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[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago

For the staff at Lemmy & Mastodon World’s for keeping the social media platforms I use the most Ad Free!

🫢🏻

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

For Lemmy. Moving from the alien site to here has been fantastic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I wanted to say that too. Of course, family is great too, but I'm always grateful for that. Today it's Lemmy's turn.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Brazil commemorates Thanksgiving? In what bizarro world? I've never met a single person here who ever did that, in fact the vast majority of people have absolutely no clue what Thanksgiving is or that it even exists.

The author is just pulling this shit out of their asses lol.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

I was going to say lol, I'd struggle to find anyone who is even aware of it in real life

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (5 children)

It is a wishful-thinking style article on the web where some yank once met some yank who lived in Brazil and thus decided from this that every person in Brazil celebrated the USian holiday. Same in Japan, who definitely do not celebrate thanksgiving any more than Brazil does. But the yanks all think the world revolves around them.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It may be a USA Brazilian thing, the diaspora is quite large.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Maybe, but that's like 0.1% of the population, there aren't many American communities in Brazil. Maybe it's a thing in Americana (a town founded by ex-confederates, I shit you not), but otherwise...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

This article in Wikipedia mentions Brazil under "Observance." Apparently there are a couple of Brazilian laws that establish Thanksgiving as a holiday and set its date as the fourth Thursday in November.

So maybe edit Wikipedia? Note to them that it isn't known or celebrated?

I really wish I hadn't mentioned Brazil or Japan. I was just interested in what people were thankful for. I'm truly sorry if I offended Brazilian or Japanese people.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Thankful for my union fighting hours on hours to negotiate a better job for me. The other day they negotiated until 3 am!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

I'm thankful for key lime pie. I may not have it as much as I want, but the idea alone of having another bite some day really keeps me going.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I am thankful for being born and living in Europe πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

That's looking increasingly like a good choice you made.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

My Pathfinder group, who agree with me that to (fictionally) run screaming at people with a lit black powder bomb in my hands is the right thing to do.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm thankful for my wife and family. Also overcoming my years of struggle with depression.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

3 years now. Never did I think I was capable of this kind of mental stability. Thankful every day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I've had months before. I can't even imagine years. So happy for you ❀️

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No one in Japan celebrating a fake holiday you Americans came up with.

It’s called Labor Thanksgiving Day (kinro kansha no hi):
A national holiday for honoring labour.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (9 children)

I mean, all holidays are kind of fake. They aren't self-evident, even kinro kansha no hi.

But happy Kinro Kansha No Hi!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

TIL that Brazil has a Thanksgiving day... But we do not celebrate it, and -unfortunately- it's not a holiday.

Anyway, I'm glad of the friendships that I have and had.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thankful for two years cancer free, my son is getting good grades and doing good at soccer and martial arts (the two things I did growing up) and the company I work for is growing massively and work is still interesting.

Cheers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That's awesome! How great to be able to say all that where a few years ago you must have felt like the world was caving in on you.

So happy for you mate

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Thanks yeah for real

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

fun place called fediverse

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's been a rough year and I came very close to being furloughed. Managed to get a new client just at the right time and now I'm thriving again. I'm thankful for having frankly a lot of luck over the years which has put me where I am today. I'm not saying hard work wasn't important too, but sheer luck has been helpful too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

So many things are, frankly, out of our control, and we act like they aren't sometimes. I think being thankful is a way of acknowledging that the lines fell out in pleasant places.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm thankful for my sweet cat, Ziggy! :) Thanks for asking, OP!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Communists all over the world doing their best to make it a better place!

Anarchists too heart-sickle

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh man, that is so good. So many people living with chronic pain would love one single day of "nothing." Children and others suffering constant abuse would be so grateful for a day of "nothing." In war, what is a cease-fire but some "nothing" for a change?

Thankful for nothing. Yes. Very good πŸ‘

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

My husband who i can take to anywhere i like.

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