That doesn’t mean the work doesn’t exist. If nobody went out of their way to do the undesirable and menial labor involved with mass agriculture then we’d all die. If you’re not in a tiny, hunter-gatherer proto-society then you really do have to put in work to live. It’s just our modern distribution of labor and reward that’s fucked.

No clue, but the frosted looks easier to read to me

I’ll do you one better, Dichroic Glass Dice

Astroturfing new bot accounts I guess

I’m 50:50 on if that’s a mistake or an deliberate subtle error. There’s a lot of stuff in The Shining that’s clearly intentionally wrong (lighting, building layout, maps, event continuity, etc…) in order to subconsciously reinforce the unnatural aura of the hotel. Of course that also gives Kubrick a free license to cut corners.

I mean, companies avoiding self hosting isn’t just about being cheap. Cloudflare/AWS might cost $100 per mo and only have 95% uptime but you know what you’re getting. Self hosting inherently introduces risk.

That 5k machine might pay for itself in half a year OR it might self destruct in 3 months. The man hours and downtime needed to unfuck that mess might cost more than multiple years of flaky cloud hosting. Alternatively, a change in data retention regulation requires hardware redundency, then next month the revenue stream from that hardware drys up and you’re stuck holding a $10k loss instead of canceling a $100 payment.

Is there a race that is statistically more violent then the others?

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…White supremacists use this argument verbatim against certain ethnicities. It’s literally the poster child for statistic-fluffed racism.

Do I have to link the meme or are going to figure this out on your own?..

Ah so no actual response; no discussion to be had on when and where support is necessary and what we can do to meet that need. Very constructive, thank you. Glad to know your position is so hollow and self serving.

Tell that to AfD in Germany, FdI in Italy, FN in France, Neo-Nazis in Australia, Vox in Spain, etc…

But keep imagining that finding new no-no words to police will do anything to weaken their messaging 💜

Why would I ask them without any prompting or context? They don’t interact with any communities that use it or know how it’s origin. Seems like a leading question with no constructive purpose other than to remind them that they should feel sad/angry about who they are as a person.

Trump and the hard right are not a uniquely American problem, stuff like this is more straw for their imagined leftist extremist strawman. At least you get to feel righteous. * taps sign *

Your job as an ally does not include dictating what issues are concerning or when/where they need to be discussed. I’ve heard the term rice burner/ricer maybe… Five times this century? I’ve never heard it as an insult, I’ve never heard it directed toward any minority, and I’ve never heard of it being especially problematic.

I’m sure there are people who use it in disparaging manner but you can do that with literally anything if you’re racist enough. If that really is an issue for the niche automotive demographic then go talk to them about it. If they concede to stop using it then good, but I wouldn’t notice anyway because I don’t use the phrase.

Being an ally should first and foremost be about focusing on tangible issues affecting real people. My minority friends and loved ones care far more about inequality and prejudice in opportunity/resources than minor labels. There’s far too many real, systemic, and dangerous issues to spend time on pedantic lectures to the general public.

I can also insert block quotes as an authoritative source - Wikipedia 2025

When it was a common pejorative it was aracial, only determined by a person’s association with an object. As commented above, the people who own those objects are embracing the word in a positive framing. Seems fair to me.

Rice is, in reality, a very general word. It’s a staple food for half the world, independently domesticated on 3 separate continents. If anything, it should be associated with being cheap and versatile. Reinforcing the idea that it’s uniquely Asian is probably doing more harm than good when not all parts of Asia rely on it as a staple (eg: wheat and barley are far more common in northern China).

If you were someone of Asian heritage posting your personal experience on a forum for car mods I would understand. That would be a useful discussion within the community about what is/is not OK and how they could be more inclusive.

This post is the complete opposite. You are decreeing (as an ‘ally’) a phrase as racist in an unrelated community that rarely, if ever, sees any usage of it. Judging by the comments, it’s far more common for this community to know it in the context of the RICE backronym or a cheap “rice and beans” framing. Who have we helped here? Why don’t we spend our digital ink on a more important topic?

It was a derogatory insult toward poor gear heads, who else can reclaim it? Only the Asian born subset? Asian people who never touched a motorcycle? It was never about any Asian traits of the riders or the vehicles but strictly that they were imported and the low cost.

Would you be ardently crusading in a hypothetical alternate history where these people had access to cheap Soviet Ladas? Surely cabbage burner would be just as offensive?

While we’re on the subject, here is a non-exhaustive list of European heritage word associations you are no longer allowed to say in any context outside of a recipe:

• Pasta
• Sauerkraut
• Rye
• Potato
• Beet
• Milk
• Mayo
• Butter
• Burger
• Donut
• Cucumber
• Beer
• Vodka
• Baguette
• Pickles/Pickled
• Radish
• Herring

Much like your anecdotal blog post source, I personally find these highly offensive.

I’ll take a crack at it:

• It’s a massive privacy/surveillance concern. Look at the issues that come with doorbell cams and now multiply the number of cameras and scatter them all over
• It’s another platform for mega corporations to track and sell data to advertisers or any malicious actors, but at an entirely new intrusive level. They no longer have to approximate what’s getting your attention when they literally know what has your attention. Good luck anonymizing or hiding your usage when you can’t spoof the real world in front of you.
• It’s unnecessary e-waste, at best providing the exact same functionality you’d get from your phone with the added benefit of… not reaching into your pocket? You still need a free hand to use it…
• It’s a distraction in a way that other tech can’t touch. Pedestrians/drivers getting notifications shoved directly into their eyes won’t end well.
• It probably has all the same inherent problems as previous generations of smart glasses. Primarily: your eyes aren’t designed for extended/repeated focus on an image less than an inch from your face and at the edge of your vision

[Apologies in advance for the essay]

I think your description is utopian because it distills civilization (and by extension the universe) into a stable system in an ideal balance. Any society has to exist within its material constraints and those limits invariably devolve and shift through entropy.

Socialism (and basically all early-modern political theory) was born in a time of incredible scientific advancement. It has an implicit axiom that all factors can be solved and accounted for, and by doing so we can asymptomatically approach a perfect society.

But we know a lot more now and can prove that’s just not possible. Our physical reality imposes instability on society whether we like it or not. An unstoppable, aggressive blight could destroy the agricultural output of an entire continent. Suddenly it’s just not possible to give to each according to their need and only the most insular and asocial pockets of civilization survive.

There’s no amount of creativity or human goodwill that can weather the unfathomable forces beyond our control. I mean, what happens to our carefully crafted socialist society when the earth’s magnetic poles flip. Or when the moon finally drifts away from the earth and permanently ends our seasonal stability. Or when the sun explodes or we deplete Earth’s finite resources or etc…

I don’t say all of this to be unreasonably pessimistic or nihilistic, but to point out that these ideological theories are fundamentally unsound. Our current world does desperately need these socialist policies, but dogmatic adherence to them as indelible rules is counter productive.

In my opinion we should focus on instilling basic guiding principles and solve our problems in any way that satisfies as many as possible. Some off the top of my head, in a rough ordering:

• Maximize political engagement and representation
• Minimize our ecological footprint and don’t develop an over reliance on any resource
• Preserve and extend our scientific knowledge
• Delegate labor and distribute resources as equitably as possible
• Limit restrictions on personal freedom

You’ll almost never be able to satisfy every principle, but establishing something like that as a baseline allows for good faith discussion and decision-making without the need to villify your opposition.

Weird way to “listen” by suppressing their voices. Zero Covid was the “right call” in a narrow lens of limiting direct disease transmission, but it was completely untenable as a true long term strategy and had no foresight.

The protests weren’t due to solely to the restrictions on personal freedom, it was also the total lack of sane administration and fallback plans. The enforcement, quarantine logistics and vaccine rollout were entirely scattershot. The government had no realistic approach to the problem beyond rigid policing.

When their authority to enforce the policy was stretched to its limits they did an about face and pretended the problem didn’t exist, leaving their vulnerable populations in the lurch with no offramp. The core problem of inept administration was completely unaddressed. I wouldn’t give them credit for “listening to the protesters” any more than I would give Tsar Nicholas credit for listening to his striking workers.

COVID lockdowns when minor protests broke out

“Solve” is an interesting verb for suppression of legitimate mass discontent at being physically locked into their apartments. That “solution” worked so well for those “minor protests” that they decided to do a 180° turn from the Zero Covid policy to no restrictions overnight.

Truly a bastion of free speech, except for any real discontent is labeled capitalist subterfuge so we’ll just disregard that.