Is this really world news, tho?

> romanian

Dude’s life is ruined by line 2

I do when I’m in a hurry. It’s not as good as the real one but gets the job done when I really need it.

A ban usually means that the account is closed forever, while a suspension is temporary.

But even if it’s not, brands like to distinguish themselves by using different lingo to their competitors. For example, even though Lemmy is a Reddit clone is heavily inspired by Reddit, they use different words like community instead of sublemmy.

I didn’t even know the meaning of those numbers and became a neonazi anyway /s

I think they were referring to the recent events in Israel in this case but the instance was problematic from the start.

I’m usually fine with interacting with people from all over the political spectrum, but genocide is way over the red line for me.

The amount of heavily upvoted comments there about white washing genocide, trying to deny it or somehow justify it was disgusting. I’m not talking about recent events but mostly those committed by regimes that called themselves communist, no matter how far they actually were from it.

I don’t agree with communists in general but I also don’t agree with many other ideologies. I don’t mind being around communists if we can talk respectfully. But I consider tankies the left wing version of neonazies.

Finally

That’s really expensive, I pay around €7 for the family plan and I live in the EU.

It’s also ok to support neither or to say it’s too complicated to pick a side.

It doesn’t bother me unless you go super slow, which is rare.

Depends on what you already know.

Functional languages like Haskell, Clojure or Erlang have a reputation of being hard to grasp.

Rust’s borrow mechanics are hard for some people at first, especially because it’s very unique to the language.

Javascript can be frustrating because it also has some rare features among popular languages, and uses the same keywords for different concepts. It’s not bad at all once you let go of your assumptions and dedicate the time to understand how it works under the hood.

C++ is also notorious for being hard but I haven’t used it for a very long time so I can’t say anything about it.

Probably Typescript, it has so many quality of life features that I miss when I’m using anything else. A close second is C#, Kotlin third.

Rust when performance really matters.

PowerShell when scripting and automating stuff. It’s common to hate it because “microsoft bad” but it’s very logical and it feels modern. Funnily enough, I’ve only used it on Mac and Linux.

She’ll never get my vote, she killed Sotha Sil

So many assumptions based on so little information.

Notable Thief Rule could be Grand Theft Auto?

Notable - grand and thief - theft make sense, I don’t know what to think about rule - auto, tho.

Edit: I think it’s Notable Thief Auto, not Rule, so it all comes together now.

Also, Alloy Cog Stable is Metal Gear Solid

I’m not an expert on American politics but my impression is that there are a bunch of people with conservative attitudes towards change, and politicians know exactly how to play them.

They get riled up with the proper slogans and become what you have described. I’m not saying they are innocent victims here, they definitely should know better and everything they do is on them, but I still think this is mostly what’s going on.

It’s not really about that, sometimes conservatives also agree that a change is needed but they disagree on how to get there.

They see the current state as something that was built up naturally over a long period of time and everything has its place for a reason. Sometimes those reasons are not apparent immediately and making a sudden change will bite us in the long run in an unexpected way, maybe 100 years down the road.

They might agree that the status quo is bad but they think change should come gradually in small steps, allowing things to settle down a bit, and reflect on the consequences before moving forward. They might say that at least we understand the situation and the rules of what we have now, we shouldn’t stray too far ahead into the unknown.

For example, imagine that you live in a country under foreign rule. Should you start a war of independence and risk getting crushed or should you try to force concessions gradually over time and risk not getting anywhere? This is roughly the debate that took place in my home country in the 1800s.

While it’s true that the extremes are that conservatives want time to stay still while progressives want to burn the world down and reform everything in a single day, but most of the time people are somewhere in between, or even change their positions depending on the issue.

Conservatives (with a lowercase ‘c’, I’m not talking about Republicans) prefer a series of small incremental changes over a longer period of time while progressives believe in big leaps. Both are valid viewpoints depending on the issue, sometimes we should take things slowly but other times we needed that change yesterday.

Asking titles has been around for a long time so conservatives are ok with it. It also conforms to their existing ideas about gender and roles in society.

Asking for pronouns is a relatively new thing and the whole debate around them is a big and sudden change (at least as far as they see), and it turns everything they believed in on its head.

Of course, there are people who are just plain hateful but I think there’s more nuance to it than that most of the time.

It’s worth noting that a huge part of their manufacturing takes place outside of Germany where salaries are way lower and regulations aren’t as strict.

It doesn’t stop at the station at all?

In my country it’s common that intercity buses start and finish at bus hubs but they commonly also stop at multiple points inside the city as well.