This hurt my eyes so:

Bunny liked nursery food (and had perfected a menu somehow consisting of suet and cream in every course), good looks, conversational ping-pong, and paper games. His guests—whether they were film stars such as Laurence Harvey or Stewart Granger (with whom Bunny had had a short—“he’s got the biggest bum I’ve ever seen” —fling), beauties like the fashion models Barbara Goalen and Bronwen Pugh, dancers and painters, John French (at that time the fashion photographer) and his wife, Vere—were always at their brightest and best in Bunny’s house.

His legendary parties, his houses, his dandified approach and outré taste were but a soufflé. They masked an encyclopedic mind, a sense of history, nerves of steel, passionate loyalty, deep patriotism, and the most patrician of values.

Bunny himself was made of burnished metal. Physically very fit—I saw him run up mountains in Scotland, at the summit adjusting his makeup from a compact kept in his sporran—he was also fearless. He’d be the first to pick up a poker and go outside if there was a strange noise. As a captain in the Italian campaign, even if his tent was lined in mauve with gilt chairs, and his army overcoats altered to look like Garbo’s redin-gotes, he was revered by his men for the number of Germans he shot— “some right up the arse” —and after the war refused ever to set foot in Germany. He saw the funny side of it too. After Anzio, while surveying a bombed-out village, he ran into a friend who greeted him: “Bun! What’re you doing here?” Bunny looked at the destruction around them. “Shopping,” he replied. Although appalled and incensed by what he had witnessed during the war, he had the good taste to make light of it. “Now that I’ve shot so many Nazis,” he observed, “Daddy will have to buy me a sable coat.”

I’m not arguing that I am. I’m arguing that using an IP address to determine language settings is stupid, regardless of whether I’m using a VPN.

Doesn’t it cost less money to parse the header than to pay for an entire geolocation dataset?

The country-based shopping dilemma sounds tough to solve without a VPN. I think the explanation there is that because countries have different laws they might not be legally allowed to show some products.

I’m an American tech worker (not bro thankfully) and I’ve seen the poor translation issue firsthand: using Google Translate on the backend to transparently translate the website on the fly.

I also happen to be multilingual and it’s just unbearable watching some of this stuff play out. Storing translations and switching between them at a technical level isn’t really hard. I wish companies would invest in translation services instead of relying on Google or some other equally bad service.

Is user consent needed for the Accept-Language header? That would be kind of insane. I realize that it could be considered identifiable but that still feels strange to me.

I’m thinking mostly of localization, primarily language.

I’ve noticed that too, it’s so dumb especially when your browser’s language is set to one of them in the first place.

As a user it’s annoying because I have to hunt down the language/region settings. And as a developer it would cost me a lot more to hunt down those values based on the client IP address.

Sure, but that could be decoupled from language/regional preferences.

When I travel to another country my smartphone doesn’t change its language to match that of the host country, so why don’t websites respect the user-defined preference defined in the header?

Excellent point on the local cache explanation! I hadn’t thought of that.

As a web developer myself I’m into detecting it automatically then redirecting to a URL that includes it (like /en/products). Then of course users can manually change it by signing in and/or using cookies.

I’m like you: I don’t care if no one is around. People act like it’s some force of nature to muster the strength to signal.

I think not knowing how roundabouts work is all over the US. In my part of the country they put up stop signs at the roundabouts—does it not occur to them that it defeats the entire purpose of it?

If you ever go to Tijuana though they can be a lot of fun.

Oh wow, I feel like a moron now. I never could figure out why it would be “for wind.”

What the fuck is a parasol?

Edit: I looked it up and now I understand. Does the word happen to come from Spanish? Parasol would mean “for the sun” much like other words like parabrisas.

Everyone’s so fucking obese here that most people don’t notice.

And a small part of that I think is realizing that a ton of stuff we use plastic for is totally unnecessary. How many times have you opened something and thought “fuck that’s a lot of plastic?”

To me it’s unbearably frustrating how much companies use plastic.

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I’m on the same level as the person you responded to, but I do use a phone a lot at home. Maybe they were talking about “not at home” usage.

Essentially you get to pick and choose which actions of each you’d like to use for comparison especially if it fits your narrative.

As a vegan it just feels like people will do literally anything other than quitting eating animals. It’s literally not hard—it’s beyond me why anyone would switch to insects to own the vegans.