YouTube drama is just as vitriolic as politics and matters 100x less

I guarantee you that there are no governments, banks, or businesses older than 15 years that aren’t running some old ass code that’s not getting replaced any time soon.

Corned Beef Reuben. A fuckton of corned beef, sauerkraut, Russian dressing, and Swiss cheese on rye. Jewish-American, but regional origins are disputed.

I think cold balkanization is both the most likely and most optimistic scenario.

I’m curious why you think it’s most likely. Most optimistic, I agree.

I guarantee you that most of those pizza arguments are between two Americans. Maybe the odd one that features an Italian.

I agree in regards to whites only spaces, but men’s only spaces have apolitical reasons to exist (just as not all of the reasons for women’s only spaces to exist are political.) The experience of being male is just different and sometimes some people just need space to discuss.

This right here, this is why so much of the initial reaction to Trump winning was resignment. You can’t have the pedal all the way down 24/7 for NINE FUCKING YEARS and not experience burnout. Not to mention, how doomscrolling can delude you into thinking it’s doing something. It’s not, and unlike doomscrollers, football fans (REGARDLESS of which “football” it is) know damn well it does nothing about world problems.

Never with “everyday” purchases. The two times it happened to me were a VST plugin and a game engine license.

(I’m also in the US with a nonwhite name.)

I just think the nature of how Lemmy came about and who created it means that it’s mostly used by very serious people worried about the state of the world.

It’s one of the reasons I still use Reddit honestly. Lemmy is good for politics, FOSS, and Star Trek.

The US wasn’t run by Nazis in 1939 though. The same (rather popular) guy who was President in 1939 was President in 1941.

It’s very possible Germany becomes run by Nazis again.

I swear some people think Westerners expressing any interest in anything Asian at all ever, or thinking an Asian country does something better than their own, is orientalism.

the majority of Americans feel the same

This is a claim that requires a source.

If they could take an Xbox One/Series SX controller and add in this order:

• Gyroscope

• Two extra face buttons (for fighting games)

• a rotary dial

• a trackball (both primarily for retro games that use them)

• a touchpad (or even better a touch screen)

• HD Rumble

without making the controller uncomfortable, that would be ideal to me.

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Back when they were significantly cheaper than competing products, it was “you get what you pay for.”

Now…just go to Wendy’s.

I honestly feel like Lemmy got considerably less vitriolic toward Americans after the election.

I used to think Lemmy was too insignificant for Russian influents, but I’m not sure anymore.

It really does feel like online communities get more relentlessly xenophobic when they have more Europeans. It just seems like a lot of you can’t get by without mentioning where someone’s from. Like, no, someone not seeing the value in retro computing doesn’t say anything about “the intelligence of the average Scot.” And if you can’t tell where they’re from, American by default.

Steam is frankly a horrible measure of Linux adoption because of the Steam Deck. I guarantee that most of the Linux users on Steam are people with Steam Decks that do not use them as their main PC.

ITT: As per usual, Lemmy thinks living in conditions and condoning them are the same thing

Good. Living in a super power seems to suck period, because super powers care about ideology and power, not people. Do we need “hyper?”