zkikiz

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[–] zkikiz@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Being laughed at for how your body is is one thing, being laughed at for buying a fascist's ChildishCompensationMobile is another. It's a choice to buy Jeff Bezos' $100,000 Dick Mobile and drive it around like you're cool, it's another to... try and exist? As best you can? Corporeally?

Like no I don't need to worry about the feelings of anyone who gives Trump money and allegiance. They made bad choices that materially affect me (how many Twitters can these guys buy up and turn into a KKK Safe Place with this money?) and I can tell them they suck for it. Completely not the same as giving redheads swirlies.

Like, for context I also give distainful looks at poor drivers in BMWs and Benzes: obviously money didn't give them sense. So yes I'll laugh at anyone giving Musk money after knowing his true colors.

[–] zkikiz@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

All contracts are negotiable, you did nothing wrong other than not having a conversation before wasting paper, the main issue is that for most people the negotiation is "if you want to work here you have to agree to all this."

But yeah reasonable accommodation and mutual understandings, etc, should be written down and signed. I challenged the non-disclosure agreement at my job once because it literally said I couldn't talk about my work with ANYONE, and a plain reading of it would mean I'd be unable to even talk to my boss about what I was supposed to be doing. It was poorly written and probably unenforceable. My boss didn't like that so I signed it anyway and then focused on finding work elsewhere (he was a dick and his company got raided by the FBI a few years later)

[–] zkikiz@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Lots of roofs in Asia are blue and I have no idea why lol

[–] zkikiz@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That photo is from a film about neanderthals. The phrase "unga bunga" has its earliest known usage in a Bugs Bunny short mocking Aborigines, but it's a generic enough phrase that I'm not sure you can write off the entire phrase as racist against Aborigines: any nonsense word could be used in its place and I'm not sure anyone creating or sharing the meme has actually watched that Bugs Bunny clip from 1950. It's just a nonsense phrase used to indicate low intelligence or nonsense. Given that the photo is of a neanderthal, I think anyone seeing the meme will understand that it's supposed to mean "a caveman would be confused by this" and not about any particular group of modern or indigenous humans. Most usages of the meme imply that the poster themselves is the confused one, so I don't think a racist would find it very funny to post something like that.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/confused-unga-bunga

Given that the words "unga" and "bunga" have existed in print since at least 1700 AD, I'm not sure we can point to that one Bugs cartoon as the definitive and only definition of that particular nonsense phrase. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=unga%2C+bunga&year_start=1500&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3

[–] zkikiz@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Apparently it's not super great? I haven't noticed https://lemmy.ca/post/3532299

[–] zkikiz@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some airlines don't have seat assignment until you print your boarding pass

[–] zkikiz@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago
[–] zkikiz@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Oh I agree. I'm saying some people really like the status quo, even if it's broken.

[–] zkikiz@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That leads straight to open conflict and a reorganization of the status quo though. Some people really like the status quo even if it means keeping the human meat grinder turned on.

[–] zkikiz@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's when records begin

[–] zkikiz@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Japanese do this too especially in pottery, it seems like a very old form of artisanry

[–] zkikiz@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Also a linguist would of course dedicate a chapter to the pure joy of rhymes, verses, and words that feel fun to say

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