With my first prepaid phone in Germany texts did cost 0.49 € per text. So I did not use them super often. Years later around 2011 that price had decreased to 0.15€ and I was texting friends a lot during uni. Around the same time me and my friends got our first smartphones with contracts for 30-40€ per month that included a small bit of data (below 1Gb). Texts still did cost 0.15€, but the data for a WhatsApp message was in the low kilobytes. So a lot of people switched to WhatsApp

Lick the null and keep on with your life. Lick the phase and suffer. Lick two phases and die.

"Why does my cigarette I left on the lab table taste sweet?" is absolutely the question an inattentive scientists asked himself before he discovered an artificial sweetener.

EDIT: Michael Sveda's discovery of cyclamate at the university of Illinois in 1937

The Buddhas of Bamiyan are the extreme case, where the local rulers destroyed cultural heritage. There are also some items that can not reasonably been repatriated. But there are hundereds of items from Greece, Turkey, Egypt or reltively stable former colonies in museums in Western Europe. And then even famous institutions like the British museum manage to loose precious items.

Oh wunderbar! Kirschlorbeer ist eine ekelhafte Scheißpflanze und ich bin froh, dass die Schweizer die verbieten. Ich habe vor Jahren mal bei meinen Eltern eine große Kirschlorbeerhecke herausgerissen um da andere Pflanzen stattdessen zu setzen. Dabei sind zwei Spaten zu Bruch gegangen. Seitdem hasse ich diese schädliche Neophyte mit dem widerlichen Wurzelwerk.

Im Grunde das volle Spektrum an Kontaktanzeigen. Paar mittleren Alters sucht zusätzliche Frau für Dreier. Schwurbeltante schwurbelt in ihrer Kontaktanzeige und Mr. Amore ist kein WhatsApp-Roboter.

He looks like a cool cat

Na you have large population centers where a lot of alarm clocks go off at exactly 7am. The same people fall asleep over a longer interval of time the night before.

Is there a free tier where really annoying advertisements are constantly displayed in your field of view?

That painting ain't right

Christopher Poole founded 4chan because some hentai-relates things were banned on something awful. 4chan's /pol/ was an early seedbed for right wing extremism. Also the first QAnon posts came from 4chan.

I don't like sand. It's coarse, rough and irritating