There's no requirement, and there's no reason a white person can't go to a black barbershop, but black people's hair is often much different to cut than most white people's hair, and preferred styles quite different.

It's not so much "this barber is for black people" and more so "this barber is owned by black people, so black people can assume they'll be given the experience they're looking for"

"when they think you're gross"

How can I know if someone thinks I'm gross if I haven't spoken to them yet? I should just assume I'm gross, always?

Part of the beauty of Lemmy is fracturing intentionally into smaller instances. The content is no less accessable to people who want it, and it'll hopefully provide a better, more reliable experience by being off lemmy.world on a smaller instance.

I believe many are trying to help reduce the load in lemmy.world, where most new users (including myself) started.

Yes, statistics generally teaches to not worry excessively about outliers.

More specifically with Serbia, they were genociding until NATO stepped in and bombed them, and have spent the last 20+ years crying about how NATO was the big bad boogie man who attacked first, while simultaneously trying to destabilize Kosovo through frequent Russian backed violations of the MTA that ended the open conflict. Literal government policies of a schoolyard bully.

I've read a series called "Galaxy's Edge", and in it, the 1% on earth had furthered their stranglehold on media, propaganda, resources, etc, and Earth was finally crumbling. Food wars, corporate armies, the whole shebang. Eventually, the 1% pooled their resources together to just leave Earth on massive colony ships, ditching the unwashed masses to die in pursuit of a new start.

What makes me laugh is that once they all dipped, earth just... Recovered. Got through the hard times and developed hyperdrive to jump off into the stars themselves, getting to all the planets thousands of years before the slower-than-light colony ships the original 1% left in. When they finally start emerging from the dark of interstellar space, their zealous beliefs that they're the most important people in the universe has convinced them to chase down fucked up biotech and they're all post human monstrosities hell bent on destroying the "animals" who have lived in relative harmony without their existence.

Can't help but feel like that rings a bell. The billionaires will rape our planet to death and then just dust off in private space ships leaving us for dead. If we pull through, they'll come back to keep raping.

Why are companies allowed to prioritize immediate money over literally everything, but when an employee does it suddenly "work isn't all about money"

Just in case anybody doesn't know, if you're a US or Canada veteran, solidworks is $20 a year

She's the sweetest cat on the planet, she doesn't fight at all when we feed her through the tube, she even cuddled the heck out the vets when they gave her shots.

Her surgery was to correct a cleft soft palette, basically a big hole in the back of her throat connecting to her nasal passageways. Made it hard for her to eat and meow, probably hurt a lot as food would make it's way up into her sinuses.

Normal operation for this birth defect is to put the kitten down, but she stole our hearts so completely that it was worth it to us to get her fixed 💘

That's how I feel right now. I don't need the Fediverse to replace reddit and Twitter, I want it to be a refuge from the commercialized crap! The people who can't be bothered to figure out Lemmy or Mastodon can stay right where they are!

She's probably American and talking about America. We shouldn't have to qualify every single thing we say, if it doesn't apply to you then it doesn't apply. It's certainly worthwhile to the discussion to add your own experiences in places it doesn't apply, but just pointing out that she didn't explicitly say she's talking about America (even though she very nearly did) isn't super relevant.

While you're completely correct, the cost of living in America is also much higher than than the world median.

What we really should be looking at is the ratio of pay : cost of living but raw salary is just easier for the masses to see and be mad about.

As an example, 3.5k USD is about my monthly bills.

If I took a few hours to make an impressive AI generated price of art, that's still %0.0001 the amount of time an actual a real artist would've spent developing the skill and then taking the time to make the peice. I get to skip all that because AI stole the real artists' works.

He's been caught, trial set for 2024. Surprise, he looks nothing like the pictures in this post.

That's my superpower, I remember that shit. It'll occasionally come up in conversation where suddenly I look like a genius about some obscure topic and everybody asks "how the fuck do you know that" and all I can say is "see... I looked it up once 4 years ago..."

Or they know bragging about it on the Internet without rank to protect them will get them dogpiled.

I could just have been commanded by some softies, but officers don't generally have the constitution to get personally attacked. Think about it, they literally wrote the rules that say enlisted can go to jail for shit talking them.

That's what I keep saying. I keep getting told I'm wrong though, that Lemmy needs to be easier to join, and hit critical mass and become the reddit killer because that's the only way we can exist.

Like, no thank you. I'm happy with Lemmy NOW, I don't need it to keep growing!

Hi I grew up in rural Kentucky, currently live in rural Indiana. The flyers of this flag hate gays and blacks, unilaterally.

Think for a second. Why, if you didn't want to project the idea that you proudly hate gays and blacks, would you fly this flag? The association is too deep. You can't fly this flag without very intentionally telling all the black and gay people around you that you hate them, even if "that's not what it means to you"

No, everybody flying this flag knows that, they don't care. They're cool with the message, they support the message. They just know it's not a great argument for the media 😉

I'm taking this opportunity to vent. I just got back from a year long deployment from a snowy, mountainous region. I'm geared for cold, used to the cold. Even at the hieght of summer there, it was like ... 70°F. They decided to demobilize us in El Paso, TX!!! It's murderously hot here every day, and our barracks don't have AC!!! So after walking around all day in a head to toe uniform in Texas desert heat, I don't even get the luxury of feeling cold, crisp air 😭😭😭

Yeah the sentiment surrounding vapes generally is that they're better than cigarettes. Most people still want to entirely quit vaping, quit nicotine altogether.

Unfortunately, vapes are super enticing to younger people. Even ignoring the underage market entirely, young people love vaping. I'm in the army, so maybe my demographics are skewed, but EVERYBODY is vaping super high nicotine disposable vapes these days.

When I first started vaping, nicotine concrentations were commonly 3 or 6 mg/ml, now 50mg/ml is common.