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Showerthoughts

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[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 84 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Same. Though can we also add a button to hide all content pertaining to US state politics? "The governor of Arkansas-" I live in The Netherlands, that shit has no bearing on me

[–] jungekatz@lib.lgbt 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same ! I live in india , but seems like i am wayyy to updated with us political news !ugh

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

To be fair, I am Lithuanian and a lot of stuff online goes like અને પછી તેઓ કેટલીક અસ્પષ્ટ ભાષા બોલવાનું શરૂ કરે છે

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago

Well, since we're here, what are the big news where you live these days?

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I got used to it, you just need to look at the US as a union of states like Europe, in which case Arkansas is about equivalent to Lithuania in population (although if you correct for the more states and less pop of the US you get Bulgaria or Finland if you use a ranked method) . The same could be done for China, India and Brazil.

[–] Squander@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sir, how dare you insult Lithuania like that.

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Alright, polandball time: I'll ask around the EU++ who wants to play Arkansas in the school play...if nobody takes it, I'm giving it to Hungary :D because they're being a dick lately. So, which state do you want? I hear Idaho's nice :) Germany already took California, France took New York, Italy took Texas, Spain took Florida, the Netherlands took Pennsylvania, Poland took Illinois, Romania got Georgia, Sweden asked for Michigan and Austria asked for Massachusets, Finland got offered Indiana, but picked Arizona, lol etc etc...do you want Wisconsin? Also: UK guest starring as Canada lol

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

Idaho, the mountainous parts, are nice. Some of the people are nice. But in general, Idaho has some of the most batshit insane stuff happening in it in regards to cults and crazy people. It's been getting crazier in recent years. They were an absolute mess during the pandemic and needed tons of help from other states who then couldn't look after locals in need.

[–] Ryumast3r@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Didn't realize Lithuania was under 3 million. For some reason I had it in my head that they were closer to 4-5. Insane.

It will when we stop being the Republic and get this Empire phase rolling.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A huge part of that is american-centric attitudes though. There is the politics sub on Lemmy.world and it's only for US politics. But it's not called "usonlypolitics" it's called "politics". Somehow they don't see the problem with that.

Also the mods are been absolutely bellends about it and are refusing to even acknowledge that that is a problem.

[–] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But why would the world champions of egg handball see a problem with this?

[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Easy to be the world champion in egg handball if you're the only country that plays that version of egg handball.