• dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
      11·
      5 days ago

      Eh, I give it a 4/10 right now. There’s still some cool stuff to do and plenty of great people around, but generally, can’t recommend it if you don’t have to.

  • pigup@lemmy.world
    171·
    5 days ago

    I assume it’s because the life in Europe is better so people don’t need to escape their reality as much. You can go out and see a cool castle or ride a train or go check out a new country. And then you can get really, really, really good food that won’t give you diarrhea like the food here in the US.

    • Starski@lemmy.zip
      2·
      5 days ago

      Well yeah, if you only go to McDonald’s or Taco Bell then you’ll get diarrhea, but there’s plenty of food and restaurants around the entirety of the us that has phenomenal food. However looking at your post history proves to me you don’t care about facts and only about insulting people and their ideals, and seemingly everyone on the internet enjoys nothing but shitting on Americans no matter the circumstance, so I know this will fall on deaf ears.

      • robocall@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 days ago

        taco bell doesn’t give me diarrhea. it’s not the firmest bowel movement, but it’s certainly not diarrhea.

      • pigup@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 days ago

        Ouch!? You have very curious reading comprehension skills, it appears. I’m not shitting on Americans, i’m shitting on the relatively weak and ineffective governments at the local state of federal level, which tend to only serve the interests of folks with large amounts of money. I have a relatively sensitive stomach and I have been sick from all kinds of restaurants across the US.

        You see, when you pay people minimum wage or less so in the case of tipped workers, their motivation to clean up and provide a great sanitary environment for everything is arguably lessened, don’t you think? Further, our education system, being largely designed by large corporate interests aims to produce ignorant workers, people addicted to fast food, sugar and its derivatives. People who think food should be as cheap and fast as possible, as convenient as possible, and not worthy of sitting down and spending time, contemplating cooking it, growing it, eating with family, et cetera.

        I remember walking around in Zwolle, Netherlands. I remember being embarrassed because I was the only one walking around while eating something. Everyone else sits down to eat. I never saw anyone eating in their car. Or eating while driving. I’m just saying this is illustrative of the difference between the US’s fucked up food culture and the rest of the world’s more mature and established food culture.

        Have you ever been to Japan? Have you ever been to Europe? Have you ever been to South America? I have and I can tell you, on average, they truly respect food. Just walk through the center aisles of any American supermarket and tell me if those products suggest a culture which honors and values food? It’s my humble opinion that no, not really.

        If I’m full of shit and I’m doing something wrong, I am all ears and willing to do better, I promise you. You’re gonna have to be real and not just throw daggers like that.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
    311·
    6 days ago

    It’s impossible because Trump keeps doing things it can still be 3:00 in the morning over there and he’ll do something. All Europe seems to have is the Germans, and they keep posting in their weird secret language.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
    32·
    6 days ago

    I’d love to make fun of European politics, there’s no shortage of embarrassments.

    not my fault my fellow Americans elected king dumbass.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
      192·
      6 days ago

      Whoa whoa whoa whoa! Hang on a second. We didn’t elect a king. You don’t elect a king. We elected a dictator.

      There’s a difference.

      Kings are born royalty. This jackass got elected. We CHOOSE him. This is OUR fault. Whereas with kings, nobody chooses them. They’re just born into that role.

      • db2@lemmy.world
        17·
        6 days ago

        I don’t think we did though. Before even one vote was counted he was bragging that the results don’t matter because he has all the votes he needs. He literally announced that he’d rigged an election and nobody did anything about it.

        • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          6 days ago

          He literally announced that he’d rigged an election and nobody did anything about it.

          That’s not true, tons of voters heard that and stayed home to make sure he’d win and be the first republican in decades to win the popular vote.

      • zaphod@sopuli.xyz
        8·
        6 days ago

        Of course you can elect kings. It’s called elective monarchy, there have been a few of those throughout history.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    211·
    6 days ago

    The US is like turning on a morning soap opera. What absurd and dramatic contrivances have they come up with this time that could never happen in real life?

  • TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca
    112·
    5 days ago

    “USA stuff” is affecting the whole world right now. You are coming to check out an English based social network for non-“USA stuff”. What did you expect?

    • slappyfuck@lemmy.ca
      51·
      5 days ago

      I genuinely do not understand what the complaint is. If people are interested in non US things, please, by all means go discuss those things, but please don’t act like it’s weird how it is now.

  • Echolynx@lemmy.zipEnglish
    101·
    5 days ago

    From the other perspective, I love when I’m still up at 2-3 AM and start seeing the ich_iel posts come up.

    • SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml
      4·
      5 days ago

      I love checking Lemmy in the morning, and seeing all the German language Memes. I can’t read them, since I don’t know German, but I like knowing that they’re over there, doing their thing ¯_(ツ)_/¯

      • Holyginz@lemmy.world
        9·
        6 days ago

        Unfortunately, thats a moot point to people who are staring down the barrel of our obscenely large military budget. I dont blame people for not liking us. I didn’t vote for agent orange, but he is still representing our country 🤢

  • Enzy@feddit.nu
    82·
    5 days ago

    My filters disagree with you.

    Though I wish I could block everything that has to do with that disgraceful country but, ah well.

    Or just a general “no politics” option would be nice.

    • enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      I think Lemmy ia harder to filter. My mastodon/sharkey feed is clean from being US-centric because there’s content warning feature, people use it, and people describes their image well in the alt-text. That works well with filter. Even the public federated feed i still very clean.

      Lemmy however is less robust on that. My Lemmy frontend is not helping either. It does have filter feature but I don’t think it works. I can’t say anything on Piefed, haven’t tried it at all.

        • enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          4 days ago

          depends on who you follow I guess. I always follow people who I decide I want to keep seeing their post. I don’t follow famous people if they post boring stuff. I also don’t follow brand account that are just posting ads lol, like software brand account, etc. I follow 516 accounts and it’s feels pretty lively.

          Though with that amount of following I feel like there are few accounts that got their post buried because they post less frequently.

          I mostly follow few gamedev people, few FOSS & tech people, non-tech related “fedi shitposters”, and history/archaeology-posting accounts. The shitpoters, gamedev, and tech are the loudest. The latter posts semi-regularly but they just don’t have other people interacted with it. Though I still enjoy their posts.

          conversely, I had a alt account on different instance but I don’t actively follow so much account, it feels so empty. though that particular instance have some funny people so the local feed is also quite funny sometimes. So which instance to join is also matters particularly for the local feed.

          But it’s also that personally now I’d get slightly annoyed when totally random post appears on my timeline on Bluesky and especially Tumblr. Especially Tumblr which keeps assuming I like taylor swift.