Isn’t that convenient.

“Remember Y2K and all the chaos that was supposed to happen? Computer nerds scared everybody into updating everything and make it ‘y2k proof’ or whatever and then it was a whole nothing burger.”

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer? Scientists made us ban CFC’s like we were going to die of skin cancer any day now and then nothing bad at all happened.”

None of the above? I have certain traits that society thinks are weird. That’s about it. I’m neither cursed nor gifted, I just very much don’t fit the definition of “normal”.

The delist is presented as a big operating “loss” to tax authorities.

I have absolutely no fucking idea how taxes work. But this sounds to me like I have insurance on my hand and I sit down one evening with a knife and cut off my hand and then go to my insurance company, showing them my bloody stump: “gib money!”

wtf.

Depends on what country. But in general, probably because the departments responsible tend to be understaffed and overworked, regardless of where, and there are quite a lot of migrants.

Sure. How does that add to the topic at hand?

That’s nonsense, because they’re obviously looking for Erde.

Okay, and? Are you saying that’s reason for any and all aid deliveries to stop?

In Germany, generally, students are expected to bring their own stuff, it’s not the school’s/teacher’s responsibility to provide pencils and what not. That’s probably where the confusion lies, there is no scenario in which a teacher has to specifically ask parents to provide supplies because they do that anyway.

You brought up specifically HD. I’m willing to watch ads so that YT can continue delivering even lower quality videos as long as those ads don’t interrupt the video.

So hide the HD stuff behind a paywall. I’m perfectly happy at 720p for the VAST majority of videos. Might even agree to go lower if it means I can watch it without ad breaks.

That was a gazillion years ago. Probably some fandom thing? Seems likely.

Au contraire, mon Capitan, after they’re gone, this will be the place to move TO for the foreseeable future!

Why those two in particular? And why on repeat instead of queueing several different ones? If you don’t mind me being nosy for absolutely no good reason.

just saying “health”,

It’s short for “I wish you good health (and not the plague)”.

“may it be beneficial”

May what be beneficial? In German, “Prosit” (usually “Prost”) is a form of “cheers” or “bottoms up” because that beer better be beneficial or else.

Oh hey, more of your bullshit shaming.

What is up with shaming people for caring about something they did not care about before? Do you want them to stop caring? At least they do now, can’t that be enough?

Fido has warez if you have treat?

Well yes. There are people who receive money from reddit in exchange for services rendered, making reddit a legitimate company that can be held to higher standards. And then there are the mods (who, as we all know, are le ghey) who need to be protected from this fact of reality at all costs.

The difference being that one is a system held together by volunteers, spit and floss, dreams and hopes, the other is a major website that pays people real world money to prevent shit from happening. (also, don’t reddit)