CoolBeance

The most original joke in here (not being sarcastic)

I'm sorry, I'm not sure if it's my lack of sleep or a reading comprehension issue on my end but I don't understand your question. Though to answer it literally, English is so influential in my country that our schools tend to speak, read, and write in English more often than our native languages. If you speak English well, it's likely that you'll be regarded as a high-class individual by a good chunk of people here.

Unfortunately, that has threatened our own identity - to our people's cultural detriment and annoyance - as you'll probably see via English public discourse on American social media interwebs... which is why I'm saying, hey, why don't we stop paying attention to what the US is doing every now and then? I mean, how's Ukraine been really? What's happening with their EU membership? Maybe if the US wasn't always on the world stage they can actually participate more authentically and we can stop defaulting to making fun of kids dying in schools as a counterpoint, you know? It's messed up wherever it happens.

Fair, I suppose because the US tends to be belittled so often online so I never made the connection to those sizable facts. It's a bit too much still though, don't you think? News about the US somehow always taking over headlines? The world always looks at the US. There's always something about Elon Musk or the American government even on Lemmy's "non-Reddit-exodus" instances. When Apple releases a new phone, people won't stop talking about it positively and negatively. Europe does a better job with most things yet it's less common to find them in the spotlight.

To be fair, the US always seems to be the center of attention anywhere you go. Why that is exactly, I don't know. I mean for fuck's sake, I live all the way out in bumfuck Asia and somehow news about American pop culture makes it here better than my local news does most of the time.

I'm not belittling America's problems but sometimes I feel like people can benefit from being made aware that too much exposure to anything - like criticism of other countries - is detrimental to our world view. It's literally The Cultivation Theory at work.

What a square, this is what happens when you don't take a single minute out of your day to listen to unrelated Belgian techno anthem "Pump Up the Jam".

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I can hear trance music in this post

well at least I don't have to keep the CD in the CD Drive to actually play the game now

Well I haven't tried it with the silicone gaskets I ordered, but I tried another used-but-not-utterly-destroyed rubber gasket from a friend's moka pot and it seems to work fine

Haha it's not something I use often for sure. I hope your next comments actually answer the question though. Thanks for your input, I'll be noting that coffee doesn't come with ink

Thanks, happy to learn it's recoverable

I suspected that the filter was broken because the family mentioned that it never came off before. It also has a little bit of play when I put it back in. Another comment said it's designed to come out though so I think it's fine. Thanks for your comment