A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
The rules for behavior are a straight carry over of Mastodon.World's rules. You can click the link but we've reposted them here in brief, as a guideline. We will continue to use the Mastodon.World rules as the master list. Over all, be nice to each other and remember this isn't a community built around debate. For the rules about formatting your posts, scroll down to number 2.
1. Follow the rules of Mastodon.world, which can be found here.
A. Provide an inclusive and supportive environment. This means if it isn't rulebreaking and we can't be supportive to them then we probably shouldn't engage.
B. No illegal content.
C. Use content warnings where appropriate. This means mark your submissions NSFW if need be.
D. No uncivil behavior. This includes, but is not limited to: Name Calling; Bullying; Trolling; Disruptive Commenting; or Personal Criticisms.
E. No Harrassment. As an example in relation to Transgender people this includes, deadnaming, misgendering, and promotion of conversion therapy. Similarly Misogyny, Misandry, and Racism are also banned here.
2. Include a community or instance title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities or instances all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
3. Follow the formatting. - The formatting as included below is important for people getting universal links across Lemmy as easily as possible.
Please include this following format in your post:
[link text](/c/[email protected])
This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won't
You should also include either:
or instance.com/c/community
Q: Why do I get a 404?
A: At least one user in an instance needs to search for a community before it gets fetched. Searching for the community will bring it into the instance and it will fetch a few of the most recent posts without comments. If a user is subscribed to a community, then all of the future posts and interactions are now in-sync.
Q: When I try to create a post, the circle just spins forever. Why is that?
A: This is a current known issue with large communities. Sometimes it does get posted, but just continues spinning, but sometimes it doesn't get posted and continues spinning. If it doesn't actually get posted, the best thing to do is try later. However, only some people seem to be having this problem at the moment.
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Got a burning question you want to ask someone from the US like "Why is the imperial system superior" or "Why is Texas"? Join us over at [email protected] ([email protected] for the mbin users) and find out the definitive answer. You can also just chat if you don't have questions, because this is the land of the free and there are no laws πΊπΈπ¦ (there are actually, please be nice)
That photo is awesome.
I dunno. It's missing:
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So here's another version:
Oh wait no, it has a vegetable in it, gotta throw that out then and we'll stick with the OP!:-)
Or here's a version with tanks and french fries?
You're going to be really happy when you find out it's a whole gif!
My weeb ass brain read that as Asakusa and was baffled by the description and image
Same!
Is that a subway station? Or a subway line? My brain recognizes it as vaguely train related...
It's a district of Tokyo with a famous, very touristy temple, Sensoji. Asakusa station is also pretty popular on its own I think
@[email protected] and @[email protected] , could we maybe promote this community to [email protected] ?
I've seen your poll about making the rules about US politics permanent (nice initiative by the way), this community could maybe help to channel US specific questions?
It depends on the poll result.
Interesting, why could we not promote the community if the people want to keep the US politics in [email protected] ? Can't the two communities exist in parallel, especially when they have different scopes (askUSA being focused on the USA)?
There is already [email protected] which is very similar to !asklemmy
Sure, but I am not sure if promoting that community will help when the current community should allow them.
Anyways, I'll make a comment on the current poll post and edit the sidebar to promote this askusa community.
Thanks!
np
Stoked to be part of the answering force!
@[email protected] (pinging you because we had some discussions in the past about [email protected] ), do you think we could maybe promote this community on [email protected] ?
!news isn't really about questions or discussions, but is US-based, so that would help us reach the audience that !askUSA is targeted to
Dayum, god bless America!
Nice!
Why do you think that the US has such a problem with obesity? Iβve heard people say itβs because of fast food but every other country has fast food. Is there some kind of different standard for food there? Is the food way cheaper? Is it just a culture thing?
Honestly, there are many reasons.. Poverty is a huge factor. Highly processed foods are usually the cheapest and most convenient option. And sometimes a soda can be cheaper to purchase than water. Also, school budgets are usually funded by property taxes, so areas in poverty have significantly degraded educational programs and facilities.
The poor education levels mean that people rarely learn about the impacts of high sugar diets on the body. People will feed their child a high sugar diet starting as early as a 2 years old. I've seen a document where a woman was feeding their toddler Mt dew out of a baby bottle...
Advertising techniques play a big role here too. Foods labeled as nutritious are actually just pumped full of sugar. Foods like yogurt, "bread", granola bars, cereals, or anything with a sauce in it.
On top of all that, Americans have an extremely sedentary lifestyle. From sitting in cubicles to sitting in cars, then finally to the couch. The most walking people do is from the parking lot to the store/building they are going to.
I'd like to add that people think eating fat makes you fat, so there are a ton of products marketed as low fat but are full of sugar instead. In some cases the low fat product is worse for you than the regular one.
What's crazy is that when I was a kid, the poor were generally healthier. Diets for poor people included a lot of beans and rice, and not much else, and rich people's diets consisted of richer foods, with sauces, butter, etc.. Poor people often worked labor intensive jobs which kept them fit, while rich people sat at desks and then lazed by the pool after work. Now poor people tend to eat fast food quite a bit more often than people with more money, and the upper class are generally more likely to engage in fitness routines.
Yeah thatβs crazy. To me high sugar diets being the cause of obesity seems like common knowledge. It seems like these educational failings must be at some level intentional considering the US does better than other countries on education that have better obesity ratings and are also more impoverished to me. But Iβm just going based on numbers I just looked up here. The added sugar in absolutely everything in North America seems like more of the culprit here to me. I live in Canada and our rating is about one in four where the US is close to 50 percent. I feel like we have similar issues with our food but thatβs a significant difference in obesity. Our cities and towns are designed to be more walkable for sure, but we still donβt compare to places like Europe.
there was a study done in the 50s that pretty much decided US health policy for decades that said fat is bad and makes you fat. the reaction to this was for companies to remove fat from their products to claim it's low fat but in order to maintain taste they replaced it with sugar. this proliferated all food products and being coupled with both parents working 40+ hours a week caused a lot of families to fill fridges with highly processed foods with "healthy" sugar/fat levels that could be prepared easily. tie in the fact that there's no time to exercise with the fact that most Americans drive to destinations, it becomes easy to read articles that x is the cause of obesity that it took a long time to realize what the real problems are.
