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  • Scotland is British.

    Grouping Scotland and Ireland like that has always been weird to me. Scotland played a very active role in colonisation, were over represented in Colonial administrations, and themselves helped colonise Ireland (hence Ulster Scots, Scots-Irish).

  • Sync is broken in this regard, it doesn't permanently hide posts anymore.

  • Damaging trade through the Suez effects everyone negatively. If anything this will be one of his more popular moves.

  • More pizza delivery drivers get shot than cops

    This is more of a America problem than a pizza guy problem.

  • The article does not say that, Houthis are absolutely not just targeting Troop transports (?) - there is no troop transports going through the Suez to Israel. I assume you're misreading the Trump quote from the article here - they have targeted US warships but they've also targeted a large number of commercial/oil ships as well.

    Even if they were only targeting troop transports (which they aren't), they're throwing missiles at the worlds most important trade route - it's obviously going to impact pretty much everyone who transits through there. The whole point of their actions is to cripple Western trade related to Israel.

  • Little different here because transit of trade through the Suez is essential for American business. It's very much in-line with Trumps ideology to care about his bottom line and protecting American business, not to mention he gets brownie points from his base for acting tough. Win win.

  • The real, most simple answer is: you wouldn't, at least not unless we shift into a world where there are significantly less languages.

    Any world government would have to contend with the reality that the world is full of multiple languages. So a number of lingua francas would be chosen as the "official languages" - either the most spoken or the most politically important (probably one and the same).

    The idea to create some sort of apolical, unproblematic language just isn't realistic. If it was, it would've already occurred on a mass scale. You could just as easily paint an artificial language in a negative light as you have with English: any artificial language would be taking up the place of a real, authentic language and imposing itself onto peoples who do not speak it (language imperialism of an artificial kind isn't much better).

    Besides, translators are only getting better and better and we already have a number of multi-national institutions that function fine despite the number of languages at play (e.g the EU).

  • Warning, Sync seems abandoned and some features are broken, e.g read posts don't stay hidden. I'd recommend Boost, Summit, Jerboa, or Thunder

  • Go into your settings and stick the "hide read posts" option on for improved browsing.

  • They also support their games for over a decade.

    Also you can buy the base games and then just pirate the dlc. All dlc can be downloaded off of cs.rin.ru forums. I do this because modding the games through workshop is just worth the price.

    Then you run creamapi to unlock the dlc.

    No need to buy them.

  • Lemmy is definitely rough if you're into niche communities, true. So was Reddit in its early years though, to be fair.

  • That's not true. I've got a pretty active feed of subs, you just need to spend time curating a good list

  • Just block the subs. Or subscribe to communities that interest you and stick to your subscribed feed.

  • Just like Reddit, you need to curate your feed. Don't browser all/local, browse your subscriptions. Here's a list of subs that aren't political https://lemmy.world/post/16327122 - subscribe to ones that interest you.

    Also feel free to liberally block communities. It's trivial to do.