US midwest — I was taught both versions in school but we focused more on latin american/mexican spanish which more people around us spoke.

Less of a bot problem, more influence over the features added, no ads, no dealing with mergers or shareholders or ceos, anyone can build software to interact with it, code is open source and auditable, if you don’t want to deal with moderators you can self host. A lot of people left reddit because reddit was acting like a bully.

I hope more people join so that niche communities can form but I’m happy to make do with less people for the time being.

aka corruption, glad she said it out loud though

A modern Zeno’s Paradox

At least mis-headlined, agreed.

A friend’s parents retired, sold their home, bought a small condo and a sailboat, and now they spend half the year sailing with a fleet of other people (mostly other retirees) in the Caribbean. Not sure how much money they had to pull it off but I’ve always thought it was such a neat retirement.