It’s like you failed to read the first 2/3 of my reply.

The fact that many people are able to notice and whack many mosquitoes when they bite shows that it isn’t only after 5 minutes that people notice, leaving room for an evolutionary improvement that would allow them to live longer and thus reproduce more

Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute

The fact that people often notice and whack mosquitos when they bite suggests that there is still a reproductive advantage to be had

Idk I think those are peppers and she’s trying to get a hot ass

Some are godly gifts from on high to bless our taste buds.
But others are abominations sent from below to befoul our mouths and stain our toilets.

What the fuck are all these abominations?!?!

But that’s kinda what I’m talking about: by sheer luck some of those interesting beers have gotta be good.

People hate Coors because it tastes like water, but idk why someone would hate that; water is good.
Sure it’s a bad beer in the sense that it isn’t very beer-ey, but it’s a fine drink because it doesn’t taste like anything. I don’t see how someone can like Perrier water, but not like Coors, they’re practically the same.

Of course, to do this once is at least as much to far. This is obvious.

I think it’s of-a-kind

Domestic/mass-produced European beers are much better than domestic/mass-produced American beers.
And European craft beers are better than American craft beers.

America has a lot of bad domestic and bad craft beers, but there are enough craft beers that some have gotta be good even if just by luck.

Personally I don’t think it’s a big deal: yes American beers taste like water or fruit water, but I like water, it’s refreshing. Water that gives me a buzz if I drink enough is a win in my book.

yo dawg, whatchu do for fun? Have you considered: me?

What could go wrong? 100% chance of success

Its the only way for artists to survive now. It was always dicey before, but cost of living and meager returns on streaming mean that artists need to produce music with broad appeal.

I think there is still value in their reminder that Galen Weston isn’t forgiven, despite being Canadian; so don’t get so caught up in our passion to switch to Canadian brands that we end up giving our money to someone nearly as bad.

I still don’t really think them listing a single example (or many) would prove anything, or be meaningfully useful. I wouldn’t mind hearing some of their experience in looking for local, so people know what to expect, but I don’t think we need to be upset that they didn’t.

In other words, I think they are contributing, even if their tone is perhaps not ideal for moving people to action.

I was gonna fight you because “or if there’s a better icon to us now that can represent saving.” Is a reasonable interpretation of what OP said.

But then I continued to read more comments and wow people just like… Explaining the floppy disk is wild.

Just caution: being anti-megacorp doesn’t make you left of center.

As much as I support what he did, I’ve heard conflicting reports of his actual political beliefs.

Unless it’s Loblaws

I think their point was “don’t just buy Canadian, but local” which means the unless you live near each other, their recommendations won’t help. This is generally more impactful advice.

But I appreciate your point that we want to make it easy to avoid American products, to lower the bar so more people do it; so listing national brands makes that much more useful.

Wait…
French’s ketchup is Canadian but French’s mustard is American???

Both Wikipedia and fediverse.party consider Diaspora, and a handful of other (mostly defunct) protocols as being part of the fediverse.

I don’t really like the use of AP to be a qualification of being in the fediverse. There must be a better way to qualify a platform, even if it means that use of AP is a natural consequence.

Are you kidding me?
I thought it was more than that when I called it a ghost town.

Imagine if in the entirety of Lemmy, in all channels of all instances, there was a total of 6 posts per hour, and none of them were in channels you wanted to subscribe to.

It took a day before I got my activation email. There was no indication on the website it was gonna take that long, but I’m guessing it’s early enough that it might still require manual approval.

That said it’s still very much a ghost town