I’d use knife and fork but you do you.

Nice rule of thumb: 7% increase per year means doubling in 10 years.

No u

It’s not healthy, but it’s cheap: a hamburger at McDonald’s — €1.40, if I buy fries with it, €3.50.

3.50€ for a meal isn’t cheap and nothing a poor person can afford on a regular basis. I can cook a great meal for under 2€ that doesn’t consist of trash. What a detached asshole.

Could be declared a medical product.

Which is the only legitimate use case, but I bet >99% of straws produced aren’t used for that.

I think Putin just waited for some Wagner bosses to be on the same plane. Prigozhin has been successful in Niger and felt safe to fly with Utkin. The leftovers of Wagner will now be integrated into the Russian military.

Great, so we already have two data points now!

I’m not sure but I think they might have some airports in Africa.

Maybe it would have been awkward if he fell out of a window immediately after the coup so they had to wait for him to take a plane.

I wonder if there is a correlation between drop height and importance of the persons he’s killing.

The headline says “fact-finding mission to China” though.

I have absolutely no idea what your point is (aside from “Americans bad hurr durr”)

Oh man, there is so much to unpack here. We have been well past the tribal stage for millennia now, so I don’t really get your point here. And yes it was a social construct, not all animals are tribal. Great apes have very different social structures and behaviours regarding other groups, just compare chimpanzees and bonobos.

Human history is full of examples of overcoming tribal structures. The fact, that people from all over the world write English on platforms like lemmy is proof that it can’t be that important to stick to your “tribe” (I think you mean language group?) and exclude others.

And no, most europeans did not speak English well enough to take part in deeper conversations until very recently. We are getting there though and it’s absolutely noticeable when you look at YouTube content, subs and conversations on reddit, cultural products like music (compare the languages of the ESC now vs. 30 years ago).

I also don’t get what you mean by “identity”. Why can’t European, world citizen or human be an identity? National identities are just as manufactured as others would be.

And by “content” I’m obviously not talking about tiktok dances in hardware stores. I’m talking about what OP posted, critical analysis, politics, opinions.

Absolutely not. As a european, I find it extremely interesting to look for the parallels and differences between our societies and how problems are handled. We can all learn from each other.

The problem is, that we fail to produce an equal amount of output because we don’t have a common language and still see ourselves as our national identities rather than Europeans. If we widened our view and noticed more of what’s happening in other countries, we could be absolutely on par with the content Americans make and it would take us all a step closer to become actual world citizens.

Where did he mention Snowden?

Maybe he made them do that, so he can finally fulfil his dream of leading his own big band.

That’s a really great idea!

The delusion about being censored just because people are objecting you view is bullshit. Equating people taking climate change serious to sucking dick is bullshit. Crying about people being toxic while being toxic yourself is bullshit.

Spreading bullshit is frowned upon everywhere, the platform doesn’t matter.