Not to apologize for shitty US labor regulations, but in some places these rules aren’t enforced rigorously if at all, so this data shouldn’t be taken at face value. For example I doubt Saudi or Qatari slaves are getting days off.

You got it right; losing your memories is essentially death. However, all humans die, so it’s an all roads lead to Rome kind of thing. You could get a concussion and forget everything, or you could get run over by a car and die. There’s no reason to give memory loss special treatment over other terrible things that could also happen to you.

You can say Nestle on Lemmy. That’s what we’re talking about right?

Free markets are a myth. Every country on Earth regularly interferes in the market to align it with its interests; China just does it more. That’s still not communism, because you can’t have billionaires (or private property in general) under communism. China under Mao was communist, but under Xi? No way. The Chinese government exerts significant control over its economy, but the primary driver of economic growth is still the private sector. China isn’t doing anything fundamentally different from what any Western capitalist state could do if they got their act together for five minutes.

First, what’s a “communism?” Second, China is capitalist as hell; it’s just capitalism under an authoritarian regime rather than under a democracy.

Hmm… It’s an adoptive family dynamic, but I think you’ll like Anne Shirley. You can watch the recent remake or the original anime depending on preference.

Presumably they’d just upload it on their social media platform of choice nowadays?

Got me.

Now I wanna learn how to teach crabs to read classical Latin.

If you had a hundred small Reddits talking to each other like one big Reddit, oh and with fewer fascists and no ads.

I find the lack of cheese in the comments very concerning.

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Apart from some episodes of violence, it was stable. But when imperialism ended, it was basically a mess.

Not directly relevant to your question, but for starters you should read about Sykes-Picot. The destabilizing impact of imperialism simply comes after the imperialist force and its vastly superior military leaves. Also you’re thinking of colonialism; imperialism never ended.

Now to directly answer your question, I’m a politics and history guy and the Ottoman Empire doesn’t get nearly enough hate for its role in shaping the modern Middle East. The stagnation they caused that allowed the region to be so easily swallowed by Western imperial interests is a direct result of centuries of Ottoman stagnation and authoritarian incompetence. The janissaries in particular deserve a special place in hell for their role in obstructing any and all progress in the Empire until it was too late. Those fucks are the reason there’s no Ottoman Catherine the Great or Frederick the Great.

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“Arabic is a very angry-sounding language.”

Arabic speaker here and this sounds like the most harmless statement of all time. I mean you’re right in that it was probably more about the emotionally charged concepts than Arabic as a language, but still, I think this is one of those “white people getting mad at other white people when the minority in question wouldn’t think much of it” things.

Not breaking any records, but probably ~20 hours. A mix of fasting (the Muslim kind, so from dawn till dusk) and not waking up to eat before dusk can get you that long when it’s the summer and days are long.

Speaking for the Arabic abjad: No, no and we don’t.

The Arabic abjad does not, in fact, have letter case. Letter case, at least in Europe, emerged from cursive uppercase letters, but Arabic is already cursive enough for such a change to be redundant. For example here’s “key” in Arabic: مفتاح. Notice that there’s only one division inside the word despite it being a 5-letter word. This makes the whole concept of case unnecessary.

About the dot thing: Yep, at least in Japanese. It’s used in written entertainment media such as manga.