Nora (She/Her)

I’m proud of food here in general tbh, just the way different cultures got together with different ingredients and made something wholey unique? thats cool.

Speaking of that, in spite of the racism, we’re somehow one of the better countries with accepting other cultures. Thats something to be proud of too.

You make a good point tbh. Just cause some stuff is bleak doesnt mean everything is. I can be proud where pride is due, but acknowledge the flaws and pain without hypocrisy.

I guess I don’t understand where this frustration comes from because to me, it’s just obvious. We’re speaking English, on a primarily English-speaking website, and one of the largest English-speaking countries in the world is the US. It just makes sense probability wise that there would be more posts about the US on average. Personally I’d love to see news (especially uplifting, because life is BLEAK, and I’d like to have hope again) from other countries, but I don’t speak other languages, so I only see what people translate and post tbh.

Anyway, I’m not saying you can’t vent, or that saying “fuck the us” is wrong, I just wish people would keep it on topic, instead of looking for the thinnest reason to throw in some shade. It really reminds me of the cheap “gotcha” karma farming comments that infest reddit and make the site so unenjoyable to browse.

Ye there’s some of that no doubt. I’ll see random comments just dunking on the US completely off-topic, or almost entirely off-topic. I saw one a few days ago that was like “This only matters for people in the US, go post it somewhere local.” and like, that’s cool and all but I don’t see anyone saying that stuff on UK specific topics or any other country’s posts to this community.

Honestly, it’s just annoying more than anything. The US isn’t some uniquely evil place. A lot of the bad shit happening here is cropping up across the world, and y’all need to learn where we failed, or else be doomed just like us. Anyway, I think if your only contribution to the topic is “US bad.” then maybe you should make a US hate community or something tbh.

Oh absolutely LMAO. I hate how fucked our country is. I wish I could be “proud to be an American.” but… Nah. Prolly not within my lifetime, unfortunately.

That’s because on Lemmy it’s cool and hip to hate on the US and people from the US.

I only know “roly poly” that’s the grade a American word for these lil guys.

Well, obviously they did. Aliens want the “Fish love me, women fear me.” hats just as much as anyone else.

This will give me nightmares I fear.

to be honest I really didn’t mean to trick you into answering but your edit made me burst out laughing. Good thing i don’t operate on Fae rules, cause I think you’d owe me a soda or something.

I mean it’s gotta be extra sour right? At least then it kinda goes with the fruit themes I associate with jello, heck it might even be pretty good…? Maybe I should go make extra sour jello.

Uhhhhhh… serious question here, is it not…?

Well, yeah. Most people would much rather spend their time and energy taking care of their children than laboring away for someone else’s profit. They may not phrase it like that, but raising children is far more self-fulfilling than working a job could ever be for most people. I imagine in most cases, people prefer tons of hard work raising a child when compared to working the easy cozy job, because at the end of the day the job is just a means to an end.

Ok that’s true, but flaming hot and extra sour are both delicious, Jello is just kinda… Meh.

I was kinda hoping I’d read the article and it would be a modern day “a modest proposal” but it doesn’t seem to be and now I’m sad.

i hope so, alexandrite is what I’ve used for awhile now and I quite love it.

I’ve never heard that before, and doing some very light research, it does seem like “Spade” is a slur from the 1920s. At the same time however, the phrase “Calling a spade a spade.” is a “modern” (1500’s) adaption of an ancient Greek phrase.

The easy solution here is to just re-adapt it so it doesn’t use a racist term. To keep the theming of shovels of course, the easiest answer is “Calling a shovel a shovel.”

Thanks for the info, always good to learn a new thing or two :)

they’re basically tiny mouse traps so when you grab the gum it snaps on your fingers and causes a little sting.

Sorry I was making a reference to tiktok brainrot featuring the show invincible.

https://youtu.be/jW8OOK8dXng

this is good news! we can be bees!

I hate these because its impossible to remember people unless they had some super cool thing. my usual go to is “I’m Nora and I can scuba dive.” which is cool and fine, but I could talk about that, and its so much more interesting and useful to find what people enjoy about their things.

as an example, you said you like reading! I enjoy a good book too! what are some of your favorite books and genres? do you have a Lemmy community you go to for book stuff? Tell me about a book you hate!

theres so many questions people could ask, but never do, so everyone becomes horribly forgettable.