I would strongly recommend using a Lemmy/fediverse instance that is not hosted in the US.

For tons of reasons, the fact that it might get shut down by Trump isn’t even in the top five.

Hey remember when .world was getting all high and mighty about defederating from Hexbear and Lemmygrad because they might incite violence?

I never understood Hollywood’s love for taking classical mythologies of humanity and spinning it into the most absurd movies that have literally nothing to do with the original mythology. Thor as a superhero is just one example. It really seems like what should have been just an original character that they slapped the Nordic mythology around for no good reason. Meanwhile now whenever I try to search up Thor, the top results get clogged with Marvel’s bullshit instead of his actual millennia old mythology.

Also, I guess it doesn’t matter with Thor since no one in modern times actually believe in Norse mythology, but Hollywood is not that picky and have bastardized real religions that people still believe in, namely Indigenous mythology in the Americas and lesser known folk religions in Asia and Africa.

Measuring liquids by mass is even more accurate because the volume is related to temperature, plus the surface tension and water’s tendency to climb up the walls of the container can make the volume readings ambiguous

I’m in Canada, and learning French in school actually helped me with fractional measurements since French is based on Latin.

Cent is 100 in French, so 1/100 meters is a centimeter

Mille is 1000 in French, so 1/1000 meters is a millimeter

Dix is 10 in French, so 1/10 meters is a decimeter (this is last because it’s not super helpful since you never see deci- units in the wild outside of niche applications)

And for the powers of 10, we only really talked about kilo (1000) in school, but I was interested in computers since I was a child so I figured out mega, giga, terra, etc fairly early on.

If you can’t provide sufficient enrichment to a pet that you own and made a personal commitment to care for, rethink your decision to have a pet. My dog would go crazy in the house too if I spent as little time interacting with her as most outdoor cat owners seem to spend from comments like yours. You can also take your cat out on supervised outings like people do with dogs.

Studies show that indoor cats not only live longer, they have lower amounts of stress related hormones in their blood, suggesting that they are less stressed/scared or don’t get stressed/scared as often. You can subjectively claim that your cat is miserable when inside and you’re probably right about your cat and its specific personality, but the data shows that the majority of indoor cats are doing fine provided they have an owner that doesn’t ignore them.

Also, you know where outdoor cats take their shits so your house doesn’t smell like cat turds? Other people’s yards and gardens. I pick up my dog’s shit like a pet owner should and you’re proud of the fact that you just let your cat shit wherever it wants?

Reminder if you have an outdoor cat that you feed in your house, you are subsidizing it killing birds. Outdoor cats who are fed at home don’t usually eat the birds they catch since they have a more reliable source of food at home, so they kill almost as many birds as a feral cat with no other food source but don’t eat any of them and just leave them to die once they they’re not fun to chase anymore. So outdoor cats killing birds is not “nature,” they’re an invasive species being fed farm-raised invasive species by the most widespread invasive species of all so they can go out and kill native birds that they won’t eat.

Just based on my observations of my life, I seem to have the ability to choose to do or not do things, and that’s good enough for me. Is my choice just part of the infinite universe’s fixed progression through time and I would have done what I did regardless? Are there infinite parallel universes where parallel versions of me exist that have collectively made every choice I can possibly make? Don’t care. I feel like I have free will and IMO that’s what’s most relevant to my life in this universe.

Apple just loves having their own media formats

Got a source for that?

As a Canadian, Canada has way more Nazis than people realize and the broader government tends pretend we don’t have a Nazi problem while certain politicians are full on embracing them (just look at Danielle Smith). It’s not as bad as in the US, but that’s a really low bar and isn’t exactly praiseworthy.

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

Fun fact: The US votes against that one because it prohibits giving the death penalty to minors.

Yeah.

By not giving them any rights even though complex expression through language implies a high level of intelligence and sapience. The dog and cat that you can still talk to are still considered your property that you can just take to the vet and put down. Animal shelters can now just tell the animals their kill dates so they don’t get too hopeful. Slaughterhouses will be filled with screams you understand instead of just screams. Cosmetic companies and labs can now ask their test subjects for the level of pain while smearing makeup in their eyes. Sea World, zoos, circuses, etc would make peak profits now that they can address their slaves as if they were human slaves.

I mean, all humans can communicate with each other and we still don’t give rights to some of them. Anyone who thinks we’ll be nice to animals just because they can talk is either a child or otherwise doesn’t know how humans operate.

What was China before communism like?

The Falun Gong cult was founded in the 90s so it’s not like they knew that to begin with.

Equal shame for all the countries that abstained. There is not a damn chance any country is genuinely unsure how they want to vote so an abstain vote in this case is just “I want to vote against but am too embarrassed to.”

Which happens to be the entire West, not a single country commonly considered “Western” voted in favour. Surprise surprise

Notice how it wasn’t testicular cancer. Cause he doesn’t have the balls.

It’s better to get it fron F-Droid because you never know what kind of spyware “analytics” or “error reporting” Google Play injects. Repacking an APK is not that hard, especially if you control the cryptographic keys for signing them.

Equilibrium