Your first statement was "I don't like NATO". I think the person responding is assuming you're a US citizen, and so a member of the only country to call the rest of NATO to its aid, despite being the most powerful.
I agree with this. I tell people to ask it questions about things they know about. Then, when they see how many errors it makes, ask them why they assume it's any better on a topic they don't know about.
You see the same effect in journalism. News stories seem pretty authoritative until you read one about a subject you know.
I remember declining a job offer (I had the contract to sign) long ago because one of the people I'd nominated as a reference contacted me and said "I legally can't answer the questions they've asked about you". Turns out their pro-forma reference questionnaire asked things like "Is this person punctual?", "what issues has this person had?". General dirt digging
If anybody were to answer that and the job offer got revoked, I could take that person to court for libel. Companies should know better than to ask anything but factual details in a reference.
So I turned it down stating that if they were so unprofessional around recruitment I wouldn't trust them to be a good professional employer if I worked for them.
The folks who own guns are almost all conservative and live in red states where there is positive sentiment towards ice
I don't think I believe this. The US has 1.2 guns per person including children. You're telling me they are all owned by less than half of the adult population.
I'm just not sure the two use cases meld very well. Mastodon tends to be "reply and fly", whereas Lemmy can get into discussions.
I don't know why that is. Maybe it's the twitter character limit that's been baked into people even though it's not a thing on mastodon (might depend on instance).
Your first statement was "I don't like NATO". I think the person responding is assuming you're a US citizen, and so a member of the only country to call the rest of NATO to its aid, despite being the most powerful.