I am sure there is some overlap

Steam, Visa, Mastercard are not U.S companies?

“A person who was not racist would never keep a username like this”

I was ignorant and it’s not obvious this is racist as I am not american so fuck me i guess?

“I highly doubt that in the two years you have had this account no one on lemmy has pointed this out to you”

To my knowledge this is the first time some has said that this is racist. I will try to go back and find if someone mentioned this as racist. People have talked to me assuming I am american but that was expected.

you’re coming off as being desperate to get offended here. I didn’t give any thought to this username and I didn’t realize it is apparently racist until our interaction. I just mixed two words for a username that weren’t obviously bad.

I am not an american despite my username.

And this $250 is going to be above an already expensive and painful visa process. And there are countries which are visa-less for certain country passports. I can bet that a tourist visa for the U.S is going to be among the top of the ranks of most expensive visas with the introduction of this “Visa-integrity” fee.

I could go to dozens of countries without having to get a visa, and plenty of other countries have visa which is actually worth the money than the dictator wannabes.

So no, If people can’t fork up $250 it doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be vacationing in foreign countries. That’s just you being ignorant while accusing me of being uneducated and American.

doesnt matter if someone can’t fork up the $250 in the first place

what if i don’t have another 250 bucks? Jail? or Venezuela?

thats a dishonest argument. One has a money assembly line straight to a billionaire’s house. The other’s assembly line that has a possibility to be used for public good.

it may not seem like it but… being offline is the best thing you can do to your mental health. No need to overwhelm your brain with stuff happening elsewhere when you already have to deal with stuff closer to home. Being aware is generally better than being ignorant but it shouldn’t disable your daily life.

its a paid platform where engagement (i.e bickering in the comments section) is near absent. And the content is allowed to address themes that make main stream media blush.

taking a guess but I already saw some other comments on another thread mention this: The chart boys in any corps will see Engagement == Profit. Thus they will tune their recommendations solely for that. And if you aren’t bothered about properly policing your video upload platform the end result is highly divisive content thats “not boring”.

Divisive content makes people angry so they engage in comments.

i used to be on reddit. And I used to get into “debates” that devolved into a slap fight and make me angry about the people who intentionally or unintentionally riled me up with outrageous (real or my own perception) opinions.

While lemmy also has slap fights, I feel like the lack of an “algorithm” tuned for engagement prevents continuous fueling of the fire, metaphorically speaking.