The article doesn’t have him use that word, it’s the Onion’s choice of word.

Yeah, I agree with you. There are so many topics that nobody talks about here, but does elsewhere on the Internet.

In general yes, but I would prefer if it had a wider variety of viewpoints on societal issues. I don’t even always disagree with the prevailing circlejerk here on everything, but I would occasionally like to read counterarguments to it too.

Commenting on a message board is a lot more normal now than it used to be. Facebook, Reddit as well as comment sections on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, etc. are fairly mainstream things by now, I would consider all of these forms of message boards.

By definition in a dictatorship, there are either no parties, or there is only one party, or the parties that are not the one the dictator belongs to are not allowed to be in actual opposition to the ruling one or attempt to become the ruling one. (That last one is the case in North Korea and was the case in East Germany for most of its history.)

The birthright citizenship one is the main one that comes to mind. I do not think all of them are, that would be stretching things.

Vor langer Zeit habe ich jemanden sagen hören, ein bestimmter FPÖ-Politiker sei so sehr gegen alles, was links ist, dass er auf seiner Website alle Links als Verweise bezeichnet.

What do you mean “instead of”? There are many kinds of taxes in my country, which is in the EU. I pay a huge cut of my salary in taxes every month even before I pay VAT on things I buy.

The best place to privately store anything is on your own machine, not anyone else’s.

OP is posting on Mastodon, this appears in this community because she tagged this community (not sure if she meant to post here or thought this would do something else).

@schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de calls to end premiership of Pedro Sanchez

There’s something similar much older than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservapedia#Conservative_Bible_Project

Yes, but that is less likely if they have been deleted very soon after creation.

Yeah but instances are supposed to e.g. delete posts when the user deletes them. A malicious instance might not do that. Even without malice, I know this doesn’t always work because some weeks ago, I deleted a comment almost immediately after saving it, then kept getting upvotes for it; I found out this was because (at least) one very popular instance hadn’t deleted that comment, its users were still seeing it and upvoting it.

the divisions and minus? what now?

That would require a constitutional amendment in the US.

I’m very slightly too old to be part of Gen Z and can tell you that teenage and early-20s me also thought that surely the future would be awesome because then people like me, people who see the world the way I do, would be in power and fix all problems I see with the world.

Now there are plenty of politicians and other public figures who are my age or younger, and I can tell that they are not all like me, they do not all see the world the way I do, in fact they are just as diverse as everyone before them and make the same mix of good and bad decisions as everyone before them.

fediverse groups, of course that would require structuring the software in a way that resembles mailing lists instead of reddit

Linguistically, I want neither English but Chinese, but an auxiliary language to be the lingua franca. I already know Esperanto, so this would be a good candidate as far as I’m concerned. There’s no way I’m learning Chinese.

I want to see as much nonfree closed source software replaced by FOSS as possible, no matter who makes it.

The others (pop culture, companies) wouldn’t bother me much at all. But I don’t think Christmas would stop being popular at least in Europe.

I switched to “new comments” a while ago and have no desire to go back to anything else.

Kind of a non-story that whitehouse.gov is completely redesigned (and pages added and removed) when there is a new president, has happened every time so far.