old, stupid
the only reason would be to prevent impersonation
christ why not just spend that energy on the 25th and be done with this hellscape
keep in mind thats active users. that number is usually a small percentage of unique visitors in any system.
lemmy is a software platform, so software -> lemmy
american, european… looks like youve covered 10% of the worlds population there. hardly ‘the world’
i went to subway recently… the sandwich place. holy hell what a pile of expensive dogshit.
i would guess size and population densities, and government stabilization. what country is ‘south america’ ?
theres more people in a larger area in a much more stable form of government allowing those socio-economic realities to exist far longer.
ie the united states is super racist.
its because slavery.
early u.s. was created on the notion that black people werent people. when those that made money on that being fact were forced to think otherwise, it almost ripped the country in half.
that animosity… the desire for non whites to be considered not people did not just suddenly vanish. its festered in america. it is ingrained. it is the ‘southern heritage’ talked about in whispers (and now out loud) with the new fascist takeover of america.
a full 50% of america still hates the fact that non-whites are treated as people.
cooooool mbin automatically formats it to a local link:
must be new in v1.80
its because conservatives lack empathy. theres literally no other reason.
this should make for some kickass robot contests. id like to see two real-time kungfu robots go at eachother.
theres some confirmation selection bias in that most americans will never have the ability to travel abroad. so the group youre interfacing with are the more entitled, wealthier class which is also a much smaller contingent of americans.
yep, i was always under the assumption they bought it for parts to use in teams.
yep, commoditization + SOC means youre not going to find this hardware with no radio. op is looking for a unicorn or an antique.
heres a good in-depth writeup of how a single tweet was blown up by people with an agenda, or a general failure to critically think about words:
believe what you want to believe of course.
lemmy is part of a horizontally scaling network of instances (servers). if a popular community on an instance goes sideways… say because of a new terrible mod or rule change, the entire population of that community can up and move to a new community in another instance without having to create new accounts anywhere.
this has already happened a few times.