Municipal subreddits and local subreddits are absolutely astroturfed, any hot-button topic would always be flooded by hot shit takes that (before they removed your ability to see post history) would prove to be people running through different city subreddits blasting agitprop

It is actually insane how powerful social media as an unfettered platform is for that kind of manipulation

Theyre well on their way cause at this rate I honestly doubt there are human admins left, i think its just bots all the way down.

Theres so much variety to India in general, it’s a huge country and people forget that big countries with a wide spread have a lot of diversity within their own populations. I dont think we do a good job explaining that when we are in school, how huge countries arent like one enormous monoculture but a collection of a mosaic of people who all fall belong under a flag but are distinct and unique from region to region.

Everybody starts somewhere! But typically butter chicken and chicken korma is like “white people” indian food (not a thing wrong with that it’s just the good standard babys first indian food plate to try, its a crowd pleaser and usually not as spicy)

Some of us out here are raised in spiceless white families. I was like 16 when I had cumin for the first time, i still remember where and when I was it was so mind blowing. My mom doesnt even use black pepper :') paprika is “too spicy”

Ive been experimenting with more indian vegetarian dishes as meat gets more expensive and lemme tell you even the imported spice mixes or sauce mixes at “mild” are like taking my life in my hands. Indian and indonesian people are on a whooooole other level of spice tolerance.

Bro if you are just trying masala for the first time you are in for a real treat

Get you some paneer tikka masala. Trust me. Heavy cream/yoghurt stirred in will help with the heat.

If it’s any consolation their ban evasion filter glitched/bugged into flagging me so I cant even make new accounts on a new device let alone a new account in general because their digital fingerprinting is invasive as fuck and their ban evasion filter is automated and all their appeals on it are also automated. Straight up just a bug, i dont even know how it happened. Cant even report the bug cause its all done via subreddit.

And now you need an account to even browse so RIP us :')

Its a shame, lemmy is great but missing a lot of the smaller niche subreddits. I was really active in the crested gecko one and beyond going back to old school forums im not sure what else will scratch that itch

If any more people get caught up in their dipshit automod filters bugging out like I did it looks like it’s curtains for us. Ive been lurking but I guess this is my cue to actually be active on Lemmy now.

As a definition? Someone covered it already: aware of social injustices at bare minimum. As a flag? Basically a stand-in for a word that would get someone else banned on a platform. Woke to a rightoid means a woman, ethnic, or of a culture that isnt white/christian/cishet nuclear family profile. I have heard “woke” used to describe Latin Jazz before. It literally just meant ethnic to him.

Thanks, and im sorry for yours too. It’s hard, I try to frame it as opening up the opportunity to give another dog a loving home and I look forward to having many dogs in my life who all live hopefully the best and longest possible lives it’s just tough knowing you sign up for like a 15 year cycle of incredibly intense attachment and emotional friendship capped by utter devastation :')

Like I think I get why theres that “dad who doesnt want pets” trope… its not that they dont like them, they just know theyll love them so much

I just wanna throw my own anecdote in here too; I was also really uncomfortable and uncertain making the decision but my dog got to the point where he was 17, blind, partially deaf, had nose polyps, and wasnt keeping food down or able to control his bladder for the last few days. I knew he was suffering and I didnt want his last days to be spent laying limp on a blanket in the living room hungry and in pain and he had started getting cognitive decline too and was starting to act scared because of it combined with his blindness.

The vet came over, i ordered mcdonalds chicken nuggets specifically just for my dog even if he wasnt able to eat them all, he got wrapped up in his favourite fuzzy blanket and the vet gave him a hero dose of the best doggy morphine im assuming money can buy

OP I knew I made the right choice when I saw aaaaall the pain leave his body when the painkillers hit. I was so used to him looking like the cryptkeeper I had forgotten what it looked like to see my dog without any pain in his joints or anxiety from his blindness. He transformed back into the happy little dog I knew right in front of my eyes and then he gently died being held by the people he loves with a belly full of nugs instead of wasting away for god knows how much longer.

It can feel wrong to make that decision for someone else but when I saw how much pain he had truly been carrying this whole time for the last parts of his life I realized it really was mercy and if I were in the same situation I would want that for me.

Unfortunately sometimes waiting CAN take too long. My dog was suffering and I wish I had seen it sooner but I waited and waited because he still had “good” days even if those good days were fewer and farther between. It hurts to think that he may have suffered when he didnt have to which is a harder thing to live with imho than choosing to guide him out gently.