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Dusty old bones, full of green dust.

  • Oh, me, me! I'm based in the US, but here are a few 🤗

    • It's harder for us to get loans for businesses. Most financial services are either harder or more expensive (Ex: You live in the hood and want to start a business, the area you're in is "coded" a certain way, and you get higher loan rates because they assume you to be more risky by default)
    • A lot of POC are behind in generational wealth/security because they were barred from communities and businesses that could have been passed down
    • We are paid less
    • Neighborhoods with high POC population usually get less funding
    • Less political power because of how the counties were purposely broken up, so our voices aren't heard as loudly
    • Racial profiling
    • We are more likely to get arrested, and serve harsher sentences
    • Until recently (and still in some places), natural kinky hair had to be "fixed."
    • Colorism
    • People with heavy accents (not limited to Hispanics of course) can have a harder time at jobs, especially if they're phone base as people can be mad disrespectful
    • In our current political environment, Latin Americans are the target of a lot of vitriol, illegal or not
    • I can't speak for Latin Americans, but when traveling, Black people have to worry about different things like: Are they racist? If so, how much? Will they let me in businesses? If I'm going for work, will they let me? If I'm not rich, will I still be treated well? We can't just go back packing, because many countries will not be hospitable, either due to race, skin color, or both
    • Being spoken too in slang because they assume that's how you talk
    • For hobbies, cosplay. POC are routinely dragged for not being the right color or what have you
    • For kids, they are seen as older and more dangerous than other non-POC their age and therefore are treated harsher
    • "Don't send no Mexicans to my house" - Actual customer
    • Even if you get a job, you may be taken off a job because of your skin (there are plenty of stories of people who refuse POC doctors, nurses, etc. I personally was not able to teach a child when abroad because of my skin color, even though I was the only one with a degree).
    • Having your name, apperence, hair style mocked, until it's been absorbed by white culture and becomes "cool."
    • Having your accolades covered up or ignored (A modern example would be that Renegade dance. The creator was a black girl, but a white girl took off with it. They even had her teaching a dance she didn't create)
    • If a show or movie has a POC in it, you have to brace yourself for cries of "wokeness," even before the movie is out
    • Being assumed as a diversity hire, regardless of your cardentials
    • Something a bit more basic, but make up, hair products, etc. A lot of viral trends are shown on pale skin only, and some popular products don't make darker colors at all, or very few shades. It wasn't until I was in high school that I could find my regular hair products outside of a beauty supply shop.
    • POC women and girls are hyper sexualized and are often see as the cause for physical and sexual abuse instead of the victim
    • "You speak so well."
    • "Are you the first person in your family to finish highschool/college?"
    • Being the only black kid on the class when they start the slavery lessons.
    • "Don't you speak English!?"
    • For black women, we are routinely mocked not just outside our race, but inside. Many black men don't fuck with black women because they drank the kool-aid
    • Having to regulate your feelings because you don't want to be the "angry" black person
    • "Oh, I didn't meant you. You're one of the good ones."

    Of course, these have different levels of severity, some of these are not just applicable to POC, but this was a sampler of you will. Hope that helps!

  • Easier, not easy.

  • Hard to narrow it down to just one. I'd say it's a toss up between my eating habits and weed.

    • Not looking at the road.
    • Speeding, even more egregious during bad weather
    • Eating something that isn't hand food or is messy. Also drinking from bottles that require a twist off. Straw is fine.
    • Doing anything on the phone. I don't care if it's just to skip a song. Tell me and I'll do it. I'll even read texts to you. Just keep your eyes on the road.
    • Agreesive drivers. Like, people who wanna try and race others, etc.
    • No insurance of any kind
  • That explains a lot. I looked at the wrap and the "podcast" and they reported different top songs. The podcast was actually closer to what I expected than my actual list.

  • I don't think his intentions matter at this point. People have already made him a folk hero. He could say he shot him because he stepped on his shoe and there's a good chance people will still say, "Valid, fuck that guy."

  • No, never. Not against it, but I live alone and my family was never big in holidays after I stopped being a kid. I would just be doing it for myself and I don't care enough.

  • 60 degrees Fahrenheit. The lowest I can go as part of my lease so the pipes don't freeze. I supplement with a portable heater and a heated blanket. Trying to keep the bill low. 👍🏾

  • A student was telling me about their pet dog, but it sounded like "duck." I kept asking questions like, "how did you get a duck? Your parents bought you a duck?" They couldn't tell the difference between what I was saying either. They showed me a picture and that cleared right up.

  • Not that I want to unroll it, but why did it "roll" up in the first place? It seems so tightly wound compared to, like, the intestines or something. Just curious.

  • It doesn't matter what the stats are, it's insanely rude.

  • Missing the classic, "You speak so well!" Like, wtf, did you expect me to speak in pure jive and clicks???

  • I didn't even think of that. Thank you for the info!

  • I used it once to write a polite "fuck off" letter to an annoying customer, and tried to see how it would revise a short story. The first one was fine, but using it with a story just made it bland, and simplified a lot of the vocabulary. I could see people using it as a starting point, but I can't imagine people just using whatever it spots out.

  • Spelling "Lunatic" as "Lunatique" now. Shout out to the poor folks that just died in the street and starved. Surprised it's only 6.

  • Shit on the sidewalk.

  • My current and only friend is a person I met at work. We spent a good couple hours playing Outlast Trials yesterday, we send gifts to each other (in different states) and she actually came up for my birthday. I have cried and laughed with her, she held my hand when I had to put my cat down. She is the best friend I have ever had, now or previously. But some people are just messy, so there's always a word of caution. Some people just like to be messy, or even sabotage others if they're a real piece of work. It's less about not making friends at work imo, but to be careful when doing so.

  • Between $25-$30/month. It's technically a dollar per gig of data up to 10gb, but I don't leave the house often so I use only a couple dollars worth. Also unlimited text and talk. In the US.

  • I always wanted to buy up a bunch of section 8 housing and make the really nice. Like, free wifi, gym, day, care, maybe some simple shops on the bottom floor. It would hold events, regular stuff like bingo or what have you, but also job fair/workshops, health talks, etc. I would partner with local business (hell, even big ones), so people living in my property get discounts for food, clothes, etc by showing their apart key or whatever. I wanted to make a really nice living space for people with lower income because they always get the shittest stuff. I wanted people to have a place of pride to come home to, a place safe for them and their families.

    My follow up was to buy luxerh condos/apartments for the stupid rich, up the rent, and use the difference to continue funding my stuff, or, if I didn't need it, make a months raffle or something.

  • What a fucking snitch. 9.5% of engineers gotta go, but the CEO getting paid buckets and buckets of money isn't draining the company? Fire 9.5% of engineers that actually have knowledge and are skilled enough to demand a high price for their skills, or CEO fuck-all who comes in via zoom once a quarter and couldn't open a pdf if they're life depended on it. Hmm, what a hard choice 🤔