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Asking someone their country of residence is privacy intruding? Lol

I am from Germany

If you were really from Germany, you'd never have given that much personal information up voluntarily!

I'm too terrified of dying to an irresponsible driver, so as much as I would like to bike everywhere, I'll keep taking the metro for now. They're adding more and more actually decent bike lanes so hopefully one day...

Why couldn't they just serve the comments to each client with the ad-adjusted timestamps already? The only thing the client has to request then is the comment page it wants to load, and some unique ID for which the backend remembers which ad version it's associated with.

Ok, I like this description a lot actually, it's a very quick and effective way to explain the effects of no backtracking. A lot of the answers here are either too reductive or too technical to actually make this behavior understandable to a layman. "It just predicts the next word" is easy to forget when the thing makes it so easy to be anthropomorphized subconsciously.

could be that the original applies to some small place with some different setup there, but news about their protests don't really seem to spread to the rest of us

.. what?

It's great for racing games where you have gradual steering but also quicker response times than with a controller

TIL it's entitled to ask that software you use is either compliant with the law or clearly lets you know that it isn't, especially when the developers have no idea what the law is

..Haley supports a nationwide abortion ban and can't remember what the civil war was about. Reasonable‽

Foolish me for thinking no-one could possibly need an /s on that comment.

I got the sarcasm, but this particular point is – as you've demonstrated very clearly in your response – the actual message you're trying to push.

Or did you not know that highly addictive amphetamines is a commonly prescribed for ADHD?

You're using "highly addictive" to insinuate that this is just a ludicrous and fundamentally flawed practice. No concern towards all of those who do have ADHD who report that medication has helped them live a life otherwise inaccessible to them. It's highly stigmatizing framing and just because you have a valid point about opioids does not mean you get to dismiss genuine mental health struggles as having fallen prey to a marketing scheme.

the real breakthrough has been convincing everyone that they have some sort of mental health issue that requires pharmaceuticals. The entire country is taking something, and that's been a huge help in keeping people docile.

I was with you up until that point. You point out that the poor are made to fight each other and then you engage in a fight against the disadvantaged who need medical assistance? Fuck this science denying, ableist bullshit.

Ah yes, wind turbines which are famously delivered to locations in dense urban centers.

Grammarly has a terrible privacy policy, so you are right to be cautious. Unfortunately I don't have any good alternatives to offer as I only use spellcheck myself.