I think it’s because in the UK they start counting (regularly) with the index finger, so the regular binary two would look unnatural in context

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In the image he isn’t using his thumb to count, so 2 would be the middle finger.

This just seems like it would cause even more body dysphoria than these beauty contests already do. How is this different than just allowing fucking Photoshop? Just creates even more unrealistic body standards

In what fucking way would it be „progressive“?

That is mentioned in the Wikipedia article, but given the fact that þ also hasn’t been used for hundreds of years, I think it would make sense to re-adopt both letters to distinguish between the sounds (though accents will probably make things confusing)

Btw, þ is supposed to be used for the “hard” th (Wikipedia article for the corresponding phoneme with audio sample).

The “soft” th has another letter, ð (Wikipedia).

Wikipedia about the usage of ð (and a bit of þ) in old English

I’m new to this as well, I just chose this instance to switch to (also from lemm.ee) because I’m queer and knew this instance did a good job keeping out assholes.

In general I think most instances on here are leftist or at least left-leaning. The general recommendation for lemm.ee users is currently lemmy.zip, if you want a dedicated political instance I only know of the anarchist lemmy.dbzer0.com (though they are too defensive of genAI for my taste) and the European Federalist feddit.org.

This thread has more recommendations by a more experienced user

They’ve got a lot of genuine tankies on there, and not just the „West is bad“ kind, but also a lot of „The Russian invasion of the Ukraine is justified and the Tiananmen massacre didn’t happen“