Not gonna lie, I’d still love to eat that donut.

Should’ve used one of those photos of McDonald’s where they look at an ad for a menu item and then show a sad photo of the real thing.

But your normie friends and family would fit in a lot better if they simply read some T H E O R Y.

Sure, not arguing that. But there’s no ideology that can completely preclude violence.

Quakers are just an extension of Christian ideology. Jainism I don’t know enough about, but any religious identity will eventually develop the concept of justified violence when faced with the existential threat of a larger opposing religion.

I don’t think any ideology has not had brutality committed in its name.

There are definitely some bad actors on here who are trying to manipulate the election in Trump’s favor. The sort that claim to be leftists and come to every US politics-related thread (or even ones that aren’t related to the US until they make it so) with their list of talking points about why no one should vote for Harris, but conveniently have no answers for who deserves votes more.

Because every step of the way, they need a flock of MBAs to figure out the answer to the question “How do we make money off of this?”

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From an end user perspective there’s not that much to think about, thankfully.

Basically, it’s like having two websites that mirror each other’s content. You can sign up for Forum A and be able to read and write posts that users on Forum B can also see. People’s names are tagged with the name of the forum they are registered at, but otherwise everything you do and see happens on your own site of choice and there’s no difference where it comes from.

If Forum A doesn’t like Forum C, but Forum B doesn’t mind, Forum A can choose to disconnect from Forum C and hide their users and posts, while Forum B can still see both. It only gets tricky when someone from Forum B makes a post that people from both Forums A and C are in, but all of the posts from C users are invisible to A users.

I kinda hate to be that guy, but if you’re American and you were raised in California, your culture is American. If your family maintains some traditional values that came with your ancestors when they arrived, that’s one thing, but your culture will never be anything more than Irish-American or Spanish-American or whatever else you’d suffix with -American to clarify these differences that are inherent with a multicultural society.

My family originally came to the US from various parts of China. I had the opportunity to visit some of these places before and even met some extended relatives in Fuzhou, and it was interesting to see the places my ancestors once existed in. But I accept (and was keenly reminded at times by locals) that I was not “Chinese”, I am American (or ABC at best). Chinese culture is no longer what it was when my ancestors lived there, dialects faded, places developed. I don’t feel a sense of loss or deprivation about it because I don’t have any ownership of it.

My culture is my own, I was glad to have the opportunity to actually talk about it and share it with others in China because you can spend so much time living in a “default” you can overlook the things other people see as remarkable. I don’t feel bad having been forced to study Spanish in high school instead of Chinese; if anything that just further solidifies this shared experience of American culture.

Basically, don’t overthink it. If you want to start studying a language of your ancestry because it makes you happy, then that’s great. Like how random white weeaboos study Japanese, though, keep in mind that it won’t make you any more you, it just bridges you to other living cultures that inherited those languages.

I tested two services that supposedly allow you to check if a site is blocked in China. I don’t know with certainty how accurate these tools are in general, but I can say they gave me consistent results for lemmy.ml, hexbear.net, and lemmy.ca. Hexbear and lemmy.ml register as blocked, while other instances go through.

https://www.comparitech.com/privacy-security-tools/blockedinchina/

Results: lemmy.ml, hexbear.net, lemmy.ca, lemmy.world

https://www.vpnmentor.com/tools/test-the-great-china-firewall/

Results: lemmy.ml, hexbear.net, lemmy.ca. Lemmy.world could not be parsed using this tool, perhaps due to not being set to work with that TLD.

Text alignment in the browser version looks messed up. The price column in the top table is supposed to be centered, and in the bottom table it is supposed to be aligned left. But it doesn’t really seem to do either correctly.

I think there is still concern. When Threads launched, the media was full of articles outlining commonly-stated concerns about privacy and the involuntary connection between Instagram and Threads.

The problem is that zoomers who are flocking to it in droves don’t seem to care about any of that. And I don’t think it’s due to ignorance, but probably more like generational defeatism.

And the ridiculous part on top of that is that it was the exact opposite situation at first. When it first launched, you had to be a friend of a friend of a Google employee to register or you weren’t getting in. It took me a about a month before a friend of mine studying CompSci at university with the kid of some Google employee was able to pass an invitation my way.

I get the purpose was to generate hype by making it seem “exclusive” like Facebook was in the early days, but it took way too long before the people who genuinely wanted to use it were allowed to openly register for it. It was like that for 3 months, and a lot of people who gave up on trying to get an invite lost interest after the initial buzz died down.

And then Google wasn’t satisfied with upsetting the people that wanted to use it, so they had to go and upset the people who didn’t want to use it by later forcing it on everyone with a Google account.

Threads must be the exception.

With this same logic in mind, I’d assume almost the entire population of lemmynsfw should be disregarded from this count, which is almost certainly majority comprised of people’s porn alts that they want to keep separate from their main accounts.

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I mean, I think I addressed that in my post. When the discourse is defaulted to English, you end up with users who are either native English speakers and people using English as a lingua franca.

In the Anglosphere, Americans make up the largest single chunk, and they accordingly see no need to “enclave” the way other groups may because being the biggest means their standpoint is effectively the default one.

I don’t think hosting was ever the argument. It was always just that the vast majority of users were American.

Any site defaulting to English is going to attract users who predominantly speak English as their primary language, and then people who speak English as a sort of lingua franca are going to be a smaller part of that. Among native English speakers, Americans make up the majority, so that’s the prevailing default you are likely to see.

Even if Lemmy.world is hosted in Europe, I’d hazard that the largest user demographic is still Americans.

Friends don’t make friends sign up for social media.