It does? Rich people or companies they own might want to produce things that infringe on patents too; not obvious that this has anything to do with "rich people" one way or the other.
everyone was born January 1, 1970 or something when that question is asked for purposes of age verification
This has also been the narrative on recent techdirt.com posts, e.g. https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/13/at-last-doge-and-musk-are-finally-named-in-a-lawsuit-albeit-officially/ - I (not being American) do not know or care enough about the topic to have an opinion about it.
nothing at all is universally "blocked on Lemmy", different instances + communities set rules that apply there, that is kinda the point of it all...
If you think this is a good idea for a specific community, ask its moderators to create and enforce a rule for this, or create a community of your own where you can set any rules you like.
I only comment when I feel I am adding something to the conversation that nobody else has added. On many contentious topics, nearly everything that can be said has already been said by someone, so I usually don't comment on them.
I only downvote when something is blatantly factually false or posted in bad faith (i.e. obviously trolling and I can't think of a good-faith reason why someone would post this).
If I merely disagree with something, I write an answer explaining why, or if there already is one that I agree with, I upvote that.
One major change that has happened is: forums used to be linear with thread bumping (phpBB, SMF), now they are mostly conversation trees with sorting by upvotes or similar (Reddit, Lemmy).
Yup, I realize that too when looking at a map of it. Still, the only place on that lake I can name off the top of my head is Chicago and several times in my life already, my brain already went "and that's on Lake Michigan, so it's in Michiga– no, riiiiiight, it's in Illinois".
honestly as a non-American, this would unironically make things less confusing: the largest city on that lake is Chicago and I always have to consciously remember "that city is in Illinois, but the lake it is on is called Lake Michigan".
easy to do in svg, just start with something like , then and you're mostly done; a gradient or pattern requires more than that, but vector graphics don't really care how large you say they are
Some people might still be subscribed to it, so you will reach an audience. I never check whether moderators are active before posting.
Arguably Cyprus.