This is not the normal human experience. Check if you’re a robot?

it’s from the Latin “libra”, for balance, like a set of scales. the £ symbol for pounds as in money is a stylised L for the same reason!

etymology lesson over, imperial/customary gtfo resumes. metric ftw.

0.1 gigameters

yup, phone GUIs today have converged, just like different consoles’ controllers used to be distinct, and now they’re all Dual Shock clones.

i’ve only ever heard about this “green bubble” thing from USA media.

do Americans still use SMS?

why? phone numbers are obsolete. my SMS inbox going back years is just 2FA security codes, and they’re very rare these days, since authenticator apps.

the national tld for Mali, but the lemmy ml owners chose it for a “Marxist-Leninist” reference. no kidding.

fun fact - they* also deny genocides committed by (even nominally) communist regimes.

*a lot of them, and even those who don’t actively, still stick with the goons who do.

If you haven’t seen tankies denying genocide and/or saying the victims brought it on themselves, then, I suspect you haven’t been looking very far in the comments of the news community there, to be fair. There are a lot of posters who will defend Russia, China, Syria etc all day long. All their crimes are apparently made up by “western media”, (as if Jimmy Dore’s basement isn’t in the west.)

Fortunately, they’re getting super buttmad lately at being downvoted so much.