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- Comment on Am I overreacting for wanting to quit driving altogether? 8 hours ago:
I have several family members who either don’t drive at all or have previously taken several-year-long breaks from driving.
I was significantly older than you are now when I learned to drive at all, I no longer own a car and haven’t driven in approximately 9 months.
If you are in a life situation where you do not need to drive, then it is completely your own decision and you shouldn’t listen to anyone else trying to convince you one way or the other. Most drivers overestimate their abilities; if you yourself feel driving isn’t for you, then it’s better for everyone involved (including others on the road) that you don’t drive. But you still have a long life ahead of you and it’s completely possible you’ll become more confident when some more years have passed.
- Comment on Why can countries recognise both... 12 hours ago:
They can, it is just that if they do that, the PRC will sever diplomatic relations with such a country. Why that is so, you would have to ask them… neither of the Koreas has such a policy.
The situations are also not exactly the same: out of these, all are members of the United Nations except the Republic of China.
- Comment on Anon predicts the future 23 hours ago:
Before the invention of video, humanity didn’t have video evidence either and still managed. We are approaching the end of a ~150 year time period in the history of humanity in which video evidence is persuasive.
- Comment on Is there like a pocket sized computer? (I mean like not a "phone", but something that I can run full desktop OSes and programs on; and I'd love to also have the typical phone camera's and GPS.) 1 day ago:
The problem with the question is that somewhat inherently, “full desktop OSes and programs” are designed to run on screens so large they don’t fit in your pocket. So you kinda have to decide what you actually want.
Look up the PinePhone or Librem 5.
- Comment on Instead of asking all my stupid questions separately, could I just get a ton of "How to Adult" type resources in the comments? 2 days ago:
and anything where you’re being given instructions where you’re supposed to copy what the person in the video is doing, video works very well for that too
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Agreed on this. We don’t know you (OP) well enough to answer this. For me it would be clear because I find law interesting (it isn’t what I studied but I considered it for a long timr
- Comment on Why do websites now prefer IP-based geolocation rather than the `Accept-Language` HTTP header? 2 days ago:
Dieses Suchenwiegenflassen gewürst fleinmescht bitte
As a native speaker of German: lol
I mainly notice this with YouTube ads when in a foreign country. YouTube, you have my viewing history, you know I don’t watch videos in Italian or Hungarian because I don’t understand those languages well, so why are you advertising to me in those languages just because my IP geolocates to Italy or Hungary???
- Comment on What was life like for the "average" person living in Nazi Germany 3 days ago:
Well, entire books have been written about this topic, so it’s difficult to answer this in a Lemmy comment. The main division is between the pre-war years and the WW2 years. War is rarely popular, especially not total war. But a dictatorship can be popular if it can convince the public that it’s serving the interests of the people, and that was certainly the case in the 1930s in Germany.
Your OP mentions that “there was a drop in the qualify of living for them”; I don’t think this is true. People (everywhere) overall tend to care more about economics and personal well-being than civil liberties, and for many ordinary German people, Hitler’s policies (before the war) were (or at least: were perceived as) beneficial in terms of personal well-being. We find it obvious in hindsight that passing laws such as “the executive branch gets to pass any law it likes including laws that violate the constitution” or “all parties except the NSDAP are hereby banned” are awful examples of authoritarianism, it was not obvious to the people living at the time who hadn’t been used to a parliamentary republic for a long time yet.
Here are a few links that may help your understanding:
- Comment on YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content 3 days ago:
Good. The Internet was always supposed to be an opportunity to expand the overton window. It’s incredible how much we’ve been allowing tech companies to be censors in the first place, anything that undoes this development is good.
- Comment on What was life like for the "average" person living in Nazi Germany 3 days ago:
During what time? The answer for 1934 is quite different from that for 1944.
- Comment on What's going on with moths and lamps in lemmy? 3 days ago:
FWIW we have !outoftheloop@lemmy.world here too
- Comment on What's going on with moths and lamps in lemmy? 3 days ago:
You shouldn’t ask these kinds of questions under the assumption that anyone knows what you’re talking about.
- Comment on Is it actually just better to bury your head in the sand and ignore all the politics in the news since you can't change it anyways? 4 days ago:
There are lots of options in between. You should be broadly aware of news, but do not need to be constantly exposed to them.
Maybe this article stallman.org/articles/dont-watch-covid-tv.html will help you, I am not sure whether I agree with all details of it, but the author is right about many other important things, so maybe it helps you.
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 4 days ago:
Not in my school anyway. The languages taught here in Austria vary by school AFAIK, in my school everyone had to learn English, then depending on which branch we selected we could learn French, Italian, Spanish and/or Latin (but there was no path to combine French with Italian).
I looked it up and while it is possible for schools to choose other languages than these, Chinese doesn’t seem to be among them, so that could not be made a mandatory subject, probably could be taught as a non-graded elective though.
- Comment on Why do I have this weird reversed-"FOMO" feeling when I watch TV shows or Movies about Pre-Information-Era time period, like not as in "I miss the past", but actually as in "Okay this era is weird"? 5 days ago:
I’m around five to ten years older than you and get the same feeling sometimes. Not so much from TV shows or movies, but also from reading or watching real-life stories from that time. Like, when reading documents written pre-Internet that reference then-current events, how and how much did they know about those events? All just TV and newspapers? Nowadays I can easily find out what happened back then, but that was obviously not so much so at the time.
I do not remember a time without the Internet at all, but I do remember very well a time before mobile Internet, and I remember that around the time you were born, most people watched TV almost every day. I hardly ever watch TV nowadays, there is so much more entertainment online (e.g. YouTube).
As for looking up information, in the mid-to-late 2000s it was really mostly Wikipedia that built up the Internet as a useful resource for doing that. Obviously nowadays nearly all information that can be found there can be found on numerous other websites too; the Internet has now been built up, so Wikipedia is arguably a much less important website now than back then…
- Comment on Why do I have this weird reversed-"FOMO" feeling when I watch TV shows or Movies about Pre-Information-Era time period, like not as in "I miss the past", but actually as in "Okay this era is weird"? 5 days ago:
me, not recently (after ~2010) for more than a small number of days; the most likely place where that happens nowadays is in the open sea, e.g. on cruise ships
- Comment on Not seeing communities 5 days ago:
Do they have at least one subscriber on the target instance yet? If they don’t, be the change you want to see.
- Comment on “Production” to describe multiplication? 6 days ago:
because “production” already means something else and there already is the very good word “multiplication” for it; “summation” doesn’t mean anything else common
- Comment on why do some people put a space before a question mark or exclamation point? 1 week ago:
Many probably are, I don’t know about “most”. There are plenty of people who just don’t know proper typography without that having this kind of explanation.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
In principle account deletions, post/comment deletions and edits to posts/comments should all get federated… but ultimately the federated model means that there’s no guarantee all instances that have copies will receive that or act on it. The fediverse doesn’t forget as easily as centralized platforms do.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Technically “he rains”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
There have been a few explanations of “dummy pronoun” already. What’s going on is that English doesn’t allow sentences without a subject, so an “it” needs to be added even though it doesn’t refer to anything. In other languages, especially pro-drop ones, you can say just “is raining” or “is cold”, ungrammatical in English (also eg German, French).
- Comment on Is it possible to basically not snore at all? 1 week ago:
I think most people don’t snore most of the time actually. I’ve observed different people sleep several times in my life and the vast majority mostly didn’t snore.
- Comment on Do people confuse your nationality? 1 week ago:
I’m from eastern Austria and I’ve had people from other German-speaking regions think I’m Swiss or completely non-native because of my accent when speaking German.
- Comment on How does HTML actually run on a computer? 1 week ago:
Though most major browsers use Chrome’s rendering engine now except for Firefox and its derivatives.
Apple’s browsers don’t either. They share a common ancestor, but they’re now different rendering engines.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
By definition if it is “banned” then no one gets to eat it, not even the rich.
What might cause that scenario is if meat is very expensive. This was the case for much of human history anyway.
- Comment on buddy of mine is in a horrible mood 2 weeks ago:
Everyone thinks of people who aren’t part of their group as “normies”. The Pope thinks of non-Catholics as normies. The Hebrew word for “normies” is “goyim”.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
LMAO, no
- Comment on Are standing seats on airliners actually going to be a thing? 2 weeks ago:
Not an April Fools joke, this was reported in media I read too in the last few days, ie not on April 1, eg nau.ch/…/billig-airline-soll-bald-stehplatze-anbi…
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