the person who came up with the whole idea also was upset at them. So it wasn’t just me.

The EU project wasn’t political until people started virtue signaling

Agreed upon is a stretch it was lets make sure it doesn’t look completely stupid. The children weren’t going to let up.

If the room temperature IQ’ers had simply put a different European flag over it we wouldn’t have cared but they didn’t

It was stupid and ruined the whole mural because they wanted to joke around they couldn’t remove the country from the politics which were the way they were due to 50 years under Russian rule.

A sincere fuck you to everyone who participated in that nonsense of desiccating the flag and for demanding your stupid little garden was kept on the Scottish flag

Europe almost reached modern technology 2K years ago during the Roman empire/Republic. Europe by the 1700s was centuries ahead of everywhere else, next closest being China. In the current age Europe would still be leading unless the whole world happened to copy the Industrial Revolution if the word got out

It was terrible for the people of the time, but our modern world wouldn’t be what it was if the Industrial Revolution stayed in Europe

When I get the care to do it, its nice having a neat room.

Can I log in with my Lemmy.world account

Yes because 4.5B people watched the last world cup, think about how much money billions of eyes on an extra 32 games would generate.

They’d optimize money if they did the 8 group format instead of this garbage format they’re using.

They are objectively the best connectors both in unitality and availability.

free in the monetary sense.

No because if you are willing to go through the hassle to get around it then thats fine, until it becomes a big enough issue, I use adblocker, I am simply saying, use my Data so I don’t pay with money that I and the majority of people can’t afford

I have faith in the states/city I live in lol. Maryland/DC will ban the practice, probably the while North east VA upwards, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, West coast, Colorado, and New Mexico would stop this, the feds MIGHT but probably not.

States will ban the practice quickly if companies start price discriminating, the only reason insurance companies have gotten away with it is because they have justified reasons if they started using precision with our data it would be quickly outlawed.

The internet has only been allowed to be a free market because we agreed to be the product. Imagine a world where Google isn’t free, where you are charged per usage like the old phone plans that cost money per amount of letters typed.

Good on you.

I’m not pro coporate I’m pro free internet, if I can connect to it I can use it free.

The cost to run a server is between $0.50 to $2.00 per month depending on how complex it is. So Imagine you had to pay $2.50-$3.00 per website in a patchwork of subscription based sites.

Every .com or .net site that wasn’t selling a product would now require that fee, .gov .edu and .org would likely still be free.

I don’t care about my data because I get to use a free internet with at least ads that are relevant to me and adblocker works relatively well

When is the last time ads on a website were completely random and not at least relevant to you?

donation and volunteer based (Wikipedia does this quite successfully) funded from tax income (as are online government services, crown corporations etc.)

Fair point, Wiki is an outlier in that regaurd and also .org not a .com/.net

I’d count taxes as subscription albeit you don’t get a choice

companies that sell something thru the internet l, and website is an advertising or pm selling platform. This accounts for most sites, tbh, from brands to retailers, to marketplaces like Amazon, Etsy, and Craigslist.

I should have specified non commercial sites.

People are using their own money to run these servers its a net loss for them.