It looks (parses) as perfectly fine markdown on Lemmy (lemm.ee), it looks like how the markdown says it should look. The person above seems to want to inject asterisks into what you wrote for their own reasons, you did nothing wrong.

Kansas state is the rectangle on the right; Kansas City is one of those weird things which exists in both Kansas and Missouri next to each other, one was named after the other. Technically one is a small suburb of the other (150k ppl vs 2m ppl) - but for pub trivia, it does exist by name as an incorporated city in the state of Kansas.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City,_Kansas
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City,_Missouri

The Missouri one is the bigger, more populated well known “KC” which is probably why it gets added to foreign pub trivia incorrectly (just a guess).

The set I grew up on was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopædia_Britannica#1974–1994

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+1 on Howard Leights - popular in the shooting sports (USPSA/IPSC, IDPA, ICORE, etc.) for their effectiveness and ability to adjust sensitivity. Comfortable for long periods and last forever even when lightly abused in outdoor environments.

To expand on this, there are two settings you can put in user.js / prefs.js (desktop) or via about:config (mobile), documented on the Mozilla Wiki:

user_pref("media.autoplay.default", 5);
user_pref("media.autoplay.blocking_policy", 2);

Two bonus settings if you want to get rid of the “do you want to enable DRM?” pop-in bar when hitting one of those sites:

user_pref("media.gmp-widevinecdm.enabled", false);
user_pref("media.gmp-widevinecdm.visible", false);

hth