It’s called xenophobia, the fear and dislike of anything foreign. Some people believe that if your group isn’t dominant it will be dominated, and peaceful coexistence isn’t possible between different groups.

These people are afraid that, if the English language isn’t forced onto other people, one day other people will force a foreign language onto them.

Chess player Andrea Botez started an onlyfans page where she posted videos of herself being mated.

It’s probably one of the more fair ways for people to get paid for sex work. I’ve read stories of porn actresses making $5,000 a month through big name studios switching to OnlyFans and making $30,000 a month.

I’d say even in general it’s better for people who create content to sell directly to consumers instead of working for a corporation.

In case anyone wanted to know a bit more. He was the founder of the American Railway Union, one of America’s first industrial unions. As leader, he organized a stike against the Pullman factory that resulted in its own factory workers, who were not ARU members, to strike. The strike was because factory workers had their wages reduced but their rents (which they paid to the company they worked for) were not. Engineers and conductors for the company continued to work, so Debs had the striking factory workers block railways. That caused the government to send in the army to break up the union and jail Debs along with other union and strike leaders.

While in jail, Debs read socialist political literature and founded several socialist political parties on his release. Debs gave many political speeches that upset the government, but one where he urged listeners to dodge the WWI military draft, because the proletariat shouldn’t fight the battles of the rulling class, caused him to be jailed once again for sedition. It was this time in jail that he ran for office.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs

Kinda surprised the Beatles released a new song to be honest.

Penis inspection day

People can learn more than one language. If you speak English you can learn Mandarin and increase the people you can communicate with by billions. There is no “one language” because people can know more than one language at a time

Buying a competing business and then shutting it down is what all big tech companies do. They don’t actually want to run that business, but they also don’t want anyone else to run it.

List of acquisitions by Microsoft

See also: “get good grades in university and you’ll be flooded with job offers!”

Exactly what Alina Habba did and it cost him $83.3 million.

Survivorship bias is a thing. Just because someone is successful doesn’t mean following their advice will make you successful. “I put all my money into lottery tickets and now I’m a multi-millionaire. Everyone should do what I did!”

It would be the absolute stupidest thing he could do. The fifth amendment is waived if he takes the stand meaning the jury is allowed to assume the worst if Trump refuses to answer tough questions.

there is no clear definition of what constitutes science

My understanding is anyone who follows the scientific method is taking part in science. Some fields can’t completely follow the scientific method for practical reasons and they’re called “soft sciences” (ex. economics, due to experiments being difficult to carry out). If the scientific method isn’t followed, it isn’t science.

The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.

From the Magic: The Gathering card “Blood of the Martyr”

If my sources are correct, we didn’t use enough aether crystals to summon Ifrit, Lord of the Inferno. My source is Final Fantasy btw.

I would assume they mean nobody does everything by themselves and so can’t exactly be considered “self-made”

There are a lot of people involved in creating a new album and touring the country. If these people didn’t work for her then she’d be playing guitar in a bar for tips. She deserves to be rich, but the people who work for her deserve fair pay and a 0.001% cut isn’t fair, it’s just the way it is.

It just doesn’t apply to the president. Traitors aren’t allowed in office unless its the highest possible office. Just like judges can’t accept gifts unless they’re the highest possible judge. Rules don’t apply to the people at the top. It’s what the founding fathers wanted.

It’s a pretty common tactic by people pushing an agenda to interview an idiot with certain views and then present it as if everyone with those views are just as dumb. It’s common on conservative outlets but I also don’t like it when people do interviews at Trump rallies and find the biggest idiot to put in front of the camera. It’s disingenuous to do that.

I joined up when Reddit decided to end third party apps. I mostly browsed the front page of Reddit for interesting or funny things, but I noticed once I switched to Lemmy that the Reddit front page was just sponsored content and what the algorithm wanted you to see. I was actually interested in stuff on Lemmy and that made me want to participate rather than just scroll the front page.

I don’t run a business but worked at a small company where the owner was the founder. He told me running a business is doing what you’re paid to do about 30% of the time and boring administrative stuff 70% of the time.