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[TD1]

Agh, actually, probably best not to get into all that.

[IronTomato]

I'm not racist, but *racist comment*

[Yoink]

Blackface isn't racist. It's just a form of makeup, ffs.
Sure, it can be used in extremely racist contexts, but it isn't inherently racist itself - it can just as easily be used in a harmless way by an actor taking on a role or whatever. People who vehemently argue against the whole idea of someone applying make-up or a costume to resemble another race start to look realllll racist themselves.   

[Gentlefish]

Well. There's makeup to look black.

...Then there's blackface. Definitely meant to be a racist caricature.

[Rose]

Blackface is a very specific form of makeup that doesn't have a non-racist context to it.

[Yoink]

Uh, I've heard people referring to Robert Downey Junior's performance in Tropic Thunder as "blackface".   

[Rose]

That's not blackface.

[Putnam]

It's in-universe blackface. Robert Downey Jr. plays a white australian actor playing a black guy in that film. The fact that he's playing a black guy in the film-within-the-film the film portrays instead of an actual black guy is a plot point.

[JoshuaFH]

God, I hate it when I ever get it in my head to try being zany or absurdist in my humor with people, alot of times it just falls flat and I walk away just feeling like a stupid asshole. People like me more when I'm quiet, reserved, and serious; and I just fucking hate it, even though I myself agree that it's more attractive, likable, and just 'safer' behavior.

[Jopax]

Lost a bunch of tabs again, this time because I had two FF windows open (one which had regular tabs while the other one had a book I was reading), closed only one before restarting which lead to restore session restoring only the book tab and not the 20 other ones :V

[scriver]

I lost like everything Firefox the other day for some reasons. Appearance/outlay changes, added tool thingies (everything from the ad block thingy to the English spell checker and my added search engines), all my 50+ tabs, pretty much everything. I have no idea why, iirc it didn't even crash. Or at least didn't crash visibly with a "this program has crashed" message. Maybe it crashed when I closed the window or something.

[MrRoboto75]

Caught sight of the valentine's day shit on sale already.

[JoshuaFH]

Caught sight of the valentine's day shit on sale already.

You gotta appeal to the demographic of people that just fuckin love planning ahead.

[Tawa]

Caught sight of the valentine's day shit on sale already.

You gotta appeal to the demographic of people that just fuckin love planning ahead.

Theory: the current Christmas ads and sales running are actually early ads and sales for next December

[Yoink]

Shitballs, I was wondering why I felt so tired then I remembered that whole "staying up 'til 4 or 5 am" thing I did last night. Whoops.
Really, it's kind of impressive that I actually managed to get the stuff done today that I was supposed to get done today. Hooray!

Now, to mope around being tired. Probs too tired/lazy to go to either of the gigs I was considering tonight. Would have liked to see Maniaxe, but oh well they're playing another show in the near future if I recall correctly. Also, saving money is kind of a not entirely inadvisable thing for me to be doing, heh.