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It's also really hard to read signs when they're so pixillated...

Yeah, it's definitely a Yank thing.

Have you tried having rich parents? That helps...

/s

Being "vetted" by them...

This is pretty much my view on people's sexuality generally.

I don't care who's doing what to who as long as everyone involved is a consenting adult.

Most religious zealots are the same...

Ego.

Wasn't Taylor Swift born into a wealthy family? That's why she could take the time and chances to become a pop star. Not that I'm saying she isn't talented, she obviously is, but a lot of talented poor kids don't get that opportunity.

Not necessarily.

Every time someone buys a new device they have to reinstall the app. So declining downloads could be indicitive of less users.

Diagonally.

Well, between wars, the rise of the far Right (again), climate change and the utter fucking up of the world economies by the ultra rich, now would be a good time to start.

Groundhog day.

It's just such a great film.

I believe the book you are talking about is "The Death Of Grass'.

Also, I imagine a lot of people created profiles on more than one instance while making the transition and then abandoned the others.

I originally started on lemmy.world but now just use fedit.uk...

I would love to help you, but I couldn't possibly do that.

😋

I'm in the UK. From my first enquiry to the operation was about the same...

... but I didn't get any bills after.

birds or polar bears

Phew! Luckily I just like penguins...

Are you saying that real life "Tony Stark genius, billionaire" is a bit thick and incapable of expressing his thoughts coherently?

I'm shocked I tell you. Shocked...

... and our weight is in Stones.

Zombies. There are zombies 28 days later...

There may be no stupid questions but there are a lot of stupid people.

Or off a cliff, a or maybe even just down some stairs.

Though the planet is still pretty fucked.

I'm pretty sure the planet will be fine. Those of us trying to live on it though might have some problems.

The coolest year of the rest of your life!

As far as I'm aware, yes.

I use Dolby with a lot of my games but don't have the 'Ad screen".

So, would that be pronounced "Shitter"?

Seems apt.

I've recently switched from Spotify to Tidal and I'm happy with it...

We Brits generally use Yank, but Seppo is more Oz than UK. Though Aussie slang does tend to catch on on over here for some reason...

Well a quick search found this...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature

Basically the air is warmer and wetter so the human body cannot shed heat.

A drone getting through to there implies some interesting things about the distribution of Russian air defense systems.

They don't have any? It's all been sold off to oligarchs who took the money and run?

I'd prefer to refer to them as Vankared...

That being said when an apartheid, blood emerald silver spoon sucking moron takes over twitter with Saudi money and proceeds to ban speech as a “free speech absolutist” all while racist, vile, toxic bullshit floods the platform it’s not weird that people make a connection.

Fixed that for you.

I think you're a little optimistic on the time line there.

I'd give it Ten years tops...

They're also from the other side of the ocean. Descendents of people who sailed of to another land.

Well of course! If you ask a Yank they'd say that USA is the world...

So last Christmas we (another mutual friend and I) got back in touch with someone we hadn't spoken to for almost a decade, met up in the Pub and it was like it'd only been a couple of months.

Instant reconnect.

Might be another ten years before we meet again because since then almost no interaction.

What you gonna do?

Well, I would assume "Not Very".

But, you know, people are thick...

...very thick.

I don't believe they were expelled?

I might be wrong...

America? Yeah...

They night also consider getting new 'friends'.