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Thanks. Got a plain made: “The content is not available in your region”. I’m actually happy the website content is a simple html document instead of JavaScript bloated with capitalism surveillance trackers

And the black maillot for the most powerful doping chemicals goes to…


SNL had that idea: the “all drug Olympics”

https://youtu.be/jAdG-iTilWU?si=25YzT63fNu_dCIq4


You will soon be unable to cross the intersection unless you manually turn the light green from your mobile phone or wait until another authorised driver does it, in order to protect the children


Websites shouldn’t know if you’re on desktop because they are clearly gonna abuse that bit of information.

Web browsers were designed by naive, pre surveillance capitalism developers


I send the link to another browser, one with JavaScript disabled


Why though? You demand a service that you can get cheaper abroad. You can’t change the health system but you can travel to a socially developed country that hasn’t yet fallen victim of corruption


A same day flight to Mexico is $1000 where I live. Other countries seem to have figured out healthcare. The US can too.


It might be able to, but only after passing legislation to control guns and protect school children from being victims of daily school shootings


If people were just paid for services that used them and manipulate them with tracking and behaviour profiles


People must come up with new characters because they lack their own script. You can either have a script adapted to your language, or make the best of what you’ve got.

English doesn’t. Bernard Shaw tried inventing new letters. I guess that changing the English alphabet os a slippery slope. If you make it as phonetic as the Latin script is meant to be, and with special characters, people would have to relearn how to read from scratch


If people followed the alphabetic principle for English, the written language would become unintelligible due to all of the regional variations in pronunciation causing there to be many variations of the same words.


you mean like there is color and colour?


English has between 16 and 22 vowels (iirc) depending on the variety. English speakers that use a different set of vowels than each other often cannot understand each other at all at speed.

Color and colour are different pictures of the same word.


Ask people how many different vowels there are in this set of words: trap, bath, palm, lot, cloth, thought. Most English speakers will make out two-four vowels from those 6 words. But they won't agree on which words share the same vowels.

There are other phonological differences between English dialects, but for the most part you can notate them as sounds that merely some dialects don't distinguish (e.g., nonrhotic dialects dropping the `r' sound).


That's not a pronunciation difference though. Almost all english dialects and regional accents pronounce that word very similarly. It's just an introduced spelling difference for aesthetics.


When I discovered fingerprinting, I tried tinkering with every single bit of information possible, but it was hopeless.

The error lies in the candid nature of software developers, who couldn’t imagine a world in which every human thought or interaction could be economically exploitable. Why does my browser have to give away so much information?


Our generations of the last 10,000 years are seeing how the story decays.

When the food supply was abundant, families would jog every day doing BBQ every night hunting down mammoths

We have become red in tooth and claw. At the summit of civilisation, we are alienated with our screens, licking frozen TV dinners in our shared flat while we work hard to support our landlords


As long as we have surviving records people have been saying the past was golden and the present is decay with a long list of the present ills which are the downfall of the glorious past. It's a boring take and has been incorrect for thousands of years and will continue to be. Arguments about how some list of things haven't been on a monotonic increase during the last generation do not refute this.


It’s not boring, it explains the demise of the human experience, no matter how bigoted you pretend you are


huh?


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