It’s because they as a political party have that fully/quasi religious bent baked in. So they live in several overlapping fantasy worlds. They’re good Christians that don’t read the Bible and fill out of their way to be filled with hate. There chosen by God, yet constantly victims of persecution by anyone and everyone. They have all these rules and stories from a Sky Daddy they say does everything to them for a mysterious reason, in spite of points 1 and 2.

Trying to make sense of it all is the only way to do it wrong. Money and violence, the most basic brain stemmy human attributes? That’s usually it.

I used to at work. I would do a half filled mug, give it 2-3 minutes of heat so it didn’t suddenly boil over, then drop in the tea bag and fill with regular water.

I understand what you’re saying and sorry if it seemed insensitive. I grew up in a town where actually disabled people often couldn’t use the Wal-Mart electric carts because they were in use by people who were very much able-bodied and just felt like being redneck pieces of garbage. It was a whole drama-rama at the Wal-Mart about who could use the carts. And this was after we dealt with the sign about leaving your guns in the car and not shopping with an iron on your leg.

But, it was a special town full of hate, so maybe that was a unique situation.

I used to use Power Delete Suite to nuke Reddit comments.

Really more like the Wal-Mart electric hoverround.

There’s no real rules about who can use it. It’s there for anyone. Some people do genuinely need that assistance. But most users are simply lazy fucks that don’t want their kankles dragging on the floor as they go to buy prepackaged doughnuts and soda, looking over the tactical machetes in sporting goods and talking up how well they would do in a zombie apocalypse because they watched the entire series of The Walking Dead again last week.

It’s like a mashup between Wall-e and The Matrix.

But like, a gross mashup of only the worst parts.

Breaks rule 3. Report this spam as spam.

It’s worth it to pay extra for anything that doesn’t need an app or WiFi connectivity.

Those are huge red flags. Avoid anything “smart” like the plauge.

Appliances with “smart features” are simply scraping your whole home, not just your phone, for data to sell to advertisers. Very often the app or even the company won’t outlive the appliance itself, so as happens frequently, in 2 years you’ll be stuck with a perfectly workable appliance that refuses to work because some server in China went offline.

I’d be a dolphin, because dolphins aren’t shy about getting their dicks out to fuck this exact shit right here.

In /r/privacy they started implementing the new social credit system where not only do you need karma, you need fresh karma, called a “Contributor Quantity Score.” So my usual aged, pop in every few months account with decent karma is effectively banned for being (actual term) “lowest value” because I’m not on Reddit commenting every day.

https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/19023371170196-What-is-the-Contributor-Quality-Score

As for their plans, seems like a probability where they just want us to pay $5.99 a month to make the problem (they created) go away.

A cure is petty much the only thing that will prevent the end of PEPFAR not turning into a backdraft style resurgent AIDS epidemic in southern Africa.

Can you show me an example of a website outside of a .DE site that offers translation into any of them?

He eating the dogs, he’s eating the… well, not cats. Just dogs.

Find a Linux distro you like and install it instead of Windows.

Use LibreOffice, not MSOffice

Ditch Google, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft.

Tech walled gardens are insane asylums. Leave them.

I’m not saying it’s a good idea, i just see it a lot. Maybe I’m only paying attention to this in Europe, where it’s a bit more clear-cut, rather than tracking down population data to select a template option on a website for something like a cafe menu.

Please try and look at this as a reasonable person.

Do you go to Italy, see a QR code on a table in a cafe, and berate them about their online menu showing an Italian flag, but the Italian language predates the Italian Republic?

It’s simple because this is someone coding a site in one language, and then likely running it through Google Translate to get other options. Maaaaybe with a single human reviewing it of they’re lucky. But likely not even that.

Not every website has a translation team of 20 or 30 PhDs working to ensure optimal linguistic understanding and anthropological and historical accuracy. Likewise, no, I’m very sorry to tell you that people very often don’t really care about others. If pay 3 people in India, or ask an LLM, to code a website with German translation, either the drop down will say Deutsch or it’ll say that and have a German flag. What should Austria have, a tiny picture of Mozart but the site is still just German?

German dialects are still…German language, yes?

I’m just telling you what I’ve seen used. Typically it’s a lot of European flags for languages that originate in Europe. So UK for English, German for German, French for French, Spain for Spanish. Belarusian would be the flag of…Belarus? Not sure why that’s a challenge.

To your question about China - What should be used for Swahili? What should be used for Yarouba or Hausa or Shona or Chewa? Africa is the problem, and so the typical method for doing this is very Euro-centric.

Tell me… Where did, roughly speaking, German originate? Germany, perhaps?

Does Germany have a flag?

Not sure why this is some sort of hidden secret code.

Typically they’re used for the counties where the language originated.

UK for English France for French Japan for Japanese Spain for Spanish Russia for Russian Portugal for Portuguese