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lol it’s all good friend

A teachable moment for some readers who have trouble discerning the difference between the words.

This is one case where misspelling ‘affect’ works.

Honestly the people who confuse honest cultural imitation or fusion with appropriation aren’t thinking critically about what harm is being done.

American exceptionalism produces a lot of these false positive responses, which is super annoying because it’s a real problem with economic consequences.

E.g. dreads is an ancient hairstyle for different ethnicities, cf. any sadhu, and no one is getting rich off of it.

Yeah, that’s inaccurate, sorry.

It’s actually a pretty nuanced topic, that has been attacked and thus muddled intentionally, but the simplified version is similar to fraud.

Basically, if it’s not your culture, but you act like it is and get paid (or equivalent) for representing it in some way, then it is appropriation. Whether that matters or not depends on power relations, so people at the wrong end of the genocide stick, for instance the Cree, don’t want people to make and sell something like headdresses that are supposed to be reserved for very specific purposes. It’s a ripoff and wrong on multiple levels.

Think ‘stolen valour’ responses for people wearing military medals without the right, but add on lost income and a history of shit and abuse as salt in the wound.

Free, except for the amortized R&D and construction costs.

It's called Mirror Accusation, aka projection, and it's a method used by authoritarian regimes to ascribe their motives onto their opponents. Usually it indicates what is coming next.

This is why I am very concerned about what all the 'white genocide' talk means... they are teeing up for some very nasty shit.

They are in some jurisdictions.

Deaf people compensate with a lifetime of experience.

Fuck dangerously earplugged or headphoned drivers.

If the analytics cross over a certain threshold, trigger an ad.

This is extremely simple and does not require an LLM.

My roommate in university was studying a group of chimps in Tanzania who ate small quantities of a plant periodically that happened to be a potent dewormer. Apparently it didn’t taste very good, and they were botanists not ethologists, so didn’t verify how they know, just that it was very deliberate, socially reinforced, and it worked. (Late 1980’s study!)

Battery would be grand for a household solar install. Seats would be nice on the porch. The frunk can hold a lot of chicken feed, and the cabin would make a fine henhouse for a small flock.