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Can you explain this gap in your resume?
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Yes. I can.
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So?
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So what?
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Why don’t you explain it?
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Because you didn’t asked me to explain it, you asked me if I could explain it.
Spanish guy, who likes open source software and has just discovered the fediverse (as of 28th of April, 2022). I like video games, and indie and retro music. I’m a student. I’m officially diagnosed with ADHD and ASD since January, 2023.
America is a continent and Americans are people from that continent (Canadians, Usonians, Mexicans, Cubans, Argentinians, Brazilians…)
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Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Yes. I can.
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So?
So what?
Why don’t you explain it?
Because you didn’t asked me to explain it, you asked me if I could explain it.
But English, being a de facto universal language, has good creativity to invent new words, either from native speakers or from foreign influences. For example, the word “D’oh” didn’t exist until Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta) popularized it. And I think the word “meme” didn’t exist either 40 or 50 years ago.
I think a good way to know that is to read newspapers from 100 years ago or older, and see how people from US were called.
Whether it’s one continent or two, the point is that it’s bigger than the United States. At least I’ve always studied that Americans are people who live in America, either from Canada, United States, Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, Argentina… Then you can divide them between North Americans and South Americans.
That’s exactly what happens to me when I tell them America is a continent. Like, WTF?
There is a polandball community on Lemmy, but it doesn’t seem very active :(
Besides, I don’t think those are good manners to address a neurodivergent person (ADHD/ASD).
You’re not answering my question.
Do you know that it’s a really bad thing calling names to a neurodivergent person (ADHD/ASD)?
I don’t see the Russian flag anywhere to talk about a far-right regime. Do you?
It’s not polarizing when I don’t see tankies polarizing it :P
On Kbin, I don’t see much European politics, unfortunately.
Yes. After some self thinking about this topic, I realized that my concern is not about politics in general. My concern is about US politics and its big polarization, and about that fight between capitalism and communism. I wouldn’t mind politics focused on other countries or Europe, and without that polarization.
There are already, like antiquememeroadshow, adhdmemes and my_mouldy_memes. But the most generic meme communities, or the flagship meme communities if you prefer it that way, are infected.
Need a politics-free safe space? It’s called “going for a walk”
Unfortunately, walks don’t last forever. Another option is to delete your lemmy/kbin account, because everything in these places is politics or related to politics or turned into politics.
There is no shame in coming in second, except when you’re composed by antimatter.
[…] an entire birthday cake
Those are rookie numbers.
It’s not semantics. It’s putting the blame into a continent vs putting the blame into a country.
It’s like Germany is sanctioning China, and someone comes here and says “European sanctions in China”. Well, no.
That person said “American sanctions”. But I don’t remember a whole continent sanctioning Cuba. I remember only one country, which was United States. Even if they were US, Canada and Argentina, that’s not the whole America to say “American sanctions”.
Person with ASD, more likely.