Good luck, Commander

(Thanks for the informative response! It made my brain go off on a bit of a tangent haha)

I always thought that term was weird, African American.

Like, are they African, or American, they can't be both. If we're trying to say "American but of African genetic descent", that can (maybe) include white Africans who have lived there many generations, not to mention the more truly native people in African nations like Egypt or Morocco, who, to put it crudely, may not always be considered 'black' enough or from the appropriate cultural group to be called African American.

And, if we're using the term, why aren't most white people in the USA called European Americans?

It seems a weird and very specific label applied to people of a very particular skin colour and heritage, to avoid using the word black, even though that's not, on its own, a racist term. It's just a descriptive visual trait, like tall, thin, white, muscly, gaunt, etc.

I think it says more about the person saying it, when they feel like calling a person black is, in a vacuum, being racist, you know?

Like, coming up with a weird special term that doesn't really stay logically consistent just to dance around the fact that you're uncomfortable with someone else's skin colour is weird, you know?

Anyway, I'm not from there, so there are probably big gaps in my knowledge on the subject, it's just always seemed really odd to me as an outsider looking in, haha.

...Especially when some Americans come over here and start calling local black people "African American". Dawg you in Europe! You're calling a French black dude American 😂

Oh my god you can't use big boy grown up words on the computer what if mother sees, we'll all be sent to bed without our tea

Brake*

Sorry, just bugged me ><

Such a creepy thing, getting children to chant in devotion to a state flag in schools.

It's the sort of thing they probably do in places like NK, or the Third Reich, you don't expect it to come from a supposedly modern, non imperialist nationalistic nation, ya know? :-(

Steal. Might steal. If you're going to write an article as a journalist, have some guts and write the truth.

This is an April Fools, right?

No way a fancy top end smartphone in 2024 doesn't have this extremely basic feature from over a decade ago that everything has....

"Do you still need to be allowed to decorate and modify your own home?"

Yes.

But wait, wouldn't a 5 second pause on loading still be way better than sitting through minutes of adverts? :-D

Punishment my arse

We've all agreed that when he dies it would be disrespectful to keep using Linux so we'll pack it up and switch to Windows from them on.

Tipping culture is tipping culture out of control.

You should see the insane way it's worshipped in the USA, all as an obviously thin front to avoid paying wages and giving workers rights. It's wild.

What idiot pays for upgrades to a house they're just renting, Jesus wept.