It’s funny cus so often when you hear North America, they just mean US + Canada. Never heard Mexico called South America outright but it’s generally lumped in with all Spanish speaking countries (plus Brazil) south of the US.

Can you explain how potatoes led to hotdigs?

Lion King

yep! but the difference is only a couple of years in apparent age. so really, nope.

I don’t see any links to Vsauce’s video on this so I’m going to assume every response is wrong. TLDR: Styles become associated with eras and people in those eras become associated with our perception of that age bracket.

“here” as if I didn’t name a third of the nation with “Appalachia”

WE AREN’T INVITED

It’s so frustrating hearing Europeans tell Americans to move there. As if we could just up and run and get visas and jobs. Trust me, if it were easy, I would have done it. I’ve moved across the pale blue dot multiple times and never found an avenue into the EU.

Do you have any idea how difficult immigration is? Maybe you’ve been listening to the Islamaphobes too much… another great reason not to move to Europe btw, what if you’re the wrong color… they have a very different brand of bigotry out there

You want less snow than Seattle??

Nowhere can you buy an affordable house, unless you move out to middle of nowhere. I’ve heard they’re still affordable in Appalachia

wait, what other Q is there? I feel like he’d be excellent at playing the Q who ducks with Picard

Well I can’t speak for anyone else, but me personally I never talk about it because I don’t talk about mass shootings in general.

But occasionally I do think about that one. And Sandy Hook. And Aurora. And Uvalde. And Columbine.

I see! Well, isn’t it also true that even the most effective violent strategies also employ cooperation? Why only highlight the violence - is it to serve a need or narrative?

Meh maybe a few are doing it with malicious intent but it’s more likely that most of the “right wing trolls” don’t even know they’re right wing trolls. It’s probably real people who feel genuine moral justification for their statements.

Unsub from news and politics first and foremost. If something important happens, you’ll hear about it. Just make sure you keep some open channel (IRL!) to keep an ear in.

Then start focusing on communities where people recognize each other’s names. You can either be big, or you can be intimate. Trying to approach tiny Lemmy like it’s big anonymous Reddit is going to be disappointing. You’re missing an opportunity if you’re not engaging with familiar names.

So far all you’ve figured out is that this meme must not be about Ukraine then! And yet you’re still talking about it. You only want to disagree. That’s why you’re posting. That’s why you’re responding to me. That’s why you’re here. You want to disagree with shit to feel intellectually superior, and the hilarious part is that you are disagreeing with something on the grounds that they just a make a ploy at intellectual superiority! And by the way, calling this “enlightened centrism” just for the purposes of disagreeing with it is actually making a strawman, not whatever that other comment was.

Damn, social structure only does violence? At this point I’m convinced you’re just moralizing your own traumas. Are we heading for anti-natalism?

I guess we’re at the point where any nuance is lost and you’re just gonna throw the third set of buzzwords out. But oh well, hey, “it’s just c/shitpost” right! Or maybe if that’s the case, political matters deserve more nuance than a shitposting community can deliver, and by showing half-assed engagement in political discourse this way we become part of the problem.

I think we have the same point here - and there’s no aggression. That’s more of your cyber brain fleshing out details of a person one cannot know but only touches through a singular on-screen opinion. You attributed aggression because it went with the context. See how quickly this shit happens? And people are actually dismissing the meme… it’s happening right in front of us

Buzzword.

I’ve said plenty “to your face” and all you see me as is another anonymous with a preset of opinions you’re already set on disagreeing with. You don’t give me the benefit of even having a face. But you expect it from others? Next time you see me , ask something about me and get to know me.

Come on, you know that creatures who evolved the capacity for linguistic communication adapted to external forces with more than just greater and greater violence. We’re not whispering cobras. We’re creatures that demand community. The reason we even feel emotions like shame and love is to bond us together as a tribe for greater protection.