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Bob

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    Is there a "normie" or more mainstream instance for Lemmy?

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  • I don't think this is semantics. It reminds me of the Elon Musk nazi salute thing: maybe we are all tired of leftist nitpicking but it's making people prone to misidentify it.

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  • I disagree. Having some kind of grievance with capitalism an sich is central to being leftwing.

  • Hour 12 of a 15-hour trip emigrating to the UK from the U.S. with a teenager. (OC)

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  • I imagine a lot has changed in that regard anyway, especially with the way mainstream politics has gone in the intervening years, but it does indeed sound like you lived in a bit of a bubble at the time too!

    I’m probably falling into the habits I caught when living in Britain and using the word “excellent” to mean what people in other countries think of as “good”

    I'm British, and I know the British tendency is to understate rather than overstate, so I don't know how you've landed there!

    for areas with less demand...

    That's why I expressly mentioned that it was because they don't learn Dutch: so you don't have to wonder if there were any confounding factors at play.

    Dutch is easy (a relative term, admittedly) if your mother tongue's English because they're so closely related. Many basic words are either very similar or spelt the same but pronounced differently. Bit like what Spanish is to Portuguese. I think it's quite obvious that native speakers don't learn Dutch quickly, if at all, because they have no one to practise with, and perhaps the idea of switching languages being rude plays a part too. I've met a couple of people who think it's not worth it to learn and none of them were from the Anglosphere.

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  • I distinctly remember liberal messages rising to the top on Reddit, stuff like that you should just accept that you have to go out and work for a living. That's not left!

  • It's a good group!

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  • > join good group

    > look inside

    > neo-nazis

  • Pixelfed just overtook Lemmy as the 4th most used Fediverse software.

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  • It's actually the second or third thing I mention about Lemmy if it ever comes up in conversation. Sometimes I feel like just dropping it because of it.

  • Hour 12 of a 15-hour trip emigrating to the UK from the U.S. with a teenager. (OC)

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  • That said, most Dutch speak excellent English

    That's not true, not excellent English. Many speak enough to get by, except the elderly and the young, and some of them speak it well, fewer still excellently. Over four years, I've met probably a handful at most who could express their deepest thoughts and desires while pronouncing "th" correctly and their As not as Es.

    Many banks won't take you in if you don't speak Dutch and it's harder to find a job (this was in the news just recently, as it happens: nearly all international students are struggling in the job market because they generally don't learn Dutch, despite there being so many vacancies). You can definitely get by with English, and I've heard of many people living here decades without learning Dutch too, but if you want to live well, that's another thing altogether.

    The good news is Dutch is easy if your mother tongue's English or German but there is indeed a problem in the Randstad of it being hard to convince anyone to let you speak it with them, in part because they often overestimate how well they speak it. There's a relatively famous quote from colonial Indonesia about how the Dutch colonisers would rather speak bad Indonesian than Dutch, which the Indonesians spoke fluently. I think it's like a feedback effect with the reputation they have for knowing second languages.

    Anyway, details details.

  • Hour 12 of a 15-hour trip emigrating to the UK from the U.S. with a teenager. (OC)

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  • You're not all too far from Hebden Bridge if you settle up them ways anyway. She'll be sound. Best of luck to yous.

  • mate failed year 6 geography

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  • Haha, what a fucking plonker. England is nowhere near Australia.

  • This Aged Well

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  • We all know there's a barrier, albeit fairly low, to the fediverse proper, but on the other hand, I remember seeing a video once about how people's attention span is so fucked by Instagram and all that that they comment with questions already answered in the post, for example (obviously I can't find it now in the sea of opinion-piece video essays about it). In a way the barrier to entry is a boon to the fediverse proper in all arenas bar financing.

  • What's everyone's teuteuf.fr gotos?

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  • Well, wouldn't you know, I've just given it another go and it was easy peasy.

  • Noodgevallen en beheer

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  • Ik zou het ook vet vinden, maar zou dat niet de vaste lasten hoger maken? Nou als je dat kan financiëren is het al prima, maar ik vraag me af hoe "officieel" feddit.nl dient te zijn. Ik weet toevallig dat mastodon.nl door een stichting beheerd wordt; misschien bij hen vragen als je dat nog niet hebt gedaan?

  • Saving water

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  • That's not the problem because you can just cuddle to warm up. The problem is when one of yous likes the water hotter than the other.

  • S for Something which starts with S

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  • I learnt it to work in a call centre ten years ago and can still remember them all with a bit of effort, but I still don't know the Dutch one, which is more likely to come in handy now and is all people's names.

  • What's everyone's teuteuf.fr gotos?

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  • I don't get Searchle.

  • What's everyone's teuteuf.fr gotos?

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  • Seeing one of those posts is what made me wonder, hehe.

  • [sh.it.post] We're #5! We're #5!

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  • Certainly enough to keep the instance afloat I assume!

  • dailygames @lemmy.zip
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    What's everyone's teuteuf.fr gotos?

  • [sh.it.post] We're #5! We're #5!

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  • I imagine feddit.nl is nowhere near the top but I sort of like it that way.

  • Ed Davey urges Keir Starmer to give visas to Americans fleeing Trump

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  • I remember me and my sister imploring our mum to get one so we could get one in 2016, but she wouldn't see the point of it.

  • Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world
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    Wiktionary uses an erotic excerpt as a source for at least one of its definitions.

    en.wiktionary.org /wiki/glair
  • Music @lemmy.world
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    This Youtube channel analysing music reminds me so much of Patrick Bateman

  • Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world
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    This Dutch bike store uses a bike symbol and the Android share symbol to signify bikeshare bikes

  • DeGoogle Yourself @lemmy.ml
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    Youtube and Android 5.1.1.

  • Steam @lemmy.ml
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    I'm mildly proud of how I categorise my games on Steam and interested to see others' methods

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Two amateurish questions

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    To those with English as a second language: are people actively being taught that a short A should be pronounced as a short E?

  • Comics @lemmy.ml
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    Ruben Bolling's comic strip from 12th Sept 2001

    mas.to /@rubenbolling@mastodon.social/111047688624200232
  • [closed] Ask Women @lemmy.ca
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    What to do if you don't feel listened to at work?