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Allero
joined 11 months ago
"Asia&Japan Watch" is right under their name.
This topic is not centered in the US by any metric. It's just an example of a Lemmy bias.
Original article is about Asia, and Lemmy is an international platform, so neither applies here
I don't mind some actually regional things presented in whatever system they use in there - although I'd much prefer if we'd all go metric already. C'mon!
Russian-languaged media is not commonly consumed by someone living under imperial/Fahrenheit system, so it's only natural.
For English, it might make sense to at least always add Celsius in parentheses, unless it's highly regional news.
Also, привет российским леммиводам :D
Fair, my bad! Sorry if it was offensive.
I just got a little sick of all the Fahrenheit (and also Imperial) domination around here. This, in turn, is often left without clarification, despite the system being way less popular.
Lemmy as a platform is extremely America-centric, despite having tons of folks from everywhere else, which is aggravating in the long run. World really, really doesn't all revolve around land of the free.
I agree clarification never hurts, but the entire world except for ~4% of highly entitled population will read that right.
Answering questions in the article:
But is it actually possible? Yes. It's not complicated by modern space industry standards.
Is it smart to do? Absolutely not, it is insanely wasteful and unpractical. Electric light exists, just sayin'. Also, you either need to switch between satellites in a swarm, which will suddenly change the angles of light, or you have to put satellites onto geostationary orbit, which is even more wasteful.
And would it really look exactly as portrayed in the video? No. It is known they did not use satellites for it, most likely it was a drone. Light will come from a much greater distance and will also dissipate more - harassing your surroundings, that is.
Seriously though
The feminine (and, by extension, lesbian) is constantly portrayed in such a sweet and gentle way and masculine us always so rough that I can't help but say "lesbian relationships to me, please"
And I'm a guy.
Where tf did we lose those cute gentle hetero relationships and representation? Okay there's GFD, but barely anyone notices it and it's strictly about women taking the lead and mostly sexual, which is only one side of the story.
lol
Memory's a weird subject
Nothing to be ashamed of - the world is too complex to connect everything, and we all miss out on something very simple :)
Lemmy was at some point this pre-September place. Since then, it changed quite a bit.
I think we'll always have to face either Eternal September or walls and restrictions everywhere, making it hard to join and discouraging many genuinely good folks.
Our best best is to influence the Internet culture at large, since there's no grand influx of people on the Internet overall anymore. Of course, we go against algorithmic rage machines, but this is a fight worth having. And which place if not Fediverse is a good place to start.
Using Windows is a true flex on Lemmy