oh yeah, as an academic term it’s probably useful

I think there’s a mix. I get the impression that cultural appropriation as a thing to be offended about is well past its peak and dying out, but back when it was popular I knew people in real life angry about these things. Not bad people either… well meaning people who spent a bit too much time online and didn’t think things through themselves.

That’s really interesting! Nice sounding instrument

If I had and it was that easy, we wouldn’t have this neverending stream at someone getting offended because someone did something associated with a culture they don’t have obvious blood ties to.

I think there is asshole behaviour that could be described as cultural appropriation, but I think the vast majority of them also fit under “exploitation” or “racism”.

It’s also apparent that if you tell people “cultural appropriation is bad”, you get pretty silly outcomes. Suddenly you have protests because a restaurant serves sushi without being ethnically japanese, or someone yells at you because you post a photo of a california roll.

Given those examples I should probably go have lunch

negative and unrealistic stereotype

which would just be racism really

The concept of cultural appropriation seems to be pretty useless in practice.

The cases I’ve encountered where it makes some bit of sense fit better under the concepts of racism or exploitation. The complaints about cultural appropriation online seem to more often attack innocent behaviour or someone genuinely appreciating another culture.

Drink tea, make tacos, wear a kimono, don’t be an asshole

If it’s difficult to know, people probably should be given the benefit of the doubt

It’s a café though… Isn’t this normal for a café?

There’s a lot of good books written by awful people. I guess Gaiman might be one of those awful people

He needs a short talking point blaming the fire on environmental protections, democrats and the right of California to regulate itself.

Gives it a fallback to send surveillance data to samsung, even if you don’t connect it to a network

Or it would hallucinate and do weird shit, or get easily manipulated by someone

What people are calling AI in this bubble is just a mindless text generator

Tailscale is very popular among people I know who have similar problems. Supposedly it’s pretty transparent and easy to use.

If you want to do it yourself, setting up dyndns and a wireguard node on your network (with the wireguard udp port forwarded to it) is probably the easiest path. The official wireguard vpn app is pretty good at least for android and mac, and for a linux client you can just set up the wireguard thing directly. There are pretty good tutorials for this iirc.

Some dns name pointing to your home IP might in theory be an indication to potential hackers that there’s something there, but just having an alive IP on the internet will already get you malicious scans. Wireguard doesn’t respond unless the incoming packet is properly signed so it doesn’t show up in a regular scan.

Geo-restriction might just give a false sense of security. Fail2ban is probably overkill for a single udp port. Better to invest in having automatic security upgrades on and making your internal network more zero trust

Some of the people you share experiences with on instagram might be up for sharing an experience in real life. Pick someone who seems nice and suggest something that might be fun

Bring a friend

Don’t leave the drink unattended

In my eyes he’s lost that privilege. When he dies I’ll celebrate

Why honour the dishonourable?

Isn’t that kind of necessary and what we did the last time? Add tariffs targeted towards products relevant to red states.

The vehicle contained it all pretty well, with the main exit for force and fire was via the window between the trunk and the cabin

Engineered like a tank… but the tank is a T72