Might want to check who you're actually talking to here. You seem to be making some incorrect assumptions.
Ah yeah that's pretty solid evidence. My own experience has been with my own comments getting removed, and it happening far too quickly to be manual moderation. If you actually saw someone else's comment, and then noticed it gone, it's hard to call that anything other than a deliberate silencing of their viewpoint.
Honestly, reading this comment is really just reinforcing for me why we say American. Reading "USAien" over and over again hurts my head.
Most americans, the majority of whom don't live in the US
Gonna stop you right there. The number of Americans who don't live in in the US is tiny.
"American" is the demonym for someone from the United States of America. You don't have to like it, but that's the way it's been in the English language for hundreds of years, and getting angry about it doesn't change linguistics, which is defined by usage.
English speakers don't recognise the Americas as a single continent, but as two separate continents separated by the isthmus of Panama. So it doesn't make sense to have a single demonym to refer to everyone from those two continents.
The arrogance of some Spanish speakers of thinking they have the right to dictate the English language is astounding. And I refuse to buy into it. I'm not coming into Spanish-speaking spaces and trying to change how they talk about things in their language.
The reason for this is simple: the word in English is "American". Because in English speaking countries, it is almost universally the case that we talk about the 7 continents. And in the rare case we talk about 6 continents, it's from merging Europe and Asia (which, frankly, is blatantly a far superior model of the continents), not merging North America and South America.
So "America" unambiguously refers to the country, and there's no need for estadounidense, any more than there's a need for "commonwealthian" for someone from the Commonwealth of Australia.
Yeah, that was another one of the theories. Linguists seem pretty sure it has something to do with Dutch, but are in disagreement over exactly how it came to be. (The "Janneke" example I gave above being, according to what I read, a diminutive form of Jan.)
Australian rhyming slang in this case, but yeah, it functions in much the same way as Cockney.
Bruh, check my instance.
Connections
Puzzle #623
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Skill 50/99
Uniqueness 1 in a Million
This is actually the first time I'm going to say: it's a badly-formulated puzzle. I found a solution in which all 16 words could be grouped into 4 groups of 4 believably, and when I entered my first guess, it gave me "one away".
Spoilers
Hot sauce, butter, syrup, milk: things you put on other food
Guts, jam, tea, beans: metaphors for gossip/truth telling.
Pickle, freeze, ferment, can: ways of preserving food.
Grate, grind, scrape, gnash: rubbing teeth together.
I entered the gossip one, and it was one away. I think also tried swapping jam for milk to change it to "spill the _____". Not even one away.
The definition of a badly-formulated connections puzzle is when there are multiple viable complete solutions. Frequently people complain about how they found one category that worked but wasn't right, but usually theirs wouldn't work with the other 3 categories. IMO that's not what happened today.
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A pie chart labelled "Reasons why I Run"
Taking up a small amount, less than a quarter combined, are "to look good", "to be strong", and (least of all) "to be fit". Taking up the vast majority of the pie is "to be also in physical pain, besides my existential suffering".
I realise this is a very niche question, but I was hoping someone here either knows the answer or can point me to a better place to ask.
My @DailyGameBot@lemmy.zip uses Puppeteer to take screenshots of the game for its posts. I want to run the bot on my Synology NAS inside of a Docker container so I can just set it and forget it, rather than needing to ensure my desktop is on and running the bot. Unfortunately, the Synology doesn't seem to play nicely with Puppeteer's use of the Chrome sandbox. I need to add the --no-sandbox and --disable-setuid-sandbox flags to get it to run successfully. That seems rather risky and I'd rather not be running it like that.
It works fine on my desktop, including if run in Docker for Windows on my desktop. Any idea how to set up Synology to have the sandbox work?
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A map of the world with the legend Green: Bigger than Vatican, Grey: No data. The entire world is green, except for Greenland and Western Sahara. New Zealand is shaded out so as to not appear at all.
I had no Internet yesterday, so thought it would be a good opportunity to do some AotG, which I haven’t done much of yet. To my surprise, I was unable. This is a single-player game mode...why‽
Train 2025 Animals of Set in any amount of Skirmish or Multiplayer Games.
I just spent over an hour in a game, spending most of the time constantly producing animals of Set. And a few games yesterday doing the same. And I'm still only at 1713.
What about it?