All good and admirable, but

when I meet someone from the States and say I'm Italian, it usually ends up like this

https://www.alessandravita.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12...

or this

https://static1.thegamerimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uplo...

or with a combo

https://preview.redd.it/italian-stereotypes-starter-pack-v0-...

It's not the words or the metaphors, it's the people!

If someone wants to use words against someone else, they'll find a way, no matter what.

Policing words is fascist, if anything, police people bad behaviour, actually, police how your society works and start investigating why you you masterfully created, nourished and spread to the World so many cultural stereotypes about everyone who is not you and doesn't want to be like you! They talk to us about you, it's not the words you use, but *how* you use them.

Try to understand that thinking "you person of color -> you bad" it's not any better than thinking "you [n word] -> you bad".

for example: you should learn that main and master mean absolutely nothing to 95% of the people of the World. In my language "master" translates to maestro, which predates US slavery and symbolizes something completely positive: a master of some - usually artistically relevant - craft with followers that branched from the original (like the master branch in git). they are just labels to us,, if you are offended by that, there are a lot of other ways to cope than attack people who don't care about them and rightfully so.

watching TV hasn't killed anyone and my generation, who grew up in front of the TV screen for lack of better alternatives, turned out just fine.

The real issue now is with my parents’ generation, but that’s because they’re old and their mindset has become immutable, not because they watched too much TV.

TV tends to reinforce existing biases rather than create new ones.

IMO your kids will grow up thinking that TV is bad, and while it's mostly true that 'the medium is the message', they’re missing out on the opportunity to learn how to deal with it. It’s like a vaccine — it helps them build resilience.

Parents are not teachers and teachers are not parents

I do not teach my kids math, even though I could, it's their duty to learn at school and it's their teachers' job to teach them.

OTOH, I don’t expect them to learn proper table manners or public behavior from their school teachers.

EDIT: grammar

Your kids are humans and can learn stuff, if you think they can't learn to cross a street or that drivers are out there to chase and kill specifically your children or that the probability of being run over is higher than falling off a bike and dying (ironically in recent years, more cyclists were killed in the Netherlands than car occupants [1]) you are a very anxious parent, hence a bad parent.

Sorry.

Yeah, it might be true that bike accidents are caused by cars (even though the stats of your Country say that only half of them are due to a motorized vehicle) but teaching them to walk to school it's still an order of magnitude safer than any other means of transport.

Don't you want them to be free and independent? why?

p.s. as a side note, in the Netherlands road deaths are growing (despite what the bike heaven propaganda says) [1]

Maybe, just maybe!, it's safer for your kids to walk to school.

[1] https://etsc.eu/dutch-road-safety-thrown-back-in-time-15-yea...

disallowing something doesn't make it non existent.

In the neighborhood where that picture was taken live approximately 15 thousand people and many more come every night to hang out.

I know it's bad, I do not approve people going everywhere with their cars even when it's obviously wrong, but it is what it is, and it doesn't make the problem go away.

Street space is premium space in cities.

I wish we could simply stop this car madness by wishful thinking, but we can't.

There's a say in my country "chi male pensa male agisce" which roughly translates to “those who think badly act badly”

that's the hardest part that everyone always ignores.

first you have to remove cars from the streets, than it's becomes easier to implement biking infrastructures.

I've been a long time petitioner to completely ban car traffic from the neighborhood where I live, but it's been a lost battle in the past 20 years.

Changing human habits it's harder than it looks.

And in those parts of the city where space is basically free, people live too far from where they need to go by bike anyway.

It's a cat and mouse game, you need very dense, very small, almost flat cities, to get to the point where Amsterdam is, which is not that typical especially in Europe.

It's just that parents nowadays forgot that kids are functioning humans, can learn stuff and can do stuff on their own.

edit: for the downvoters, look at what Japan does or how women in Denmark do with their kids, instead of thinking "this man must be crazy, how in the hell I can leave my kids alone in this world full of dangers, they will surely die" and react like i tried to kidnap your kids to boil them and then eat them.

Where i live (in Rome) the streets are like this

https://as1.ftcdn.net/v2/jpg/04/93/42/24/1000_F_493422444_Hw...

edit: anyway the simplest solution is to turn every intersection into a roundabout, no traffic lights needed, clear right of way, cars can't go fast and in the end it also makes it easier for pedestrians to cross the street.

And BTW, speaking about Azov:

In 2016, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch received several credible allegations of abuse and torture by the regiment. Reports published by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) documented looting of civilian homes and unlawful detention and torture of civilians between September 2014 and February 2015 "by Ukrainian armed forces and the Azov regiment in and around Shyrokyne".

Another OHCHR report documented an instance of rape and torture, writing: "A man with a mental disability was subject to cruel treatment, rape and other forms of sexual violence by 8 to 10 members of the 'Azov' and the 'Donbas' battalions (both Ukrainian battalions) in August–September 2014. The victim's health subsequently deteriorated and he was hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital." A report from January 2015 stated that a Donetsk People's Republic supporter was detained and tortured with electricity and waterboarding and struck repeatedly on his genitals, which resulted in his confessing to spying for pro-Russian militants.

If Americans want to participate in international communities they are free to leave the US. Aren't they?

BTW Linus is Finnish and Sergey Mikhailovich Brin is Russian

The harsh reality is that the west is now that place where people think it's a crime to be born in a place instead of another...

I'll quote something for you

criminalizing individuals based on their place of birth or nationality is generally considered a violation of international human rights law. Principles of non-discrimination are central to international agreements like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. These treaties emphasize that all people, regardless of origin, have the right to equality before the law and protection from discrimination.

BTW all of those applications you mentioned use many of the same techniques video games use (for the same reason: custom layouts), existed long before the web and are doing just fine without CSS

But I don't live in China

Edit: anyway it's a false premise, China has 1.4 billion people living there, do you really think 1.4 billion people do not criticize ever the government? USA has the highest rate of incarceration per capita in the World, there a say that goes "the biggest prize a journalist can win it's not the Pulitzer, it's being killed by the CIA" the DoD is the largest emplyer in the world, NSA has the largest budget in the world, I do not believe it's all spent in defense (DoD used to be named department of war) and oversimplification doesn't really explain things it only keeps stereotypes alive IMO.

Now name a brand that sells grapheneOS phones