This was the first stable community on which I was able to make an account on, after many failed attempts at other instances. I had a lemmy.cafe account before, but I was not getting recent posts. Another reason is that I am mostly ok with this community’s moderation policies. When I was yet to choose an instance, I saw a lot of fearmongering in the fediverse about ml, hexbear and lemmygrad being very toxic communities. I put off for long till I got convinced that ml was actually a decent community. There will be some toxic users in any community, offline or online. But certain bullshit is not tolerated on ml, like ableist language, apathy to people outside the US, hate speech etc. So, here I am.

Here:

Every coconut is different, and their taste varies largely. I’ve gotten that horrendous taste sometimes, but it has also been just salty water. Mostly I get a sort of sweet tasting water.

Drills!?

You poke a hole in one of the three ‘eyes’ of the coconut. That part is not covered by the shell

They won’t take any action against the lawyer who threw his shoe at the CJI though.

The International cats federation extends its warmest greetings.

No, that’s Panettone. You are thinking of a 5 note musical scale.

It might be this:

What I’m illustrating is that America, despite being “the land of the free,” is very much not free.

It isn’t and never was.

So it doesn’t help that you’re assuming I don’t pay attention outside my borders.

No, I didn’t say that. I felt as if you were saying the problems of bribery, corruption, unfair elections, systemic violence by government on its citizens are unique problems of the US government. It isn’t, we have also seen them, and I do sympathise with American people facing these things.

we are all just as helpless as each other.

People have power. Even the most oppressed people have fought for themselves, and in many cases, have won.

system is ruled by money and bribes

are the leaders precisely because they have the most money that can be used for campaign ads

insider trading of our politicians.

threatening voters with violence.

people dying at protests.

Every single point here is also true about my own country, which is nowhere near the US.

America has a different political system than ANY other country in the world.

You’ve yet to see the rest of the world.

They just tend to vanish.

If Indian qualifies as one single cuisine - then Indian. I’ll have enough dishes to try out in my lifetime and that’s after considering I am vegetarian.