I wanted to pay for annas-archive membership, but they only accept bitcoins, which is not legal in my country.

Is Annas-archive legal in your country? Even if it is, is it moral? If it isn't, why are you comfortable breaking those laws, but when the time comes to support the site, and put your money where your mouth is, suddenly there are laws that are necessary to follow?

Morals are subjective, and this is not the place to preach. The charges for “donating money” and “money laundering” are absolutely worlds apart, and conflating them is disingenuous.

They will never know (if you do it right)

Does anyone know a good introduction for understanding languages in general, and modern linguistics too?

Here’s a high quality channel https://youtu.be/m3g6AOPvuPs

> everyone feels equal to the other which is terrible

Assuming I have not misunderstood your thought; I must say i disagree.

One of, if not the greatest thing about the text only internet was that no one knew if you were a dog, and had no excuse to care.

What kind of internet connection do you have and what kind of a machine do you have?

Looks like there are some problems you can't see.

In my country, the connection is not good, and some teammates have humble machines. Zoom happens to work well through that, while Google Meet keeps dropping some people.

Of course it was good.

What should I do then?

I’d say get a domain and use a personal website to post content you care about.

And back it up regularly to local/personal storage.

Accept that the universe is not in your control, and go with the flow.

Either:

1) devolve into a quivering mass of nerves and anxiety, consumed by the inevitable slow descent into the depths of hell

2) carry on as usual

Partly true but a bit too much cynism. Post to a mastodon instance you trust and keep your own backups?

What do you think you should do? There's nothing here for you to do.

Post original links only, knowing they might rot as well.

Nothing is eternal (no matter what the marketing folks will tell you)

Some people still read entire books (they literally just sit there for hours and read every word on every page)

It interested me, so I did read the whole thing... do you never read anything longer than this at all?? No books? No multi-part blog posts, tutorials?

What is different "these days" compared to the "old days" that would make reading long articles harder?

Can you say what you want to say with stories at the beginning?

*without

I asked ChatGPT about a period in the ancient Egyptian civilization named after an Egyptian football player, and it went on to give me details about it. LOL