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You don't have to like it for it to be a valid topping.

That's a hill you will die on from old age. I have never once heard someone say pineapple is not a valid topping in a way I thought was meant to be taken literally and not as an exaggerated way of saying "I don't like it".

How is that true in a way different from other industries? I do think there's no necessity for the race of the VA to correspond with the race of the character. That might be because I don't have a good grasp on the arguments otherwise though.

The argument I've heard in favor of VAs matching their characters is to avoid laundering white perspectives to minority characters, which would make sense if the VA didn't have their livelihood on the line when asked to read from a script written by a cishet white man. I feel like requiring a minority do that makes no difference other than providing a cover of legitimacy for the words said.

But as a cishet white male myself, maybe I'm mischaracterizing the argument, I'd be curious. I have asked my (racial minority) wife at one point a couple years back and she wasn't sure.

It's a given that there are insensitivities in hirings, but I struggle to imagine a way in which that would be unique to voice acting specifically.

I generally do try to empathize but I can't even get myself to begin thinking about this. It's like the words hit my brain and bounce off.

Seeing this late but this is total insanity. Can't find anything more than the six minute highlight video on youtube. I would love to see the final three minutes in full.

Denmark was losing 0-1 with under two and a half minutes left and had to pull their goalie and won in regulation. I guess if it was going to happen maybe it had to happen this way - tight score game where Canada gets way too complacent with their lead and flips from leading to trailing in a very short period without enough clock left to recover. But obviously I did not watch it myself.

In the second period Denmark even believed they scored the game's first goal for a moment, I think the whistle wasn't loud enough. Absolutely should not have been a goal, Sanheim recognized the play was dead and stopped playing, but Binnington and the shooter did not and it's noteworthy because those moments can be demoralizing.

The Gates foundation explicitly lobbied against Oxford's initial plan to open source their covid vaccine. Gates' worship of intellectual propery law is responsible for the patent on the astrazeneca vaccine. The project was initially started under the hope that the third world being able to manufacture their own vaccines without owing royalties would be important in limiting the spread of covid.

I don't think this is true. If we're talking about enthusiastic democratic voters then I'm not gonna argue, but I think the vast majority of democratic voters are reluctant. It's mostly a body of overworked and exploited people who are coping with their lack of political autonomy by setting aside a bit of time on election days to cast a vote against what they have concluded is the greater evil. It's reasonable to critique that, but it's much more demoralization than it is stupidity.

If we go with the email analogy, people rarely ever search for 'email', they just go to the specific ones they know.

I get it, but everyone going to gmail is not a good thing and never has been. The paradigm shift is more meaningful than simply growing lemmy as a community. Without that, the only difference from a mainstream social network today would be a handful of big players rather than just one.

I used facebook way too much and the thing that got me to finally delete my account in 2011 was I had made a post about discovering diaspora and linking my account. Hung out with a friend a month or two later and he loaded up my facebook profile and could see every post I had ever made except the one about a federated facebook alternative.

Veering a little off-topic now, but facebook contacts being my irl friends made that feel so dangerous to me. If half my friends have opinion A and the other half opinion B, then if one opinion is entirely censored but I still see everything posted matching the approved opinion, that will have an enormous sway over how my worldview develops, in a way different from seeing strangers agreeing on those same things.

I know orange cats have a reputation for being dumb but mine was by far the smartest cat I've had. He especially had an intuition for communication that none of my others did.

I was generally on top of keeping the water dish full and the one time it's getting low he does a loud meow to get me to look at him and plops down and does exaggerated head turns. He looks at the water dish for a couple seconds, looks at me, turns his head back to the water dish. Just zero ambiguity whatsoever. Hey jackass, do you see what I'm looking at?

I feel very confident my black cat would have handled this by rubbing his head against me in the exact same way he did when wanting attention or literally anything else.

There is only one model structure that can be put on the category of small categories for which the weak equivalences coincide with honest equivalences of categories. It's called the Joyal-Tierney model structure. You can define the suspension of an object in any model category as the homotopy pushout to two terminals, then define an abstract notion of a sphere in any model category by setting the 0-sphere as the coproduct of two terminals and the (n+1)-sphere as the suspension of the n-sphere.

A small category is a CW-complex if and only if it is a groupoid.

What I'm reading is he was right on the money about the pixel character being a more appealing love interest.

Not sure if this is mild colorblindness but for a moment I didn't realize money was also left off the chart until I got the joke and looked at the colors more closely.