It's really fucking tiring to see you americans singing along to the tune of the 'us vs them' rhethoric.

I don't know what he has planned, but in my book he's the most likely candidate to break the 2-party system.

Enjoy it! I'm happy for you!

This decision takes some courage, so well done :)

Memo: the publishers Wiley, Penguin Random House, Harper Collins and Hachette sued the Internet Archive for over $600m.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachette_v._Internet_Archive

'Just pull yerself up by yer own bootstraps, lad!

While I do agree (or at least hope) that we all have the agency to positively influence our own lives and those around us, the main point there in my opinion is that different people have different resources in life. Someone that's experienced systemic racism, or someone who's brain is a wee bit non-standard just has it harder than someone not experiencing these issues.

The YouTube Channel Kurzgesagt has proposed a calendar based on the 'Human Era' (HE) instead of before/after christ format.

It's based on the first monument of large-scale human cooperation (building a temple in modern-day turkey) and is quite elegant in my opinion. It 'simply' adds 10.000 years to the calendar we're all already used to. :)

Yea. Turns out the biggest creature you can freeze and thaw again (in strict lab conditions) is a hamster, anything bigger just dies.

Yea, I really liked these as a kid. Shame their chocolate is collected by slaves :|

The implication is that they (well.. we) can't do what's necessary in a low-effort scenario I'd say.

Kind of similar to calling someone a mouthbreather

Is there a lemmy version of r/OrphanCrushingMachine ?

'Just'

There are alternatives like ..not sure what it's called in english. Mastika? Mastiha? It's a tree resin from the mediterranean that's been used for that weird greek rezina wine. It's an acquired taste, but I personally really like it.

Not malitious - this is a case of chaotic good. If it's funny and harms noone, roll with it!