You’ve basically turned down the smoothing features

> because in my mind, ToS is just blocking silly things like "please don't use our product to build nuclear weapons", not "please don't use our product to play videos on another site".

Why did you think that??

> not as personal insufficiencies, but as systemic failures in my psychological defense system

I was with you until here but this seems like a restatement of the same thing. No it isn’t a failure of you, it’s simply an attack of overwhelming force

The M in that font is not really suitable for professional use

I thought you must be exaggerating, but then I looked... And yeah, that M needs some work to make it not look like a woman bending over.

I do find the fact that anime is inescapable among mainly the American youth (not seen it as much here in Germany) to be alienating. I guess it’s just what it feels like to get old

I don't feel you're right? I'm pretty sure that Germany experienced the same 80s anime boom that was felt in other parts of Europe too, and DoKomi (German anime convention) pulls ~180,000 people, very close to overtaking Comic Con. I'm actively involved in the European anime-adjacent DJ scene so I know Germany is not some low spot within Europe at all.

I think perhaps you might be overestimating how popular anime is with Americans because of how popular it is on the Internet.

People obviously think your comment is sarcastic

That companies do things to many money is not a “big conspiracy”

Well that’s just reducing my point to the point of absurdity, and then stating that it’s absurd. You did that, not me.

Which class does it signal to you?

Middle class

Can you elaborate? In what ways have they failed their users?

By not having any form of content blocking for a long time (I lost track of the project, don't know what the current status is). The current web is too user-hostile to launch a browser without even basic stalking protection.

That sounds way too American

Haha, I can't think of anything distinctly American about it. A cursory search suggests it's a word coined by an Austrian architect while he was working in Canada.

Just the way the word sounds