Point 2 sounds like you think kissing someone entitles you to rape them.

It doesn’t.

If you use the wrong past tense all the time, that will definitely make you sound like a hillbilly.

Thanks!

Compelling argument.

Me too. It’s the one word that triggers something in my brain.

Oxford spelling, Oxford comma: what’s not to like?

Anything with a United Nations style spellcheck will sort it for you.

Depends on the tense.

I spell it wrong.

I have spelled it wrong.

I spelled it wrong.

I had spelt it wrong.

“I had spelled it wrong” sounds like a hillbilly.

Do you by any chance know where I could read a good introduction to Canadian English?

I can write fluently in UK and US English but Canadian sometimes has me stumped.

A billionaire tax haven where over 50% of the labourers are non-citizens?

That person is delusional. If North America were a group of Indigenous nations it wouldn’t have been a major immigration target for European refugees.

I am here because Germany went fucking nuts and bombed my homeland.

No, you’re there because the people already there decided to let your family in.

Them being in a position to let you in js a crucial factor. And the reason their society got to control that is because of what they had done to other people beforehand.

No one is asking you to feel guilt and no one is blaming you. But facts are facts.

they treat anyone outside of their bubble as an enemy

There’s the problem.

It might be you who needs to grow up. This is a weird knee jerk reaction.

Non Americans should be able to ask a question about America without being told to “grow up”.

It’s not childish to wonder how much Americans understand about how fucked up their choice of leadership is. We’re not psychic.

Imagine explaining it to your professor. " Well, first I sent an image disguised as unsolicited catfishishing scam…"

I’d rather simply know if someone is downvoting my conversation with them. There’s no point playing guessing games in an active thread.

The other application for it is seeing if someone is constantly upvoting themself with multiple accounts, and seeing who is upvoting trolls and nazis.

That’s disappointing. It would be a useful tool to have. Apparently the info is available in ActivityPub, we just need a client that sees it.

How do we see who downvotes?

I know they had that on kbin but not Lemmy. I want to see it too. Which client or frontend are you using?

still consider

It has only two political parties, and a weird system where all votes are not equal and the actual vote majority doesn’t always win.

It has frequently had multiple people from the same families running for office, and only wealthy people have a shot. Corporations get to lobby for laws in their favour.

It also spies on its own citizens, holds people indefinitely without trial, has a huge prison population, a militarized police with a high homicide rate, and is the only western nation with the death penalty.

Trump and Musk are laying bare how fragile the veneer of “democracy” really is in that country.

Kbin didn’t federate downvotes which was pretty funny. No one from it knew when they were being downvoted by lemmy.

I loved the early days of youtube. Brought us such gems as Chicken Police and Crazy Rainbow Lady.