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Never too late to change. Just look at Amsterdam now vs a couple decades ago

Pretty sure you can loan ebooks from libraries online in my area, so that's something

Yiff obviously

No way. Spinning rust isn't getting any cheaper these days and these companies are expected to not only serve all their existing content, but allow for free uploading and storing in perpetuity. Google is a great example of one of these massive companies trying desperately to reduce the amount they have to store. They recently ended the free Google photos backups and they are more aggressive with deleting inactive YouTube accounts.

I would argue that there is a fundamental difference to this forum style system consisting mostly of text and links, and a traditional 'social media' that is entirely photography and short form video. Correct me if I'm wrong, but TikTok, Facebook, etc. store all of the multimedia content on their services themselves, right? The costs cannot be comparable.

Yet another reason not to use that stuff, as if we needed more

It's obviously AI, but actually looks pretty good. Must have taken quite a few iterations

Does one person saying that they voted for change in the government make you incredibly, deeply sad? Just one vote in millions after all. Little things can collectively add up to something big.

It's probably some pre written thing for this area (Quebec) that overrides my set language. Definitely funny!

For some reason it turns French. I've never seen that behavior before to be honest.

There are still few very niche/local communities here that I have seen, at least active ones. But that's only because of the much smaller user base

I think the point isn't that you wouldn't be connected to the internet, rather that the translator itself isn't yet another thing that will phone home with all of your data