See, the thing with "puta/puto" is that it literally means "whore", but it's used to empathize cursings just like "fucking" is used in english. We're even misusing it by putting it before verbs, imitating it's use in english.
I think the Polish word 'kurwa' is coincidentally similar.
So it means "Pretend you have to go use the toilet and leave us"? I like it!
One of the top-rated replies so far is an Asian who expresses they are offended, so that can't be right.
What power and control does this even give someone?
I'm not active in the community these days but I might as well through some suggestions in the mix:
Fortunately our law
Whose law?
Which jurisdiction applies?
Wait just realized you're anglo since your username has "colour".
I don't think that's an effective way to guess where someone lives, it just suggests whether they learned the American spelling or not. From what I understand, Europe and most former British Empire colonies favouuur the British spelling. This article has a demonstrative diagram map - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences
Hello fellow resource, uh i mean human.
I, for one, haven't had to look at laptop manufacturers for nearly a decade because my Thinkpad is still running Linux without a problem.
Aside from political reasons (which are valid!), what makes those manufacturers worth choosing over a Thinkpad?
Lemmy has had a huge bias towards seize-the-means-of-production socialism from day 1, which is very important in understanding why it's different from other reddit clones, and why it has unique features and anti-features. The political orientation is not incidental, it's vital, and I'm glad to see it hasn't completely died from the sudden influx of reddit-natives when the API thing happened.
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I put forth that they are not futuristic. They are present-day, present-time, not pretending to be beyond the present reality, but merely cutting-edge.
To someone who has grown up in a relatively very undeveloped area (consider rural Sudan) or even somewhat undeveloped areas in the West (rural North America), I imagine many Western cities would seem 'futuristic' relative to their life experience. Towering skyscrapers, underground rail networks, animated LED billboards and cameras everywhere, and if you're lucky, slick 'modern' designs for buildings and infrastructure. But, to a person raised in these cities it probably wouldn't be futuristic. Many of these things are kind of common in cities, actually. They'd look at the other communities as 'underdeveloped'. It's all relative!
So, in the same way, I think that China's modern cities aren't futuristic but merely present. The US infrastructure is notoriously underdeveloped given their power and technological capability. I don't see why (political structure aside) they couldn't build such a planned city. In fact, they generally lag so far behind other Western countries when it comes to civil infrastructure, political structure and social services that I think calling the US a developed country is an outdated mistake. China, on the other hand, has rapid development.
China isn't in the future. We're stuck in the past.