I’ve been telling people for a while that I can hear it too. Nice to know I’m not the only one.

I don’t know what rock you’ve been living under where you think base Firefox wasn’t ever improved

Yeah, black Americans have a very distinct culture. Started as slaves, were segregated in a lot of ways, they still often have ghetto neighborhoods, they created unique genres of music with strong black identity and they still have their own entertainment catered towards them. That’s America for you.

From my experience, black people want to be called black. I’m a white kid, but was raised in a foster family with three black siblings and other black family, including some that lived in a ghetto in another city. It was the 90s and early 2000s, so we watched some BET, we watched the Boondocks, we listened to thug rap, we watched shows with black characters such as All That and Cousin Skeeter. Because it was all a part of my brothers’ culture, and they felt attached to it, and “black culture” was cool to all of us. And in anything we participated in I’ve never heard a single African-American who didn’t call themselves “black” and be fine being called that. Maybe there are some rich people like Obama or Tom of The Boondocks who wouldn’t call themselves “black”, but they seem to be of a different lifestyle and culture than that.

I’ve also sometimes made the argument in defense of “black”, that “African-American” is mildly politically-incorrect itself— not that I have a problem with the term, just the hyper-vigilant enforcing of it. Because it’s not synonymous with skin color itself, it’s a statement about where they came from. We don’t call white people “European-Americans”; and what do we call non-black African-Americans from, say, Egypt or South America? So… yeah.

Good news, but it’s not “AI”. Please stop calling it that.

That sounds like the courts are fucking stupid and ill-prepared to do their jobs.

Who the hell just throws mail away without knowing what it is first? And if it’s not clear from the outside, then without opening it first?

Watched that episode yesterday.

Wait until they learn that the thumbs-up in some countries means what the middle finger does in the US…

That’s not why I removed it. If you’re trying to post a helpful comment in response to a mental health issue, I recommend phrasing it in a way that doesn’t sound ambiguously toxic. That’s not a rule or demand, it’s just why I removed it.

Update: For context, it was a minimalistic statement along the lines of “I thought all the gang stalker victims were on Reddit” or something-- I forget the exact phrasing. I only removed that and one other comment here, and performed no other moderator actions; because I couldn’t tell the intention of the commenter, and I’m not here to “crack down” on people unnecessarily. If I took the nature of the comment the wrong way, then 1. so could OP, which is the point of the removal, and 2. you can always try posting again in a different way. We’re all chill here, or so I hope, fam.

Welcome to being a mod-- people will always think you either do too little or do too much, and your decision is always wrong. I’ve accepted this. But I do like to be transparent and chill.

I promise you these are all different people, just responding how they naturally would to posts such as yours. The internet can be a mean place, and some people are easier targets than others. And it’s unlikely any of the commenters here know you personally.

Either way-- regardless of which events may not be happening-- your issues sound tough. Please speak to a professional mental health worker, and I wish you well.

I’ve had this in my collection for years.

Hell yeah, please ban declawing. It’s inhumane. And no, I’m not a nut or even a vegetarian (and nothing wrong with vegetarians), I’m just sane.

Not gonna lie, this isn’t that bad. Especially if the dressing you drench them in is fatty instead of carby

It’s not so much that he forgot his name as that he remembered his face. At his age, and after all these years? Yeah, that’s cool.

The people who published Big Rigs are still out there publishing terrible mainstream license games such as the new Kong game and the new Avatar: TLA game (yes, really). They’re called “Game Mill”, and they are exactly what their name is, and their games are some of the worst on shelves. They don’t keep any employees very long and they have them work on games before they even get an order so they can slap the license into the game last-minute.

1. Depends on your definition of “accent” (yes, really). Is an accent a deviation from standard/dictionary, or is standard/dictionary also an accent?
2. Assuming standard isn’t accent, depends on the zone/individual. We all know about Brooklyn and Southern drawl and Minnesotan, etc.
3. Assuming standard isn’t accent, Americans have less accent than other English-speakers, but more accent than you’d think. For example, Americans say “budder” instead of “butter”.

I feel attacked.