In the early 00s, here in my city, it was fun to go to a certain pedestrians-only avenue to drink with friends. Or a date. If you do it now - yes, post-COVID lockdowns! - you can't hold a conversation for five fucking minutes without someone interrupting you with advertisement. As a result, people use that avenue nowadays strictly to commute.

I've ditched TV when I was 14. (I don't regret it.) But plenty people told me that open TV, and then cabled TV, became unbearable due to the sheer amount of advertisement.

Unless I recognise the number, I'm not bothering to pick the phone up any more. I'm probably not the only one doing it.

Are you noticing the pattern? Perhaps the internet suffers a bit more with it because people are a bit freer to do what they want here, but the problem is not exclusive to the internet, it's everywhere advertisers appear. The world has become less fun due to advertisers ("how do people DARE to have fun and ignore our «marketing opportunities»?").

Fucking Papal States. I wish that I could play Florence without becoming Excommunication Simulator!

my raw ground pork away from me.

Who are you, the Mett demon?
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(It works great with beef, too. Bonus points for the raw yolk over it. If not homemade though there's literally one bar that I trust with this, salmonella is not fun.)

As a mnemonic I usually read the "f" as "fucking":

• tar, compress fucking pics.tar.gz with junk from ./pics
• tar, extract fucking pics.tar.gz

That's only for scripting though. Most of the time I simply right-click the directory or archive, and let Engrampa deal with it.

I'm not from USA so I won't answer your question directly (other posters are better for that). Instead I'll point out a few things, based on knowledge of Linguistics plus other stuff:

• Cultural differences are somewhat objective, but how you split the cultures is subjective. As such don't be surprised if different maps show different divisions.
• Language usually play a huge role, and isoglosses are often used to demarcate cultures. However, people shouldn't confuse dialect+language with culture, as it's perfectly possible to lump together two populations of different dialects as the same culture, or to split a single dialect into multiple cultures. Also, dialects themselves tend to be subjective, like the above.
• Geography does play a role too, but it boils down to interaction between settlements and identity. For example you're more likely to contact the guy in the other city (thus share the same culture) if there's just plains between your cities, instead of a big fucking mountain.
• A good place to look at the cultural divisions is the original settlements. Based on that I think that it'll be easier to demarcate cultures in Eastern USA than in the West.
• More often than not cultures don't give a fuck about government borders. So don't be surprised if some cultures grab "chunks" of USA plus either Mexico or Canada.

I tend to agree with him and I think that the society where he lived is a great example of what happens when we let stupidity go rampant: Nazi Germany was a stupidocracy.

the[n] kindly explain to me who are these ‘stupid’ you are referring to in your original comment?

That's the same as "I just made shit up about you, but I demand you to spoonfeed me because I'm entitled." Sorry but the world does not revolve around your belly, and I'm not wasting my time with you, go be a self-demonstrating example elsewhere.

For other posters who might be reading this: what I'm considering "stupidity" and "the stupid" is already hinted by this, this and this. I can bring up some more formal definition if someone really wants, but the point is that it should not matter - take off "intentions" from the equation when handling people, stop giving people a free pass to cause harm because "oh no, that person is stupid, not malicious".

Read the rest of the comment chain. As I already said, you don't need to decide which sort of behaviour is stupidity or not; you just stop trying to decide what's "intentional".

In no moment I said or even implied that I shall be "the one to judge". So stop making shit up.

And no, I am not fascist. Again, stop making shit up.

Also, you're being a great example of what I'm talking about, because odds are that you're full of "good intentions" behind your little witch hunt, but you're effectively contributing with fascists by giving them a reasonable cover and desensitising people towards the word. Just like the boy who cried wolf contributed with the wolves.

The stupid already treat random shit as hostility, and they already shut off their reasoning (otherwise they wouldn't be stupid). So there's no change in that.

I believe that you're right, when you say that we [humans in general] are all a bit like that. Even then, we're fairly flexible - we only behave like morons when we get away with it.

Or maybe "dunno lol".

That's because I'm asking myself "what would Socrates answer?", and answering like I think that he would. And Socrates was smart.

I think that @[email protected] got better the connotation of "stupid" from my comment. But just to be sure:

I'm defining "stupidity" here as behaviour coming from people who are able to reason, and thus can be held responsible for their actions. The intellectually disabled ones (plus children) are excluded by this definition.