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[-] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 days ago

This American obsession with those awful abbreviations is exhausting. Foreigners should not have to remember if AL is Alabama or Alaska or MI is Mississippi or Michigan, especially when lacking any context clue as to which one it is. "ME" for Maine is straight up evil. Can you name the TLD of Peru of the top of your head?

There are places where abbreviations make sense: where there will be extreme repetition (TLDs, letters) or where space and readability are under tight constraint (license plates, next to the points counter on a football broadcast). An already extremely sparse infographic with no hard layout restriction is decidedly not either of those things and should therefore just use the full goddamn name instead of trying to signal "hey look this is made by an American for an American, fuck everyone else".

[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Waaaah, this other country has standards I don't like, and it's easier to whine online than to expand my knowledge, later on I'll be crying about someone not using metric

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