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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Thank you for the citation. 4% is still incredibly low. After 9/11, more than 40% of Americans were against invading iraq. I am really surprised, but I could believe it. I didn't realize how polarised it was.

BTW your usage of [sic] here is astonishing. The asterisk alone would have sufficed. [sic] is for contexts where the reader might reasonably assume you made a transcription error when quoting them, not for errors in general.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Is it really as low as 2%?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Thanks, I missed the first paragraph

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Article says it's not that though; that dumping cocaine happens in Mexico and Florida but not Brazil.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (6 children)

How are they getting cocaine?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It says the other quotas were suspended though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The article says more than half of jobs are reserved in quotas but later says only 30% are reserved in quotas.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Without Trump, who do the republicans have? De Santis? Nah. Martyr means nothing if there's no realistic second choice.

(Otherwise, the CIA wouldn't have bothered assassinating political candidates in south America)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

The woman and black guy stare at him blankly

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

simpsons

According to this, the forest's size is declining at a slower rate!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

the high seas have a comment section?

 

In a poll on hexbear (see link), it was observed that there are very few cis women on Lemmy. I think this is the intersection of several problems:

  • engagement of women on Reddit was always low
  • fewer women in computer science
  • I'm hesitant to recommend anything fediversy to people who don't tinker with computers like I do and thus might need a more handholdy UX.

I gather that transgender people tend to be more into CS, though I don't see why that explains entirely such an astonishing presence of the transgender community on Hexbear.

Anyway, I just thought I'd open the floor to brainstorming.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

The fool jingled miserably across the floor

(Art by canisbeans. Text exerpt from Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett.)

 

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