I don’t care what people say, the most important historical event in my lifetime was the discovery and release of the lost Steely Dan tape containing The Second Arrangement
Your points about social bubbles and echo chambers are true, but experiencing the displeasure of having to routinely interact with rightwingers in person verifies that they have fully-fledged conviction in their “vile conspiracy hate fascist bullshit”. They can’t have a reasonable exchange of ideas because they bring nothing reasonable or empathetic to the table.
I’d use Lemmy on my mobile browser if it kept me logged in. Probably an issue with my phone/OS.
Following in Quora’s footsteps of enshittification
Hide under a cardboard box and slowly inch your way across the broadcast frame and out of the studio
Somehow, @treefrog@lemm.ee returned
I had an ESL coworker make a similar mistake to me. Mixing up name-nombre/number-numero goes both ways.
Also in Spanish, you want to say “Tengo calor” = “I have heat” instead of “Estoy caliente” = “I am hot”, because the latter is used to mean “I am horny”.
My Spanish teacher also told us of a time he had taken a class to a Spanish speaking country and a student accidentally broke a glass while in a restaurant. The student wanted to exclaim “I am very embarrassed!”, but used a false cognate and instead exclaimed “Estoy muy embarazada!” = “I am very pregnant!”
Is your friend David Bowie? Have we found Brian Eno’s Lemmy account?