You can do that, but fediverse and threadiverse (Mastodon and Piefed/Lemmy/Mbin) are very different kinds of websites and it will lead to unexpected weirdness. Best to make a separate account for each type of thing (i.e. one for the twitter-like experience, one for the reddit-like, one for the instagram-like etc.).

Whether you use the same identity (e.g. same username on Mastodon and Piefed, linking your Mastodon profile in your Piefed profile etc.) for the whole fediverse is a matter of taste.

When in doubt (and if possible), keep your distance. You don’t have to slouch as much and I don’t have to look up as much.

Maybe you do.

Assuming they don’t already have copies through intelligence sharing agreements and have not already demanded access in secret, how exactly would most countries pressure the US, and specifically this US goverment?

I’d assume that there’s a lot of theoretically homosexual men who are in denial or very deeply closeted. I doubt these men have a large amount of man-on-man sex.

Only now did I remember that we have statistics about a lot of things. Straight women give oral sex an average of 5.14 times per month. Gay men are 5.3x per month

Only time in this thread that anyone even tried to bring blowjob statistics to the table instead of just assuming! Would love to see that statistic. Was it for every straight/gay person, regardless of relationship status? Only in relationships? If it’s the latter, that could skew the numbers quite a bit considering gay male hookup culture.

Depends on which statistik you look at and for which countries. To arrive at 20:1, I calculated with 5% of people being “mostly homosexual”, which means that about 2.5% of the population is “mostly homosexual” men and about 45% is “mostly heterosexual” women. Admittedly, this is likely on the high side for homosexuality, but there is a lot of variation in statistics on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_sexual_orientation.

Either way, I picked a high number für homosexuality because even if we assume that there are a lot of gay men, the ratio is still extremely high - it’s rather unlikely that the average gay man sucks dick 20 times more often than the average straight women.

I bet gay men are much more eager than straight women on average, but straight women outnumber gay men by like 20:1.

I’m talking about very flat pizza made by Italians who immigrated post WW2 and probably visit Italy almost every year, because that’s actually really easy to do when you’re in Europe.

Some pizza is just very bendy, it’s fingerfood the same way that tortelloni are finger food - you could, but it’s just more practical to use cutlery.

IDK, be poor probably. And I bet they hate it if you talk about seizing the means of production and eating the rich.

IMO, it depends on how bendy the pizza is, how big the crust (i.e. handle) is and wether it’s a sit-down restaurant or not. I’ve had some pizzas that tasted great, but would have been really messy to eat with my hands.

Abandoning your family is difficult, even if just for economic reasons. Especially if you live in a country like the US that doesn’t exactly have good social benefits for people down on their luck (IDK where you actually live).

Is there any way you could at least put some distance between you and your family in the near future? Some of my relationships with family members improved a lot after a couple of years with relatively low contact (I attended university in a different part of my country).

Re: Shame culture, I haven’t experienced anything like that here in Germany. Some families are definitely more demanding than mine, but I think even those are usually more constructive and less venomous than yours.

Sure, French was itself something of a lingua franca in centuries past (and still is to a degree), and Spanish is already a great candidate because it has, right now, more native speakers than English. I learned Spanish in school as a third language just because (we had to choose between Spanish, French and Latin) - didn’t stick, though, listening comprehension for Spanish is very hard and there wasn’t enough incentive for me.

English’s hegemony as a lingua franca is to a very large degree because of the US, especially after the UK lost almost all of their colonies after WW2. That said, English would probably still be a minor lingua franca in northern Europe, because it’s a lot easier to learn than a romance language if your native language is germanic.

English works pretty much the same way (except for that quirk with “drug store”), when people talk about “drugs” they almost never mean alcohol etc… Even though alcohol is worse than many illegal drugs, main point in favor of alcohol being that it’s legal and thus you know pretty well what you get - no poisonous diluents/extenders, no guessing at how much of the stuff you buy is actually the drug you want instead of diluent/extender, no contamination with other drugs.

Words have meaning.

Alcohol, nicotine, caffeine are drugs, too.

AFAIK, most religions only talk about a few specific drugs (if any), but not drugs as a whole. As far as most religions are concerned, cannabis, cocaine, opiates are just fine.

Ah yes, a reasonable and well-thought out reply to my comment.

I have no reason to believe that Israel even has the ability to hit a target that is anywhere near the US, so the US cannot be in the flight path of whatever target they hit with missiles. And who would they even want to hit where the US is on a potential flight path? Canada and Mexico?

Either way, if that’s our standard for “Israel bad because nuclear weapons”, every other nuclear power is an asshole to Israel, too, including the US.

Yeah sorry, I did not, in fact, recall correctly. Bill Clinton was definitely involved with Epstein, though.

What’s your answer to OP’s question then, if the “both parties are involved” explanation is supposedly Russian propaganda? There’s a distinct lack of comments who offer an alternative explanation.