Zur Ladedauer - wenn man die Maus bewegt bzw bisschen über den Touchscreen umherstreicht, geht’s zumindest schneller.
Zum Bild - wenn’s wirklich ein Problem ist, kann man es notfalls auch selber wegmachen. Entweder via Adblocker nen manuellen Filter erstellen, oder ansonsten zB via Userscript display:none auf die Grafik setzen. Nicht optimal, aber wäre ein workaround.

Yes. And airlines are active participants in the piracy chain. I mean, they openly advertise their services with the ability to switch the country you’re in! BAN THEM!

There are a few registered in Europe, I’ve seen pictures of some on Polish, Czech and Albanian plates.
There’s also a Swiss company trying to build them conform to European standards.
But other than that you’re right, they’re mostly not legal. That’s why it’s on a trailer, probably. Possibly imported for events or stuff like that.

With Hawaii plates I wonder if that’s someone in the US military who transferred and had their vehicle shipped over?

I can only speak for Germany; the US forces are usually permitted to import and use vehicles that couldn’t get a registration if e.g. a German imported them like that (not without further modifications). However for the cybertruck specifically, German declined to register them.
Personally, I’m quite happy about that. That’s really not a vehicle I want to see driving on our roads.

For the lazy - https://youtu.be/ZadhfMiFHa0?t=23s

Having your URL end with …/file.ext and not linking to the raw file.ext should be illegal.

Probably

In the higher education system of the United States, minority-serving institution (MSI) is a descriptive term for universities and colleges that enroll a significant percentage of students from minority groups.

Passt auch mMn nicht zu Boomer. Die halten größtenteils das Handy so, dass linke und rechte Kante fest umschlossen sind (jüngere Menschen eher Finger auf der Rückseite + kleiner Finger an der Unterkante, eine der beiden Seiten in der Handinnenfläche).
Und, noch viel wichtiger, sie bedienen es mit dem Zeigefinger der freien Hand, jüngere Menschen nur mit Daumen, Wahlweise mit einem (scrollen) oder beiden (tippen).
Das hier ist für mich viel mehr der Boomer-Griff:

To be fair, da steht aber auch nur “verrät etwas über sein Alter”. Ist also nicht falsch, passt aber dann trotzdem nicht zum Text :D

That’s absolutely right, but ignores context. People often use months even when the exact age isn’t relevant to the other person.
If I (as someone who doesn’t have kids and don’t know anything about e.g. what behavior is appropriate at what month at all) ask a friend “how old is she now?”, I’d be fine with a “about a year and a half” or “she’s getting 1 year old next month” or whatever. I don’t need an exact month cause 1 month difference doesn’t matter to me in a casual smalltalk/conversation setting. I wouldn’t know “oh, that’s the month she might start pointing at things” anyways.

Of course I’m aware that parents are probably just used to it, so I’m not mad when someone says it in months. But I’d prefer it in years if I had the choice.

To reuse your analogy, I would say 226/40R19 to my mechanic, but to my mother I’d say I’m buying “big wheels”. Cause she doesn’t know what exactly 226/40R19 is/means, so “big wheels” conveys the information better to her.

Yes, that was on a country road. On any road with 2+ lanes in my direction I don’t do that (including autobahn ofc), as there’s no need to do it for someone to pass me.

Yeah. I’m no programmer but I’ve had it often that I couldn’t find a solution for a problem myself, said ‘fuck it, I’ll have to ask the internet’, and by writing out what my problem was I figured out the solution so I never even posted the half-written posts lol

Germans become allergic to rules as soon as they have any kind of wheels under them

I have to strongly disagree, that is not my impression at all. Of all countries I’ve ever driven in, Germans are the most rule-abiding drivers.

In Germany, I’ve been honked at for driving half on the shoulder to let someone pass (that’s not even illegal, but most people seem to think it is). Drivers brake if you’re walking just in the general vicinity of a zebra crossing. Virtually no driver drives past a red light on purpose, I see that like once a year or so (yellow is a different story though…). And, to add a more objective observation, German dashcam compilations mostly consist of absolute mundane minor offenses, while they’re much more action packed even in smaller countries like Netherlands.

Sure, we still have speeding, parking offenses and ignored stop signs on a regular basis. You can see any of these within minutes by just being on any busy city street. But that’s anything but exclusive to Germany, that happens pretty everywhere in a similar (and often probably higher) frequency.

The only driving behavior related issues Germany has IMO are the fines that are an absolute joke, as well as a jurisdiction that treats even deadly and major offenses with kid gloves (drive 100+ in a city and kill someone, you just get 1y9m on probation and you even keep your license, so no time served, you’ll keep living freely, just wait 2 years before you go reckless again and you’re good).
But apart from this, that Germans specifically are allergic to rules is pretty much the opposite of my experience.

Hmm, it’s truly not ideal, but while I certainly don’t want to defend them (just playing devil’s advocate a bit here lol), IMO application-based payments do make more sense than user-based. I assume way more people use more than 1 account than there are people who use more than 1 client. If that assumption is correct, the current system is very much in favor of the majority of users.
But it’s indeed a bad solution for the 3rd party app devs to act as some kind of middleman for the payments. The only better alternative I can think of would’ve been to let users add their alts to their subscription, but that would need a system to detect and punish shared subscriptions.

That the fees are too high might be true, I don’t have any insight on that - but Relay Pro has tiers from (in Germany) €1.09 to €5.49 (+ optional higher tiers for application support), the 5.49 tier being with unlimited API calls.
This surely isn’t cheap, at least in the category of social media apps, which is 99% free (but usually ad-supported, which Relay isn’t), but not unfeasible. Generally speaking, i.e. regardless of category, ad-free usage (which is what API access is from reddits perspective) for €5.50 is actually cheap. Most apps and services charge around the same or more for that.

That being said, I was obviously not in favor of that change either. And Reddit sucks at communicating what specifically they’re gonna do. But I also gotta say, the way it turned out in the end wasn’t too bad/unfair - at least not in my experience as a paying API user. Might be (and probably is) a different story for the developers, as the amount of shut-down 3rd party apps indicates. Reddit should’ve just worked out something together with these devs, then I’m sure the backlash and outrage wouldn’t have been half as large.

Either way, I’m happy to be here now.

or making it so you have to be a paid Reddit subscriber to have expanded API access.

Isn’t that what they’re doing? I’ve used Relay Pro via API until recently by paying for it.

The only reason I don’t use that anymore is cause I went de-googled, so no play store subscription and thus no API access anymore, and since I can’t stand the original app I came here.

That sounds tempting, but still won’t make me rejoin reddit.

Yeah that’s a good general description of all three lol. Guess I’m more into that than you :D

Germany, but limited to comedy (cause I don’t really watch any shows, but if I do then it’s comedy):

• Stromberg - a German office show, focused on just one department with an absolute dickhead for a boss. But the worker characters are great too.
• Pastewka - a series of the actor/comedian Bastian Pastewka where he basically plays himself in his private life. Often compared to Curb Your Enthusiasm, but while there are similarities it’s a totally different character IMO.
• jerks - basically the title, two friends who are jerks. They’re often getting into awkward situations and try to resolve them with lies and brazenness.

I love them all three, hard to pick one as the best. Probably Stromberg.

Don’t know about Slovenian law, but here it wouldn’t be illegal as long as you do it on the gas station’s property and not on public territory :D (well not illegal regarding the plate swapping, filling >50ltr per person is still illegal)

Obviously it’ll still look sketchy as shit, you’ll look like you’re about to pump and run, so that was not a serious tip anyways. Would probably look less sketchy to just cover a letter and might be enough to trick an ANPR-based validation system already.

Just have a second set of plates with you, put it on for filling gas, then switch to the original ones afterwards.

For me it’s API usage for the most part.
When they locked the API, I was even fine with paying a bit, so I subscribed to Relay Pro. But now I got a degoogled phone, so I can’t use my play store subscription anymore, and don’t want to fiddle with cracked APKs or patching either.
The original reddit app is a nightmare to use so… that’s why I’m here lol

(Freedom, privacy and decentralization are awesome too, obviously. But I’m gonna be honest, I probably wouldn’t have switched - at least not fully - if it wasn’t for having an app that works well for me.)

This is especially noticeable in locations with lots of tourism. People tend to give higher ratings when they’re on vacation, as opposed to locals who are more critical.
That has always been my feeling and has recently been confirmed by a study.