I can make up numbers too!

France is a safe haven for foss media codecs because its law does not consider software patentable

TIL there is a country that sees reason about software patents

In NZ, churches don’t have to pay tax. This makes them extremely attractive to people with no skills who want to obtain wealth

+1. I used to think it was just something that happened to old people, until it happened to me

Yeah eastern countries just don’t have the same relationship with alcohol that the west does.

Gambling, however…

Purebred and inbred are synonyms

The first thing I noticed. I was confused, thinking maybe they had an old XP machine lying around to plug in after the main one failed, but then I read further and it was just a stunt

Wow, and here I was trying to set breakpoints using the devtools debugger and faffing around with sourcemaps.

Wish I knew about this 10 years ago!

It’s for people who always work in front of a film crew so the camera can see their faces

Every company enshittifies eventually, it’s a fact of life.

It might take a while but it will happen. Eventually Gabe will step down or die, new leadership will come in and the enshittification will commence.

Or they sell to a competitor who will do big cuts to remove now redundant positions and you guessed it - the enshittification will commence.

Would it make more sense if they were labelled “YouTube Dopamine Hits” ?

Ironically, the christian Bible is one of the most offensive books there is

Middle eastern people have been fighting each other for thousands of years.

They will continue to fight each other for thousands of years.

Thanks religion, which ironically Islam has its roots in Judaism, same as Christianity