The decision to buck federal government guidelines was one of many that led to serious repercussions for Texas residents who rely on Medicaid. Among them were children forced to forgo or postpone lifesaving operations, doctors say.
Sub cannot refer to subreddit outside the context of reddit. You say it can only be used exclusively for one thing only and disregard its general definition as a prefix. That's like claiming sub cannot refer to a submarine in a marine context because "it's already short for subreddit"
doesn't necessarily need be a part of another word, can also be used as a noun on its own, just as part of a bigger whole. If it necessarily needs to be a prefix, think of subpage.
Why'd I need to have heard it in order to use it. But yes, I heard people use it on lemmy to refer to communities
So people need to copy other people's usage for it to be justified? What kind of dumb warped logic is that. It makes sense on its own. How hard is that to get
What is wrong is not me here. Look, I get it. It's called a subreddit on Reddit. But this is Lemmy and we don't have subs. We have communities. And there's a community for world news, but this isn't it
If Texas were a country, it would be the 10th biggest by GDP and the 4th largest petrostate. It's twice as large as Germany. This isn't hyper-local news.