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It's the dream (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/memes@sopuli.xyz
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[+] -4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (12 children)
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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Practically everyone should know SI, or have at least heard of it before. It's the standard system of measurement used in most of the world. It includes base units for time (seconds), distance (meters), mass (kilograms), electric current (amps), temperature (Kelvin), amount of a substance (mole) and intensity of light (candela), plus a bunch of units derived from these.

    It's practically only the USA that doesn't use some of three units (for example, preferring feet over meters)

    ISO is a standards body. They define a bunch of standards. One of the more well-known ones is ISO 8601, which defines standards for dates and times. It specifies that weeks start on Monday.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    American self-reporting

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    I'd thought I'd see less people of the USA on Lemmy but it seems I cannot escape them

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    There are a lot of us! Especially on English-speaking forums. The US population is close to half of the entire population of Europe.

    But there is a trick to almost completely avoid Americans: frequent a forum in any language other than English.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    Says the person posting from a US instance…

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  • [+] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    All the different server instances are independently owned and maintained. Lemmy.world for example I believe is located in Germany or Netherlands, which I think is also where a lot of the admin staff are located? Lemmy.zip I think is hosted in the US. Check join-lemmy.org, I think it tells you where all the various instances are located. Or there’s a similar Lemmy stats site that shows it, I don’t recall exactly, which is why I keep saying “I think” as I would need to double check all that info to be sure. But it’s probably pretty close to accurate.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    .world is nevertheless plastered with US politics, even the neutrally-named ‘politics’ and ‘news’ communities are in fact about the US. I wouldn't be surprised if the admins are in the US, just hosting the site in Europe.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    The “communities” don’t necessarily reflect the instances on which they are hosted. There might be a politics or news community on some other instance which you prefer.

    Pretty sure at least some of the admins there are in Europe.

    I mainly switched off of .world because it was so heavily over-represented in the fediverse both in terms of communities and users. I was hoping to help distribute things more evenly which I think is more I. the spirit and intention of the fediverse.

    And not sure why that other user deleted their comment, I was just trying to answer their question.

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