This is why, as an Aussie, I’m very disappointed in our subservience to the US all the time. It’s honestly pathetic. We abandoned our initial plan for, admittedly not cutting edge tech, french-built submarines to go with far better-specced US-built subs but who knows if we’ll ever actually get any of them.
Honestly, I don’t trust the sepos not to hamstring them somehow.
A decade? I had a Windows ME upgrade disc - M$ has been at this for a long time.
It’s funny. As much as I detest DJT and all the terrible things he’s brought to the world order/markets/general stability, I do have to be thankful that he’s helped spur on digital sovereignty and sparked a revival in independence rather than US hegemony. It’s also a shame, but the US has proved itself too volatile and an unstable partner.
This isn’t something I’ve seen online either tbh. But the UK thing was certainly very popular having talked to people in their 30s-40s, though admittedly this was about 25 years ago. Nowadays life is much harder so just the idea of maybe one day affording a house and having survivable wages is more of concern! The dream of owning a pub is so far above what current 30yos could reach. Plus, pubs are all owned by breweries these days so the of the old freehold pub has died.
In Japan, it’s something I’ve seen several times in Japanese documentaries on NHK, which have been translated. Again, I don’t know if this is still the dream of the younger folks - it was 50yos that wanted to do that previously. The US equivalent was “the American Dream” that people still wish for, even though it’s unlikely. It’s a similar feeling, or hope, that for most won’t come true, no matter what they do. These aren’t “specific online spaces”. These are the hopes and dreams for a better future - if you need to have those, you’re making a statement.
You don’t need to read the language to understand what they’re meaning by it (I don’t speak Japanese) and there’s examples in other countries of this too, including English (in the UK it used to be the dream to run a pub). Anyone who “has a dream” where they escape the rat race and/or becomes their own boss and/or moves to “the country” or even out of the country is making a political statement with every one of those thoughts/dreams.
THAT is the subtext, not the actual text. It requires no deep understanding of verbal/written language, just an understanding of human communication which is more nuanced than simply what we say or write.
Everyone complains about their own country. The Japanese complain about Japan all the time too - the whole “salaryman running off to start a ramen shop” dream is a complaint about th country. Just because you can’t see it means you’re not understanding subtext.
It’s not about the physical size, it’s about its oversized influence especially in online spaces. Plus we’re all writing/reading English at this moment so there’s an anglosphere bias.
Runs perfectly. Arguably better than the Steam version directly (though that’s where I bought it through) which kept crashing for me. Add on the mods recommended in the Steam community page and it gives it a big boost too. Highly recommended.
I use it for The Longest Journey. Means you can add mods to make text more legible for example
visiting an english store, in a broad Scottish accent
“IT’S LEGAL TENDER”
I had to update my Elgato Stream Deck software and it pointed to their new product - the Stream Deck + Lever.
Admittedly I did do a WTF at first but then remembered what day it was. I didn’t check more, but I have to assume! There’s no way it could be real.
Oh, that and today was the first I heard about the scope of the Artemis II mission, but it turned out that actually was real even though it seemed like an elaborate joke. Cue the conspiracy theories
Hey now, don’t kink-shame downed pilots. It’s just the way they like their lovin’
Sauce: pielot
“Final Destination” intensifies
Depends where you’re coming from.
From Australia, no. Bali is cheaper and bogan.
From France, yes. Bali is expensive and exotic.
Depends on the time and place. Whether standing or sitting and whether I was wiping anyway.
I had not long since started a MSc, we were having our first rounds of IVF and we went to Japan. And we bought our current house.
It was an eventful year.
Within 2 years we would be broke thanks to uni costs, IVF costs and house deposit. Fine now as all of the above helped.
Ehhh…yeah but all of that can be faked though…
You’re lying about your age for a reason kiddo,.you’ve got to do the whole thing or nothing at all.
Have you tried making an account, lying about your age and signing in?
You might avoid sales tax (like GST or VAT) but you’ll be hit with an import tax instead which can often be higher than the sales tax.
A1: Less bots, mods aren’t malevolent, no Karma points just a simple up/down.
A2: Federation isn’t easy for newbs to understand, communities are often too quiet, I still have to visit Reddit as any tech-related questions I have actually have answers there and there’s SEO so it’s found. I did also enjoy reddit “badges” for some reason. If your instance gets defederated, or goes down, you lose everything on it. Bots that are here are Reddit scrapers rather than new Lemmy content