https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign#Currencies_that_use_the_dollar_sign

Casablanca.

No, there are no such people.

Have you ever used discord?

No, not really.

The name server isn’t prescriptive. It’s not your own server. It’s just your own chat rooms

Eh, you lost me there, what’s that supposed to mean? How could my own server suddenly become not my own server if I started to use Discord?

What’s that supposed to mean?

What do you mean, how could your own server be “hosted by discord”?

Don’t feel too bad about it, remarkably few countries really do have democracy (even though many have more of it than the US).

This seems like a pretty obvious one: We have democracy.

What do you mean by that? Tons of organizations, groups and people publish that they have their own Discord servers.

Why do people find it acceptable to use the bizarre word “sideloading” for the fundamental operation of “installing one’s own software on one’s own device”?

She was most likely not an engineer. Do you have any evidence to show that she was?

I watched Irrational Man […]. I was tired of watching bad movies,

I’m just curious: How did this train of thoughts make sense in your mind?

But pretty much all of these organizations have their own Discord servers, don’t they?

So why would it matter so much what the parent company does? If some changes are seen as unacceptable one could simply just not apply them to one’a own server. (It’s not like the Discord company could force anyone to run some particular software on their server. How would that even work.)

I don’t understand why people care what Discord does. If they do enough unwelcome changes the people who run their own servers will simply detach from the parent company.

Now there you have one more pet peeve of mine, language preference settings that pretend that all language versions are equal, that shitty translations aren’t abundant. If the original text is in a language that I can read then I want the original, not some shitty translation. It shouldn’t be that hard!

Geolocation is an accurate way to predict the user’s language.

Now that’s a pet peeve of mine, a bizarre belief surprisingly often held by people, who must be oblivious to the existence of tourism.

10 movies in 3 days!? That’s impressive!

1. Monday: The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) rewatch
2. Tuesday: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (2024)
3. Wednesday: Davos 1917 (2023) miniseries

Imagine living in a country with the face of a felon rapist traitor on our currency.

From my experience travelling the world, that’s not particularly uncommon. The US doesn’t have to feel singled out for having such people on their bank notes.

The only one I know of at all is ConnectBot: https://connectbot.org/

When I was a school kid (long time ago) we learned that there’s breakfast, dinner and supper, dinner being the midday meal.

… which isn’t wrong, just incomplete.