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Parts of India use Hindi instead of English as lingua franca, therefore the percentage is not as high

In-between yes. Within the western germanic language continuum it's basically the center between English to the west and German to the east.

You say "dating" but what are we even talking about here? Conversations on the internet?

Anyways though we can't say whether the guy is seriously sorry or not.

Pretending to be in a relationship with someone he knew was 13 is majorly creepy and inappropriate. Why was he even pretending to be 14? Was this part of his broader internet personality or only in his messages to you?

We are talking legal obligations.

If you remove content you posted somewhere in the fediverse, your server will send "delete" activities to other servers anyways. But your server does not know whether those other servers actually do delete it.

"Knowingly" is a big word given that Mastodon GmbH has been transparent about not having extensive legal knowledge in-house and being dependent on their probono lawyers. Which is completely understandable given their company & team size.

The idea that there were people in the Americas before the Clovis culture has not been a "controversial theory" for a few years now. It is accepted by the majority of the field.

That's PiS for you

There is no legal precedent, but most likely you would only have to prove deletion on your own server.

Interesting. So it's carved in Futhark runes, which had already fallen out of use when the Vikings came to Vinland/America.

Taken altogether, Primrose and colleagues now theorize that a Hudson’s Bay Company employee—or employees—are responsible for the runes at some point in the 1800s, when the lord's prayer had been published in Futhark already in 1611.

Afaik there is also the simple fact that these regions are not an example of good governance

Not in school, but in uni I had one or two professors who would tell us that their own books were required reading literature. And of course they wouldnt give us free copies or at least a discount but rather we had to buy them.

There have been semi-successful Youtube creators who transitioned into the studio system, who mostly never were big on-screen personas but rather worked behind the cameras.

The Corridor Crew has talked about how they always wanted to make it in Hollywood, but when they were finally being offered deals it simply was not financially or creatively wise to give up their business just in order to be part of a system where others are in control.