Starting today, ISPs must display labels with price, speeds, and data capsjeffw@lemmy.worldmod to News@lemmy.world – 833 points – 7 months agoarstechnica.com90Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent comment first world country That just means NATO, not high on the human development index.That is the original meaning. The colloquial meaning is different. Language is fluid.Actually, the US was downgraded to “developing nation” for lack of nationwide accessible healthcare in 2017.See, now that terminology works much better! The counterpart to it is "developed" not "first world," though. Examples: "Switzerland is a developed, third world country." "The US is a developing, first world country." (Disclaimer: I'm neither agreeing or disagreeing with folks' assessment of the US, just discussing categories.)Feels more like regressing than developing. Maybe they should update the labelsDeveloping vs. developed. It was, in fact, regression.2 more...2 more...
first world country That just means NATO, not high on the human development index.That is the original meaning. The colloquial meaning is different. Language is fluid.Actually, the US was downgraded to “developing nation” for lack of nationwide accessible healthcare in 2017.See, now that terminology works much better! The counterpart to it is "developed" not "first world," though. Examples: "Switzerland is a developed, third world country." "The US is a developing, first world country." (Disclaimer: I'm neither agreeing or disagreeing with folks' assessment of the US, just discussing categories.)Feels more like regressing than developing. Maybe they should update the labelsDeveloping vs. developed. It was, in fact, regression.2 more...2 more...
Actually, the US was downgraded to “developing nation” for lack of nationwide accessible healthcare in 2017.See, now that terminology works much better! The counterpart to it is "developed" not "first world," though. Examples: "Switzerland is a developed, third world country." "The US is a developing, first world country." (Disclaimer: I'm neither agreeing or disagreeing with folks' assessment of the US, just discussing categories.)Feels more like regressing than developing. Maybe they should update the labelsDeveloping vs. developed. It was, in fact, regression.2 more...
See, now that terminology works much better! The counterpart to it is "developed" not "first world," though. Examples: "Switzerland is a developed, third world country." "The US is a developing, first world country." (Disclaimer: I'm neither agreeing or disagreeing with folks' assessment of the US, just discussing categories.)
Feels more like regressing than developing. Maybe they should update the labelsDeveloping vs. developed. It was, in fact, regression.
That just means NATO, not high on the human development index.
That is the original meaning. The colloquial meaning is different. Language is fluid.
Actually, the US was downgraded to “developing nation” for lack of nationwide accessible healthcare in 2017.
See, now that terminology works much better! The counterpart to it is "developed" not "first world," though.
Examples:
(Disclaimer: I'm neither agreeing or disagreeing with folks' assessment of the US, just discussing categories.)
Feels more like regressing than developing. Maybe they should update the labels
Developing vs. developed. It was, in fact, regression.