Ada @ ada @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Downvotes aren’t how you address racists and bigots. Banning them is.

Downvoting is a tool that racists and bigots use when they’re trying to avoid getting banned though. On top of that, most targetted groups are minorities, which by definition, have small numbers. All off which means that the impact of downvotes hits vulnerable minorities harder than it hits bigots.

To you, this is some sort of hypothetical ideal that you’d like to see. In your mind, if things “worked the way they should”, downvoting would be a useful tool. But things don’t work the way the should. They work they way they are used, and in this case, that means they often hurt vulnerable groups more than they help them, despite how it ‘should be”

In your analogy, downvotes aren't the tool. Social media is the tool. And turning off downvotes is how we use that tool to match our needs.

Well, that article succesfully turned me off even trying the game… It’s a list of immersion breaking stuff that makes it impossible to forget it’s just a computer game…

But you surely agree that both of your statements to be are at odds with each other.

You can’t simultaneously claim that an increase in diversity leads to a “reduction in richness” of a work, whilst also claiming that the work itself is the problem if it lacks diversity.

First, you are claiming that good works are diminished by after the fact alterations, but then you also claim that after the fact alterations are a bad idea, because the work was never good in the first place if it lacked diversity.

It more looks like you are finding post hoc validation to support something you already believe, rather than explaining the actual reasons you believe it, because those reasons contradict each other

Same with b.zone

My phone number. She bought us both pre-paid phone numbers over 20 years ago, and it’s the simplest number to remember because it has two sets of 3 matching numbers.

We broke up long ago, but I still have that phone number!

Good pickup!

If an established user with a blahaj based account (or the willingness to create one) is interested in taking the community over, let me know!

It’s also really easy to weaponise against minorities

You’ve just shifted the goal posts here.

First, you said it’s stealing richness from a story if you add more women to make up for the lack of representation in the original source material.

And when challenged on that, you’re now saying it wasn’t rich to begin with, and the story itself is broken if women are underrepresented.

It is disingenuously stealing from the richness of the story these films are supposedly depicting.

Strangely enough, as a woman, I see it generally adding to the richness...

Men doing all of the interesting stuff isn't rich.

Hell, even I Robot, a movie that should have had a female lead, turned Calvin in to a supporting role to put a man in the lead.

If that were true, there wouldn't be so much noise whenever an action movie with a female lead is released.

It was the nazi salute specifically that I was referring to

I’m fascinated with them all. New Zealand has been seperated from other contintents for a long time, and until mankind arrived here (only around 1000 years ago), there were no large mammals on the islands, and for the land birds at least, the only predators were other birds. So the birds here have adapted to fill niches normally filled by mammals, and they also tend to be large, long lived and flightless (or poor flyers), because flight didn’t help them escape predation, but size, strong legs and camoflage did.

Unfortunately, they died in large numbers when mammals were introduced (mankind as well as their companions/stow aways) and many have gone extinct.

New Zealand is leading the way in establishing completely predator free spaces (initially mostly islands, but now mainland areas too), so you have spaces where rare birds are flourishing again.

I’ve been in New Zealand for the last couple of weeks, and honestly, my favourites are the North and South Island Robins. They appear fearless, because they follow larger animals around (like people), and hunt for insects that they stir up. What it looks like though is this friendly little robin comes right up to you and starts following you! I also love the Kererū (New Zealand pigeon). They’re big clumsy birds, but so gorgeous! And speaking of pigeons, it’s interesting that rock pigeons don’t dominate city spaces here. They’re around, but mostly, the niche normally filled by pigeons is filled by gulls and house sparrows..

I don't know whether the admins are aware of it. If a mod rejected the report, the admins wouldn't even see it. Might be an idea to ask them?

That’s not a blahaj community. It’s hosted on another instance.

In any case, the mods and poster are banned now, and the community has been blocked

I was young, early teens in the mid to late 80s, so I remember the time but not particularly fondly.

Your boobs stay because breast tissue stays. Breasts are also made up of fat in addition to breast tissue, and breast fat will "redistribute" in much the same way as other body fat.

Like a phone book?

I can do that. The fact the mods left it up for so long is reason enough

I just saw a report on it and I've removed the post.