I don’t think this is semantics. It reminds me of the Elon Musk nazi salute thing: maybe we are all tired of leftist nitpicking but it’s making people prone to misidentify it.

I disagree. Having some kind of grievance with capitalism an sich is central to being leftwing.

I distinctly remember liberal messages rising to the top on Reddit, stuff like that you should just accept that you have to go out and work for a living. That’s not left!

It’s actually the second or third thing I mention about Lemmy if it ever comes up in conversation. Sometimes I feel like just dropping it because of it.

That’s not the problem because you can just cuddle to warm up. The problem is when one of yous likes the water hotter than the other.

I learnt it to work in a call centre ten years ago and can still remember them all with a bit of effort, but I still don’t know the Dutch one, which is more likely to come in handy now and is all people’s names.

Niederländisch: handschoenen

G e k o l o n i s e e r d

This is sort of relevant if you’ve got an hour to sit and listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kNPmTZQySk

That’s herkenbaar!

I can’t judge; the only Polish words I can really say describe stuff like chairs, tables, armoires, that kind of thing. You know, furniture Polish.

I laughed, I saw the name Ken M, and I knew why I’d laughed.

She says dogmatic adherence to mealtimes is racist, and her justification is that the first European settlers in North America saw the locals not sticking to mealtimes and said it was because they were uncivilised. Still a stretch, like, I think.

It’s happened to me a few times over the years, but if anything it’s an opportunity to think up a nickname. Sometimes they stick and all.

Counterpoint: stay and have a chat.

Iceland’s in the Schengen area so there’s a lot of flights coming where they don’t even ask for your passport. That’s how it was done when I was there in 2019 or so, anyway.

Scousers’ opinion of people from Sefton, Knowsley, St Helens: yeah, sound, bit odd but whatever. Scousers’ opinion of people from the Wirral: plazzy Scousers, the dark side, woollybacks… It must be something to do with rivers.

Ah, same with E/OS, I’m just seeing now. Never thought to test that!

Apparently the car headbutting thing happened in 2018 too: https://www.businessinsider.nl/elon-musk-reportedly-head-butted-car-at-teslas-factory-2018-8?international=true&r=US

Katt-called?

Beware he who thous the thou.