non-US search engine (start page)

Startpage is owned by an American advertising company.

Try Qwant or Ecosia. They’re working together to develop an independent search index (Staan) and it’s already in use in France and Germany.

You wouldn’t download a Bill Gates.

The fact that this has 62 upvotes is making me lose brain cells.

This happened in Finland. The guy in charge is Petteri Orpo.

Edit: And his asshole cabinet of ministers.

Maybe they should try banning that disgusting and vile CPU instead of the innocent player.

Very likely, considering which political parties are in charge.

I call this government coalition “persrukous” (ass prayer):

pers: persut, short for “Perussuomalaiset” (Finns Party, far right)
ru: Suomen ruotsalainen kansanpuolue (Swedish People’s Party of Finland, centrist liberal, will do anything the coalition wants as long as everyone is forced to learn the language of the 5% linguistic minority, it’s always been like this no matter who the governing parties are)
ko: Kokoomus (National Coalition Party, centre-right/right wing liberal conservative, your typical neoliberal demons who only care about making the rich even richer and punishing the poor for existing, they lead the coalition)
us: uskovaiset = the religious = Kristillisdemokraatit (Christian Democrats, right wing, they’re pretty much NCP but they love Israel even more and hate everything)

Any sublemmy that’s name starts with “fuck”.

Always a miserable time, even if I agree with the sentiment of some of those places.

Humans were not designed to endure this 24/7 flood of miserable shit happening all over the world, which you can’t have an effect on anyway.

It’s often better to engage with it in a controlled manner, at least in my opinion, especially if you’re already suffering from multiple severe mental health disorders like me, even without these things making it A LOT worse.

I think there was a sub that was called /r/jailbait as well.

The fact that Reddit became mainstream after all that vile shit thriving on that platform is nothing short of insane.

I have a TP-Link router.

It’s great, but the first one I got was broken right out of the factory, so this is a warranty replacement for the first one that I got.

Good question.

Another one I’ve been thinking about is the hammock. How is a vegan supposed to rest?

That or they overcorrect.

On a pretty popular leftist Lemmy instance (Hexbear), you need to provide a trigger warning for “an ableist slur” if you’re posting a screenshot or quoting something that says the word “stupid”. Pretty sure you’re not allowed to say it in any other context (even for example calling the EU Kids Act “stupid”) or you’ll get banned for “ableism”.

Wow, a Lemmy meme that’s that recent?

I thought the minimum age of memes to be posted here is at least a decade.

I’m not. I’m just saying that a lot of “invisibly” disabled people with (often undiagnosed) learning disabilities etc. are called stupid all the time, and reading something like that would really hurt them.

This is an anecdote, I understand that I’m “arguing” here from the heart and I’m not looking to win any legitimate debate, which would be impossible since I unexpectedly got dogpiled this hard while I was asleep before I had a chance to say this, but anyway:

I watched this small streamer for some time, and even became her moderator. She would just not understand a lot of things, at all, and she was completely unaware how some things could offend other people, until I explained them to her and she felt really bad for saying them while not knowing the real meaning. She cultivated this audience of reactionary people, because they thought she was one of them because she accidentally said a whole bunch of edgy things. But let me emphasize this: she never wanted to hurt anyone, she always felt bad for saying hurtful things on accident and always deeply apologized when she realized she was being hurtful.

Eventually, I had to quit, because the audience was too much for me. She was a great person, but I didn’t feel welcome due to her viewers and eventually stopped watching her. She felt really bad that I didn’t feel welcome, but there was really nothing that could be done without me banning like a third of her community. We stayed as friends for some time, and she opened up how sad she was about people calling her stupid all the time “because she wouldn’t understand some things” (in reality she had issues understanding basic things all the time).

When I saw that comment, I thought of her, already really upset by people calling her stupid, reading that and being like “stupid people are gross? and everyone calls me stupid… does this mean… :(”.

Calling stupid people gross seems kind of ableist.

Slap a second screen on it and call it Nintendo Dual Switch.

That’s great to hear! Did they offer any lingonberry jam though?

you’ll only see posts there from your own instance users.

That doesn’t appear to be the case.

This doesn’t seem like defederation. Something weird is going on.

edit: Never mind, dbzer0 defederated from feddit 7 months ago. But why are some posts and upvotes getting through?

Same in Finland!

I’ve never tried the British stuff, but our blood sausage is pretty good. Goes very well with lingonberry jam. :)

Scandinavian

Half of the countries listed are Finland and Estonia lol.