Where I’m from cities like Boston are the norm. When I was in a grid city for the first time, I immediately got lost on the roads because everything just looks the same.

On the other hand, Americans seem to have a more intuitive sense of the cardinal directions than Europeans do from my experience. Which makes sense if you’re used to roads aligned with them.

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Exactly, and cats kill like 200x more birds than wind turbines do. Window panes also kill more. Suggest doing something about that and you’ll experience people’s wrath.

Edit: Had to delete two comments, because I accidentally triple-commented.

I suppose the argument is about offshore windparks. Whales specifically have insanely sensitive hearing and can communicate over hundreds of miles, so it seems like an intuitive argument that the turbines’ vibrations affect them negatively.

Conservational efforts are definitely important when picking a location. But in the end, it’s probably similar to the bird argument, which is not a completely fabricated concern, but has been distorted and overblown so much that it doesn’t have much to do with reality anymore.

Same. Just played it extensively yesterday.

I think it does. One problem we’re facing is that many people are just apathetic and keep to themselves instead of doing literally anything. Protests like these are for many people the first political protest ever in their lives. Are they gonna overthrow Trump? No. But they’re a stepping stone. People feel what it feels like to be part of something bigger, and will potentially be willing to do more. And I know that there’s leftist groups attending to inform people about further, more effective actions.

I think people who complain about No Kings not doing anything are kind of insufferable. People always complained that liberals don’t do enough and don’t want to listen. Now that’s changing, and instead of using the opportunity to have conversations with them about how all this came to be and what’s necessary, they’re being shamed. I used to be apolitical, had I not be welcomed by empathetic people I probably wouldn’t be active today. I want to pay that forward.

We also enslaved rocks to do our bidding. I’m holding a collection of them right now to communicate with you. Hello fellow monkey!

And Mercator means merchant in Latin. I thought that was because of the projection’s purpose, but turns out that the inventer’s name was actually Mercator, which was a latinisation of his Flemish birthname Kremer (meaning grocer or merchant).

What’s a wanky? I’ve been here for a while and that one’s new to me.

Yes, and there’s a scientific basis to this: The double empathy problem.

One of the symptoms of autism used to be considered a lowered sense of empathy, as autists seemed to struggle relating to other people. But that’s not the case: Autists only struggle to relate to non-autists (and vice versa), among their own both groups get along fine

So it’s not an innate trait of autism to have lower empathy, we just communicate on a different frequency, which has to be decoded (which takes energy). If we meet someone who’s on our wavelength, communicating is intuitively a lot easier.

It reminds of being in a different culture and meeting someone of yours.

Kinda like we have Shirts with nonsensical Chinese characters.

I somehow never thought about that. How does that work? Do they use a giant network of pneumatic tubes?

Ich kannte bisher nur die von Konservativen gemochte Version: Wer mit 20 nicht links ist hat kein Herz, wer mit 50 nicht konservativ hat keinen Verstand.

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4. Definitely 4.

Same. Plenty of free hobbies exist though. Hiking, learning a language, identifying plants (check your local weather service if you can contribute your findings), geocaching, streetcomplete, attending a communal board game night or gardening group. Libraries hold all kind of events for all walks of life.

Some sort of political engagement can also be fun and additionally help find friends. There’s cryptoparty to teach about privacy. Some environmental groups host day trips with volunteers to clear or repopulate strips of land. You can ask your library if you can offer a workshop of some skill you possess.

There is honestly so much free stuff that I didn’t know about yet a couple of years ago.

One could frame this as “Leftists are more naive and reckless, while Conservatives are cautious”. I wouldn’t, but I can see someone make that argument.

Not sure about Lemmy, but I have noticed an influx in loops.video content recently, especially in my native language. That’s probably because Loops is starting to be usable now. There’s some YouTubers I already followed and even some local progressive politicians. This year a project named “digital day of independence” started, that educates people every month about how to switch from big tech, which probably also has something to do with it.

Absolutely this. I banned the big platforms from my phone and only use Fediverse apps now. When I opened Instagram it kinda felt like when I had a relapse and became flooded with sadness, rage and Weltschmerz. Here I check for a couple of minutes, still my conditioning to reach for scrolling and move on with my day.

And whenever I write a comment here I’m not scared to regret it soon after.

Exactly. You can’t change people’s minds, you can only inspire.