White house paint still had lead in it in Australia, just at much lower levels than before the ban

Oh, absolutely. I just worry that American authorities won’t see it that way.

Sounds like a risky move

Yes, I understood the joke…

For the parents, I assume?

Personally I think @[email protected]’s take is a bit prescriptive, but I do think that if you want a good long-term relationship, then it’s about finding what’s comfortable for both of you, not just for one of you. Boundary pushing can be OK, but usually only with prior consent or better some expression of desire… If either one of you pushes the other into doing something the other doesn’t really want, that’s probably not gonna pan out well in the long run. Listening (especially to the “why” part) and working together is important.

Is there any situation for which a fart is not a perfect metaphor?

Like, with the parents listening, or with them reciting it with you?

I think this one is more subliminal than the others… Usually they’re just trying to deflect and distract and using accusations to do it… This time he’s legitimately annoyed and just being honest.

Not that there’s much practical difference…

That whole question is contingent on the assumption that it’s OK that private jets exist

What… Did it say? Who was it trying to convince?

With that username, I trust this answer completely.

Also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

Well yes, that too… They are petty intertwined.

It’s been a long while though - I was fluent by the end of 2003 (except for those things, but I got by), but if let it slip a lot since then

Trust me, pretty much everything about German is easier than English (I’m a native English speaker who learned German). The only difficult thing is learning all the verb cases.

The loose bit of skin on the outside of the elbow is called the weenus

It is pretty annoying that that sub is labeled for US politics on a .world server…

You’re not wrong, but why wouldn’t you just post that stuff to global news/politics communities? Wouldn’t it make.more sense to focus on what differentiates the Europe lemmy community?

Instances are websites. Federation just means that they can automatically communicate directly between multiple intakes, and share information without requiring user interaction.

All this happens via APIs. Any website that implements ActivityPub APIs properly can federate with other sites as part of the fediverse.

Good point

I wasn’t suggesting anything was black and white. I was just giving an example of a chain of thought. OP is free to come up with their own chains of thought.