I don’t know if you can quite make that comparison. North Koreans don’t really have a way of informing and educating themselves out of this belief. Adult Americans, while also preconditioned by a purposefully weak education system, could know better if they chose to seek out more perspectives.

Do people not know this copypasta anymore lmao why are you catching heat for that

I built a Discord bot a while ago that I later added a Patreon for, which adds some extra features. I don’t make a lot of money with it but it covers the hosting costs and leaves enough for an extra night out every month.

Asking someone their country of residence is privacy intruding? Lol

I am from Germany

If you were really from Germany, you’d never have given that much personal information up voluntarily!

Why couldn’t they just serve the comments to each client with the ad-adjusted timestamps already? The only thing the client has to request then is the comment page it wants to load, and some unique ID for which the backend remembers which ad version it’s associated with.

Are you basing this rant on your personal (anecdotal) experience of it working out for you, or actual statistics?