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The number of dimensions in space is three, and that has nothing at all to do with language. When you eliminate one of the dimensions ("up" in your example), you are left with two, and you're describing dimensions in a plane.

The reason all languages use four words for the two dimensions is because there are two directions per dimension.

ETA: why there are three (plus one for time), and how do we know that, are very interesting questions (to me).

Lately that's true but it wasn't always. Early on in the subreddit there was a lot more diversity. Dad joke just meant a kind of play on words (or ideas), not necessarily a pun. I miss that.

There are lots of ways to watch youtube videos without feeding them any revenue or data. So I'm all for it. Let them pay for the storage and bandwidth, and we'll use it for free!

Of course, there's no way to post the video without giving them data.... so that sucks.

I wonder if it would be possible to filter traffic by limiting the rate at which links can be followed after the initial connection.

I suppose one problem with that is it would also limit the crawlers you want, like search engine indexing. Maybe if enough sites were doing this it would generate some pressure on the AI companies to behave better.