cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48291275

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Japanese text: 家でやろう。

English text: Please do it at home.

Image: a male Japanese soccer fan cleaning up a stadium superimposed over an image of a home interior, featuring an exasperated woman doing dishes and laundry while a disengaged man lounges on a couch and browses his phone.

Japanese text: 日本人男性の家庭内労働時間は国際的にみても極めて低い水準。まず家の中のケア労働を分担してほしい。

English text: Japanese men spend among the least time on housework intentionally. Please share unpaid care work at home.

Japanese text: 思いやりは、家の中から。

English text: Start with respect--at home.

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Japanese text: 家でやろう。

English text: Please do it at home.

Image: a male Japanese soccer fan cleaning up a stadium superimposed over an image of a home interior, featuring an exasperated woman doing dishes and laundry while a disengaged man lounges on a couch and browses his phone.

Japanese text: 日本人男性の家庭内労働時間は国際的にみても極めて低い水準。まず家の中のケア労働を分担してほしい。

English text: Japanese men spend among the least time on housework intentionally. Please share unpaid care work at home.

Japanese text: 思いやりは、家の中から。

English text: Start with respect--at home.

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Text: Amazon's electric cargo bikes have arrived in DC.

Image: A four-wheeled vehicle that appears to be a cross between a bicycle, a go-cart, and a mini-truck

Response text from high t alpha shemale @gluetaster: that's not a cargo bike man that's a loopholemobile

Edit: I found a slightly higher-quality version of the image:

Comic by Roz Chast, published in The New Yorker

(For instances that allow downvotes, obviously.)

I ask because if I see a post with more than a handful of downvotes assigned to what otherwise seems like decent content, I consider it a yellow flag, and I'll often go to the comments section to try and discover why the post is controversial.

Sometimes I'll find it's truly a matter of personal disagreement (such as on a hot-button topic like veganism), however I'll often discover the downvotes are there for a more objective reason, such as misleading or outdated info in the post. On many occasions this additional digging has led me to change what would have been an upvote from me to no vote or even a downvote. On the flip side, if I see a post that I like but that looks a bit fishy, if it has hardly any downvotes relative to the upvotes, I'll assume that it has passed Lemmy approval (a kind of Cunningham's Law I guess) and is therefore probably okay (e.g. I see a reference in a ScienceMemes or HistoryMemes post that seems too bonkers to be true).

So what about you all? Do you use the upvote: downvote ratio to guide how you interact with posts?

(Screenshots from 18:36-18:48)

I initially clicked on the video "Exposing the Myth of Southern Charm" because I was intrigued by the somewhat click-baity title, but mostly because it was posted on a PBS Youtube channel and this seemed like a (relatively) spicy take for PBS.

I was graced with a beautifully subtle look at the historic slave plantation town of Natchez, Mississippi, and the tourism industry that has popped up around their many antebellum homes. It tells of an overdue reckoning in a community that lovingly preserves and displays their history (and profits from it) while simultaneously desiring to move on from its darker elements. Yet there is nuance as well; we learn of Natchez's history of progressive politics post-civil war, and the various ways that many residents are working to keep the "offensive" elements of history from getting swept under the rug. There is no narration; the film allows interviewees to speak for themselves, sometimes to their own detriment (with the help of some clever editing).

Apparently the documentary was originally given the more neutral title of Natchez and was produced with some support from PBS but not directly for them. The director and producer also did an AMA on reddit recently that's worth a read. The movie went on to win a bunch of awards, including best documentary at Tribeca.

It's currently available for free on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHAauml9rV4

I haven't been able to keep up with recent releases this year, so 2026's question is:

What are the gayest/queerest/transiest(???) titles in animation/comics currently being released?

I'm talking any anime/manga/animation/comics that dropped this side of June 1, 2025 (continuing series are OK). Did 2025-26 have anything that could top (heh) this cover of Gay Comix #12 from 1988?

Stolen from Reddit. Original description:

There's a construction site opposite my apartment and the workers kept walking up the grass patch instead of using the stairs.

From The Greatest Estate Developer

I'm wondering what of the oldest films are still watched on a regular basis by a relatively mainstream audience purely for entertainment purposes (as in, not for a film studies class or for the explicit intention of "going through the classics").

The oldest examples I can think of are Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and The Wizard of Oz (1939). I think the fact that they're both in color and are children's/family films has helped them age well, even compared to movies several decades younger.

Description: roadside memorial with a sign reading "IN MEMORY OF THOSE KILLED BY I.C.E." alongside dozens of crosses.

Location: HWY 8 outside Elma, WA.

Photo taken from the passenger seat while traveling from the South Sound toward the coast. Considering Grays Harbor County voted Trump three out of three elections (although not overwhelmingly so), this was heartening to see. I don't make it out this way too often, so I'm uncertain exactly when this was erected, but it was sometime in the last few months.

Or, in other words, how do you pick what to read next?

There are millions of books in existence and only twenty-four hours in the day. I'm curious how everyone here picks what books go on (and, depending on your proclivity for dropping books mid-read, stay on) your reading list?

Librarian recommendations? "Best of" lists? Your favorite authors' latest? Social media recommendations? Whatever seems "hot" at the moment? Serial publications/anthologies? High school/college reading lists*? Covers/titles that entice you? Whatever your approach, I wanna hear it!

*This is a fantastic way of creating non-fiction reading lists, but I can't imagine doing this with fiction--I'm just not that much of a literary masochist.