#I dislike when its phrased in ethical terms because like is the best we can hope for an optimal production to enjoyment

[ethics-wizard]

Economics class is going to murder me insofar as its all largely correct and it all makes sense but also there is a framework here when we say things like the equilibrium on supply and demand is societally optimal and my philosophy addled brain keeps going wildly outside the scope of macroeconomics 105

[bigskydreaming]

Do you have any character in any fandom that you hate so much or a character who bothers you so much that you can't look at any media without getting annoyed/ upset? Not like villain character, a normal or even fandom fave character, someone most others won't find anything wrong with but your guts hate them, that kind?

I mean, the most obvious example of this for me is definitely Stiles in Teen Wolf lol. I know that a lot of people didn’t start disliking him until later seasons but I just flat out never liked him from the get go, and like....it built and grew due to a lot of fandom attitudes towards the character?

Because like......I just do not enjoy characters who constantly seem to be making digs at or undercutting their supposed friends or family, the way Stiles was with Scott from the very pilot. Its like yeah great, I can absolutely see and recognize all the times he was there for him and did in fact do good friendship type stuff, but the problem for me lies in the way fandom tends to make that TRANSACTIONAL with the stuff I had a problem with where its almost like, well, see, since Stiles tried so hard to save Scott in this one episode Motel California, he GETS to casually insult and demoralize him all the rest of the time, and holy shit no that’s not how that works, y’know? (Especially because Scott’s shitty self-esteem was the bad guy’s way in for almost killing him in Motel California, and gee what connection could there be between shitty self-esteem and constantly being belittled and talked down to by your literal best friend in the whole world BUT I DIGRESS).

And a lot of people over the years have been like, okay but friends tease each other and give each other shit all the time, are you saying they’re all bad for doing so? And no, I’m not, but the thing people tend to gloss over here is the key phrase “each other.”

Because its one thing when you have friendships like this. Its another thing when those friendships flow entirely one way in this specific regard.

When one character is not only ‘allowed to’ but almost EXPECTED to take pot shots at their friend at every available opportunity, but any single time the other friend does the same, no matter how playfully, its fixated upon as being mean and unfriendly, like...THAT is the problem.

And while I don’t have a specific single character that answers your question here in terms of Batfandom, the exact same phenomenon rears its head there and I holy hell object to that too, lol.

Like, we see it SO often with how Dick’s brothers are habitually characterized as mocking his relationship with Bruce, work ethic, standards, jobs, apartment, fashion choices, cooking, NAME......with it just taken for granted that there’s nothing wrong with them all calling him Dickhead or saying he’s ‘really lived up to his namesake’ practically once a fic, if not once a chapter......

And again, the common refrain is “well siblings are just like that?”

And they’re not actually, is the thing. I mean, I grew up with siblings too, and YES we gave each other shit all the time, but again its that exact same key phrase: EACH OTHER.

Like in comparison to the above, how often do people read fic where Dick casually insults his brothers every time he meets up with them, or makes snide, backhanded offensive references to their own parents or memories/reminders of them, or insults their standards not even as a point of specific conflict, but just as a casual, generic expression of contempt?

Its not a two-way street there either at ALL, and THAT’S the issue.

(Also similar to the example I outlined with Motel California, a lot of people write stuff about Dick having shitty self-esteem, but again like.....when you pair this as hand in hand with Dick regularly being insulted and talked down to by his own family, who never ever seem to have anything good to say to him or about him until AFTER he has some kind of breakdown, its like......where do you think shitty self-esteem so often comes from?)

Like, I’ve had people tag fic/drabble posts where I have Dick engaging in what to my estimation is the equivalent of gently teasing Jason or Tim.....and people tag these with “I feel funny about this because Dick seems kinda mean to his brothers here”.....and then nine out of ten times, if I go onto their blog, within a PAGE or two, I see some post where Jason and Tim are calling Dick a Dickhead or mocking his intelligence with NO sign of funny feelings from that person and its like......its not the criticism I mind, lol, its that uh, one of these things (standards of behavior applied to each character) are not like the others.

Because a lot of times when pressed on this subject, people will respond with “well it wouldn’t be in character/Dick or Scott are too nice for that to be their sense of humor” and again its just kinda glossed over that uh, this is basically a tacit admission that the characterization you’re going with for everyone else is ‘not that nice, actually.’ BUT any time people call this specific kind of behavior out when these characters do it, THEN the response is not “well yeah, you’re right, its not that nice actually,” its a defensive “well okay but that’s just how these characters are, are you saying they’re assholes?”

And its like well no, actually you basically were the ones who said they were assholes when you made this a core part of their characterization, and now you’re using this weird kinda circular logic to loophole your way out of them being actually held up and acknowledged as such WHEN they’re characterized this way. 

If these specific other characters never get to retaliate or return fire BECAUSE they’re too nice, then there should be no problem acknowledging that when the characters who DO engage in this behavior are actively engaging in it.....they’re being assholes, and no, its just how friends/siblings are is not actually a defensive/deviation from this if their targeted friend/sibling is never actually able to do the same without being held up specifically as stepping outside the territory of “being nice.”

Few things bug me more in terms of basic character interactions/dynamics then the tendency fandom has of building up certain characters as having free reign with how they treat other characters, while simultaneously limiting these other characters from any kind of equivalent spectrum of behavior by using their own positive traits AGAINST THEM.....but with fandom at the same time being willing to full on go to war in defense of the first kind of characters if anyone draws any kind of connecting dots between their examples of frankly asshole-ish behavior and the implication that they might, in fact, be not that awesome as a result.

Its this annoying sleight of hand wherein certain characters can do or say anything without it being a reflection on who they are character-wise, while other characters step the SLIGHTEST toe out of the line that fandom has drawn for their character and how they’re EXPECTED to behave at all times in order to avoid active criticism.....and this then absolutely is an indication of how they’re actually flawed and gross and even abusive, because of how not nice what they’re doing is, and if people want them to NOT be perceived that way, they need to go back to characterizing them or focusing their characterization of them on all the times/ways in which they just placidly accept whatever’s dished out without any kind of reciprocation.

So yeah, Stiles was always a big example of this for me, but it was far from limited to just him. Any time a fandom is like “these characters can make fun of this character or be super critical of them but this character is never ever allowed to do the same in return, that’s against the law,” I’m like yeah no, that’s a swing and a miss for me. Hard pass on those particular fandom faves....at least so long as their fandom fave status seems to go hand in hand with their ability to inflict maximum psychic damage upon their alleged loved one any time they’re feeling down or are just in a mood, all while facing zero consequences for it....even in the simple form of their targeted ‘loved one’ ever simply being like yeah I just choose to not want to be around you when you’re being assholes to me/if you’re going to just be an asshole to me.

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Facebook makes Messenger more like iMessage with emoji reactions

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Facebook makes Messenger more like iMessage with emoji reactions

To feature an emoji reaction in Messenger, truely faucet and preserve on an individual message. Adding a response will trigger an animation, and those reactions will remain fixes in the decrease corner of the message. You could faucet at the reactions to get more information, like how each Fb buddy reacted. If you haven’t released the Messenger app, you’ll acquire a notification when human beings react to a message.

Similarly, mentioning a Facebook pal in Messenger will cause a brand new form of notification for the recipient. It’s going to consist of greater information about the unique message you had been cited in so you can reply extra fast.

Why this topic: Facebook Messenger has been hastily adopting new features to end up the maximum effective device for visual communique. With the brand new update, Messenger is somewhat of a hybrid among Snapchat and iMessage in iOS 10.

Apple’s “modification” of iMessage was one of the maximum distinguished adjustments to iOS in current years. Like in Messenger, iOS 10 customers may want to upload emoji reactions to person messages. Apple calls these reactions “faucet Returned,” and they basically have the equal characteristic – to maintain the communication going even when you don’t virtually have something new To feature. The best difference is that Facebook Messenger is available on Android, too.

Meanwhile, it seems Apple continues to make bigger its gear for visual conversation. Just this week, the business enterprise unveiled the imminent Clips, a brand new iOS app for making quick stylized films to proportion on iMessage and on Facebook’s very own houses like Messenger and Instagram. Fb has included new features into its Messenger app, and they may seem acquainted to iMessage customers.

Fb Messenger now shall we customers upload emoji reactions to individual messages, Just how Facebook customers can “react” to posts in their Information Feeds. Fb is likewise giving customers the potential to consist of @mentions in their messages. Both of those new capabilities will begin rolling out on Thursday and might be to be had globally in the coming days, according to Fb.

You can add an emoji response to any message, whether or not it’s a text comment, a photograph, or GIF. those emoji reactions encompass five different emotions—from love to wow to angry—as depicted via smiley faces, plus Fb’s signature thumbs up to signify a “Like.” For the primary time, Facebook is likewise giving customers the choice to “dislike” something with thumbs down emoji.

What Are the First Facebook Ads for Online Courses?

What are the first Facebook Advertisements you ought to do?

Now it truly is a loaded question… And severely, you’ll probably get a one of a kind answer from all people who is achieved or even simply thinking of doing a Facebook Advert.

Searching at my enjoy with Online Direction Creators has been that they may be professionals in the subject matter they have created a Course approximately which isn’t always Facebook Ads. So for them to jump into the sector of Fb Advertisements can be overwhelming and that they throw some dollars on the Ads Manager and desire for the high-quality.

And then there may be the Facebook Pixel…

Well, that virtually sends them right into a spin… Here’s a seasoned tip… Get the Facebook Base Pixel installed on Every web page that you very own. That way Fb starts constructing an audience of every person that has visited your website (creating a heat audience) prepared for whilst you begin your Ads.

Now, the first kind of Commercials which you have to be doing on Facebook are…

Drum roll…

Now not conversion Commercials, ok?

If all of us tells you to start off doing conversion Advertisements, don’t do it because you will just throw your cash away… I am afraid, in ultra-modern Online advertising, humans are not so willing to simply get their pockets out and come up with their money. You need to construct a bit of a relationship with them – that recognize, like, and believe aspect. humans want approximately six or seven touches from you earlier than they’re inclined to entrust you with their money and time. You want to build a relationship with your target market, and the way you could do this is with the primary Facebook Advert that you do.

Now, Facebook has made it so clean for you. Rather than being a novice and being crushed, the nice location for you to start together with your Fb Advertisements is to enhance the publish. Boosting posts was very taboo and there still are many Fb Advertisers who haven’t but discovered the strength of a Boosted submit to a Custom audience.

This is where you pass into Ads Manager > Audiences to create a target audience of those who would be your best consumer. So say in case your best customer likes Tony Robbins, you create an audience of people who Like Tony Robbins, inside the United states of americaA., elderly among 25 to 34, and shop this target market. Then when you’re on your Facebook web page and you’ve uploaded the put up from to your web page (or a preceding submit that had suitable engagement), you can simply tap that blue Boost button and choose your stored target audience. With the ones boosted posts, you may simply position one greenback an afternoon behind it. That could construct an outstanding audience as though your target audience is in alignment with the message for you publish, you can have human beings engaging with that post for simply underneath 3 cents while low as.1/2 of a cent or.002 of a cent.

What Is the Messenger Courier Association of America?

The shipping and logistics industries play primary roles in our society. As such, they should have their unified voice represented by an affiliation. As the largest change affiliation for these industries, the Message Courier association of The united states serves as their voice. Members cognizance on supporting North American trade while their association makes use of advocacy, networking, and schooling to promote and boost the shipping and logistics industries.

Basics of the MCAA

MCAA turned into created in 1987 because the non-income association of, for, and by using the courier industry. It’s miles presently the most important alternate association in the same-day shipping industry and it serves the desires of both shippers and expediters. For greater than 25 years, this association has been working to sell the common pursuits of the industries it represents. International schooling and advocacy have helped to boost logistics and delivery to their modern-day area in society.

Every yr on the annual convention, that’s the biggest courier industry educational and networking occasion International, a board of administrators constructed from Contributors is elected. The body of workers, the board, and 15 committees driven by way of Members make certain that the tactics and offerings of this affiliation meet the wishes of its membership. Contributors have to get entry to many events and a big selection of resources consisting of the association book, Time Crucial Magazine of commerce mag.

Records crucial to MCAA Individuals

Members are expected to abide by a code of ethics that shows their dedication to work closer to common desires at the same time as undertaking enterprise. by way of accepting this code, they also agree to aid the ethical and commercial enterprise suggestions of the association. Member and member employer movements mirror upon both the affiliation and the industry as a whole. Member groups need to showcase honesty and the very best levels of integrity.

Individuals fall into numerous categories together with normal Participants which might be messenger-couriers, motor carriers, or motor provides brokers. Affiliate Members are nonmotor carrier corporations that offer the enterprise with a services or products. Shipper Individuals are different businesses that control or personal goods which are being shipped.

Demystifying Japanese Cellphone Slang – Kaomoji, Emoji, and Decomail

 It’s tough enough seeking to preserve up with the brand new English terminology and slang surrounding using moves, the gratingly unpleasant time period desired inside the United kingdom for cell phones (move is short for cell telephones), however with Jap keitai terms (it is the japanese slang for cell phone) now acting within the English language, us vintage fogeys can occasionally locate it hard to work out what it’s miles all about. This article will try to explain two commonplace and one no longer-so-commonplace phrases that seem to be making the rounds of the SNS generation.

Kaomoji

Literally, this is face letters, but it is also regularly called Eastern emoticons. These take not just alphabetic characters, however the full gamut of symbol characters, Eastern kanji characters, Greek, Russian, dingbats and something else you may discover to make assorted horizontal faces. The traditional cat smiley =^.^= is a easy example, however searching the net for a time period such as “kaomoji dictionary” will screen hundreds, if no longer helps, of kaomoji to represent just about every emotion or scenario you could ever think of, and a good wide variety you couldn’t!

I do discover it thrilling that there are numerous, many articles available approximately how the Western smilies like:-) occurred, but very little has been accomplished to reveal the records of the japanese kaomoji. As a ways as I can determine, it became a Korean man or woman in Japan in early 1986 who proposed the (^_^) smiley, and a Eastern nuclear scientist who came up with (~_~) at a great deal the identical time.

Emoji

Circulate a step up the evolutionary ladder and we get to emoji, Literally photograph letters. Those were first popularised on Japanese cellphones, showing a small icon in location of characters in an email. Now almost every phone supports a full variety of over a hundred of those icons, and are an essential feature for the extensive majority of customers in Japan, as despite the fact that people do not write them, the probabilities are that contacts could be sending emails complete of them! They also infect Eastern blogs, and for plenty people they update punctuation inside their textual content. Some of the cellular provider vendors now even animate the glyphs, which brings us spherical to the final term.