[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

Finally, a unique and strange American Balkanization map

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

You're right that Americans are under-educated in those areas. However, China has something like a hundred "big cities" (let's say roughly Philadelphia-sized). Only a real geography buff would be able to identify all of them! If Americans knew just ten of them, that would be great.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

To paraphrase an infamous French statesman... Taiwan is a big island, inhabited by many Chinese.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

Nope. European arrogance.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago

Thank you Russia for depleting the NATO war arsenal and thereby making WW3 with China less likely zoidberg salute 2

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

When you start talking about height and hand size, I think you're getting lost in the sauce. Basketball already favors abnormally tall people anyway, but no one is trying to ban Yao Ming from the sport for being 229 cm (7'6").

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

Since men have been getting support and funding for over a century in sports and games like this, you end up with them dominating the field. Women's categories bring in more female players that otherwise wouldn't have a chance if the entire game was open only. But on the other hand, this enables concern-trolling over "transgender invasion". It's also applied questionably to sports that maybe don't need this such as in the case of Zhang Shan & Olympic skeet shooting. It can reinforce gender stereotypes. Finally, I'd say it's frustratingly slow at leveling the playing field.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

Interesting I guess. It's a no-brainer that this would happen when whiteness is defined by its purity. Some say the definition will be expanded like it was for Italians and Jews, but that requires racists to stop discriminating based off visual appearance so I kind of doubt it. Anyway, rip bozo lmfao

[-] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago

shut up cracker

[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

If Europe is fake, shouldn't it be Asia not Eurasia lol.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

Oh dear. They're huge on mobile at least

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When I browse the all section, it's overwhelmingly reddit logo and Facebook humor. I haven't really seen any niche hobby communities either. Do good communities all block lemmygrad or are they nonexistent?

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Discussion for the week of Monday July 10th to Sunday July 16th.

Link to last week's thread.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

If Ukraine had rainforests, America would be sending Agent Orange by now.

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Qin-aligned cetacean patriots have taken control of a billionaire submersible. AtlantiSS will fall.

Source.

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Now even Starbucks is tossing aside the queer community. I will now paste reporting from the Starbucks Workers United Twitter. I don't recommend you actually go on that site, the replies are full of blue-check fascists.

spoilerBREAKING: In the middle of Pride Month, Starbucks BANS Pride decorations in stores across the United States. For the last two weeks, Starbucks workers have taken to social media to report that the company is no longer allowing Pride decorations in-store. This seems to be the first year the publicly “pro-LGBTQ+” company has taken this kind of stance. Taking a cue from Target, who bowed to anti-LGBTQ+ pressure and removed pride merchandise, corporate and district management are taking down the pride decorations that have become an annual tradition in stores. In union stores, where Starbucks claims they are unable to make “unilateral changes” without bargaining, the company took down Pride decorations and flags anyway - ignoring their own anti-union talking point.

Starbucks is powered by many queer workers, but management has failed to materially support the LGBTQ+ community. Last October, some workers have reported that their transgender benefit plan changed, causing them to pay out of pocket fees and lose access to certain providers. If Starbucks was a true ally, they would stand up for us, especially during a time when LGBTQ+ people are under attack. A company that cares wouldn’t turn their back on the LGBTQ+ community to protect their already astronomically high profits. True allyship with the LGBTQ+ community is negotiating a union contract that legally locks-in our benefits, our freedom of expression, and ways to hold management accountable.

Starbucks Corporate is denying any change to their policies on Pride this year - but if that were true, why are there countless stories where workers are claiming the opposite? Starbucks partners have been making TikToks about the situation in stores - some going as far back as weeks ago. The company can't ignore what is obviously a huge shift for this year's Pride in stores.

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Raise your hand if you support giving Ukraine tanks. Yeah, that's what I thought. 😤

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They'll be stopping at dozens of locations and will have a rotating crew. The journey will be made by both a double-hulled canoe and another canoe with an engine. The entire route will be 43,000 nautical miles. Very cool!

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Many American netizens on the right-wing social media website Twitter are calling foul play. Could this have been done by the radical terrorist organization known as the "Tyre Extinguishers"? Only time will tell...

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The Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang absolutely has a right to exist under the people's democratic dictatorship!

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They're saying it's smoke from wildfires, but you never know...

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