If ads were truly that reviled, adblockers would be more popular. Most people either don’t care at all, or don’t care enough to change anything about how they use media. You can literally set up a way to consume their media without ads for them and most people will refuse to use it over the slightest inconvenience, such as “I don’t like Firefox”.
Give it 200 years and the west is back to early modern nobles and commoners.
Now explain why tankies seem to be extremely fond of current Russia, even though it makes no attempt to hide its rightwing authoritarian nature. “Geopolitics”/“enemy of my enemy” can only explain so much of that IMO.
Which central european country had a war in its own territory in the 90s? I’m only aware of wars in the balkans, which aren’t generally considered central europe.
The corpos are the fascists.
We’re clearly in the process of bringing caste systems back in the west, it’s getting increasingly hard to access health care or housing even in countries that used to have strong social welfare systems.
The extremism thing is definitely real.
If we replace Latin with Greek, I’d say that the European areas were either just never conquered for long enough periods by people with different languages, or the conquerors weren’t enough (or not brutal enough) to enforce the spread of their own language; e.g. the Franks conquered Vulgar Latin-speaking France, but they adopted the Latin-based language instead of making everyone else speak a Germanic language. Closely related to that is that Europe was almost fully christianized, which is heavily based on the Latin and Greek languages, while the middle east was almost fully (muslimized? islamized? there’s got to be a word for that).
So Latin spread pretty well across Europe, being the basis of almost every language there
Maybe a third, by population. Germanic and slavic languages are a thing, they aren’t based on Latin even if they use many Latin loan words.
Oil is kinda already obsolete, so it doesn’t really matter if we’d run out in 50 or 100 years - if we’re still consuming oil at the current pace in that time, half the people who might be upset about oil availability are going to become climate refugees of some sort, who won’t be able to afford cars at today’s rate. Space is going to get tight in a lot of places if people need to move hundreds of km inland to escape rising sea levels.
Personally I don’t have a big issue with not allowing children on social media, but with how it’s going to get enforced. Do you trust your government with ID data that’s immediately linked to everything you say or do on a social media website? And I’d be surprised if the social media companies don’t get access to that ID data, too. They could implement age checks in a very privacy-friendly way (I mean one that actually works, not just “click yes if you’re 18”), but they’re not going to.
And there are good arguments for allowing children anyway, it can be a great tool for children who get mistreated in “real life”. The more locked down the web becomes for minors, the more difficult it’s going to be to get info on e.g. safe sex, LGBT+ or anti-abuse topics, and IMO seeing the info on a static information website (as long as that’s allowed in the first place, which is going to be an issue especially with a far right government) is often not enough.
X is literally a propaganda tool of the extreme right, what Twitter has been is dead. The same is mostly true for Reddit, though even if it the people calling the shots for Reddit were truly only interested in profit instead of politics, it’s not profitable to criticize a manchild wannabe-dictator and his cronies.
Which paper photo is going to last that long? Keeping personal data for that long requires an unlikely amount of continuous effort.
Do we assume that God is (and always was) a reasonable person/being who only punishes people for good reason and in appropriate measure? Because the bible doesn’t quite paint that picture to me.
The different parts of software are (maybe) meant to be independent, encapsulated from each other, but in practice it’s hard to actually do that. So if you change the behavior of one part, the other parts that depend on it directly or indirectly often need to be changed as well, and certain types of issues are easy to miss, especially when you aren’t targeting a homogenous hardware platform like a game console.
AFAIK USA. But I’d assume that lemmy.world users aren’t the only ones who see and comment on your posts. e.g. I have insomnia, I might comment at literally any time, and I often scroll through All.
On my phone I use VLC player to play files that I saved on local storage. It’s very rare that I do any kind of streaming on my phone, if I do I do it through Firefox.
Roster rules would mean an MLS club would quickly get ground into dirt in that English second division, but matchday 1 might be pretty competitive.
Interesting, what are those roster rules?
I’d assume that men in low rise jeans are very popular among people who are attracted to men. Straight men just jelly.
Worth what? You aren’t paying them anything (unless your state’s rules are really fucked up). They’re definitely better than you defending yourself.
I do have formal education in the field, but that doesn’t mean that I’m easily capable of e.g. writing a module for Nginx or even most website frameworks or knowledgable enough about administration to feel comfortable exposing a dynamic website (as opposed to static HTML+CSS) to the internet.
A lot of it is learning by doing, though, and for a lot of things books are a great resource (some stuff is outdated as soon as it’s published, but general system administration or programming knowledge doesn’t get outdated that fast).