[dTal]

>However, you then said that the issue was the company that made your scooter was outside the US. That implies you are in the US.

I don't agree. Living in the US is not the default state of humanity. People on the internet are not USian until proven otherwise. I never mentioned the US. The US was only in the conversation to begin with because of a faulty assumption, which I attempted to delicately point out, even if I stopped short of outright contradicting it.

In fact, I was trying to avoid discussing my location at all, as I normally do on HN and indeed any other online platform as standard opsec. I wasn't asking for legal advice and it was not relevant to the point I was making.

Now, after a parade of HN commentators just assumed I was in their country, I am finally forced to clarify - no, I am not in the US. I am also in the 95%. What are the odds!

The fact that I need to clarify this at all, never having mentioned the US, is US-centrism. Try rereading the thread, but substitute, I dunno, "Kenya". You'll see how weirdly it reads.

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I mean, you're not from the US, and maybe English is not your first language. However, specifically clarifying the company you purchased from is in the 95% implies there is a difference between you and the company and is read by many as "the company is in the 95%, and I am specifying that because I am not".

I never assumed you were in the 5% until you said that phrase (in fact, since you pointed out most people don't live in the US, I assumed you also did not). However, that phrasing implies you're in the US. It's just the way that language works.

I'm happy to summarize the thread using Kenya:

X: There is a law in Kenya concerning contract law.

Y: That law is irrelevant because most of the world is not in Kenya. In fact, in a recent contract my counterparty is not in Kenya.

X: Well, if your counterparty does business in Kenya with a Kenyan they are bound by Kenyan law.

Y: How dare you presume I am bound by Kenyan law! I'm not in Kenya.

X: The way your post was written made it sound like you were in Kenya because you were calling out your counterparty not being bound by Kenyan law.

Y: Why does everyone assume I'm in Kenya? I don't want to tell people where I live.