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Cake day: June 17th, 2023
  • don@lemm.eetoFediverse@lemmy.world•Testing out the Fediverse, A Breath of Fresh AirEnglish
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    7 days ago

    👋 Hi, and welcome! I ditched a 12 year old Reddit account when spez killed 3rd party API access, bounced around various federated platforms for a bit until I settled here.

    It’s sparse compared to the old site, but that’s also part of the fun: we get to do to Reddit what redditors did to Digg. Lemmy’s home for now, at least, and I’m better off for it.

    Have fun!

  • don@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.world•US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources.English
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    13 days ago

    I’ve had the great fortune to visit and live among other peoples in their countries (primarily the Baltics, Russia proper and Belorus) many years ago (first when Eesti still used the ruble, and then later again when she used those beautiful Eesti Kroon), when the people of those countries had much to tell me about their lives and cultures. I then had to return to the states, where knowing these things was frowned upon heavily, because they weren’t US-centric stories.

    I’ve lived outside US borders just perhaps long enough to be able to disdain US exceptionalism, and understand that its head hasn’t been cowed enough yet for its population to understand humility relative to the much older and wiser world.

    It’s very sad that I have to live to see it, especially with Canada and Mexico as our neighbors, but it seemed inevitable decades ago, so I’ll watch grimly as the country I was born in is made to fucking reckon… if it ever even learns to understand that fact.