except Australia is a lot bigger than PNG

not from the bottom (i.e. south)

which I usually call scharfes S

I am not American, but Austrian. I earn way more money than I spend each month, causing my bank balance to rise over time; I am not going to say exactly how much I have, but €1000 (which is about the same as $1000) is no problem for me to afford when I need it.

While it's better than the alternative, it still doesn't make me very happy because this only helps fulfill the bottom two levels of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. I wish I could easily earn less money, but have more free time to travel and pursue hobbies, but the system of wage labor is not flexible enough to cover the needs of someone like me.

I am not 100% sure of the answer (I am sure there are websites where this is explained), but I am reasonably sure it has to do with the fact that V and U used to not be distinct letters, but variations of the same letter.

I find both of those names silly, I like the fact that my first language (German) doesn't call any letter "double" anything.

no entiendo

I was thinking more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Privacy_Act

did you really cross-post this and not even fix the typo in the title

That isn't shadow banning, it sounds more like a server (performance?) issue on your instance.

How were you "not able to post anything"? If you noticed you weren't able to post anything (e.g. got an error message), that was (by definition) probably not shadow banning.

On September 19, 1990, the IANA created and delegated the top-level domain .su to the USSR. Just six weeks later, the Berlin Wall fell

wot

the Berlin Wall fell in November of 1989, something is definitely wrong with the chronology here

Texts will have been written about them, e.g. wiki articles or fediverse posts will probably survive, but playable is another story.