(2) The US has sales tax which is VAT in a trenchcoat.

(3) The US dumps its corn below cost and saturates foreign markets due to massive corn subsidies.

(6) Try buying a toilet that uses more than 1.6 gallons per flush in the US. Oh wait, you can’t, it’s banned.

(8) US companies have transshipped Chinese goods ever since Trump’s 2018 trade war

*In an opinion poll

I mean lets not confuse an opinion poll with the truth. These things regularly get things a couple points off. In fact that’s the norm.

And actually in some places prarieland is probably more important for conservation.

In my case it was plant a couple of native fruit trees for me, dig a small perrenial pond and add some rocks so amphibians can feel safe, and sprinkle in seeds for native grasses, especially edible ones and let nature do it’s work. It was probably my favourite. Loved it.

Shame I don’t live there anymore.

This is one of those things that everyone understands. Like “nauseous” may not be accepted as English by some upper class conservatives in charge of writing dictionaries, but to the rest of us it’s understood and frequently used.

A language is a tool to communicate, not a bunch of rules.

It’s this same grammar nazi logic that leads to dialects spoken by middle class and rich white people to be the “correct” one while those spoken by black people and lower class white people are seen as “incorrect”.

Pea cheese, just what I need

I don’t agree with this particular usecase. Because I’ve personally experienced, people who shun “negativity” meaning they just completely ignore people’s suffering which often adds a devastating layer of invisibility to oppression. But probably hopefully this isn’t your case and it’s more about “doom and gloom” than people’s reality of suffering.

But anyways, I do agree that blocklists are probably a feature that lemmy needs.

I think it’s also easy to misinterpret something on one post. A lot of times something that looked bigoted or dodgy opinion was just poorly done sarcasm or something.

There is a voyager frontend on web. But I think it’s only a mobile view https://vger.app/posts/lemm.ee/all

Also, voyager lets you tag users which is a godsend.

If I notice someone who is unnecessarily rude, dodgy opinions, bigoted or something, I add a tag, and if I see it is constant repetitive behaviour, I’ll block them.

I love the painting. They seem really good at shading.

As a “young” adult it absolutely baffles me people use notifications. I already check my phone enough without them, and if I did have notifications on I’d literally get a ding every 20 mins. If I’m expecting a call sure I’ll turn them on, but apart from that it’s an alien concept to me.

Also Germany has one of the largest populations in europe, and they tend to speak English very well unlike France/Italy/Spain.

If Lemmy is mainly made of western countries with high proportions of anglophone speakers, the prevalence of German speakers isn’t really a suprise,

Lemmy,blahaj,zone is run by Ada, who is a woman

I think we’re soon going to get to that sort of critical mass that means any alternative without massive venture capital backing would have a better time just making itself activitypub/lemmy compatible, so they don’t have to start from scratch userbase wise.

Yeah. I don’t like hot, because it’s only posts from an hour or two ago. Active is generally better in that sense.

Depends how hard you’re willing to try. (/s, for legal reasons)

Okay. I see what happened lol. Someone who is instance banned from my instance first posted it on this community. Then someone crossposted to another community. Since the OP was instance banned, for me the crosspost read as the OP, and then I crossposted it to the community it was originally posted in 😭.

(This is the ugly side of federation).

You are literally linking to the post I crossposted.

Do some lemmy clients not distinguish crossposts?

Edit: I’m wrong, see comments below.

I dunno my guy.

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