uienia
@uienia@lemmy.world
- Comment on Capsaicin 2 weeks ago:
None of that is true though.
- Comment on Oh fuck no 2 weeks ago:
Your comment implicates you are in favour of censoring swear words. Coukd uou enlighten us as to why?
- Comment on Can I not be an adorable junkie 3 weeks ago:
And it is not even just sweating. Heroin isnt a swearword.
- Comment on What does this emoji mean? Is this a British thumbs up? 3 weeks ago:
There were in fact stupid questions.
- Comment on Why did Joker 2 lose so much money? And how on earth did it cost so much in the first place? 4 weeks ago:
Megalopolis suffered from unwilling distributors, so that easily explains its lack of PR and why you hadn’t heard about it. Not so with this movie.
- Comment on Having fun with text scams 5 weeks ago:
Wrong number scam. Which will turn into a romance or pig butchering scam.
- Comment on Somebody just got a car! 5 weeks ago:
A combination of getting high off of drugs and a bunch of mindless morons applauding him.
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare coming to PC October 29 5 weeks ago:
To be fair GTA VI is probably not coming to PC this decade.
- Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US 1 month ago:
The World Wide Web is not an American invention. Who invented what is completely irrelevant in this context anyway though.
- Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US 1 month ago:
When non-native English speakers are navigating in a non-national internet setting we use English. I have gathered from the many American comments in this thread, that that fact is apparently incredibly difficult for Americans to gauge. Nevertheless, it is a fact.
- Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US 1 month ago:
Again, the numbers you linked shows that you are more likely to speak to a non-American on reddit than an American. Your entire premise is flawed from the beginning.
- Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US 1 month ago:
What I am saying is that of all Internet users that use English, Americans are by far the largest group
No, they didn’t misunderstand. It is you who are massively misunderstanding. You are suffering from the erronous assumption that people who speak English on the internet are native English speakers when that it is not so at all. People speak English on the internet because it is the largest commonly understood language. So people from non-English speaking countries are using it as well. And there are a heck of a lot more non-native English speakers in the world than native English speakers.
So you are most likely at any time on the internet to be speaking to a non-native English speaker, and thus definitely not an American.
- Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US 1 month ago:
Again, you are completely missing the point of the internet and English usage on it. People are using English as a lingua franca. There are a lot more non-native English speakers on the internet than native English speakers.
So no, odds are not that it is an American you are speaking to, just because that person speaks English. You are literally regurgitating the fallacy that OP is about.
- Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US 1 month ago:
The thing is we are not talking about visiting countries. We are talking about the World Wide Web.
- Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US 1 month ago:
What on Earth are you on about? “denigrate Americans”. They are pointing out facts. That you apparently are so fragile that you consider that denigration is entirely on yourself.
- Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US 1 month ago:
Your comment is very typical of that (fallacious) US centrism. People write in English on the internet because that is the universal language. There are far more secondary English speakers on the internet than primary English speakers.
- Comment on Anon makes bad decisions 1 month ago:
It seems to me that drunk driving is much more accepted in the US than in Europe.
- Comment on Swifties wasted no time... 2 months ago:
Yeah, Trump has already been president once. There is no escaping being a laughing stock country after that one.
- Comment on Burning Up 2 months ago:
People do live outside of North America. I know that must be news to you, but it is the truth.
- Comment on Burning Up 2 months ago:
But it is not a 0-100 scale. You have just arbitrarily picked out 0-100 because that makes your brain more easily understand the non-intuitive system which is fahrenheit.
- Comment on Burning Up 2 months ago:
“cold” and “hot” are completely non-descriptive and useless parameters for your supposed “intuitive” system.
- Comment on Burning Up 2 months ago:
My digital thermometers all uses decimals.
- Comment on Burning Up 2 months ago:
People in countries which much much hotter climates than the US use celsius, because most of the rest of the world uses celsius.
- Comment on Burning Up 2 months ago:
They are referring to the fact that 100 celsius literally boils water.
- Comment on Burning Up 2 months ago:
The thing is that you need to learn celsius if you are doing science, but celsius users don’t really need to learn fahrenheit, so this isn’t really a problem that comes up for a lot of celsius users.
- Comment on Burning Up 2 months ago:
Because it is the middle of that “1 is really really cold, 100 is really really hot” human feeling fahrenheit scale you guys keep going on about.
- Comment on Burning Up 2 months ago:
It literally was not.
- Comment on Burning Up 2 months ago:
Their friend is a dumbass though.
- Comment on Burning Up 2 months ago:
geographically unique
Geographically perhaps. But the cultural and historical unique is something you are going to miss out on by staying inside your own home country for your entire life. You think your US regional differences are the same as the differences between two countries, but anyone who has experienced different countries will tell you in an instant that that is not so.
- Comment on Burning Up 2 months ago:
It doesn’t really though for people who doesn’t use fahrenheit.