No. The articles are written by volunteers and will not be improved by your donation.

In theory, your donation does keep the servers running, but they have plenty of money to do that, and most of the money nowadays goes to paying way too many employees many of whom don’t do anything very useful or important.

If I find the headline interesting, I might read the article if I have enough time.

Before I comment on things, I do at the very least skim them to confirm that I’m commenting on what the article actually says, not just the headline.

in der Tat :/

Beim berühmten https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_in_the_Schoolhouse_Door war der Gouverneur (von derselben Partei wie der Präsident!) schlussendlich auf der Verliererseite, keine Frage. Bleibt zu hoffen, dass das nicht immer und in allen Fragen so sein wird.

A Mastodon user I follow recently posted that there are 3 types of laws. I think that is an interesting framework.

What Pakistan is doing here is definitely a “power law”.

and this is a bad thing how, convincing people in the Soviet sphere that the US is better in every way???

Berlin Wall sightseeing.

Things like that aren’t a feature of the terminal emulator, but of the shell. Try to find out which shell you’re using on Android, maybe try using that one on desktop too.

I use different email accounts on different providers for different purposes. Most purposes, gmail or outlook.com, both of which I’m sure if they do go away, this will be announced well in advance.

spannenderweise waren es ja eher “progressive” Bewegungen, die dort eben jene “Schutzmechanismen gegen ein zu übergriffiges Washington” in der Vergangenheit geschwächt bis abgelehnt haben, insbesondere bei der Abschaffung der Rassentrennung

Das System der USA mit seinen föderalen Strukturen, wo die allermeisten politischen Entscheidungen auf Ebene der einzelnen Staaten getroffen werden, ist definitiv schwieriger “gleichzuschalten” als jedes, das es in Europa gibt, auch das deutsche.

I follow both, but a lot more people/organizations than hashtags.

Everyone on Lemmy is a bot except you.

He is an adult, mind your own business until he approaches you for advice.

Bill Gates has a list of favorite books. Ronald Reagan watched Back to the Future.

I found that on old forums I did get to know the people regularly posting on them quite well over time (and they got to know me). On reddit and lemmy not so much, or do you have any idea about anything I’ve posted before (because I don’t know anything about you).

The main thing I would like to know is why so many people nowadays want a microblog platform, whether it is X or Bluesky or Mastodon, and why community-based platforms like Lemmy are getting relatively little attention in comparison.

Is it just that these people weren’t seriously online before the rise of microblogs? They didn’t start out with phpBB-style forums, so don’t miss their existence and think that individuals having followers is the normal state of the Internet? I’m genuinely not super sure what’s going on.

Wait, what? Which parts of this are satire now? I read the Onion piece that Global Tetrahedron was purchasing InfoWars, but this is a Guardian story saying The Onion is purchasing it? I’m a bit confused.

For an ordinary citizen, absolutely. Most topics in the world, I have no opinion on, or I have the opinion that there are good points on both sides, or I have the opinion that one side is right about one thing and the other about another, or I have the opinion that one side is mostly right but the other also legitimate.

Politicians meanwhile are more-or-less required to have opinions about most political matters (or at least be able to say that they stand for them even if they don’t internally hold them). They will have to vote on them after all, and voters expect to know what they’re going to get on nearly all matters.

We now have the benefit of hindsight of what Hitler and his system ended up doing, so when we hear a Hitler speech today, we know a lot more than the crowds who were listening to it at the time did; this causes some bias in answering this question honestly.

It is true that his speeches are hardly ever boring. He was able to switch between a calm and an aggressive speaking style depending on what was fitting for what he was saying, sometimes within a very short time. This is true of some, but not all, other politicians too.

Most countries consider this “private copying” which is legal. Not a lawyer, you should check your country’s laws.

Unethical? Copying is not theft.