Everyone on today’s internet is directly exposed to regulations like GDPR, the Digital Services Act (DSA), the Digital Markets Act (DMA), and lately numerous age verification (or assurance) laws and related social media bans for minors.
How, how, how did we manage to stray this far from John Perry Barlow’s dreams? Is there any good left in the world? ;_;
Thread about that here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/54901501
Was expecting AI Gore rhythm
I think it has to do with the fact that in the first three, you can (and do right after entering) stand up (like on a ship, probably where this was first used), while in a car you immediately sit down?
But ultimately this is a trait of the English language, in my first language (German) we “steigen ein” in all of these.
It always looks funny tho. :D
Among techy people.
Among ordinary users, I don’t think so.
EA, not FIFA. The games are nowadays not even called FIFA anymore.
Current me and 14-year-old me would certainly agree that Linux (and free software generally) is awesome for example. :D
I think most people form most of their worldview around the age of 12 to 14 years. I know I did, that is when I first learned about most of the issues I am still most passionate about nowadays. Anything I learned about earlier or later, I am more likely to change my mind about.
If you do not occasionally change your views on things even later in life based on new information, then you’re not doing very much thinking. Your thought is incomplete, we should have more than two sets of opinions.
AFAICT not really true for Austria (where I live), we get 5 weeks of vacation, yet I don’t hear very much about unions and am not myself a member of one
wait until you find out that if the same happens to Elon Musk, Elongate will be really drawn out
ba dum tss
That “most people” part kinda reminds me of this: https://xkcd.com/2501/
Couldn’t you just go to a store that sells musical instruments and try them out there? I don’t know enough about musical instruments to know the answer, but I am a hobbyist photographer and we can certainly do that with cameras.
I recommend “new comments”.
may I ask what your first language is?
Do you have this problem only with “strawberry” or also with “straw” alone? What about other words beginning with str-, like street or straight?
My first language doesn’t have syllable-initial st-, yet pronouncing any of these words is no problem for me at all in English.
Hi, I am from an instance no one ever seems to talk about and when reading these kinds of threads I am glad I made that choice. 😁