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Nutsngum posted:Dont quite a few native americans refer to themselves as indian and not really give a poo poo? Our university straight up has "Department of Indian Studies", when I asked, it was because they were specifically not including the Northern Inuit tribes, and so they all said "American Indian" on everything.
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Aramek posted:Our university straight up has "Department of Indian Studies", when I asked, it was because they were specifically not including the Northern Inuit tribes, and so they all said "American Indian" on everything. Are the Northern Inuit tribes just really unpopular or something?
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They are closer to the people who crossed the Berring Strait than the other Natives? I've always seen Native American to encompass the entire continent of North America
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Geniasis posted:Are the Northern Inuit tribes just really unpopular or something? They're pretty far removed from what people see as "typical" native americans, as if there was some universal standard that you could apply to the different indigenous groups.
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Feb 10, 2016 21:36
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Arcsquad12 posted:They're pretty far removed from what people see as "typical" native americans, as if there was some universal standard that you could apply to the different indigenous groups. What is an Igloo if not an Ice Tipi? Edit: and I guess moose would be Snow Buffalo?
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Feb 10, 2016 21:38
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The correct term is bison, tyvm
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There's communities of women on the internet that believe that certain celebrities are in fake relationships. One of the stupidest communities is the one dedicated to "outing" Benedict Cumberbatch's allegedly fake marriage to Sophie Hunter, who have a child together and have been married for a year now, I think? I follow someone who mocks these women and some of the poo poo they spout is mindblowingly dumb. Apparently, their baby is a doll. Also they're both on hella drugs and have been paying off practically the entire planet to avoid their fake marriage being revealed. It's the sort of thing where you want to see how deep the rabbit hole of insanity goes, but you threw a rock down there and you haven't heard it land yet.
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Feb 10, 2016 21:52
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Arcsquad12 posted:They're pretty far removed from what people see as "typical" native americans, as if there was some universal standard that you could apply to the different indigenous groups. Often these distinctions are made by language families.
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Feb 10, 2016 22:05
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Roro posted:There's communities of women on the internet that believe that certain celebrities are in fake relationships. One of the stupidest communities is the one dedicated to "outing" Benedict Cumberbatch's allegedly fake marriage to Sophie Hunter, who have a child together and have been married for a year now, I think?
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Feb 10, 2016 23:13
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Roro posted:There's communities of women on the internet that believe that certain celebrities are in fake relationships. One of the stupidest communities is the one dedicated to "outing" Benedict Cumberbatch's allegedly fake marriage to Sophie Hunter, who have a child together and have been married for a year now, I think? You know I'll give the "false flag" conspiracies credit. At least their conspiracies are all towards some goal or end-game. But this stuff... I can't even wrap my mind around even the most twisted logic to come up with "fake relationships". I mean what's the motivation? What possible goal is in mind with it? and yes, I know it's "because if it weren't for the fake relationship, I'd totally have a chance with this person"
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Feb 10, 2016 23:16
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Benedict Cumberbatch isn't even the dumbest one, not by a long shot. The two dudes from Supernatural have had absolutely batshit fans stalking them and harassing their wives/girlfriends for years, screaming at the top of their lungs that they have to be gay for each other, their marriages are a sham, etc. Fandoms ruin everything.
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Feb 10, 2016 23:21
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TheKennedys posted:Benedict Cumberbatch isn't even the dumbest one, not by a long shot. The two dudes from Supernatural have had absolutely batshit fans stalking them and harassing their wives/girlfriends for years, screaming at the top of their lungs that they have to be gay for each other, their marriages are a sham, etc. AFAIK from other threads on this they actually address how gross this would be in the show.
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Feb 10, 2016 23:31
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flosofl posted:You know I'll give the "false flag" conspiracies credit. At least their conspiracies are all towards some goal or end-game. I think it's less "I'd totally have a chance with them!" and more "EVERYTHING YOU DO SHOULD BE FOR MY ENJOYMENT AND HAPPINESS"
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Feb 10, 2016 23:50
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Nutsngum posted:Dont quite a few native americans refer to themselves as indian and not really give a poo poo? Yes. Last I heard, "Indian" or "American Indian" was actually the most widely preferred term among the people themselves.
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That's going to cause some confusion with people like Aziz Ansari
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Mu Zeta posted:That's going to cause some confusion with people like Aziz Ansari Indian American
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flosofl posted:You know I'll give the "false flag" conspiracies credit. At least their conspiracies are all towards some goal or end-game. From everything I've seen, the basic (giant-air-quotes) "logic" is that the "fake relationships" are arranged by media publicists to avoid the scandal/marketing problems that would come with a star being openly gay. (At best, this seems retrograde -- I know this has been a historical issue, and may still be a problem for celebrities with a certain kind of image, but wouldn't Benedict Cumberbatch being openly gay be a huge boost to his popularity among his particular fanbase?) Of course, this never stops at this vaguely reality-based thesis and inevitably goes off into crazy tangents about fake babies and/or elaborate cuckolding theories re: pregnancies, and the female halves of the "fake relationships" being evil manipulative bitches, and just general tides of THIS GUY CAN gently caress HIS COSTAR OR HE CAN gently caress ME, NO OTHER OPTIONS ARE OKAY!! EDIT: ahahaha caught by the word filter, I'm just gonna leave it there because I can't say huge bold-faced declarations of being a moron are inappropriate for this topic
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Roro posted:There's communities of women on the internet that believe that certain celebrities are in fake relationships. One of the stupidest communities is the one dedicated to "outing" Benedict Cumberbatch's allegedly fake marriage to Sophie Hunter, who have a child together and have been married for a year now, I think? Shhh, don't piss them off: http://www.xojane.com/issues/cumberbitches-tried-to-get-me-fired
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Feb 11, 2016 02:57
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TheKennedys posted:Benedict Cumberbatch isn't even the dumbest one, not by a long shot. The two dudes from Supernatural have had absolutely batshit fans stalking them and harassing their wives/girlfriends for years, screaming at the top of their lungs that they have to be gay for each other, their marriages are a sham, etc. Oh now there's a rabbit hole waiting to be found if you go after crazy Supernatural fans. Like there's this whole subculture of fanfiction/fandom where the guys have like dog style retractable dicks, and somehow are able to impregnate each other and it just goes farther and farther into madness and why do I know this, I don't even watch the show??
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The North Tower posted:AFAIK from other threads on this they actually address how gross this would be in the show. Within the show Supernatural there are a series of books called Supernatural (which were written by God) and detail the adventures of the characters, brothers Sam and Dean Winchester. Those books have a cult following and the fans are based on the real-life fans of the show. In the show, the protagonists discover the concept of "Wincest", which is what Supernatural fanfiction writers (both within and without the show) call stories where the brothers have sex with each other. In a later episode, a monster is attacking students at an all-girls school that's putting on a musical written by one of the students and based on the Supernatural books. The brothers are played by two girls who are in a relationship with each other (in the show, not in the musical within the show). In another episode, the brothers visit a sort of alternate reality where Supernatural is a TV show and the actors hate each other. I don't think they've ever directly addressed the crazy fans who think the actors are involved in a secret relationship.
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GIANT OUIJA BOARD posted:Yes. Last I heard, "Indian" or "American Indian" was actually the most widely preferred term among the people themselves. My school has a fairly large Native American population. People get pissy when you refer to them as Indian, and I mean, they really should. It's retarded that we still call Native Americans 'Indians'. The fact that a genocidal explorer (ie Columbus) couldn't get over the fact that he was not in India is not a good reason to continue to refer to people who are not from India as Indian.
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A White Guy posted:My school has a fairly large Native American population. People get pissy when you refer to them as Indian, and I mean, they really should. It's retarded that we still call Native Americans 'Indians'. The fact that a genocidal explorer (ie Columbus) couldn't get over the fact that he was not in India is not a good reason to continue to refer to people who are not from India as Indian.  it's what I learned in my courses about anthropology of native Americans and their literature.
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There was a survey in 1995 that showed that "American Indian" was slightly preferred to "Native American" as a self-identifier at that time*. There are some prominent activists (Russell Means, Cynthia Berry, and Sherman Alexie are among them) who have written and spoken about a strong preference for "American Indian". More on this here. The general advice in journalism these days is that it's best to ask any given person what descriptors they prefer. Most people I know personally prefer to give a tribal or national affiliation, like "Joe Smith is an enrolled member of the X band of the Y tribe." * It would be interesting to see how the results might differ if a similar survey was given today.
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Tiggum posted:Within the show Supernatural there are a series of books called Supernatural (which were written by God) and detail the adventures of the characters, brothers Sam and Dean Winchester. Those books have a cult following and the fans are based on the real-life fans of the show. In the show, the protagonists discover the concept of "Wincest", which is what Supernatural fanfiction writers (both within and without the show) call stories where the brothers have sex with each other. My God tiggum, you have a ridiculously nerdy knowledge of everything. I'm almost impressed, but mostly weirded out.
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Roro posted:My God tiggum, you have a ridiculously nerdy knowledge of everything. If it helps, I know nothing about anime.
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Tiggum posted:If it helps, I know nothing about anime. In less then two paragraphs explain why Sisko is the Prophet of an alien race's religion.
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Gridlocked posted:In less then two paragraphs explain why Sisko is the Prophet of an alien race's religion. Something about aliens who live in a wormhole outside of time? I thought that while storyline was dumb.
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Picnic Princess posted:The correct term is bison, tyvm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W7c8QghPxk
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Tiggum posted:If it helps, I know nothing about anime. You could fix that pretty easily. Are you familiar with JoJo's Bizarre Adventure?
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Serperoth posted:You could fix that pretty easily. Are you familiar with JoJo's Bizarre Adventure? No. And I have no desire to change that.
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University of Stirling library. Two girls arguing over the meaning of "infinite". They both have smartphones and tablets. There is a laptop, unused, between them. They eventually decided that "infinite" means "limited" because "look...it's 'in finite', like, inside finity, isn't it?" Oy.
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Disgusting Coward posted:University of Stirling library. (yes I went to Glasgow why do you ask)
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I was just visiting home and made it almost the ENTIRE weekend without discussing politics with my mother. On the way to the airport, I was telling her about playing Minecraft with my nieces, which led to.... (not verbatim, but a summary because it was insane) (Also, this is all in a very strong Minnesotan, almost Fargo-level accent) "Do you think people are someday going to just want to live in a computer program like the Matrix? Because I don't think I'm really ready for that kind of future. And let me tell you something about those driverless cars, those are just bad news *I stare blankly* YES! Haven't you heard of the singularity??? People are trying to live forever so they want to join humans and robots. Because you know that soon robots will start taking over. Seriously, it's like in Japan where they have those *disgusted voice* companion robots. They don't even want to interact with people anymore! Don't look at me like that, haven't you heard of the singularity?? [insert name of author] wrote about it and it's coming up fast. [insert and bunch of other stuff that I can't even remember because it was all so insane] AND OBAMA IS THE WORST PRESIDENT EVER! *we arrive at the airport* Love you! Have a safe flight!" She literally saved all her crazy for the last half an hour of my trip...and somehow managed to fit Obama rage into a rant about the singularity. I jokingly said "Thanks Obama!" at one point and she was like "YES!!!" The End
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"Ugh, they put petrol in this [hand sanitiser] too. Look, 'ethanol'!"
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I don't know if I could handle a Minnesota mom asking me unprompted if I'd heard of the singularity.
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Why? It's no different than "Excuse Me Sir, Do You Have a Moment to Talk About Jesus?"
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Sentient Data posted:Why? It's no different than "Excuse Me Sir, Do You Have a Moment to Talk About Jesus?" I would be significantly more freaked out if a middle aged woman came door-to-door to introduce me to the singularity considering the thing you mentioned is actually something that occurs regularly
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CherryCola posted:I was just visiting home and made it almost the ENTIRE weekend without discussing politics with my mother. I presume she read like, Kurzweil? How do you read all about the singularity from a proponent like that and come away thinking "well that sounds real lovely"? Not that it might be bullpoo poo, if you don't find it convincing that's another matter, but I'm not aware of anyone who writes about it being both at hand and a terrible thing that will destroy us. I do love weaving Obama in there, I don't know how he could factor in to a potential tech singularity 
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Sentient Data posted:Why? It's no different than "Excuse Me Sir, Do You Have a Moment to Talk About Jesus?" I'm used to the only people giving a poo poo about the singularity being very stereotypical white guy shut ins who never get off their computer and are convinced the day will come when technology will make them superstuds with prehensile genitals. EDIT: Though to be fair, that is a scenario that mom should be rightfully afraid of. Poor Miserable Gurgi has a new favorite as of 21:56 on Feb 12, 2016 |
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Practical Demon posted:I'm used to the only people giving a poo poo about the singularity being very stereotypical white guy shut ins who never get off their computer and are convinced the day will come when technology will make them superstuds with prehensile genitals. It's heaven for nerds.
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