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Re:Stripe clawed back pension contributions after staff cuts by noyoudumbdolt on Sunday January 15, 2023 @12:07PM (#34390950)
Why shouldn’t one assume that? Default is USA on an English-language tech forum.
Re:Stripe clawed back pension contributions after staff cuts by fragmede on Sunday January 15, 2023 @12:33PM (#34391164)
because we're better than that. I'm saying this from inside the USA, mind you. It cheapens our interactions here to be the same bland boringness of big box stores and strip malls of America. do you fly to Vegas or Boston or New York, just to visit their Best Buy? There's interesting things within - there's many an article about the intricacies of 401ks - but to hear from outside about a totally different system and how it works?

I'm here for interesting and "default USA", isn't

Re:Stripe clawed back pension contributions after staff cuts by ipaddr on Sunday January 15, 2023 @12:14PM (#34391005)
I doubt most people think that way. There are so many english speaking countries that make up what an average tech forum is nevermind english speakers from non english speaking countries.

Now a German tech forum it's easy to identify with one country

Re:Stripe clawed back pension contributions after staff cuts by noyoudumbdolt on Sunday January 15, 2023 @12:15PM (#34391018)
>Now a German tech forum it's easy to identify with one country

Sounds like you’d be disrespecting Austrians, and Austrian and German diaspora all over the world by u/michpoch’s logic.

Re:Stripe clawed back pension contributions after staff cuts by ipaddr on Sunday January 15, 2023 @12:42PM (#34391258)
Things I haven't considered and that's fair. I take back my German comment.
Re:Stripe clawed back pension contributions after staff cuts by michpoch on Sunday January 15, 2023 @01:16PM (#34391566)
It’d be clear by the .de domain.
Re:Stripe clawed back pension contributions after staff cuts by heywhatupboys on Sunday January 15, 2023 @12:10PM (#34390972)
you know what is funny? English has become the de-facto world language, and then we go an learn it in school in order to survive in this global world.

And then when happens? American cultural imperialism uses this fact to subjugate the world under its "default culture umbrella". You know what, stop holding on to the English language as if it gives you a free pass to choose what cultures and countries are important.

American people will tend to post American centric views and news and that is FINE! So by default, most posts will be about the USA, leave the posts alone that are not

Re:Stripe clawed back pension contributions after staff cuts by michpoch on Sunday January 15, 2023 @12:13PM (#34390990)
The guy you responded is just a troll, not worth arguing back.

Most Americans, at least here, do not act like this.

Re:Stripe clawed back pension contributions after staff cuts by noyoudumbdolt on Sunday January 15, 2023 @12:14PM (#34390997)
Subjugation by cultural imperialism lmao. No one is making you watch our tv shows or read our books or wear our clothes. I’m always amused at the casual anti-Americanism of other Westerners. It’s usually not logical at all, just pure resentment.
Re:Stripe clawed back pension contributions after staff cuts by dang on Monday January 16, 2023 @01:54PM (#34404132)
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Re:Stripe clawed back pension contributions after staff cuts by dang on Monday January 16, 2023 @01:58PM (#34404175)
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