Nope, not mocking you.

I see the word time a lot of times here too.

Me too (whether Linux is an OS depends on how you define the term) and that’s why it’s such a silly post to make. If there weren’t anyone who thought KDE was better than GNOME, why would KDE still exist?

You seem confused about a few things:

• people from everywhere in the world can register on most websites including lemmy.world, doesn’t matter where they are hosted
• people from other instances, who likewise may be everywhere in the world, can interact with your posts and comments too

FWIW https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/ claims that instance operates according to Dutch, Finnish and German law.

I live in a country that lowered the voting age to 16 in the 2000s, so I voted in my first election at the age of 16.

I don’t think it changed very much at all, 16- and 17-year-olds aren’t big enough of a demographic or vote in radically different ways from people slightly older than that.

Skimming the bill, it seems at least one of the definitions in it requires that platforms, in order to be covered by it, do this:

(E) Uses the personal information of the user to advertise, market, or make content recommendations.

Fediverse instances usually don’t do this, so wouldn’t be covered at least by this definition, though I haven’t yet read the bill in detail.

This so much.

Gen 3 Pokémon games which I mainly played as a preteen were basically my second home, I knew almost everything there was to know about them.

Games I played later in life, including later Pokémon games, I mostly forgot the details after playing.

No, they are not, stop posting talking points that justify authoritarian government policies, those aren’t showerthoughts.

Nowadays compared to when?

https://xkcd.com/202/ was published in 2006, so you must be thinking of much earlier than that…

The Democratic Party is the older one of the two. My understanding is they called themselves that because they saw themselves as the party representing the popular will.

Why the Republicans called themselves that, not sure. They were mainly founded over opposition to slavery, not really described by the name at all.

No. The Democratic Party does descend directly from them, but the Republican Party was founded much later independently.

Before smartphones, the Internet was a self-selecting space because the only people regularly posting on it were the kinds of people who consciously chose it as a hobby.

Now that anyone can access it anywhere they go and it’s easy enough for people with zero technical capabilities, it reflects society as a whole a lot more.

I find that sad because I was one of the people who self-selected into it before smartphones. I always hoped that if more people were using the Internet, society would become more similar to (my experiences on) the Internet, and not (as actually turned out) the other way round.

You’re talking about two different "OP"s.

The OP of this post isn’t banned on lemmy.ml, but the OP of the post that this thread is about (i.e. that can’t be seen there) is: https://lemmy.ml/u/breadsmasher@lemmy.world

The entire history of KDE has clearly been carefully planned to lead to the point where the version number is the same as the latest entry on the funny numbers list.