Nicole noticed me once, that’s the only time in my life I ever felt special.

I’ll admit I also had to do a double take at the thought someone would think Philadelphia wasn’t American, but you’re right in that a lot of products borrow foreign-sounding names because they sound trendy. Something that you are always exposed to us easy to overlook where it actually comes from. No one should hold that against you.

Not to mention the number of companies that used to be headquartered in one country but moved or were bought out by a foreign one. 7-11 comes to mind as an iconically American convenience store, and they were American, but are now based in Japan and have a much stronger association as a Japanese brand.

I was interested in PieFed and plan to give it a try at some point, but still have only used Lemmy. The other formats just aren’t as interesting to me. I don’t care about specific people, so Mastodon isn’t my bag. I care more about the conversations with friendly internet strangers. I don’t even have profile pictures enabled on Lemmy, I’d prefer everyone to just dissolve into a sea of unrecognition.

Yeah that’s why I picked a later year to arbitrarily start counting from, what does it matter?

Edit: sorry, I think there’s been a miscommunication, I thought the conversation had veered towards comparing modern Russia to modern USA. Ideology built on our forebears and all.

Edit 2: I don’t appreciate the condescension though, you can correct me without being mean about it.

Here I was going to join this thread to share the controversial opinion of “The hamburger menu is fine,” because I thought the general trend was shifting away from using them.

Admittedly the hamburger menu is often misused. It’s like the junk drawer for developers who don’t know how to logically streamline the navigation modes within their app, so they just throw everything in there. But when it’s used well, to me at least, it’s a better option than some of the alternatives. I prefer to have views that I almost never use just kept out of the way in a menu I can manifest at will instead of occupying permanent space on a navigation bar.

Does have me wondering what the ratio looks like when applied to isolated (maybe mildly inbred) communities.

As in, there’s a lot of genetic variety for humans as a whole, but maybe less so for communities that, uhh, don’t get out much.

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Cooking gets rid of a lot of the acidity, so could be that in addition to texture.

This is my story except with cheese.

Why did I have to start enjoying the taste of cheese?

The concept of purple is older than English, though. I guess when English chose to adopt it is the main question, but should be clarified that the term where “purple” derives from goes back to the ancient Romans, who recognized it as a distinct color used for royalty given the difficulty in obtaining it.

It does have me wondering exactly when red onions first arrived in the UK, or what the Romans may have called it (potentially before those dirty Britons got their hands on it).

I also know that, when boiled, they yield a very rich, red color. Could maybe be named “red” due to that? Some Orthodox Christians/eastern Europeans traditionally use red onions to dye eggs for Easter.

Doesn’t seem to happen nearly as frequently as the US, but often enough for there to be a Wiki article cataloguing various instances of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_attacks_in_Russia

Edit: should clarify that there seem to be more knife attacks than anything else, too, but still a fair few shootings.

The full text of this act (translated to English) is available here: https://www.jftc.go.jp/file/MSCA_Guidelines_tentative_translation.pdf

I haven’t read through the full text, but it does seem to specifically apply to only smartphones. The Switch is a mobile device but I think it’d be a hard case to make it count as a phone and a general computing platform like iPhone/Android.

Hmmm, I’m having a hard time choosing between the Seerup and Puxoca Coun. Does either come with a free side of Sseeiiqers by any chance?

Was just going for some pedantic levity. I just mean that there’re significantly more people in the world who live outside of any given country than in.

If you hypothetically had a 50/50 agree/disagree ratio with the average person, the majority of people you’d disagree with would be foreign to you.

But that’s just because the majority of people in general are foreign to you, though. Not because of any specific ideology. So you’d also probably agree with more foreigners than anyone else, too.

I guess maybe my undoing hinges on the word “secretly”?

Isn’t Lenin famously not rotting with how much his body has been preserved? You can still go see it on display in his mausoleum.

Well, statistically speaking, though…

I think that same statistic applies to drinking water. So I guess the question is, are people more likely to breathe air or drink water? I’m betting on air, but I don’t know if dying in utero still counts as having imbibed water.

The site was started by people who wanted to make a convenient image host for Reddit back when Reddit did not directly host any media, but it’s a separate venture and Reddit later added their own image hosting capabilities.

Most other “indie” games are not indie under that definition, too.

The indie renaissance that occurred in the late 00’s/early 10’s was mostly indie developers obtaining good publisher deals. Some indie developers still self-publish, but the majority don’t. There are even publishers that specialize in indie game publishing.

This is the same use case that people are currently up in arms against Larian for