Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.

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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zonetoMemes@lemmy.mlThis was from 2017.
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    3 days ago

    If democrats in the US vote for stuff like Biden, then they’re not voting for any radical change

    I don’t exactly know the details, but weren’t there accusations of meddling from the DNC that stoppered Sanders’ chance of securing the nomination, and a belief among some that he might have won the nomination if it had been a free and fair primary process?

    In other words, it’s possible (though by no means certain) that your sentence above works if “democrats” means “the DNC and the establishment of the Democratic Party”, but not if it means “people who by-and-large support the Democratic Party”.



  • I will say, it definitely doesn’t feel as polished as major browsers. You have to go to a backend “about” page to switch between user profiles. You literally can’t set a webpage of your choice to open when you open a new tab (new window, yes, but not new tab, which is even more perplexing). It still has a separate search bar instead of the unified bar other browsers have had for a decade (this can be fixed, though it’s hard to find how to do it). But it’s easily good enough to switch to if Firefox is gonna enshitify.



  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    11 days ago

    We learned that if you make an effort to speak their language, most French people are very helpful. But if you just assume they’ll speak English, they’re likely to be offended and won’t help you out.

    You’re not the first person I’ve heard this from. It seems to be a pretty universal experience, particularly in Paris.

    Personally, as someone who took French in school, when I went to France I wanted the opportunity to practise it. And I found the French to be very friendly with it.















  • In America, yankee means people from a particular part of America. But we use it here in Australia to mean any American. It’s especially fun when people from the south (that is…the south of the country America, not from the continent of South America) take offence at the term IMO.

    We also use “seppo” which is an Australian shortening slang of “septic”, which is rhyming slang (of the kind used in both Australia and London, England) that comes via “septic tank” via “yank”.

    Gringo seems strange to me. I thought that was a predominantly Latin American term for white people, and would apply equally well to Americans as Canadians as Australians as (of particular relevance to someone from Spain) English…but only the white of each, so it would seem to me it shouldn’t work as synonymous with “American” because it excludes African Americans, Asian Americans, etc. But I’m not Spanish or Latin American, so I might just be misunderstanding the word.

    Edit: what yank means depending on where you are (allegedly):