At least you can tell where something happens by place names, I get headlines ‘12 shot in Manchester gun fight’ or ‘Birmingham man kills 8 in roadrage incident’ and there’s just no way of telling it’s America… OK, well those examples are obvious but the point stands.

You are right, I hate that I have to navigate a bizarre maze of mathematical conundrums just to order food. I avoid ordering I’m general but the rare time I do it annoys me every time and I always feel like I’m getting ripped off.

I want to know more about gonggong

Is it pretty? Would I freeze or boil if I visited? What souvenirs should I bring back? Do I need to take my own water and oxygen or can I buy it there? How much fuel would I need to use if I wanted to push it into a more temperate orbit?

They haven’t relinquished independence, you need to improve your anti America trolling this is just silly.

You’re being silly tbh, Sweden is it’s own nation full of people with their own opinions, you can’t blame everything on America.

Sweden has its own complex reasons for making bad choices, they’re mot just sitting around hoping america tells them what to think.

It’s a pleasant surprise every time I visit how chill the US is, you see so much news and fear mongering but it’s super friendly and nice everywhere I go.

Thanks for the fun guessing game but I’d much rather you actually just say what you think would have solved this

Part of the reason the right is doing so well is this sort of hyperbole from the left, we need to work on convincing people rather than drive them further into the arms of the right

What are you suggesting, more death penalties or eternal sentences?

It’s slang you’d hear 50 years ago in the east end and Essex. You’ll only really hear it used by gangsters in movies these days or someone putting on the accent for laughs, possibly from an old geezer, you certainly won’t hear it used by respectable establishments or family friendly media. It’s not generally considered offensive but is considered uncouth.

I’ve recently gone back to using reddit regularly because it’s the only place with sensible news, lemmy is such a bubble it’s a terrible place to get opinions and ideas from.

People were using their wifi to do crimes

Latchkey kids of the 21century have it worse than the originals, parents not there for them but now they’re also helicopter parents spying on them and controlling their actions remotely. I guess we should call them drone parents.

Anyone wondering t’s because he was using a portable radio with a rubber duckie antenna instead of the straight metal whip antenna fixed to trucks.

Could be where the jeep gets its association too if they used to have an antenna fixing point marked on user manuals.

Turns out the media and memes are pretty terrible at getting to the more complex truth and problem with things.

Alex is worse though, he uses this headline to push the idea the government is evil and the epa should be scrapped which is the exact opposite of what will help

I bet you’d get upset if someone pruned your trashy videogsme collection.

Is it really so hard just to let people enjoy what they enjoy without being a dick about it?

Ha no one said it was a conspiracy, it’s just s meme recirculating for engagement, that’s just how the world works now.

But also it’s a taking point question, of course it’s gong to spark debate snd memes, it’s silly to say that only one side gets to make jokes or have feelings.

This is logical and valid, women are people this means many are bad in a range of ways. The most likely people to be on dating sites are those less likely to be selected, this is very simple math.

That’s not a very logical argument, if you’re on a dating site you’ve already filtered out all people not looking for a partner, it’s like being surprised that everyone who comes to your sandwich shop happens to be hungry.

Women who would genuinely rather be in the forest with a bear are not on tinder, though there is of course a bar where if you’re the only option it’s still possible that you won’t meet someone’s lowest requirements - this causes the sludge effect where anyone above the average bar is removed quickly while those below tend to get other sludge stuck to them (toxic behaviors develop due to failure or trauma) which makes future selection less likely.

The real key is the more experience someone has with dating sites the less you should trust their opinion or advice, by the time someone is posting on r/tinder they’re already likely to have failed consistently for some time.

I think this is part of the issue with the bear question, we instinctively know that when someone is ranting about women not being able to hold a conversation that it’s not a reasonable view but we also need to start to recognize that ‘I surround myself with exaggerated and often fabricated stories about how awful X is and only engage in spaces where counter argument is rejected’ will cause bias that negatively affects people snd communities.