lugal

Thanks for the context. Makes sense. Do you register each time anew? In that case I would assume people stick with what they registered for. But on the other side, people might register for voting a more moderate candidate and don't want Trump and vote Democrats. I guess that's what the post is about. Now I get it.

I don't know how normal it is to be registered in the US but I would assume the target were moderate voters, not party members

Interesting. Good for you you skipped the toxic stuff

No way!

Sorry for your loss

So I assume you went from Twitter to mastodon?

It wouldn't even surprise me if China was sponsoring something and still banning it out of habit.

China

While having two words for blue because "they look different"

People seem to believe this so let me clarify:

Literally, “apple of [the] earth”. The word pomme used to mean "fruit" in Old French. The French construction originated, as calques, Dutch aardappel, Icelandic jarðepli, Persian سیب‌زمینی (sib-zamini), Modern Hebrew תפוח אדמה (tapúakh adamá), the rare English earthapple, German Erdapfel, etc.

wiktionary

In fact, apple was a catch all term for fruits in many languages from time to time, hence pineapple (originally meaning pinecone, later used for the exotic fruit because of similarity) or German Apfelsine (orange, literally apple from China), ...

Nudel?? NUDEL???