howrar @ howrar @lemmy.ca

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Interesting that you list vice versa. What do you typically use instead?

This one amuses me. It looks all fancy in writing. But if someone says "milk toast" and you don't know what it means, they just sound like an idiot.

That's the fun thing about food (and wine especially). You don't need to have the ingredient present for it to taste like that ingredient. I made chocolate chip cookies once that tasted like bananas, and I most definitely didn't add bananas to them.

I've never seen anyone use "demure" in a serious context. It seems to always be used to convey a mocking tone.

Relevant XKCD

You understand that not everyone has the same context as you, right? It's fine to say "[she] made an extremely racist post online" if either

a) you've read the post and recognize that it is racist, or

b) someone else who has read the post has informed you that it is racist

It is not okay to make that claim if neither of the above hold. I'm assuming you've read it, so if you said she made a racist post, then that's acceptable. I've read it too at this point, so I can say the same. I do not want someone who knows nothing about the situation telling me that she made a racist post.

Well, I'm utterly confused by what you've been trying to say, so a clarification would be nice. But I understand if you don't want to continue the conversation.

the lady who made an extremely racist post online might be racist

Bolded the baseless accusations. In the context of my initial comment in this thread, we didn't have access to this post, so no one actually knew if it was actually racist.

Evidence which wasn't available to the participants of the conversation at the time. With only what we see in the article, there's no reason to believe that this post she made was racist.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/10659257

Is this not written in support of treadful's comment and in disagreement to my response? If not, then I have no idea what you were getting at.

And so you'll improve it by throwing around random accusations?

In theory, the value they create is in handling all the home maintenance. Of course, many of them don't do their jobs in practice.

You can believe what you want about human nature, but consider how well society would function if it was acceptable to make baseless accusations and act on them as if they were facts.

I mean, this is how businesses work in general. If you don't buy their products/services, then they wouldn't be able to continue providing them.

I understand that we're trying to draw attention to exploitative landlords, but if anyone can afford to keep their property regardless of whether or not you pay rent, it's the exploitative ones.

Alright, I found a screenshot of it posted on twitter. Can confirm that this is racist.

I'm working on making robots do useful things. I think that's fairly easy for most people to understand.

It certainly doesn't. But in the absence of evidence in either direction, I think it's most reasonable to not assume the worst of people.

Have you seen what she actually wrote, and if yes, can you share? I think we should set the actual message before casting judgement.

Better for the company doesn't necessarily mean it's worse for you.

But where does the extra money and infrastructure come from to provide everything they need?

What is money in the first place? It represents labour and resources. So when a new person shows up, they themselves provide the money in the form of their labour. They are the money.