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[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why didn't you type "read the FA"? For exactly the same reason

This community is shit now, it's just bombarded with US news that drowns everything else out

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Because FA is not as common an initialism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

CT where I live means "Contrôle technique" though. I'd be inclined to specify if I posted that

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It also stands for "computed tomography" but the author foolishly thought that readers could follow context clues

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sorry champ but you’re wrong. I lived in the US for half a decade and even I struggled to place CT. My first thought was actually that it was a Canadian province. Not everyone is raised thinking America is the defacto for literally everything.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nope. The Internet is in America.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

It's only contextual in one country though, that's my point