A one person business is still a business.

McDonald's is extremely different around the world. Different menu, different price.

I second that. There is a mile difference between the sorry excuse of a burger that’s called Big Tasty and McCrispy in the Netherlands versus the already way better proportioned and fresher one you get in Germany, up to the better ones in Italy.

Besides the bun, it is noticeable in every part. The amounts and quality of the sauce, vegetables, and meat. And finally how the burger is presented.

So if this difference can occur within 1000km of each other in the same continent, I fully accept that it is even more varied in the whole world.

Maybe your sample size is too small? I've lived close to the NL/D border for a while and the McD quality was indistinguishable on both sides of the border. The variation between restaurants in the same country and also between different days/times in the same restaurant was much greater than between countries.

Thatis, if you happen to go to a random McD in some country and the big mac was great that day and you go to a different restaurant in a different country on a different day and the big mac was bad, then that difference has likely least to do with them being in different countries. It's not like they actually use different recipes.

I’d say the only place I’ve experienced McDonald’s to be ‘extremely’ different is in India due to the obvious prevalence of vegetarianism and outlawing of beef.

In other countries the do have a lot of additional meals which are specific to their local taste (rice/fried chicken/different sauces) but the core burgers like a Big Mac, mcChicken and sides such as fries are there.

"extremely different" is an exaggeration. It's mostly the same with some local differences.

Considering that people expect literally the same thing, I can understand how even small regional differences can seem extreme. Like not finding any beef on the menu in India, or any bacon in the Middle East.

"extremely"

That's literally the message

I have had more cases where I was very surprised that the local filename I used for something became part of its record when I uploaded it somewhere. (For instance, uploading an Mp3 using Discord on desktop web.)

That's a ton of effort. And often I do want to follow someone for their tech content, I just don't want their politics.

Then don’t follow them. That’s just encouraging their politics. I mean, vote with your follow.

I'm not saying I disagree with their politics, I just don't want to read it. But the same would apply even if I did disagree - you're just promoting further division.

"Promoting further division" sounds like a reasonable thing to strive to prevent, but I think the paradox of tolerance applies here.

For example, DHH was a brilliant programmer who created Rails. I say was, because now he is a self-admitted white nationalist. I no longer care about his technical work or opinions, because if he has ventured so off-course so as to convince himself that white nationalism is worth supporting, I must necessarily question his judgment on technical matters as well. To tolerate his white nationalism and continue to promote and condone his work would be helping to further the spread of white nationalism, which I find abhorrent and unacceptable in any form.

Trying to prevent further division is completely reasonable when you're talking about opinions like "we should have lower taxes" or "we should spend more money on schools." It is not reasonable when your political opponent literally wants to do genocide.

The trouble is, where do you draw those hard lines? I have many friends for whom pretty much any discussion of trans issues is tantamount to discussing whether genocide is ok. There is one set of acceptable viewpoints and anything else is "transphobic".

I'm not sure what you mean by "discussion of trans issues" in this context. Most of the trans people I know are happy to discuss the issues and hardships they face as long as you aren't throwing slurs their way, so your phrasing is a bit confusing.

As I said in my first post, wanting to exterminate people of a certain ethnic group is certainly over the line for me. Similarly, openly expressing support for the fascist paramilitary force who are murdering people in the streets of my country is also over the line. These don't seem too troublesome for me.

I have spent a long time maintaining mute word lists but it's never more than about 80% effective because obviously there's a lot more to content than mere keywords. Tons of false positives (trump as a verb) and negatives ("he's blocking the strait!!")

Yeah, if you could get cigarettes without the tar and nicotine I might even take it up.

Tangential, but the nicotine is not as bad as people think.

Yeah I have wondered about that as a method. You can even just go two balls in one hand, then switch to the other side and back, and that's almost the 3 ball pattern.

Yeah I never really mastered a consistent throw - it's just not how my brain works. I got as a pretty shakey 4 ball shower and that was it.

I made a 2d game like this once for, of all things, Palm Pilot. You could tap for the apex of each ball throw.