Gotcha! It didn’t show in the mod log for me. Not sure why.
Yeah, if that isn’t PTB, it’s definitely a clueless mod. I have no clue how someone could take that comment as violating any of the rules of that C/, much less as trolling.
This just weird. Most power trips, you can at least see why they’re making the decision, even when it’s shitty decision. This one looks utterly random and out of place.
Have you contacted the mods? It’s strange enough that it might have been a mistake
That’s essentially what my dentist said :)
I’m not sure how that comment would be trolling, but I’m also not sure why you have a screen shot of a comment that’s being written.
What was the original comment?
They’re definitely real, as long as you’re buying a product from a country that requires accurate labeling. Afaik, there’s no common fake HPA toothpastes you can buy at a store, even via amazon. Could be, but I haven’t run across it.
Effective? It seems to be. However, not all dental groups have given it support yet. That doesn’t mean it isn’t effective, it just means they don’t consider it a done deal, or haven’t gotten around to it yet.
Of equal import, it doesn’t seem to be more effective than sodium fluoride, and doesn’t have some of the extra benefit of stannous fluoride. Plus, it’s topical only. It won’t hurt you if swallowed, it just doesn’t do anything. Fluoride can be taken up via the digestive tract, HAP just breaks down in the stomach.
My take, after talking to my dentist and reading up, is that it isn’t worth paying extra for unless you have some specific reason you can’t use fluoride. If you can get it at the same price as your current toothpaste, fine. If you can’t, then it likely isn’t going to give you enough benefit to merit the extra at all
Nope. There’s a plan in place for that.
What? I do a lot of writing, this kind of idea isn’t new, so I’ve thought about how it should work.
Thanks :)
Is that kind of plastic even recycled?
You should hear how us mountain folk pronounce it.
Awl-uh-garky, or all-uh-gurky are the two most common at my shooting club (and yes, left wing shooting clubs exist in the south, even here in the sticks).
Like I said, this may be an opinion that is yours and only yours. That’s a different thing than whether or not a mod action was power tripping or not.
I don’t go very far into debating the points of posts and comments that are the source of posts here, so be aware that I’m not likely to follow up with this if that’s where you’re wanting to take it. That’s not the purpose of community, and it makes things messy for mods and users.
But, the points you raised aren’t wrong because they’re also used by Russia. They have flaws on their own merits. Which is not germaine to a PTB issue, but unless you’re trying to say that all drafts everywhere are wrong, I call shenanigans.
As far as forcing conscripts, or arresting people leaving the country, that’s another thing where this isn’t the place for that debate. The evidence of it being done in the way you claim is dubious though, so it still doesn’t matter as far as PTB is concerned
In other words, you’re pointing at Ukraine and ignoring the rest of the world. You’re taking a side. So you are furthering propaganda efforts and misinformation by doing that, which still males it YDI.
Did you put any sources or evidence into the comments that got removed? If so, they don’t show in the screen shots, so you’d have to put them up somewhere else for me to engage further on that side of things.
YDI
The comments that got removed are very well known points used by Russian propaganda farms
You may or may not know that. You may or may not be doing that intentionally. But you know the whole “if it quacks like a duck…” bit? You’re quacking like a propaganda farm.
Now, I’m not saying that holding those opinions, if they are actually your opinions, isn’t your right. It is, fully, your right to believe however you want. Doesn’t matter if I like it, if agree with it, or even if I would punch you in the snout for a given opinion (and I wouldn’t for these), it is your right to hold those opinions.
But it is a mod’s responsibility to filter out bad actors like propaganda farms. The only effective way to do that is to observe what those farms are saying, and remove anything that spreads the messaging. Sometimes, actual people will get caught up in that. It’s unavoidable, and regrettable even (since there’s no chance to possibly talk the person into a less unrealistic stance, which is possible for the folks that swallow propaganda like this). But it is necessary.
Remember, that applies to anything that’s being pushed by propaganda farms. IDGAF of it was Ukrainian farm talking points, EU talking points, or wherever, it would still need to be filtered out because this isn’t their fucking platform. Lemmy, even more than Reddit, is a platform of individual people, not government actors. It has to be rigidly protected or it will go the way reddit is going.
Oh, I have sources. I’m just not rounding them up for this shit. After the assholery I’ve already dealt with, I’m done. I didn’t give much of a fuck about dessalines’ tangent to begin with, but was willing to engage a little with it just because of who it was.
Eh, it is what it is.
ML is pretty well known for mods either power tripping, or at least pushing the boundaries to the edge.
This one could go either way.
Technically the comment was a rule violation, so removing the comment isn’t totally power tripping.
The problem is that your comment was the least political in the whole damn thread. Like, even my comment was a tad more political than yours, depending on how you look at it. And even that was way less than dessalines’ tangent.
The entire post was about language and word usage, and your comment definitely was not political, nor was it in any way rude or insulting.
I’m still really surprised your comment got reported/removed, but mine didn’t. It was confusing as hell when I came back after a response and saw yours gone.
So, yeah, definitely PTB. If they’d nuked everyone, I could see it being clueless mods, but targeting yours just means they got a report and wiped it, so that’s dumber than dammit, even if it wasn’t a literal power trip
Dude, stop with the ad hominem bullshit.
IDGAF about what leaders called it/us. That’s almost irrelevant.
But other people in the world absolutely were using the term American to refer to citizens of the US before the 1900s.
I’m also not sure why you insist on staying on this tangent when the conversation was about current usage.
That has very little to do with the topic, which is colloquial language as it exists now, compared and contrasted between English and Spanish in specific.
And, tbh here, if you wanna talk populations, brazil is half the population of South America. And that total is still only 100million higher than the US. Since we’re talking about mainly Spanish and English here, you can decide if you want brazil included or not, but even that’s still not some kind of crazy difference.
Since Canada and Mexico are the other parts of North America, and don’t generally give a flying fuck about the terminology, are we going to include them in the count too? Like, the Mexicans I know use their own Spanish terms for Americans, sometimes even when speaking English.
Like, dude, I get it, you wanna link everything into colonialism and imperialism, which is fine. But let’s not pretend that Americans hasn’t been the term used in English across the world for damn near as long as the US has existed. It was what, 1788? 1789? That one of the French diplomats used it in writing the first time? Might have been before that, but that’s the one I remember. The term was certainly in use before that.
Now, using “Americans” to refer to everyone over here did exist before the U.S., going back to at least the 1500s. I think that was only in use in English, I’ve never looked up what was used in French and Spanish back then. But since the USA came into being as country, it has been the default term for US citizens colloquially.
Even some of the other languages use variations of it. There’s Mexicans and Nicaraguans at least that use Americanos rather than other terms. I swear the Guatemalans near here default to that as well, when they aren’t using gringo or race specific terminology, but I don’t have as much interaction with them.
All of which goes back to the point that the whining about it online is a fairly recent thing, and it was definitely not a thing back far as the nineties irl for the general population. That may be biased by my exposure to Latinos being almost exclusively people that live here, rather than visitors.
If people wanna try to shift language into something else, all it takes is coming up with a replacement term that’s not unwieldy or stupid sounding (like usians), then getting people to use it.
But nobody has come up with a realistic english replacement. Usians isn’t going to happen. You might run into it online because it’s easier to type, but you won’t see it used in speech because it sounds stupid. It would be like calling brits ukians.
Hell, go find something in another language, English is great at adopting words. Beikoku-jin (japanese) or Usanano (Esperanto) are cool as hell, flow off the tongue, and beikoku would definitely get the weebs on board. Give it a go, see what happens.
Do you not have a term in Spanish?
If y’all use yank, yankee, or gringo, they’re all fine.
But, American is fine too. If you’re using English, everyone will know what you mean. It isn’t like it hasn’t been the term used in English for at least a century.
Here the thing. If you’re referring to someone from one of the two/three americas, you specify north, central and south. That depends a little on whether you consider all three as discrete areas, or not, but that’s the norm in English.
If you want to refer to all people from the americas at once, Americans is also fine. Context will carry which way you’re using it. English is fairly easy to make contextual indicators like that.
An example: “oh, Americans love their flag”. Which americans are we talking about? The ones with a specific American flag. Which, the statement isn’t universally true, it’s just an example.
If you aren’t using English, it doesn’t matter at all, use whatever terminology is the norm in that language.
The reason it doesn’t matter is that there really isn’t an “American” people in the continental sense. The cultures of the continents don’t even have a unifying effect, though you do have some connection between Spanish speaking vs Portuguese, vs native, vs English, etc. The language links in South America are much more significant than the fact that they live on the same continent.
Any time you’d be referring to the entire Americas, or the peoples of them, you’d specify that because there’s not a single American continent.
One nation out of all of them being america really isn’t a difficulty in conversation. It’s a non issue.
Technically, five days, though it was barely over the line.
I was hallucinating by the end of it. It was intentional, one summer during high school, just to see what it would be like.
It be like something I’ll never do again. Took me weeks to feel right again
Hey, you’re new to lemmy.
Some advice.
It’s one thing to point out bad acts, it’s another to make recommendations. You’re here saying to use .ml, and if that’s your opinion, that’s fine. But you’ve missed a lot if you’re making that recommendation based on mods/admins stances on trans issues and rights.
You simply haven’t had this account long enough to be making recommendations at all tbh, but you really gotta do your research before doing so. Lemmy.ml, for all the good it has, is also run by some people that have a track record om trans rights that’s dubious to some degree or another. Even if the fediverse C/ is moderated by someone that isn’t dubious, it’s still a strange recommendation to be making here.
You do you, but you’re likely to end up mixed in drama if you keep diving in head first without due diligence.
That all tracks for sure. Especially the xylitol part, some dentists will recommend it, particularly for people that have medical issues that play havoc with salivary ph or amounts.
I have tried it, because of the sensitivity stuff, but didn’t find it any different from stannous fluoride or potassium nitrate. I’ve also tried the phosphosilicate, “novamin”, with similar results for sensitivity.
Stannous fluoride ended up giving me the best results overall for my gums and other issues, so I’ve stuck with it for a while now. But they all seem to be effective, and safe under normal usage. So it isn’t like anyone can go wrong with them.