really makes you think

But the replies are (mostly) not bots, are they?

Care to elaborate?

The bulk of any text is comprised of the most common 500-1000 words, making up roughly 80% of the text. Words such as “the”, “do”, “that”, “live”, “she”, etc. You need to learn these and understand them without thinking to be able to read a book. Cognates don’t really help you here too much, German and especially French share little core vocabulary with English. Usually you won’t reach this level before B2.

That being said, I did manage to slowly read quite a dense book about futurism back when I was between B1 and B2 level of German (with a dictionary in the other hand). Also, reading a book but not understanding everything is completely fine and a good way to learn a language.

Some types of books are easier. Comics might be your best bet, children’s books are easy too but I wouldn’t be too motivated to read them.

Very few do. There’s your answer

It does. Curling up makes the hair effectively shorter. And keeps it closer to the head.

Oh yeah, and if you have really curly hair, it is effectively shorter

Humans evolved with dense curly hair, which protects you from the heat https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/life-air-conditioning-curly-hair-kept-early-humans-cool

Well, it does compromise your privacy

Do you have some obscure hardware? I have multiple desktops running Ubuntu or similar, and have not had any issues with browser video playback. At home an AMD GPU, at work an NVIDIA one. Admittedly, I use firefox.

You can build all kinds of shady and privacy–hostile features into closed source projects, as opt out, and only remove them once people find out.

Why do you use brave anyway? It’s spyware

Lmao birds are not real

Don’t pick your ex’s name for the love of god?

only if I have to

Depends on the country?

Well, you know, that’s just like uh, your opinion, man

That does not sound like a charitable interpretation of my argument. For example

A woman in Smolensk was fined for posting a historical photo of her home under Nazi occupation, where a Wehrmacht flag and soldiers appeared in the background.

This has nothing to do with well-defined instances of hate speech. Even the Putin example is quite far fetched, though I guess I should have used a more precise example

Specific well-defined instances of hate speech like “all members of group XYZ deserve to die” should be banned IMO. More ambiguous things should not, otherwise the government can start banning political sentiments that it does not like.