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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • It’s good old-fashioned xenophobia and is by no means unique to Americans or English-speakers even in the modern era. Anyone who has spent enough time in certain parts of France, Italy, or Belgium has probably encountered it at some point.

    It’s everywhere but it is probably most prevalent in countries with a strong nationalist core and, in my opinion, ironically occurs most often in countries that have really fucked around with having an empire in the last century or so.



  • Only dimly related, but since I’m in this 2%, I can’t help reflecting that in the 11 months since joining Lemmy, I have:

    • Canceled all of my streaming subscriptions

    • Built a massive Plex Server

    • Rekindled my love of Unix building said server

    • Began pirating movies, TV, music, and software like a fucking syphilitic pegleg

    • Began experiencing Star Trek TNG for the first time, pirated, on my Plex Server, running Linux

    • Bought a steam deck and began experimenting with Arch

    Don’t ever let anyone tell you your feed doesn’t influence you, no matter how media literate you are.








  • This is the answer. Trace it back to the early 2000s when airlines started charging for checked bags. That created an immediate premium for overhead space and kicked off the Boarding Wars we now find ourselves in today, where airlines and passengers alike contort themselves literally and figuratively in an attempt to work around this one massive consequence of corporate greed.

    -20 airline professional