LordWiggle

I think there's a much higher chance of slow-poisoning with heavy metals and other chemicals by food then shooting guns. Food quality standards in the US are poor. As well as nutrition wise. Malnutrition has a big effect on people their brain. The brain needs loads of stuff to function properly, not just corn syrup and fats. And with the poor US food safety regulations and poor tap water there's more poison then nutricions coming into your body.

The general public is much more open towards LGBTQ+, equality is improving, there are just some extremists fighting to keep racism intact but the general politically right voters are not as much racist and against equality, but more upset about the previous government we had and about the vast amount of refugees which is a giant mess because the previous government basically did nothing to provide sufficient preperstions for it. There is still a lot of progress, even though the government is right wing at the moment. I don't understand why you say we sacrifice women's rights and gay rights. That may be so in the US, not over here.

Because the states were new and full of mixed cultures, they desperately created national holidays to create a more general national feeling among the wide variety of people. Many were hand picked, to create a national culture as the states had none. It's all to create unity and identity.

Like that isn't already happening for years. Maaaaany hate him, make fun of him, call out his lies, deceptions, scams, crimes. But it's like a religion. There are enough people who simply don't want to see the truth. And the people who can put him behind bars are on his payroll or under his dome of power. So as much as I'm against assassination in general, I think there are some cases where sadly it may be the only option to stop a tyrant.

That would be an amazing death. I wouldn't wish him to die so kindly. I don't mind if Musk would bleed out in the streets or something. And I'm against killing people in general, I don't see how that could benefit anyone... With some exceptions. Like Hitler, Putin, Musk, etc. But to be clear, I don't have plans and I don't want to push others to do something... I'm just saying I wouldn't mind.

Also, OD on ket is really hard to do.

Nice, well done, I was already triggering on how text was formulated.

But they do provide a good alternative for watching videos on multiple platforms without ads, without subscriptions or anything. And the app works if you don't pay as well. Just because they ask money for their hard work while at the same time allowing the community to work with it sounds all good to me. It's just not completely open source and completely free. But feel free to make a non-profit true open source counterpart if you like :)

Epic!

After scrolling for a bit on Lemmy I saw a post that Grayjay had a desktop app now too. No need for ad blockers etc. Just use Grayjay! It's awesome! (no yt shorts cancer for example, and multi platform support so not just yt) Grayjay.app

Link to desktop version website

Dutch guy here. Our racist saint Nicolas "Sinterklaas" with blackface "zwarte Piet" isn't Christmas celebration. He arrives in November and celebrates his birthday on the 5th of December by giving gifts to children.

All aspects from American Christmas celebration were stolen from European traditions. The story from Scandinavia, the character from Germany, the name from the Netherlands. But the Dutch tradition isn't Christmas. It's racist though, not arguing that. I'm fighting it though, because fuck racism. Also the racist part is only recent, back in the old days "zwarte Piet" was a white guy with black soot all over him from climbing through the chimney. Later it became a caricature black person which is so fucked up.

Sadly there's a lot of systematic racism deeply nestled in European cultures and traditions. Slowly we are working to getting rid of them, although there are also many fighting to keep them. But luckily we're making progress.

But if we're pointing fingers here, at least we're not celebrating genocide every year by slaughtering insane amounts of turkeys with Thanksgiving 👀

Not everyone has the financial space to spend more for a more ethical product. Some are so poor, it's the only thing they can afford. A hamburger is $1 but a broccoli is $5. A Primark shirt is $3 but a fair trade cotton shirt is $35. Many have minimum wages. It's either a sweatshop shirt and a hamburger or a fair trade shirt and no food for a week. When you have more money it's easier to buy more ethical products but sadly people with more money also consume more products and often buy sweatshop products non the less.

Reminder: most voters are the people.