A borderline racial slur about making things look good without substance behind the appearance: e.g.: "riced-up Honda civic"
most of the people buying these are buying a costume, not a work vehicle, if my neighbors are any indication
it's a status symbol
Celeste
Important question; author kind of answers here:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/204729
If I were to rely on this for my instance, I would require that it be completely transparent and open source. It doesn't look like this is; you have to trust that it is making good selections, and give it power over your federation status. It's a dangerous tool, IMO, but I can understand why it would have appeal right now.
I made an arugula salad with a bell pepper, some cherry tomatoes, sunflower seeds, mushrooms, and ~~grilled~~ pan fried haloomi. Honey mustard dressing using fancy raspberry honey.
It was a nice light dinner!
the Reddit users moving over are the ones that care about social media and are willing to invest time learning new platforms. i think it's the masses we have to worry about, and I don't think they'll move over until they are forced to
I love DS9, but I wish they didn't have her falling over herself to die for men left and right for most of the series. I liked her as a character but she wasn't always written with respect IMO.
Still, pretty progressive in a lot of ways 🤷♀️
I think that the people who are most vocal in their hate are opening a window into their own internal judgement. They are filled with toxicity that is designed to keep people in line, to serve specific roles (man, especially). It spills outward, but it works inward too.
If you believe in the importance of your Masculine Role™️, in the rigidity of it - and it's the most important part of these people's identity, everything revolves around it; trucks, guns, gettin' er done, etc. - when you see people who reject your entire concept, its a personal attack. It calls into question the validity of their own identity, which they didn't get to choose anyway - that was the point. Their minds are forced to contend with the reality of a diversity of gender/sexual expression - it either softens or hardens their hearts.
Imagine being a manly man in manly ville who has defined their entire life around manliness. But hating it the entire time. The burden of a role you didn't make for yourself. Accepting that you could have done different, been different, is hard, and their community makes it impossible.
Obviously the right thing to do is to soften on traditional roles, for their own sake and others, and to reject pressure from everyone they know even if it means being alone. It's hard to do.
Oh, absolutely the opposite for me too. I've written the backend for a project I'm working on, it was smooth sailing the entire time. Define your data model, build an API, think about business logic and security, all very rational and step by step.
Now I have to make the UI. It's a horrible slog to do basic things. Drag and drop? More like drag my corpse because I've dropped dead
I refuse to use JS anymore, so I'm doing everything in WASM (Rust/yew). It's better, but still pretty high friction.
This is from the company that weights anger five times higher than likes for its algorithm. The one that is trying to force feed me "shorts" with no ability to opt out. So much of the Facebook experience is non-consensual. I wouldn't touch another platform from them.
@StudioCaroline@mastodon.social recommended I try "underpatching", where you use some fabric to give the stitch something to hold on to beyond the already compromised material. Some people even do this in overt ways for the look of it. Here's one they shared, OP @ https://mastodon.social/@StudioCaroline/110521864616379151
I'm grabbing every favourite piece of clothing I have around the house and mending it with a needle and thread
I'm not very good at it, but it's not terribly hard to close up broken seams good enough for some use. It sure as heck beats buying a new pair of jeans for $70 just because I somehow destroy the crotch every year
I'm finding this to be really satisfying and relatively easy to do. Certainly I can develop better stitching technique and use better tools and material, but it's easy enough to be good enough, or so it seems to me now
I have absolutely no ability to read a several-hundred page thread anymore. I think the dig/etc innovation that killed them was vote-weighting posts and comments rather than chronologically ordering them. It gives you an ordered list of things that are worth your attention. Folks inclined to read deeper than that can get a bit of a rush from finding some hidden gems and helping them rise to the top, either with new posts linking to a comment or otherwise.
I think the new way is much better.
It's "rice" because it's asian; it's a derogatory term used towards people and their cars. When I was younger, this term was used against asian drivers and their asian cars - and it was not a compliment.
Looking at Urban Dictionary I see no mention of this anti-asian side of it, but it was there when I was growing up. Maybe others can chime in with their experience, I imagine it wasn't the same everywhere.
Not implying the people using it here are being racist, I don't think they are aware of what I'm recalling here.