American? Or do you still live in Dubai? I have heard America can be hard for people from other cultures because you are forced to assimilate.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

First of all, I'm not American... second, I don't live in Dubai anymore (I stayed there until I was 14 years old) , just around North America....

Third, I've been mostly living in an international setting, so I don't live near, or interact much with white people, let alone Gulf Arabs in UAE...

Fourth, what is an Apple?...

I use the term banana and coconut, to refer to East-Asians (Eg. Chinese) and South-Asians (Eg. Indians), whose main commonality is that they've internalized heavily a bit of western-thinking, if not culture...

[-] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

My mistake. I assumed you were American because I have heard similar things from Asians who immigrated there.

I misread and thought you said apple. Maybe I am more tired than I think. These names are unfamiliar to me but I guess I feel like a banana sometimes. I am fortunate that there is a Chinese population everywhere but it is not quite the same with most I meet coming from Hong Kong or Shanghai.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

i was raised in the suburbs for half my childhood (my parents.. its a whole thing, they were scammers) so now i have a perfectly neutraul white sounding accent. i can and do code switch but its hard when im feeling burnout.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Being fn but looking white does drive me a bit nuts. Being raised outside of rez and then moving back in makes it especially difficult. It's like the worst imposter syndrome possible.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

Carlos Mencia is a huge hack. Watched one of his standup routines and he spends the first 15 minutes whining about how you can't say black jokes anymore. This was in 2008.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Tbh, there's a lot of reaction in Latino/a communities. I know for sure.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

There is, especially in the US. I remember most US latinos being even more conservative than the ones in Latin America.

Also Joe Rogan cancelling Mencia was one of the few good things he did.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I won't say it's everyone one of us, and there's a lot of radicalism, but certainly, you get really conservative communities.

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

White Boy Summer has been cancelled until further notice, all dissidents will be put to the torch and flogged

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

I like that I don't get skin cancer as easily

[-] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago
[-] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

Melina got banned huh. Anyways. Getting fucking cold. Christmas weather was pretty mild but now its getting deep below zero again snom

[-] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Seriously? Permanently? (About the ban)

That being said, the Winter finally should meet up with my expectations...

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

I've had this interesting journey of going through visible changes that changed people's perception of my ethnicity, and it's happened more than once. I wonder if anyone else had had something similar.

I'm of mixed Asian and African ancestry, and up until I was 5 years old or so, I looked distinctively Asian. People would call me a Chinese kid. As I got older my facial features changed, and my skin color became darker. I then became known as the local black kid among a sea of cracker. When I transitioned in my 20s and went on estrogen there were major visual changes again. My skin color also became lighter due to the skin thinning on estrogen. This made me visibly go from looking like a black dude to a Latina woman. Nowadays I often get people asking me if I'm from Brazil or Argentina or something.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Looks like your gender wasn't the only one transitioning...

From

a Chinese kid

the local black kid among a sea of cracker

from looking like a black dude to a Latina woman

I think by the end of this, someone will ask if you're Filipina...

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

This seems to be a very common feature of mixed race kids. A lot of my friends are mixed Asian/white kids. If they look Asian when they were teenagers, then by the time they reach mid-20s/early-30s they would look white. And the reverse is true as well. I don’t understand the biology behind it but it’s something I have observed a lot.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

Grrr

Crackers! Grrr!

(I'm venting right now.)

[-] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago
[-] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

I'm angry at crackers 'cause I bit my tongue while eating 'em.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

My PoCness is now severely in question, the Japanese Foreign Ministry has finally revoked my citizenship!

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

just did my brothers hair, i feel like hes learing to love his curls. now if only i can get him to stop twisting it. i pretty sure he has ocd but he wont get help for it.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

I don't know if I should post in this thread, because I'm not sure if I'm a POC. In Brazil, I'm white (says so on my ID card), but I'm right in the middle of the us-foreign-policy chart. When I was in New Zealand, lots of people thought I was Mexican (presumably because I had a goatee at the time, lol). Lots of "white" Brazilians who think of themselves as white are surprised when they're suddenly Latino/a when abroad.

I always find it funny that whiteness is such a fucking made up concept.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

You may not be white within the "American context."

Race is a bit fluid and, by extension, whiteness.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

My maternal grandfather was black/indigenous but I pass as white so I usually just kind of lurk in discussions like these so I don't drown out other voices. I'll never think of myself as white but it's obvious why people see me as white.

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

my car broke down so i haven't been able to make it to the latino market across town and i'm really craving majoncho and frijoles de seda smh

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

gonna go make some food, making some Colombian styled beans

[-] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

yum, im always eating beans! my partner started a small grease fire making yuca tonight (that i herolicly put out) so im keeping it simple with instant ramen lol.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Damn, my banner looks nice!

[-] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

it does! i love the icon pic @[email protected] picked too!

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago
[-] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

stressed but looking forward to the weekend!

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Im good but Im back to work again BibleThump

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Is ChatGPT (or any other AI) a good tool for summarizing articles?

I'm taking a psychology class and it's just a list of articles with no lecture, no slides and no teacher notes or even highlights. Just a pile of articles with dozens of pages each.

I really want to use ChatGPT to help summarize these articles and make the reading load potentially easier but I'm worried about the AI hallucinating and potentially leaving me worse off for studying.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

I've noticed that white worship in my country is mostly with younger women in their teens to early 20's. The vast majority of them end up marrying a brown latino while a smaller and very vocal minority end up marrying some white European or North American.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

I plan to do another banner in a few months.

One with maybe 4 or 5 heads again.

Representing as many races and ethnicities as I can.

I feel that while it's the current one is alright, it could be more inclusive.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Just saying I'm glad to be here.

I'm back into my sailing the 7 seas way and started catching up on The Challenge on MTV. Anyone watch?

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