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Should’ve mentioned he’s from Morelos. Mexico is quite a large, diverse country.

Either way, he doesn’t really seem to care whether someone calls Chipotle “Mexican food” or not.

I asked my husband who’s from Mexico, and he said, “Kinda? Not really.”

He added, and I quote, “Flour tortillas are not Mexican.”

There ya go!

Westley (not sci-fi, but Princess Bride name I like)

I also like that it can be shortened to Wes

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Oh, it’s not just me? I thought maybe I was IP banned after using it too much on reddit.

Their site has become borderline unusable too, unfortunately. Oddly, it works fine for me when I connect through a VPN.

I got a 403 too, but I was able to access it this way.

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That’s a good idea tbh, in case anyone forgets why they’re defederated

No surprise there. I have one of my accounts banned by lemmy.ml for the following comment:

No sense arguing with tankies. Every take I’ve seen from hexbear itt is absolute brainrot, and I can’t wait until we can block entire instances. Signed, A gay, married anarchist

I find this hilarious considering how mild my comment was in comparison to how unhinged and toxic the dirtbag authoritarian leftists on ml and hexbear are allowed to be on a regular basis.

Ohno, the totally-not-a-dystopian-authoritarian-state-and-if-you-call-it-that-you’re-sinophobic got 'em

Thank you!

Error 403 Forbidden

Forbidden Error 54113

Details: cache-fra-eddf8230035-FRA 1696448031 116898101

Varnish cache server

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There’s definitely some information that I’ve shared that is probably not in my best interest, so I understand being the type of person who tells people almost anything. I’m pretty much an open book with close friends and family. It’s one reason I like to avoid sites like Facebook and use sites that emphasize anonymity more. Sometimes I have to keep myself safe from myself lol

I’m a big advocate of privacy, but it’s good to ask these questions. We shouldn’t shame people for asking.

“Your honor, I deny this person their right to liberty on the grounds that I am able to profit by restricting it.”

You’d tell them because the law might not consider your activities illegal at this time. But what about trans kids? What about people who have abortions? Unfortunately, we can’t trust any state or legal system to continue to have our best interests in mind.

Better that we normalize a free and private internet now while we still have the privilege of saying “I’d tell them…” And if you’d tell them, then great! But that should be your choice, your agency. It shouldn’t be data that we expect to have collated about us just by visiting a site online.

I’d much rather see restrictions on using algorithms to recommend content, period. I have yet to be grateful for any algorithmically generated feed. It comes across as useless and annoying at worst, creepy and intrusive at best.

Better to have a forum with humans recommending things to each other that can be searched and sorted according to keywords and direct input from the users, according to our preferences.

Tbf many of us, myself included, had had a problem with the general reddit culture for a very long time (in my case dating back to 2011)

The API change and Sp*z’s libelous lies (egregious even by his abysmally low standards) finally gave me the motivation to leave, and I’m genuinely happy that I’ve never checked back on my old account (which is still up, but has been mostly scrubbed of content)

I didn’t come here to find more reddit. In fact, I tried switching back to tumblr at first before learning more about the potential of the fediverse