Tag: ugh

kafukafuura1917:

kafukafuura1917:

Minors being exposed to pornographic material on this website is pretty horrid but tumblr could’ve either been explicitly a no-pornography zone from the start OR, in the current version of reality, it can implement a legitimate filtering system ADMINISTERED BY HUMANS RATHER THAN RUNNING A SINGLE POORLY CODED BOT WRITTEN IN PHP, the current solution directly affects the survival income of a very large amount of people and is the laziest and cheapest one they could implement.

Silicon Valley style “all our moderation is done by bots who occasionally get updated by one person” moderation is a fucking blight upon the internet and is not going to become any better or going to stop giving random false positives and fucking over people who haven’t done anything harmful because its a fundamentally capitalist solution based on minimizing the costs of operating a massive social media platform. This entire mess could’ve been averted if this website wasn’t operated on the basis of “spend as little money as possible on keeping it clean”, except now they’re swerving from “don’t do anything” to “just have our bots delete immense amounts of the website basically arbitrarily, while we continue to not actually do anything”.

Meanwhile, all the nazis and terfs are still here, spewing their hate everywhere but female presenting nipples are such a much more pressing matter for the staff

trans-human-ist:

tonibraxtons3rdbankruptcy:

willcolbykettles:

Gay culture is wishing you could go all the way back and be yourself from the beginning

Yo, I really dont think straight people understand that a lot of us were robbed 15-20 years of our lives if you’re lucky and didn’t commit suicide or stay in the closet untik you were in your 30’s, 40’s or later.

Trans culture too. I mean what do you do when a quarter of a century has been stolen from you.

Me: *tries to speak*

Everyone: *keep talking over me, time after time*

Me: *starts to more or less scream in order to draw attention to the fact that i! Am! Speaking! And Please Stop Talking Over Me*

Everyone: why are you screaming, that’s so rude

Me: *gives up and clams down*

Everyone: why aren’t you talking to us?? Get off that phone and interact maybe?? So rude???

The Chinese are burning, dumping their Dolce & Gabbana products

levynite:

Some highlights:

He was among an untold number of people who have revolted against the
Italian fashion brand that built its reputation on the ability to make
Sicilian widows’ weeds sexy. Earlier this week, the company released
video clips widely seen as racist, pandering to old stereotypes (they
featured a Chinese model being taught to eat spaghetti, pizza and a
cannoli with chopsticks) in advance of a planned extravaganza of a show
in Shanghai. Then Stefano Gabbana, a company co-founder and designer,
appears to have engaged in a bout of insulting name-calling (including
suggesting that the Chinese eat dogs) with a critic on Instagram.
Gabbana said his account was hacked. 

…

Various fashion brands have been previously accused of cultural mistakes
or insults. Australians took Chanel to task for its sale of a luxury
boomerang. Zara was accused of using Nazi and alt-right hate symbolism
on their products. Just this week Dior came under fire for ads featuring
Jennifer Lawrence while purporting to celebrate Mexican heritage.
Still, the Dolce incident is the first time this kind of misstep has had
such global repercussions.

Spokespeople for Secoo and Net-a-Porter could not remember either
company ever dropping a brand for such reasons before. As Angelica
Cheung, editor of Vogue China, wrote in an email, “This case is a
wake-up call: a 1.4 billion population is for sure a huge consumption
power, but if you don’t get it right, hundreds of millions of people
voicing their outrage on social media is a powerful force, hard to
ignore.”

Dolce & Gabbana released three statements, first saying its accounts
had been hacked, then offering words of support for the people who
worked on the cancelled show and declarations of love for China. But it
wasn’t until the end of the week that the founders officially apologised
in a video in Mandarin. They seemed to have underestimated the
importance of Chinese national identity while also overestimating their
place in the wider fashion ecosystem.

…

The hacking excuse, which could have been accepted at face value as a
way for supporters to embrace the brand, has had almost no traction, in
part because of Gabbana’s history of hitting back at any criticism of
the brand on his Instagram feed. Though traditionally the brand has
seemed impervious to such controversies – indeed, has seemed to thrive
on being politically incorrect – this time is different.

…

In the eyes of many in the international community, Gabbana has become
the designer who cried wolf. You can’t take on everyone from Selena
Gomez to gay parents with bluster and venom and then claim you were
hacked and expect to be believed.

…

The brand’s track record of insensitivity has not helped. Dolce has
been called out in recent years for labelling a US$2,395 pair of shoes
“slave sandals” (in 2016; they later changed the name to the more
innocuous “decorative flat sandal”) and including earrings that looked
like they were made of blackamoor faces in a 2012 collection. They have
also banned a number of critics from shows (The Times has not been
invited to a Dolce show for more than a decade; Women’s Wear Daily, W
magazine, Italian Vogue and Vanity Fair have also been rejected at
various times).

Dolce & Gabbana is also the only major Italian
brand that has refused to join the Camera Nazionale della Moda
Italiano, Italian fashion’s governing organisation and lobbying group,
and does not appear on the official Milan Fashion Week schedule. As a
result, Carlo Capasa, president of the Camera della Moda, which has
always been fiercely protective of Italian brands and industry and which
might have been expected to come to the brand’s defence, simply said he
couldn’t make a statement about the situation because Dolce was not a
member.

The Chinese are burning, dumping their Dolce & Gabbana products

quicksilvermaid:

i-h8-u-no-u-dont:

scesisonomaton:

lordhellebore:

janusscientes:

“English isn’t my first language” is not a serious excuse!

To all of you fanfic authors, bloggers, artist, to write/make something and then post it means that you are satisfied with the product. Now, to have created a piece that is fully/mostly constructed of text and to not have made the effort to at least get a grammar check is called arrogance. “I don’t care what you think, I wrote it, you read it. Who cares if you’re struggling to get a past every sentence. That’s your own problem!” You’re basically setting yourself up for negative feedback and criticism which, while many don’t bother to give, I would provide without hesitation.

Some say “I don’t need approval.”(which I sincerely don’t believe). Well, then, why are you posting this? Isn’t the whole point sharing something you can enjoy with people?

And then you start getting defensive and angry about it. “Well, English isn’t my first language!” I don’t care! Nobody does! Plus, if you post something online you should anticipate criticism. Great artists, celebrities, and basically everyone, face criticism on a daily basis EVEN WHEN the final product is marvelous.

So, what makes you different?

“English isn’t my first language” is not a serious excuse!

To all of you fanfic authors, bloggers, artist[s:] to write/make something and then post it means that you are satisfied with the product. Now, to have created a piece that is fully/mostly constructed of text and to not have made the effort to at least get a grammar check is called arrogance. [Replacing “to have” and “to not have” with “having” and “not having” would make this much easier to read.] “I don’t care what you think, I wrote it, you read it. Who cares if you’re struggling to get [remove superfluous “a”] past every sentence. That’s your own problem!” You’re basically setting yourself up for negative feedback and criticism[,] which, while many don’t bother to give, [That’s one hell of an awkward construction; consider “while many don’t bother with it” instead.] I would provide without hesitation. [In fact, the best solution would be to put the subclause starting with “which” at the end of the sentence. Otherwise it’s just clunky.][space]Some say[:] “I don’t need approval.”[space]([W]hich I sincerely don’t believe.)[remove incorrectly placed full stop] Well, then, why are you posting this? Isn’t the whole point sharing something you can enjoy with people?[space]And then you start getting defensive and angry about it. “Well, English isn’t my first language!” I don’t care! Nobody does! Plus, if you post something online you should anticipate criticism. Great artists, celebrities, and basically everyone[remove superfluous comma] face criticism on a daily basis EVEN WHEN the final product is marvelous.

Oh man, that’s already a magnificent takedown, but this clown just made me really mad.

English is fucking hard. Your spelling is arbitrary, your tenses don’t make sense, and what the fuck is going on with your prepositions anyway? But you still expect everyone to be perfect at it because it’s a ~global language~ or whatever. Spoiler alert, that’s stupid, you’re just entitled.

When I started out writing in English, I was shit. I can exactly map my skill level from the first time I published on FF.net to when I went to live in England to study writing for three years. Every writer sucks when they start. That’s just a fact. But non-native speakers writing in English are doing the whole thing with both hands tied behind their back, they’re struggling to come up with a way to say what they mean in a language they don’t know that well yet, they’ve got seven different dictionaries open in their browser. They’re frantically checking that they’re using the right names because they read Harry Potter in their own language when they were little and even though they’ve read the original now they’re still calling Rita Skeeter ‘Kimmkorn’ in their head. It’s a goshdarn STRUGGLE.

There’s that horrifying bit just after you start writing in another language where the words don’t work in your own anymore but your English skills haven’t really caught up yet and nothing you’re getting out on the page can do justice to what it felt like in your head. It’s a terrible, awful feeling that you’re not good enough at this and you can’t switch back somehow and you’re stuck in the middle producing stuff that you hate because it’s not right. It’s discouraging as fuck, but so many people stick with writing anyway, because they (we) can’t help it! There’s too many stories to tell, even if right now it feels like they’re kind of shit.

So who the fuck are you to go around preaching your elitist, prescriptivist bullshit at people who are pouring blood, sweat, and tears into their work and getting nothing in return except maybe the hope that someone somewhere gets a little bit of joy out of it?

When I started out, I put disclaimers on my fanfic that English wasn’t my first language, and people were super nice. They told me I was doing a good job, made suggestions on how I could improve, and corrected my idioms without being dicks about it. Because of that, I was brave enough to go to a different country to write and get a degree and keep writing stories for people to maybe enjoy on their lunch break, for free. Do you think your attitude encourages people to keep going and get better?

These people are putting hours of their work on the Internet, for free, literally asking for nothing, hoping that someone maybe has a good time reading it. Nobody is forcing you to read it, but Jeez, shut the fuck up about other people’s ability to write in a second language when you clearly barely have command of your first.

Reblogging for the second two additions

Also, to people who have English as a first language and agree with the OP –

If you think it’s so easy for someone writing in their second, third or even fourth language, to just fix all the grammar checks and spellings and verbs and propositions; have a fucking go. Write a 5000 word fic in a language you’re learning. French. Italian. Spanish. Russian. German. Arabic. Korean. Portuguese. Go ahead and wrote a full fic in your non-native language. Then see how many mistakes are in it when you publish it.

My bets are it’ll be more than a few, especially if it’s a language you’ve only been learning for a few months.

English isn’t my first language but it’s my native one and I STILL make mistakes and get things the wrong way around. So if you’re reading this and agree with the OP, just unfollow me.

How many languages do you speak and write fluently in OP? My guess is just English and that’s because you were born to it.

I have so much respect for every single person who is bilingual, let alone writing fiction in another language. I have no freaking idea how you do it and I am in awe of you. First tries or perfect tries. Every writer should be supported and valued so that they will write again and again.

Please don’t ever listen to bullshit opinions like that

Old dentists’ office walls are full of thousands of “buried teeth”

agentofawesome:

oldmanyellsatcloud:

mostlysignssomeportents:

For at least the third time, construction workers in Georgia have opened
up the walls of a former dentist’s office only to discover thousands of
teeth in the wall cavity.

The latest discovery was made at Valdosta, Georgia’s TB Converse
Building, built in 1900, in a dental office occupied by Dr Clarence
Whittington and then Dr Lester G Youmans, from 1900 until the 1930s.

Previous troves of entombed teeth have been discovered in old dentists’ offices n Greensboro and Carrolton.

https://boingboing.net/2018/10/27/poor-r-value.html

>for at least the t h i r d t i m e

apparently the cool thing to do post-war was utilize the empty space between studs as a fucking sharps container because that could never cause a problem in the future

thanks boomers