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It sets a context for people unfamiliar with 4B.

Most people outside of Korea won’t be familiar with its internal politics, but anyone with the most basic education will know what Lysistrata is about.

an ancient comedy that would take an entire paragraph of preamble to explain

It shouldn’t need explaining, though.

It’s basic common knowledge that anyone with the slightest interest in not being ignorant should have been familiar with by the time they finished general education.

(You don’t need to have watched or read the play, mind, that might be out of your control depending on its availability in your context, but there’s no excuse for not knowing it exists and what it’s about.)

Yes, exactly.

I think you should add sidevotes while you’re at it. With no explanation, just because. Let the users figure them out.

Not as much as going from coax to RJ45, or from PATA to SATA, or from PC/AT to PS/2 to USB or Bluetooth, or from D-SUB to DVI to HDMI or Display port, or from the old serial and parallel ports to USB or Bluetooth (I mainly skipped SCSI), and I sort of miss having to turn the connector 360° around for it to fit…

Worked for me so far.

The economy will be crashing anyway.

Futurama calls the current era the Stupid Ages.

As for the period between the fall of the western Roman empire and the renaissance, it’s often referred to as the Middle Ages.

When you send someone a message in some messaging system which has read confirmations (like whatsapp, for instance, or outlook), and the message is marked as read (or you receive a message read confirmation, or whatever equivalent your messaging system has), but they never actually reply, which often implies that they don’t want to (or can’t be bothered to, same difference). Whatever the case they probably don’t have as much respect for you as you have for them.

As a metaphor I suppose it can also mean doing something for someone without getting anything in return, even though reciprocation would normally be expected.

English is my third language and I had no problem understanding it (and neither did whoever or whatever is behind the account you replied to, and I’ve got them tagged as a russian — or chinese — troll bot account)…

I do wish, however, that anyone who writes “U” instead of “you” would slowly die of exploding anal cists and haemorrhoids, though, I’ll give you that.