Takumidesh

Yup, it's just aluminum foil with an adhesive.

Worked in an mro so mostly was removing speed tape, but occasionally we would send a bird out of a heavy check with speed tape on.

I think you may have missed my point.

.gov is not the same as .gov.us (in this example, .gov is not the tld, .us is) Tlds like .io belong to countries, there is no going back to .gov or .com because countries outside of the US never just used .gov or .com.

To add a bit of context:

https://www.parliament.uk/ https://www.parliament.lk/

How do you reconcile both of these websites having .gov? You can't, you either need second level domains (.gov.uk,.gov.ik) or you would need one of them to change their name (parliamentsrilanka.gov)

.gov needs to be differentiated, and you need all of these country TLDs for that.

You could create your own DNS server with its own routes and registrars.

If you got enough people to use your DNS network you could create your own registrars and your own rules.

Users would need to switch to your DNS, but otherwise there isn't anything about how the Internet works that requires you to use the big dog DNS

Who gets .gov? The US?

Other countries never used just .gov or just .com.

Vote manipulation definitely has a benefit, comments and posts are still voted, and public sentiment is still swayed by votes.

You keep posting this graph with no context, but the euro has also had very high inflation.

This is bad faith and you know it, that's why you aren't actually discussing it, just posting a misleading graph.

USD had 141% cumulative inflation since 1990

Euro has 115%

The pound has 143%

Brazil ( a member of brics) has nearly 1000% since 1994 (25 million percent from 1990 like the other countries.

China, arguably the biggest contender for stability in brics has 160% inflation.

Why aren't you including charts for all of these countries? And why are you using a chart showing inflation values from before USD was used as the international currency in 1944 with the bretton woods conference, without demonstrating why that is important and what it means? Given that this is in the context of global currencies.

Isn't the first graph just general inflation? What does purchasing comparing purchasing power mean in this scenario? And how does it compare to other currencies like the pound or the euro?

Also the conclusion of the second article you linked seems to indicate that no other large scale currencies are replacing the shares of the US dollar, instead things like gold and diversified currencies are taking up this space, those don't take the place for international trade.

Neither of these seem like a death knell for USD to me.

It's most likely a private school.

I think there are a lot of other factors in that case.

The biggest reason why it's rare to see regular cars get to a million miles is because they don't get driven as much. At the average of 14k miles per year it would take 71 years for someone to drive 1 million miles. Since it takes so long to get there, many non engine related issues start taking hold like rust and obsoletion.

Some servers choose not to connect with each other.

Those servers have users and since they choose not to connect, there will be disparity.

Let's say I'm on server 'a' and you are on server 'b' and this post is on server 'c'

In this example, we can say that a and b connect with c, but a and b don't connect with each other.

We would both independently see the post on server c, and we could both leave a comment. But since a and b don't connect, we wouldn't be able to see each other's comments. The people on server c would be able to see both of our comments though.

This connection is called federation and it allows individual servers to control who they interact with.

Lemmy is just a piece of software, the people running the software on their servers control who they connect with. you could for example have multiple federations that comprise tons of servers that have no direct connection at all, resulting in two totally different networks.

Yes, I am registered as unaffiliated, because I don't see why the political party I support needs to be publicly accessible.

Good point and I missed that in the original post.

It does appear to be a similar situation with the UK though, only with pensions and other funds.