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- Comment on [deleted] 2 hours ago:
I would say it is, but needlessly complex.
You’re looking for this I think: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retention_election
- Comment on xkcd #3105: Interoperability 20 hours ago:
I am not sure I have seen track gauges given in centimeters ever before. Usually I see that standard gauge is 1435 millimeters.
- Comment on Why Making Social Media Companies Liable For User Content Doesn’t Do What Many People Think It Will 1 day ago:
On the contrary, it would make it more risky to start a new smaller platform.
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- Why Making Social Media Companies Liable For User Content Doesn’t Do What Many People Think It Willwww.techdirt.com ↗Submitted 1 day ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 4 comments
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 1 day ago:
in 2025? Vaccines have been available for how many years now? Why does anyone even think about COVID vaccines anymore in this year? We would have figured out any adverse effects by now if there were any.
- Comment on How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time? 2 days ago:
USB C … C … sea … you might be onto something there 😂
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Both human and dog feces have significant variation in how they smell, so this question is somewhat meaningless. Dogs are carnivores, so if you ate meat, your feces is probably going to smell more like dog feces than if you ate only plant-based food.
- Comment on 10 years later, no one has replicated Rocket League's mojo 2 days ago:
The article missed that SuperTuxKart has a mode that is somewhat similar to Rocket League.
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- Comment on What's a good instance to be on at the moment? 2 days ago:
I don’t see a lot of the things you’re trying to avoid on my instance. But I almost always browse “subscribed” and mostly have no idea what’s going on in communities I’m not subscribed to.
- Comment on What happens to the content if an Lemmy instance shuts down? 3 days ago:
Federation means that when anything happens on one instance (post, comment, whatever), that instance will also inform other instances of this. Which other instances? The ones that have at least one user who has indicated they are interested in that kind of activity (on Lemmy mostly: by subscribing to the community).
So already now you can see eg my instance’s copy of a lemm.ee community at discuss.tchncs.de/c/cartographyanarchy@lemm.ee and this will not disappear just because lemm.ee goes down. It’s stored in my instance’s database. But it will no longer be possible to post or comment there because that will no longer federate to other instances.
It’s not guaranteed that all of lemm.ee will be accessible elsewhere. Some communities might not have (always had) subscribers from other instances, which would mean no other database has stored those parts.
- Comment on Do instances exist where you can be 13+? 3 days ago:
I’m currently unable to find a minimum age requirement on my instance, so she could try that. I’ve never given this topic much thought because Lemmy didn’t exist when I was a minor…
- Comment on It used to be that when most countries were or in trouble or needed help they would go to the US for help. My question is who does the US go to for help if or when needed? 5 days ago:
Help with what? The US is part of NATO so if it is attacked militarily, all other NATO countries are obliged to help against such an invasion.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days 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... 6 days 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 xkcd #3102: Reading a Big Number 1 week ago:
it’s mentioned in the explainxkcd, so apparently
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 week 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 Were people happier in the past? 1 week ago:
No, I think the 1990s were genuinely good. That was after the Cold War but before 9/11.
(For context, I was born in the 1990s, so don’t have many personal memories of them and didn’t know anything about geopolitics then.)
- 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? 1 week 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] 1 week 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? 1 week 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 1 week 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 What was life like for the "average" person living in Nazi Germany 1 week 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? 1 week ago:
FWIW we have !outoftheloop@lemmy.world here too
- Comment on What's going on with moths and lamps in lemmy? 1 week ago:
You shouldn’t ask these kinds of questions under the assumption that anyone knows what you’re talking about.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week 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? 1 week 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.