Dendrologist

Your comment reminded me of the fun fact that there's more water in Loch Ness alone than all of England and Wales' lakes and rivers combined!

Add in all the other Scottish rivers and lakes, and you can see why Westminster is loathe to let Scotland have independence.

Some places just have a fuckton of water, and the Australian outback is not where Mad Max will take place irl in the future, but in these places.

Why? One of the candidates is standing on the platform of bringing back the monarchy. It's fitting to use British iconography.

Let the people who installed/created it maintain it or let a bunch of new folk do it, which is likely to work best?

The abroad part isn't the issue. We're a global village with the Internet now, after all. It's the outsourcing part that's the issue.

Am I reading correctly? Are you saying you cook pancakes in your rice cooker?

How do you do that?

To be fair, what do you expect people to talk about?

5-12 comments covers most topics for a given article/meme. Any more than that, and it starts to just become a repeat of what someone else said.

Do you want to read 10 copies of "lol that meme is so me!"

I always thought it was wild that your average thread on Reddit could garner thousands upon thousands of comments, with the vast majority of them being repeats of something someone already said.

Then factor in that those same comments are in the next thread, and the next one. That's not engagement, that's insane!

The comments here are far more sparse, but they still cover all your bases. You still get the interesting info dump from some expert or hyperfocused individual who's done a bunch of reading, you still get a humorous pun or joke, and you still get the "well, actually, this is wrong because..." just, now, it's like 1 of each type instead of a thousand people all trying to crack the same joke in one thread.

Edit: to clarify, I mean 5-12 top level comments

Welcome to the Internet. There's Western propaganda here, too. We got all kinds.

Lemmy isn't Reddit. It's not owned by one entity. You're not in a bubble that a corporation is going to keep you safe in. Anybody anywhere can create a Lemmy instance. They may be Chinese, they may be European, they may be Russian, it doesn't matter. What matters is using your critical thinking to sort the wheat from the chaff. Join and federate with those you think are good and block those you think are bad.

Practice critical thinking and encourage your friends and family to do the same when they're looking at information online. There's free courses out there that can help with that kind of thing if you're unsure.

But really, that's your only defense because every company wants your attention, every government wants you on their side, and everyone is trying to manipulate you with propaganda somehow. Lemmy is no better or worse than Reddit, Facebook, or Twitter in that regard. That's just the Internet.

I want to get mad at your apathy, but really, it just makes me sad.

Of course it won't be the end. In the same way climate disaster isn't the end of the world, but it is the end of the world as we know it.

A fascist takeover of many of the most powerful countries in the world wouldn't mean the end for all, but it does mean the end for whoever is deemed "other". In the case of 1930s/40s Germany, that was political opponents, Jews, disabled, and LGBT people.

Today and in the future, who knows what arbitrary definition of a person will be chosen to make people "other". It could be anything from traditional hate categories like race or sexuality to something new like length of hair.

I don't know what kind of person you are but you clearly feel confident that you won't be one of the ones on the receiving end of violence and the fact you think that's okay because it's not happening to you is so... depressing. If you don't have a moral compass for the sake of others, at least try and have one for the sake of yourself because as fascism rears its head, whatever demographic you fall into may be next at the receiving end of the violence.

First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me

What shit did they pull with their app?

Software as a Service for those ignorant like I was and had to Google what SaaS meant