Then also split California and Illinois and New York and Georgia and Florida

Most people are definitely quite squeamish about eating unshelled shrimp. This feels like a strawman.

So they’re really popular if you pulverize them so they’re totally unrecognizable and then trick people into eating them without respect for bodily autonomy‽

Which, from this thread, sounds like what’s happening in Finland.

Yeah, obviously employees have to be paid like with anywhere. Those are business expenses. But at the end of the day, the amount of money they charge has to be equal to the amount it costs them.

For which ones? Most are mutual insurance companies, where any profit has to legally be paid back to the customers.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/mutualcompany.asp

Farmers, State Farm, Liberty Mutual, Thrivent, USAA, Blue Cross Blue Shield, American Family, Nationwide, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_insurance#United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal_inter-insurance_exchange#Examples

A lot of insurance companies—arguably most of the ones used—are not for profit: American Family, COUNTRY, generally Blue Cross Blue Shield, Liberty Mutual, Northwestern Mutual, any other company with “mutual” in the name, USAA, Farmers, State Farm, Progressive, etc.

Each post refers to the poster’s home domain as the canonical URL, regardless of which instance you’re viewing it on specifically to avoid duplication SEO concerns

Pluto is still legally a planet in New Mexico and Illinois.

This is just more misinformation, actually. Thanksgiving festivals were common in Europe before the colonization of America. See Lammas and Horkey. The settlers just continued their traditions in America. The native Americans had similar traditions, but the idea wasn’t anything new to Europeans. Canada’s Thanksgiving has moved around a lot over the years, but its current day was chosen to separate it from Remembrance Day. Its timing has nothing to do with Native holidays.

I don’t who “they” are to really respond to the rest of your comment. You’re kind of painting the Indians with an extremely broad brush. Almost nothing will be true about all the cultures of an entire continent. The Pilgrims primarily interacted with the Wampanoags, but they didn’t have a written language and there’s certainly no evidence their tribe existed for 25,000 years.

There’s a common belief among the Iroquois that it should be considered how actions will affect the seventh generation, but the idea that that’s in their constitution is a common myth. The Iroquois Confederacy itself was only formed about 1450. If you read the Great Law of Peace, it bears no resemblance to the US Constitution. Calling it plagiarism is ridiculous. There are not even any significant references to the Iroquois by Congress in the 1780s. This is another modern myth which originated in the last hundred years. The Iroquois constitution wasn’t even written for a democracy.

GitHub sponsorships are a way of donating to programmers. In addition to hosting lemm.ee, sunaurus has made significant contributions to Lemmy’s codebase. (In my opinion, he is by far the most skilled programmer working on Lemmy.)

I would buy a Zenfone in a heartbeat if they had more than 2 years of support. Apple’s doing 6 years. Microsoft is doing effectively infinite. I don’t get why every Android manufacturer other than Samsung and Google seem so bent on producing mountains of e-waste.

He didn’t defend Musk at all. He was just commenting on the style of the conversation. But trying to come up with a new school-ground insult for someone every thread is admittedly immature and makes it really hard to follow the conversation if you’re not terminally online. It’s like everyone is trying to copy Donald Trump now.

If you don’t have a walk-in door or window, no. You’d need someone to pick out otherwise remove the lock.

It’s a DDoS attack, according to the admins in Matrix.

Part of the problem is discoverability. If people don’t use my instance, they rarely know we have independent communities like !todayilearned@civilloquy.com. Some, like !games@civilloquy.com are really shadowed by larger versions where some sort of multi community subscription could help a lot.

/c/nottheonion

I can attest that lemm.ee’s admin probably understands things better than every other admin. He helped me with a couple of shoes on my instance, and he has written multiple commits to fix bugs himself.

I assume because lemmy.world and lemmy.ml have so many people registered that they’re becoming very sluggish. Smaller instances like lemm.ee (and civilloquy.com!) are much easier to actually use because the servers aren’t dying.