well obviously wet bugs are cleaner since they're surrounded by water all the time

non-american here. I knew the conservatives in your country were bad but holy shit

you criticize society... but you participate in society... curious

Filipino here, I'm curious how american politics got this, for lack of a better word, wild?

don't get me wrong, my country is far from better, but over here, the closest we have to MTG is probably Cynthia Villar or some other overly-vocal conservative oligarch in the senate, but they'd never pull stunts like this over here.

what if... the US invasion of Iraq and Saudi censorship of the press can both be bad?

third world countries where multinational corporations have been buying up land and propping up and collaborating with authoritarian governments for decades: first time?

my language doesn't have gendered pronouns so we just use "siya" for singular they and "sila" for plural.

I'm curious what other languages specify if "they" is singular or plural and how?

me speaking in morse code

I'm from the Philippines and I can explain why, at least here, most people still use chrome. Over here, we're much more concerned about our money and time over our rights and privacy, which means we usually just choose the most convenient and cheap money-wise, which is why the majority of us still use chrome and why the government here can get away with so much shit. we don't care about our rights not because we're being given bread and circuses, but because we're too busy making a circus out of ourselves so we can buy bread.

that makes sense. Ever since 2016 the government here has been cracking down on both the news and the opposition so there isn't really motivation for anyone here to pull stunts like that.

we will all feel euphoric soon

hope baconreader makes a lemmy client as well

I prefer bikes

new user here, is installing more than one lemmy client necessary?

science bless us all

I find it interesting how gendered German is. In contrast, in my language the default for a word is gender neutral. you have to state the gender if you want to specify it, and you only do that if the gender is relevant e.g. "the driver handed me my change" would be "inabot sakin ng tsuper yung sukli ko", but if you said "inabot sakin ng babaeng tsuper yung sukli ko" which means "the female driver handed me my change" then that means the gender of the driver is of relevance to the conversation.

an exception I can think of is spanish loanwords like "tindero/tindera" which is more commonly used to refer to shopkeepers and vendors here. we also use "ate/kuya"(sister/brother) when we talk to strangers e.g. "kuya alam nyo po kung saan yung pinakamalapit na sakayan ng dyip?" meaning "excuse me sir, do you know where the nearest jeepney terminal is?".

overall, I find it interesting to look into languages with different ways of using things that seem complicated to me. really makes me think what "foreigners" might think is complicated in my language that I take for granted.

in my language we have one pronoun for all genders(siya). it just morphs depending on context(siya/sila/niya/nila).

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they've been in power in one way or another since the 50s. mainstream left-wing politics in this country never really had a chance at any point since we became independent. Going back to the McCarthy days of Magsaysay in the 50s, to Martial Law under Marcos of the 70s, to the Post-Arroyo right-wing dominated politics we have today(23 out of the 24 senate seats are currently held by the conservative government, the House of Representatives isn't any better). Some families have been in power in their regions for centuries.

arguably the most leftist government we had was the post-EDSA C. Aquino Government, and even that was led by someone who was arguably part of the aristocracy, and even then her government suffered around 9 loyalist coups in 6 years until her government eventually shifted to the right.

well I mean, chatGPT actually does have some real world use. personally, I find chatGPT more helpful than Stack Overflow when it comes to finding problems with my code