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My easy solution, whenever I land on a fandom page, is to add "anti" in front of the domain name, "antifandom" will filter out the crep out of the original page and present a clean version of the wiki. This is powered by BreezeWiki

Example:

• before: https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Infect
• after: https://mtg.antifandom.com/wiki/Infect

edit: typo, added example

but you still lock yourself in their offer space when you also bought devices that kind of depend on those services: music streaming for the homepod, fitness+ for watch, cloud storage for iphone photos...

every time you switch from apple to a third party, it's ever so slightly less convenient, and they probably conceive their products around that notion.

Thank you, my eyes are still twitching 5 minutes after closing the page 😵‍💫

Wow ich wusste nicht dass man von Toronto aus bis zum Fernsehturm am Alexanderplatz sehen kann!

Musk considers removing X platform from Europe over EU law - Insider Reuters October 19, 20232:36 AM GMT+2Updated 7 hours ago

Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk attends the VivaTech conference in Paris Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, France, June 16, 2023. Oct 18 (Reuters) - Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X, is considering removing the service formerly called Twitter from Europe in response to a new internet platform regulation in the region, news site Insider reported on Wednesday.

The billionaire has discussed removing the app's availability in the region, or blocking users in the European Union from accessing it, a person familiar with the company told the publication.

The European Union in August adopted the Digital Services Act (DSA), which sets forth rules for preventing the spread of harmful content, banning or limiting certain user-targeting practices, and sharing some internal data with regulators and associated researchers, among other things.

X did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

Reporting by Yuvraj Malik in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika Syamnath

That sentence stumped me too, really weird wording. Apparently it means "rare, seldom used" in US English.

Edit: just checked Urban Dictionary and welp, I didn't foresee the British slang meaning o_O

"American" is the official name, though throughout history attempts have been made to find alternatives. You can read more on the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonyms_for_the_United_States

The only officially and commonly used alternative for referring to the people of the United States in English is to refer to them as citizens of that country.[18] Another alternative is US-American,[19] also spelled US American.

Several single-word English alternatives for American have been suggested over time, especially Usonian, popularized by architect Frank Lloyd Wright,[20] and the nonce term United-Statesian.[21]

Writer H. L. Mencken collected a number of proposals from between 1789 and 1939, finding terms including Columbian, Columbard, Fredonian, Frede, Unisian, United Statesian, Colonican, Appalacian, Usian, Washingtonian, Usonian, Uessian, U-S-ian, Uesican, and United Stater.[22] Names for broader categories include terms such as Western Hemispherian, New Worlder, and North Atlantican.[23][24][25]

Nevertheless, no alternative to "American" is common in English.[18]

Ein Volk

we need to call the chief sturgeon

If not you can see it here too: https://i.imgur.com/YZLkfGY.jpeg

I need a different picture for negative values

You probably mixed up Türkiye being in NATO, not in the EU

Totally hypothetical situation, not related to any current event or existing island under threat, right? Right?!

Je partage ton expérience, parler la langue aide énormément oui (cf mon expérience relatée dans une réponse ci-dessous).

Et je suis entièrement d'accord avec ton opinion du mot "expat", c'est un mot que je déteste, ça me rappelle les vieux Anglais qui vivent en Espagne sans payer d'impôts locaux (et qui se font maintenant virer pikachusurpris.jpeg)

Je suis travailleur frontalier depuis 10 ans et installé côté allemand depuis 5 ans, j'habite dans un village et j'ai de très bonnes relations avec tous mes voisin.e.s et collègues, on se parle ou se salue quasiment chaque jour, on s'échange des gâteaux et confitures, fait les courses ensemble.

Mais tout ça s'est aussi fait parce que dès mon arrivée dans le quartier où j'ai emménagé, toutes les maisons adjacentes ont reçu une invitation à ma crémaillère, j'ai fait bonne impression dès le premier jour. Cela dit, étant cis-blanc d'origine alsacienne et parlant couramment allemand, je joue certainement dans le mode de difficulté le plus facile, ma situation ne doit pas du tout être comparable à celle de migrant.e.s venu.e.s d'Amérique latine, d'Asie, d'Afrique.

En revanche, quand je rendais visite à ma moitié dans son appartement en ville les 5 premières années, on ne connaissait pas un seul voisin et nos seul.e.s ami.e.s étaient des collègues, la plupart d'origine étrangère (US, Egypte, Inde...). Plus les villes sont grandes plus c'est difficile de faire des rencontres, paradoxalement.

À l'époque où j'étais étudiant dans une grande ville française, j'étais aussi très isolé et je me suis tourné vers le site OnVaSortir pour faire des activités sportives ou culturelles avec des inconnu.e.s, c'est sûrement la meilleure chose à faire quand on arrive quelque part : trouver des clubs ou associations avec des personnes ayant des intérêts similaires.

Why is that?