Already exists in Germany

Wenn das der Kaiser wüsste!

And how are we supposed to turn screws nowadays?

That warning is for people who e.g. select English but not Undetermined. If you select no language at all, the warning should not apply to you and you should see all posts.

Telephone sanitizers

That’s my gut feeling as well

Do you live in the EU so that GDPR applies?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk

The question asked about 2020, not 2024

C
CC
CCC
CCCC
CCCCC
CCCCCC
CCCC C
    U
CCCC C-
    U
CCCC C=
    U

Why is the vampire sending out ACKs? Which protocol does he use?

All non-Eu members are shaded in grey as far as I can see, except for the Faroe Islands I suppose.

How did you come up with such a ****ingly stupid syntax?!

It uses XML-like syntax:

<fun>
  <name>sum</name>
  <in>
    <int>foo</int>
    <int>bar=0</int>
  </in>
  <out><int>foo+bar</int></out>
</fun>

They will try to bring it back to life every few years or so

The cheapest kind of pride, on the other hand, is national pride. For it reveals in those who have it the lack of individual qualities of which they could be proud, for otherwise they would not have recourse to what they share with so many millions. On the contrary, he who possesses significant personal merits will recognize most clearly the faults of his own nation, since he has them constantly before his eyes. But every miserable wretch, who has nothing in the world to be proud of, resorts to the last resort of being proud of the nation to which he happens to belong. He rests on this and is now gratefully prepared to defend with tooth and nail all the faults and follies peculiar to it.

Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

Translated by Deepl

They can’t get kicked out but their voting rights in the councils could be suspended. That would require unanimous approval by all other member states.

In the past, Hungary under Orbán and Poland under Morawiecki had some kind of pact to protect each other from such a suspension. With Tusk now the Polish prime minister, that’s no longer the case, but there’s some fear that Slovakia’s Fico could shield Orbán instead.

You can change your display name but your user handle is fixed.

I imagine being able to change your user handle could cause issues with federation. If you changed your user handle, your instance would have to notify all other instances. If one instance didn’t get this information, your account before and after the change would look like two separate accounts on that instance.

I don’t understand these comics. Are they pro religion? Are they anti-religious satire?

The first comic seems to both warn against satan and attack religion. It might be talking about all religions but the right one.

The second comic is even more confusing. First it seems to associate education and the theory of evolution in particular with satan. But then it seems to associate rejection of education with punks who aren’t necessarily known for their religiosity.

The third comic, finally, is pretty clear, painting wealth and entertainment (sports) as detractions from religion. This could technically still be satire though.

Non-experts far in the future might consider us today naive for considering lightsabers future technology.