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Depends on context. In the context of an informal conversation about a specific kind of law it's fine IMO. It's also fine if it's obviously not that serious, like e.g. different styles of toilets that are both found in the 'developed world'. When you're talking about a topic where generally richer countries do it one way and poorer countries do it another way, that's where calling the poorer countries 'uncivilized' starts sounding racist (or maybe just classist, considering countries like Belarus which are poor, authoritarian and underdeveloped but not inhabited by any brown people).

Hell yeah! The Ubuntu mono is really easy to read, and there aren't that many sans-serif fonts that differentiate l and I well.

Listened to Kraftwerk's "Autobahn" today for the first time to a very similar effect. Can't say I listened to the whole thing, though, considering it's a 22 minute piece ...

I really don't understand how so many people just put up with it. I actually helped an older relative with it a couple of months ago, he isn't even the tech-illiterate type. Mere weeks after that, he's back to using YouTube with ads.

Consider how advertising on any of those platforms looks compared to five or ten years ago.

How does it look? I haven't braved the web without an adblocker in years.

They're definitely lying about the reach of their ads, this already came up a couple of times during elections. Though in the case of elections, it's more about the precision of their targeting - apparently, a lot of the time they weren't even able to precisely target the population of specific election districts. Or maybe just unwilling, who knows.

I'm also pretty sure that a lot of advertising clients are not happy that they're sharing ad space with porn ads and scam ads.

If you can moderate, it isn’t really an addiction. At least, not by the strict definition. If you use it more colloquially, sure.

I think that doesn't really work for physical addictions. Even if you can easily stop using because your mind just works that way, if you used an addictive substance for long enough you'll get withdrawal symptoms.

That's definitely part of it, but I think the main issue is that a lot of the new tech in the last 20 years was used to further the far right (e.g. Facebook, Google) and erode civil rights in general (e.g. privacy, right to repair), on top of constant enshittification and ever-shrinking longevity of devices.

I think that depends a lot on the specific addictions and which circumstances make you want to give into it more. e.g. physical addictions like to highly addictive drugs are typically harder to moderate that non-physical addictions.

New technology kind of stopped being exciting for me. Too much abuse, and even stuff that's hard to abuse (like new medical treatments) typically takes several decades before it's available for end users and even then is usually out of reach financially for most people.

I really don't want to use voice chat when I'm talking to random people, I'm already not using any chat features. I'd rather use a different platform if it comes up at one point (e.g. for stuff like coordinating between mods); I generally prefer it when software keeps its scope small.

No longsleeves? A tshirt doesn't cut it in winter, and the distinction between tank top and tshirt in the graphic tells me that the graphic doesn't mean just any kind of top.

Weirdly, as a non-native speaker I find UK headlines even harder to read.

I can teach you about homo things, too ; )

Maybe they got in trouble too many times for not doing it exactly as instructed, even if the instruction is obviously bullshit in some ways?

Making constructive, non-adhominem critique, and accepting such critique. Maybe calm debate/discussion in general.

Who tried to take over Europe? The German nazi regime didn't use the 14 words.

Influencing their subjects (especially other aristocrats) through their economic power was always important for monarchs, though. The medieval period had lots of weak kings who had substantial trouble bringing the aristocrats under them in line, a lot of the time they weren't even able to collect taxes at the kingdom-level (you kind of need a money-based economy for that, and civil servants were in very short supply in the middleages).

The 14 words are distinctly a USA thing (possibly anglophone). It doesn't translate well into other languages, because the number of words changes in translation, and nazis are typically nationalistic.

You really think the tourists would stop looking at British castles etc. if the UK became a republic?