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This topic is not for me as it's clearly focused on USA alone, but the mention of ambrosia salad reminded me a dessert with the same name:

Made with caramelised sugar, eggs, milk, citrus juice. Iberian in origin, still fairly popular here in southern Brazil.

On chicken Kiev: I know that the dish is supposed to be fancy and all of that, I've seen Marco Pierre preparing it, but frankly? The idea of a deed-fried dish filled with butter definitively does not please me.

I wonder how Reddit managed to fuck the blocking function up so fucking bad.

No, wait, I don't. I know how:

• Reddit doesn't hire people to curb down harassment because that reduces the margins of profit
• harassment runs rampant in the site
• some users want to hide from harassers, and suggest that blocking should prevent the blocked from contacting the blocker
• Reddit be like: "that's cheaper than doing the right thing! Let's do it!"
• new blocking has exploits and more exploits, since it allows unilateral control of the conversation
• Reddit tries to fix those exploits, introducing even more exploits

Anyway. Will Digg enshittify again? (Yes.) And unless the functionality of the site changes upon relaunching, Digg is not a good replacement for what Reddit has become; Reddit is not just a link-sharing platform any more, it's more like a bunch of forums.

Yup, pretty much.

And, as usual, advertisers are to be blamed: they're the ones interested on "engagement", and indirectly siccing platforms to artificially inflate their engagement numbers.

Bob Dylan defence strikes again~ "Steal a little and they throw you in jail / Steal a lot and they make you king."

...yes, copyright laws are awful, in every bloody country. But if they're going to be kept they need to be applied to both megacorpos and us. Not just to us.

I’m pretty sure they mean The Company Formerly Known As Electronic Arts.

Exactly. (I should've used its full name, now I get where Madbrad200 got that "early access" thing.)

I know Stellaris isn't an early access title. And it shows the same problems as EU4: Paradox is so invested on milking players through a predatory DLC policy that the game becomes a sloppy mess of feature creep, without any sort of consistent design behind the new features. Just like Electronic Arts loves doing, except with a niche genre.

it’s also probably their best managed game.

Given how poorly managed the other games are, might as well say "so far the poor management is a bit more bearable".

Hipsters' EA is hyping a game update. "Wohoo".

...seriously, I'm not touching anything Paradox does with a 3m pole.

EDIT: "EA" = "Electronic Arts", not "early access".

And that's extremely sensible from their PoV. Not just to federate with Lemmy or Mastodon, mind you - but to federate with each other.

I think this to be a consequence of forums being isolated from each other, while communities in Discord/Reddit are connected.

If you want to talk about N different topics in forums you need to register N times, check N separated feeds, and establish your presence N times. This quickly piles up, and while you might stick to one or two forums you'll eventually ditch all the others.

In the meantime Discord/Reddit streamline the process. Even if I spend most of my time in r/apples, I'm already able to post in r/bananas, r/cherries, r/durians etc. If I were to subscribe to all of those, I'd see new content from them in a single feed. And people from those comms will see my activity in r/apples and know "hey, this is not a troll", so my presence is already half-established.

The problem is that Discord/Reddit have a single point of failure: the administration can enshittify the whole thing. And they did. Then we get something like the Fediverse picking the best bits of forums (self-governance, no single point of failure) and Discord/Reddit (less isolation).

I got one from the same username 2h ago:

Notice the lack of crypto links. Is it possible we have copycat Nicoles?

Perhaps a meta-scammer?

Yup, the commenter raised the same points - but in a clearer way. (He even mentioned the matrons!)

This is sounding a lot like a telephone game, to be honest:

• Shaw - "I disagree with Grimm, since I don't take linguistic evidence into account" →
• Winick - "I'm trying to be succinct here so TL;DR this is a conjecture, not proven stuff" →
• youtuber (dunno his name) - "this is all unsupported assumption!"

Partially off-topic, but Interesting tidbit from the article:

Moreover, a much simpler origin for the Old High German name of Easter has since been proposed: much of Germany was Christianized by Anglo-Saxon priests, who (as Bede tells us) already called Easter by a variant of the name, so they probably just brought the name for Easter with them, where it was adapted by Old High German speakers. [2]

Bede's hypothesis is clearly false: if Old High German borrowed the word for Easter from Anglo-Saxon dialects, the modern German word Ostern (Easter) wouldn't start with /o:/, but rather some front unrounded vowel; it would be **Estern /e:/ or similar. That *au → ēa~ēo change you see in Old English is so old that it was certainly present in the speech of the Anglo-Saxon priests, OHG speakers would likely simplify the odd cluster into a simple /e:/ and call it a day.

• lemmynsfw.com - there's [email protected] but only mods can create posts. I couldn't find any direct equivalent to a support comm.
• lemmygrad.ml - [email protected] ; there's also [email protected] for official content
• lemmy.eco.br - support strictu sensu is done through Matrix, https://matrix.to/#/#lemmyecobr:matrix.org . But there's also [email protected] to talk about the server.