As a non American who has never been to the US, but grew up well within its sphere of cultural influence.

I thought that about half of the population was black, maybe 40% minimum. I was surprised to learn that it was just above 10% in reality.

they still own the twitter trademark, that might be their biggest asset

I watched Event Horizon when I was 10 not knowing it was an horror movie and I had recurring nightmares for weeks

my business ethics professor was fired for sexually assaulting a student

not only that, heaps of cultures associate birds with rumours and news (a little bird told me that ...). I was genius marketing and top tier branding

everyday I'm thankful that Musk is not an US born citizen and cannot run for office. It's the only thing stopping him

I just cannot comprehend how anyone can look at post brexit UK and think "yes, I want the same for my country"

fast forward ~~motion~~ moving picture experts group

I know this is a shitpost community, but you can always learn something new everyday

edit: corrected

thanks, the paper won't be sad anymore!

Teams also sets itself to autostart with Windows, even if you choose not to, or diabale it from the startup manager, it overrides it upon next launch.

It's the only software I've ever seen doing that crime against humanity.

One of the main reasons I still pay for Spotify is because it is very cheap in my country, specially when splitting a family plan. However I noticed that the user experience has gone downhill over the past years.

I remember when I could seamlessly switch playback devices, from my car to my phone, to my computer and them a Chromecast almost instantaneously. Now I'm lucky if my devices recognise each other even if they are on the same network.

And if you have a poor internet connection, the app is near unusable because it tries yo grab online content first before checking whatever is downloaded. Time and time again I have to put my phone on aeroplane mode just for the main menu to load, it is so frustrating and this didn't happen some 5-6 years ago

well, if you ever dealt with DPD then you'll know the bot is not wrong