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[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?
Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don’t come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don’t really get upset by...
The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America (www.thecollector.com)
The Banana Wars were a series of US military interventions in Latin America from 1898 to 1934. Why are they relatively understudied, and why are they called banana wars?
How many communities do you have blocked?
My preferred way to browse here is using All and blocking communities I don’t want to see. That way I get exposed to new things I wouldn’t seek out on my own (for example: British archaeology)...
Does the pronoun "sir/madam/maam" bring discomfort to you?
It really does bring discomfort to me… like I’m somehow above the person speaking to me....
Went to look for the first time in a while...didn't even take me 10 minutes to find an obvious bot. (www.reddit.com)
All it does is respond to the title. sometimes that works out for it…sometimes its horrible. Just a tiny bit down, check the old school cool. down in the comment graveyard is another number name one doing the exact same thing.
[OC] This handsome fellow hitched a ride on my car today (lemmy.world)
I've seen posts recently about "quiet quitting". (lemmy.world)
The quote: “Quiet quitters are hard to handle because they continue to complete their assigned workload to the same (often high) standard, giving their managers an uneasy feeling but nothing specific to complain about.”
Sadiq Khan wins third term as London mayor saying he answered 'hate with hope' (www.standard.co.uk)
[Video][SCMP] China’s first corgi police dog makes public debut (www.youtube.com)
1960: Placard-waving demonstrators join almost 2,500 men and women to protest against South African apartheid at Toronto's Massey Hall (lemmy.ca)
They raised almost $5,000 to help South Africans fight racial discrimination....
Hopes of Gaza ceasefire rise as Hamas delegation arrives in Cairo (www.theguardian.com)
Egyptian and US mediators have reported signs of compromise in recent days and Egyptian state news channel Al-Qahera said on Saturday that a consensus had been reached in the indirect talks over many of the disputed points but gave no further details. However, many analysts remain pessimistic after five months of stop-start...
UK: Conservatives crushed by ‘worst local election result’ in years (www.theguardian.com)
Spread of Tory losses leads former minister to say there’s ‘no such thing as a safe seat any more’. The Conservatives are facing one of their worst local election results in 40 years, with striking Labour gains across England and Wales in key battlegrounds they need to secure victory at the general election....
A senior UN official says northern Gaza is now in 'full-blown famine' (apnews.com)
Cindy McCain, the American director of the U.N. World Food Program, became the most prominent international official so far to declare that trapped civilians in the most cut-off part of Gaza had gone over the brink into famine....
What Killed The Movie Trailer? (www.youtube.com)
Movie Trailers may have started out as a tool to sell films, but over time they have evolved into their own spectacle. Before a film is released there are a multitude of Theatrical Trailers, TV Spots, Web Shorts, and even Trailers before the Trailer starts. How did Hollywood turn from a simple marketing tool, to a an ever...
Every two hours, a child dies in Sudan. Our global silence is deafening. (www.usatoday.com)
The suffering of the Sudanese may be off camera now, but it won't be in a few months when babies are starving en masse.