The tiktok ban was never about China. It was about killing off a dissent medium.

Wasn’t actually intended as a joke at first, but I noticed it before I posted… Wasn’t sure whether to post. Anyway, feel free to treat it as one, but I was being serious too.

TIL, thanks! Funny word 😂

I think the kind of people into those kind of jokes don’t ask first

Yeah, undereducated people really suck, huh?

/s

I would say it’s technically wrong, because the am is where the emphasis sits, and you wouldn’t contract an emphasised word.

But yeah, that still seems like the best interpretation of intention in this case.

Quality content, thanks!

If you lie on a sheltered concrete slab, they’ll install 20cm spikes, too

I figured that was just the pause before the punchline. Like, the city almost got it, but they still fucked it up a bit.

Fuck yeah, awesome :)

Makes heaps of sense, when you can. Still need something for people in wheelchairs and stuff early on though.

I’ve often thought painting lines across paths and then observing the paint wear off could tell you a lot about which paths could be removed, or where corners could be rounded off better.

Hence the cross post to !desire_paths@sh.itjust.works :)

Even the shadows are, just like a normal shadow

You might be right. I’m not a lurker. I’m not a heavy poster either though.

It sounds like you should just try it out, and find out if your assumptions are true

There still a few years until the apocalypse is really in full swing.

I mean, if you drank enough of it, I’m sure the cancer would stop growing.

Lots of people seeing it will do the same kind of wrong-generalisation in the opposite direction though, and take the valid point the cartoon makes to write off all concerns with cultural appropriation, including the valid ones you just made in your first paragraph.

The world is nuanced, and that’s nearly never conveyed well in our current public communications systems…

This article from 2017 is worth a read for anyone trying to figure out whether/how to separate the art from the artist.

What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men? By Claire Dederer, Paris Review, November 20, 2017 https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/11/20/art-monstrous-men/

I’ve thought this. Maybe I just ignored the Gaiman parts because they were boring, but I’ve read it a few times and I honestly can barely think of a part that reminds me of Gaiman’s other writing…

Solid analysis.