We all know what people mean by it; they mean “black” but are scared to say it for whatever reason.

I think criticism of the term “African-American” is valid. Most black people in America today have never been to Africa.

I have a pretty addictive personality and I thank the stars that I’ve never enjoyed coke on the handful of occasions I’ve tried it. It just made me feel overly talkative to the point of being annoying.

Doug Ford is Premier of Ontario.

His brother, Rob Ford, was mayor of Toronto from 2010 to 2014. He passed away in 2016, and he’s the one who admitted to smoking crack whilst mayor.

They’re both idiotic conservative assholes and I have no idea how so many people in Ontario support them.

Well, no one ever needs computers either.

Most non-binary people I know who date lesbians use the terms sapphic and lesbian to describe both themselves and their relationships. Note; “most non-binary people I know” used to identify as lesbian (or bi/pan) women and they still feel an attachment to that community despite not being women.

At the end of the day, though, labels are about what feel right to you. If you feel that sapphic/lesbian accurately describe you or your relationships, go ahead and use them! It doesn’t make you any less non-binary.

Personally, I just use “queer” for everything :P

I think more cops should commit suicide to be honest.

“Women’s sport enjoyers” lol

As if the vast majority of people complaining about trans women in sports aren’t the same people who shit over women’s leagues for being “inferior”

Trump is literally a WWE Hall of Famer.

What do you think happens to male chicks in the egg industry? I’ll give you a hint, it involves industrial grinders and pink paste.

Cows produce milk for their young, like all mammals. The “need” to milk them arises from milk production, in which we forcibly impregnate cows and take their young away. You can hardly call something a “need” if it only happens once you purposefully impregnate a cow for its milk and abduct their calves.

And that’s disregarding the atrocious conditions in hatcheries and dairy farms.

The egg and dairy industries are the meat industry, and honestly anyone who’s vegetarian for “ethical” reasons without immediate plans to become vegan are deluding themselves.

I was around 20 when I first started browsing trans subreddits “as an ally”, and I also made a few jokes to some friends about how “I’m probably non-binary lol”.

I was 23 when I finally actually came to terms with my gender and sexual orientation. Those three years were rough :P

My first partner was adopted from China as a baby, so she looked Chinese but culturally she was 100% Canadian, raised in a very meat & potatoes kind of family.

My mom is a bit of a hippy, so she loved cooking stuff from all different cuisines and we’d regularly use chopsticks at home if eating Asian foods.

We went to a Chinese place together once and the staff were howling with laughter at the white kid using chopsticks opposite the Asian woman with a knife and fork. She learned how to use chopsticks shortly after, haha.

I’m quite partial to Lil Jon’s All I Really Want For Christmas, featuring the Kool-Aid Man.

Yes, the Kool-Aid Man.

I’d assume it’s the same as any other watermark; to mark content as being made/owned by the entity associated with the logo.

Too bad most Canadians are fucking idiots and didn’t realize or understand that 80% of households benefitted from the Carbon Tax, receiving more than what they paid in the first place.

We just decided to kick the environment in the groin and take money away from the poorest Canadians. And somehow the oil companies and media oligarchies framed this as a win for the “working and middle classes”.

As I read it, their argument is that fascism can only be sustained if a sizable number of people who would suffer under fascism actively support it.

If only the tiny minority of elites that benefits from fascism actually supported it, it wouldn’t be near the level of popularity necessary to be sustainable.

My mom did this in high school when a guy who was stalking her threatened to kill himself.

He’s still alive, over thirty years later.

If anyone is looking for somewhere to discover or share Canadian music, check out /c/maplemusic@lemmy.ca!

Either that or they’ll tell you they “barely eat any meat” or that “they buy local whenever possible, which is more ethical right?”.

While eating a Big Mac.

Even if we discovered that plants feel pain to the same extent as animals, a vegan diet would still be the moral option seeing as an omnivorous diet requires more plants (via animal feed) than a vegan one.

Efficiency of energy transfer is lost very quickly at higher trophic levels.

At home I typically alternate between a V60, a French press, and an Aeropress. Since getting more into pourovers, the Aeropress has mostly been used for iced coffees in the summer.

That being said, I’m currently working as a barista full-time so I don’t drink any coffee at home. My espresso consumption at work is already entirely unreasonable.