Because of the link to Anduril, seemingly.

I really fucking hate these tech bros taking stuff from Tolkien’s mythos to name their products. Tolkien would fucking hate these people and these companies.

Painting that on a junction like this just seems incredibly dangerous.

Good and bad laws happen everywhere. It’s not like there’s any shortage in the US, either. You get jailed for Charlie Kirk memes lol.

Is there any developed country that does that other than the US for the typical (i.e. not self-employed) worker?

This feels like rage bait.

When I dig into UK stories about people being fined or arrested for social media posts, it is virtually always people who advocate for violence against certain groups, and then right wing media twists it into a “they’re jailing people for hurty words” story.

I mean, they are different games with different mechanics.

Mario Tennis and Super Mario Bros are less similar to one another than Call of Duty and Battlefield, despite them being from the same publisher and having the same characters.

I sort of agree and sort of disagree.

People absolutely did move their consoles around then. When I’d stay at my friend’s or a family member’s house, I’d often take my Dreamcast or GameCube, because I knew they didn’t have one.

They’d do the same when they came over to my house, because I never had a PS1/PS2.

Where the handle doesn’t make sense is what you said with the cables and controllers. I’d always put the console in the same place I put my controller(s) and cables - a bag that has its own handles.

I mean they’ve shown it, so we know it doesn’t.

But the community will make it happen.

Americans always try to paint British Indian food as not being British, but they’ll happily claim Tex-Mex as American. Same goes for pizzas and such.

Funny that.

Oh wow, tiktok? Must be true.

The only reason Britain still has that reputation is because Americans repeat it mindlessly in media that the whole world consumes.

Like the teeth thing. In the 2000s, the UK alongside Germany had the joint healthiest teeth in the world (although now they’ve fallen to 8th after the Scandinavian countries upped their game). Did it stop the “Brits have bad teeth” gag in US media? No.

The US, for whatever reason, has been engaged in a cultural pissing match with the UK for a long time.

‘White’ isn’t an ethnicity.

“Black” isn’t a single ethnicity either, so by your logic it’s impossible to be racist to them?

Making a small assumption about someone’s hot sauce preferences isn’t racist nor prejudiced; that’s just making a generalization.

Generalising based on someone’s race is racism, surely you know that?

If an Asian walked into my restaurant and I looked him up and down and said “you should probably have the fried rice”, that would be racist.

It doesn’t matter whether there’s “injustice” to the statement, or whether he took offence. It’d still be a racist statement.

Clutch your pearls and continue to desperately vie for offense

The only one doing that here is you. As I’ve already stated, it’s so mild a form of racism that I doubt anybody cares. But it’s still racism. Racism that you feel very passionately should be protected or encouraged.

Christmas wasn’t really a THING in England at that point

??? It absolutely was a thing. A huge thing.

it hadn’t been too long ago that Christmas was banned as a practice in the UK

Christmas celebrations were banned for a 2 year period under Cromwell, almost 200 years earlier. Even then it saw huge backlash and public resistance.

Dickens wrote with the intention of bringing back the Christmases he remembered of his youth

They never went away.

Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol because he was very concerned with the plight of poor people, the working class not having enough time with their families, child labour, and the wealthy keeping all their money to themselves with no regard for those below them.

I truly don’t know where you got the idea from that Christmas wasn’t a thing, that Christmas was banned shortly before, or that Christmas was a thing in Dickens’ youth but not his adulthood.

Chip shops in London are always shit, I’ll grant you that. It’s rare you get good fish and chips outside of seaside towns.

As for Brits not liking spice… Lmao. Brits like spice more than anywhere else in Europe, how else would Indian food be so popular there?

Do you not notice the “can” in your excerpt?

And no, no, no. Don’t try to play off your chosen definition of racism as the ‘academic’ one, and imply any other definitions are wrong. That’s not how this works.

Literally the first line on Wikipedia, your chosen source:

Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of one race or ethnicity over another.

But here’s some other sources:

The belief that there are different races of people with different characteristics and abilities, and that some races are better than others; a general belief about a whole group of people based only on their race

• Oxford dictionary

Harmful or unfair things that people say, do, or think based on the belief that their own race makes them more intelligent, good, moral, etc. than people of other races.

• Cambridge dictionary

The belief that each race has distinct and intrinsic attributes.

• American Heritage dictionary

All of these describe this scenario perfectly. I’m not really sure why you’re so ready to defend such a mildly racist situation.

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Judging someone’s personality or their likes/dislikes by their ethnicity is definitely racist, I don’t see how you could possibly argue it isn’t?

Of course it’s a bit racist, but not offensive. Nobody’s going to be losing sleep over someone assuming they can’t handle spice based on their skin colour.

British food is unironically great, and the stereotype is based on experiences during WW2 rationing. It’s made funnier that the people who say it comes from a country where people spray cheese from a can…

There’s so many good pies, pastries, puddings, roast dinners, breakfasts, etc that are very good. British-Indian food is often excellent. Even a basic dish like macaroni cheese can be lovely if you make it right.

To be honest unless you include northern France, I’d argue nowhere in northern Europe has better food.

I’ve always been surprised that Nintendo never saw any litigation over pretty much calling their racing game Formula 0