Water Bowl Slime

In a world where antisemitism holds so much weight, islamophobia apparently doesn’t matter at all.

(yeah I know that real bigotry against jews barely matters too and that the word has been coopted by zionists)

Lingua Franca? More like Lengua Hispana am I right

Sapo Verde to you 🐸

What’s up with white people saying “I didn’t have [thing] on my bingo card”? It’s like an animal crossing catchphrase with them, I swear. I heard two distinct people say it today alone. So freaky.

Funny you say that because Unitedstatesian is actually the proper term in Spanish (estadounidense). Besides that, I’ve heard people say Americano/a or yanqui. I’ve never heard usaeño/a

Yeah! I don’t know why the vaguest possible word caught on. Now it’s just a formal way of saying “things.” If you care so little about what you’re creating that you can’t even describe it, just call it what it is: slop. Ugh it’s so frustrating how the most disinterested business jargon imaginable is the new normal. It’s one thing for shareholders to describe their cash cows as “stuff makers” because of course they would. But why on earth are people choosing to call themselves that instead of, idk, photographers, video editors, writers, artists?

Content content content content content I swear to god if I hear that word one more time I’m going ballistic. 90% of the time, people use the word to mean “videos” or “posts.” Is “youtuber” a slur now? God I’d rather hear slurs than “content creator” another fucking time. Why tf does everyone talk like they’re suits in a stock meeting?

Yeah you can spoof your caller ID to be any phone number at all. Scammers usually give themselves your local area code, but I’ve never seen one bold enough to pose as a bank. That’s definitely illegal if they’re ever caught (they won’t be).

It’s funny hearing westerners project their own intentions onto China. You know for certain that if they had their way, they absolutely would force the Chinese to only speak English.

Can you warn us about the gore please? This is a beheading pic come on

Si te gusta Adorno, te quitaré tus adornos.

How come yankee google maps gives Taiwan the bold black text that’s reserved for countries? The official US government stance afaik is that it’s part of China.

That was a rhetorical question btw

It’s stunning how quickly this change was implemented. Tech companies can just edit a string on some database and rename the planet huh?

Why does everyone think North Koreans call Kim Jong Un “dear leader” or whatever? Is it a misleading translation of Korean honorifics or official titles or something? I know the main reason is bigotry, but this is so pervasive that I wanna know where it came from.

Fair enough

I responded to this in another comment but simply put: NATO isn’t a defensive alliance and it never was. That’s a paper-thin lie that isn’t supported by their history whatsoever. If NATO were to expand to Ukraine, they would threaten Russia militarily, if not outright coup them.

Uh yeah because that’s what NATO does. It’s not a defensive alliance and it never was, just look at what happened to Yugoslavia and Libya. NATO is a clear and present danger to every country that opposes the west and if they expanded to Ukraine, they would be able to install military bases right next door to Russia’s capital. And they would undoubtedly use them.

Also, Ukraine was coup’d in 2014 by the US so it’s very debatable how much of the people’s will is represented by the decisions of their government. Especially considering Ukraine has since been in a civil war between those who refuse to recognize the puppet government and those who support it.

And if we’re talking about respecting sovereignty, then Ukraine should have followed the Minsk protocols. To Russia’s credit, they tried resolving this conflict diplomatically for 8 years. If Russia was half as war-loving as the US, they wouldn’t have negotiated their problems at all & would’ve sent their troops in years ago.

And what does Zelensky being Jewish have to do with anything? You realize Israel exists, right? Do you also believe that the USA ended anti-black racism because Obama was president too?

That explains a lot. I thought all of lemmy was communist but it seems like that only applies to lemmygrad. Dunno who would want a lib lemmy instance when Reddit exists tho

This conflict goes back much further than last month and NATO expansion is absolutely a key cause of this war. Being sarcastic about it doesn’t change that.

Depends on the nationalism, really. The IRA fighting for sovereignty is based, but Hong Kong pleading to get recolonized by Britain is cringe.