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solrize@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  South Korea mandated internet explorer for all purchase checkout until relatively recently maybe the last 5 years. They had all these pieces but around it so checking out at a website you would have to prove your identity using national ID and then only IE would work.

  Be very careful what you ask for.

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  • homoludens@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Also: be careful who you vote into office.

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    • notgold@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Too late

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  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That sounds like Microsoft bribed the shit out of SK 20 years ago.

    But, yeah… Elect monkeys, get circus.

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      In countries like SK or even Japan I’d consider the opportunity that it’s not bribes, just culture. Where average Western European person thinks pluralism is good because of living and letting live, average Middle-Eastern person thinks pluralism is good because it makes their enemies complacent, and average SE Asian person thinks it’s bad because we need order. One can add average Central-Eastern Europeans thinking monopoly can be deserved and it’s practically better if morally worse.

      OK, a bunch of stereotypes, sorry.

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