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[+] 183 points 1 year ago (6 children)
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    [–] 74 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    be the change you want to see in the .world

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    People don’t post or comment and wonder why there is no content relevant to themselves

    It’s a mystery /s

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    We do, it is just that Americans flood even country-specific subs to make it about them.

    We know your country sucks, you don't have to remind us every time we open the internet.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    That you say "your country" immediately reveals your own bias to assume that everything you see is American.

    You probably think everyone posting is male as well.

    Even I think both of these things despite being a canadian woman.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    [–] 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Anyone else outside US and Europe: do we exist?

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  • [–] 67 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    c’est parce que lemmy.world (et la plupart des instances) est anglophone, donc a un biais américain/britannique

    moi je propose que tout le monde parle dans sa langue maternelle, pis de toute façon les logiciels de traduction sont rendus assez bon on va pouvoir se comprendre quand même

    (/j)

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  • Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?

    Je m'en fous

    Ashamed American here and I assume your comment was in French, and those are the only two things I have even the vaguest clue how to pronounce in French (but I had to look up the spelling!)

    Funny enough, as you suggested, I popped your text into a translator after typing out the above and using my limited second language knowledge, and it turns out, I managed to get the general gist of it without the help of a translator!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Right. For example my browser did a perfectly cromulent job of translating what you just wrote into a language I can read …… unless you weren’t talking about a plot to take over the world

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I've blocked quite a few very popular communities because I don't understand their language. I'm guessing they're still popular? Europe as a whole, seems to be quite popular (or it was, I've blocked them).

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I've done the same with anything sports. if it's sports related, it's blocked and the one who posted it blocked as well. I want nothing to do with it.

    starting to also consider anything us related too.

    other languages are fine for me, I just skip past em.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You were getting sports?

    It's not even that I really want sports as much as that I get nothing but tech, politics, Star Trek, and memes on here unless I search for it and even then it's not a lot.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    used to get sports yeah, not anymore. the starwarstrek stuff too is also blocked for me. that was over the top. I do really appreciate that we have the ability to hide things we don't ever want to see. that gesture alone makes Reddit useless

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    "worldnews": American local news

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It ain't even local news. What we have now, is anybody's guess.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Even as an American and as a supporter of the freedom of these federated model, I have to wonder if there should be a mandated taxonomy. I don’t want to restrict anyone’s freedom of expression, but I want there to be some basic organization such that I can be an informed consumer

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  • If anyone is allowed too much power, like billionaires, or any anti-democratic institution likefor-profit corporations get too big, you do not have a democracy-federated or not. It's like trying to judge the flavor of a sandwich after dipping it in human shit-it mightve been a good or bad sandwich before, but no sandwich is good like this.

    As the technologies of control get more sophisticated, you'll find more and more that any attempt to have democracy without metaohorically decapitating those problems just means more resources are turned to those technologies, more of society and its mechanisms seem convoluted and inscrutable.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Sort by new and you'll find it's a bunch of Germans too. Ich liebe meine deutschen Freunde der Nacht.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yeah, I block them as they come up, not because I have a problem with them, but because I can't speak German, and there's zero chance I'm learning German at 37.

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    The complexity, probably. I am decent in French, rudimentary Spanish. I think I'd go about getting a better handle on those before German. And then, if I choose to step away from the romantic languages, it's probably for Chinese, Korean, or Japanese. So I shouldn't say zero, zero isn't real, but it's close to zero.

    So it's not some anti-german thing. Ich habe einen Bruder, I've got a little German, my girlfriend in high school took it, but I just don't see it in my future. In fact, besides working and taking care of my family until I die, I don't see much else.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    It's a weird ass language. When you start, it feels easy because rules are rigid. Then you try to build longer sentences PROPERLY and you feel that it is cumbersome. Finally you try to talk to native speakers, and you see that native speakers also think it is cumbersome and they omit 50% of rules in dailyspeak. Then, your brain turns into a mush which cannot decide if past is ok here or do I do perfekt to not look like a posh journalist. Do I use genitive like a properboi or dativ like a correct streetboi? Oh wait, they call it Cola (female) in Germany but Cola (male) in Austria? Wait what? it's not country specific but much more local than that and you can be wrong while in a car?

    It's a mess.

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  • [–] 64 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    It’s also nice when they come into our country-specific subs to tell us how things are in the US, as we get so little news about the US.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I hear more news from the US than my own country. Granted, my own country's politics are people respectfully discussing policy matters while US politics is like a circus and a pro wrestling league combined, with unimaginably high stakes.

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    we only have dirty corrupt diddlers on each level of hierarchy. The prime minister is a "gyaan raat bhar, kaam jhaant bhar" kinda guy. The media is sold. The opposition lacks strength. Politicians get way too much power for doing Literally nothing.

    I believe India is in "USA but 50 years ago if smart phones were present" kind of situation

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The recent ECI scandal only hammers this point harder.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    and this will become a meme soon enough and everyone will forget about it. Indian politics is dirty

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Andhbhakts are already at it. Whataboutism at its finest when you look at their "arguments" and "points". Seriously, I wonder why so many people are so deluded? Is the Cult of Personality really so strong with BJP? Seems like it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I think in north india, we seem to bind our identity with a politician or a party and start justifying everything they do. Plus the lack of awareness in the masses is never a good thing.

    The country is groups of giant flocks of sheeps.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I seek out the non-US perspective. Sometimes you need someone else to show you that the Emperor has no clothes.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Or sometimes just to have a sane conversation.

    Given practically any forward looking or quality of life topic: here it’s dominated by politics, illegal program cuts, incompetent leaders selected only for personal loyalty, breaking it for the sake of breaking it. Can’t we discuss things like adults?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    it's the USA shitting in its own pants

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    There's a beautiful sweet spot between the Americans going to bed and the Germans waking up where Its not US politics but I can still understand whats being said.

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    I get the same feeling watching the Warner-Discovery owned Polish TV station "TVN".

    Trump something something Washington
    Bro who cares this is Europe?

    Last phone booth removed in New York (a few years ago)
    ???

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Hello Europoors, from a fellow poor American.

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    Sorry for hijacking your comment... VIVA LA TIERRA QUE TIENE UN PINCHE AGUILA ARRIBA DE UN NOPAL PELEANDO CON UNA SERPIENTE ALAVERGA

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Not Europe but I can relate.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Isn't LW hosted in Europe?

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Well sure. But that’s also because everyone else learned how to use English to communicate. So it FEELS like we’re all American. It’s a common thing in online spaces.

    Maar als we allemaal terug zouden gaan naar onze eigen taal, voelt het hier een stuk minder Amerikaans.

    I’ve literally had lengthy English conversations with other Dutch people online where we only figured out we were both Dutch twenty comments later :D

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's not the issue. The issue is stuff like !politics@lemmy.world which explicitly forbids world politics. It's an US politics only community.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    These are my current muted words, got more on my mastodon account

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Increase your population, elect the worst leaders, ditch universal healthcare and other social supports, and your country can contest the US in potential topics for the All feed!

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    IDK, I never browse All, basically. Funny meme, tho.

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