If I can help it, I try to support local businesses over Walmart, Target, Amazon, or any other near monopolistic retail chain.
Chick-fil-A, and Hobby Lobby. Owners have been vehemently antiqueer and antichoice, and have funded such organizations and politicians through their business.
Activision/Blizzard and Ubisoft. Both have been accused of large scale sexual misconduct, and neither company has completely dealt with the issue.
Twitter and Reddit. It’s not just that I hate the direction both sites are heading, but I want to fully back and support the open source alternatives that have grown during the migrations of both sites. Besides, Musk has made it to where I can’t even lurk on Twitter if I wanted to.
JonTron. He’s living proof that as long as you’re funny, people will forgive and forget anything. (Look up his history with racism and antivax for those in the latter camp, cause I’m tired of answering the “what he do” question)
The Harry Potter franchise. This one hurt the most because I had just starting to get into the Harry Potter series as the pandemic hit, and I was halfway through Prisoner of Azkaban when Rowling started her campaign against trans people. I Also used respect Rowling a lot because she’s a master at world building, and I had gotten into reading Harry Potter cause I wanted to take inspiration from it for my own work.
Ruroni Kenshin, and Nobuhiro Watsuki’s other works. I can get why people would forgive JonTron and Rowling to an extent, but defending Nobuhiro’s pedophilia is a bridge way tf too far for me.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Iran and Saudi Arabia are among six countries that will join the BRICS bloc of developing economies as new members from 2024, South Africa’s president said Thursday....
As for Fahrenheit for the rest of the world, on a scale from 0 to 100, how hot is it? Assume anything below zero is really fucking cold, and anything above 100 is really fucking hot.
I play Mahjong. If I try talking to most Americans about it, they’ll think I’m talking about Shanghai, or Mahjong Solitaire.
I actually play 3 forms of it:
Riichi: Standard Japanese rules. This is what you typically see in anime and mahjong games from Japan.
CSM: Competition rules for Chinese Mahjong. This what you’ll typically see played in tournaments outside of Japan
American Mah-jongg: A ruleset with a lot of unique features. An AMJ set contains jokers that can act as any tile in the set. The game is played without being able to call “chow”(taking a sequence of 3 pieces), You “Charleston” for the pieces you need before the round begins (pass pieces to the right, left, and across from you), and the standard hands you can make change on a yearly basis. This is the version you often see played by the American Jewish community.
I love playing all three, but it’s hard to play them in person, because you need to find at least 4 people who can play by the same rule set.
Riichi is easy enough in Japan, but it’s seen as kinda a sketchy game here, and most places you can play it are at expensive and seedy mahjong parlors. Luckily there are a flood of video games based around it that make it more accessible.
Chinese Mahjong is very regional, and each area can have its own variation on the rules, scoring, accepted hands etc. When playing with Chinese friends, I just kinda roll with whatever variation they’re playing.
For American Mah-jongg, because the standard hands change year to year, you have to buy a new card from the National Mah Jongg League yearly in order to keep up with it, so it’s the only mahjong game with a subscription cost built in. Also as mentioned, the game is very community specific, but also the majority of players are often senior aged women, usually making me the youngest at the table by far.
I love playing all three, but it’s hard enough finding someone else who also likes Mahjong, let alone find someone who doesn’t confuse it for the solitaire game. I’m not saying Mahjong solitaire ruined my life, but if I could Thanos snap a game out of existence…
Commenting has been fine, but posting threads on the otherhand has been broken for me over the past 24 hours, and its affecting some other users as well, though it might not be affecting everyone.
What happens is I’ll post a thread or a photo in a community, and get this error message. I refresh, the post appears in my profile, but not in the community I posted in. I’ll get some other weird glitches too, like after some time passes, it becomes visible to others, I’ll get replies in the thread, but won’t be able to see them or reply, and so on.
I’ve encountered bugs on kbin before, but this one has been the most devistating cause it affects my ability to even post content. Before I would only get this error when upvoting on some threads, or when I tried to block a spammer.
I really want to like it too. The UI experience on kbin has been good enough that I have stuck around despite the issues. Plus I like the culture of the site and the users I share it with. It would be a shame to leave it.
But this glitch in particular has really hampered it’s usability for me, and has me thinking if I should have my primary account elsewhere until thinks get more reliable there.
Political Plot Twist (i.imgur.com)
Axolotl: This Incredible Creature Can Regenerate Its Brain, Heart, And Limbs (yt.revvy.de)
Dealing with cops be like (lemmy.world)
What are you boycotting right now and why? Are there any Boycotts you've ended?
This post is somewhat inspired by a recent post in this same community called “Is anyone else having trouble giving up Reddit due to content?”...
To circumvent local government's restriction on sharp price drop, Chinese real estates developers literally handed out gold ingots to home buyers. (lemmy.nz)
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Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are among 6 nations set to join the BRICS economic bloc (apnews.com)
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Iran and Saudi Arabia are among six countries that will join the BRICS bloc of developing economies as new members from 2024, South Africa’s president said Thursday....
little Red Hens ⚒️ rule (slrpnk.net)
I mean I'm cool with this. Y'all cool with this? (lemmy.world)
Freedom units 💯 (lemmy.ml)
What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations?
Mine would be creating pen and paper ciphers for my made up secret communication needs.
'TikTok brain' may be coming for your kid's attention span (theweek.com)
The Kbin Experience. The Best Worst Way to Interact with the Fediverse. (roundcatsblog.wordpress.com)
A blogpost I made about my experience on Kbin. Any feedback would be appreciated as someone who is new to blogging. Thank you
What is wrong with some of you? (lemmy.world)
Trump Announces Plans to Finally Go Ahead and Prove Election Was Rigged (www.rollingstone.com)
The square hole. (lemmy.sdf.org)
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The Kbin Experience (lemmy.ca)
Seriously, I haven’t been able to post a thread from my main account recently because of this.
Petr (lemmy.world)
Idaho’s Teacher of the Year flees state after being attacked for LGBTQ+ allyship (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Karen Lauritzen said it has been the hardest year in her 20 years of teaching...