I think they used whole sentences back in the days and it was in the printing press era that they started abbreviating things to letters and symbols

That’s one theory why x is used in math so much: in times of the printing press, the letter x was barely used so always free

That way you can search one instance but not the fediverse

Boycott is more than the personal decision not to buy something but an organized action including public announcements, reach-outs, protests, …

I don’t know which one the first amendment is though. I guess it’s freedom of speech?

Because boycotts are still legal, only boycots are not

Freedom is always the freedom of the obedient.

Purple Belgium

Is mbin the same as kbin and is it still a thing? I remember hearing about it at the beginning but now everyone is on lemmy or am I missing something?

So you almost failed because you knew everything. That’s the kind of empowering pedagogy we need more of

I went to that exact same building for many years of my life and I didn’t learn new things everyday