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Student pilot successfully lands plane after instructor jumps to death mid-flight (www.dexerto.com)

submitted 1 day ago by Abyssian@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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Flight instructor: "Do your best, lol."

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[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The minds of the sea of semi-anonymous lemmings is likely hard to understand due to endemic parochialism in the USA.

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think that's part of why I can't read anyone's mind, but okay.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Well it's a fairly common discussion on Lemmy, Reddit, microblogging, etc., that "America" as the USA doesn't float well outside of the USA.

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Some corners of Lemmy that I haven't seen maybe, but over my decade+ of Reddit I've never seen anyone present that as an issue.

I acknowledge it's a bit lame that only a specific part of North America calls themselves "American," but I doubt inaccurate and exclusionary endonyms are a phenomenon unique to the US.