“You could almost make it look like what happened with Berlin after world war two, when you had a Russian zone, a French zone and a British zone,”

Except that during those times the aggressor was split into zones.

I know what you said. I can read.

And I explained my view, why I disagree with it.

Regarding Volt: please, don’t promise things if you cannot keep your promise.

Just to add a bit of an explanation: all votes going to other parties than the nazis are not wasted. In fact, the more parties receive votes, the better. Best would be an equal share. Diversity is what moves us forward.

I don’t think capitalism has anything to do with this, especially in Germany.

It’s pure lack of education and common sense.

In my opinion, the trend is pretty damn worrying. The trend has been going on for a long time.

I understand what you mean, the actions done in the last week before an election is what drives the majority of dumb people, but inevitably you gotta plant the seed quite early on, and keep feeding the facts or misinformation (depending on which party is doing it). Sadly desinfornation campaigns have been going on on full blast, but haven’t seen any effective counter actions from Volt, for example, or other parties.

Factual information, education should go on continuously on every possible channel to reach everyone. Yes, even 4 years before the election.

I cannot agree with this. I mean, a sane person would never pick the nazis, even if the poll has no consequences.

I’m sure there’s something else going on.

What did these people smoke?! Seriously! Especially in light of what’s been happening in the US. Like there’s a scandal for every day since that idiot stepped into power; how can the nazis get even more popular? Or what kind of poll was that? One made by Russia?

Rhetorical question, it’s one of those things in life I’ll never understand.

@snek_boi@lemmy.ml, where are you? Now this was absolutely a surprise to me, that this was, in fact, not real, just a satire (which I learned from the comments).

Zuckerberg has mental illness.

Thank you for showing me this valuable piece of information. No, I haven’t seen these before.

Until now, I’m 100% confident that it’s impossible to convince someone on the far-right of anything that’s against their views, because I’m from a country that is 15 years ahead of the US on this tragic path into the dark future far away from common sense, thus I have a somewhat clear prediction for the general mental state of the people in the coming decades, which likely cannot be reversed in a century.

Yet, I’m thinking quite often, what I could do as an individual to at least somewhat better the situation in this miserable world. And so far all my ideas are based on withdrawal of content (much like how you take drugs away from a junkie) instead of adding arguments, which is obviously hard to pull off on a large scale.

Not that I could do anything though. Today you need to be rich to achieve something.

Nonetheless, maybe this is the missing piece to the puzzle. I’m considering to pay those extra bucks for that publication, also Welzel’s book; they look promising. So thanks again for sharing.

Possible, but better not make it. When an algorithm has to promote something, there’s bias behind it, whether it’s a good intent or not. Even if it’s all good content, some other, also good content might be missed, because the algorithm or the authority behind the algorithm misses it.

In my opinion, Mastodon is perfect as it is. You see what you’re following. Or on the home page you see everything.

People should really really really learn to seek for quality content and develop a sense for quality and also to exercise critical thinking while trying to separate quality content from garbage. Pick what you wanna see and don’t let yourself be influenced by a stupid algorithm.

Just consuming whatever an app pushes into your face makes you a brainless zombie in the long term.

I got the joke right away, I don’t think there’s any problem with it.

The thing is, no matter how obvious a contradiction is, far-right folks won’t understand any of it, because they’re so dumb. You cannot give them even the most basic, easily digestible facts and explanations, because even that requires a brain, which they don’t have.

So I think, these kind of jokes are perfectly fine for our entertainment, and no amount of facts and information will ever convince the dumbest of the people.

Use less for checking contents of files. Many people use cat all the time, but I don’t like it, because if you do that often, your terminal window quickly gets flooded with stuff, and then you have to scroll up and down if you wanna see a previous output. With less, your file opens in a different “frame”, which you can close when you’re done.

Nothing. I picked a distro that works for me out of the box. On top of that I only installed stuff, instead of replacing stuff.

I find Gnome smoother than macOS.

This wasn’t the case many years ago, but now I find Gnome pretty good, the amount of bugs are surprisingly low.

On the other hand, I experience glitches on macOS regularly on the UI, especially on a multi-monitor setup (I use both Gnome and macOS with multiple monitors).

And generally feature-wise I find Gnome a lot more convenient to use in terms of window or workspace management.

I’ve been using Deezer for almost a year now.

Things I like:

• Duo subscription is suitable for long distance couples (this was the main reason I subscribed to Deezer and not Spotify).
• Wide range of songs, even some pretty rare gems are available there.

Things I (we) don’t like:

• As others mentioned, discovering unknown songs is not really a thing on Deezer. Spotify was so good at giving me other songs than what I used to listen, and it aced it. Deezer cannot do that. It only has predefined lists with songs that everyone knows (“hits” in other word).
• My girlfriend sometimes experiences lags, so probably in Asia they don’t have servers.

No. Just no. Enough internet for today.

More like undergoing the humiliation of what it comes with.

Other than that… yeah, I don’t have many friends, so not many favors to take care of.

Once a friend asked me to buy him cigarettes while I went into the store to buy some food for myself and he was waiting outside. I did it, but I hated every single second of it. The fact that the cashier, and anyone around me could potentially think I was a smoker… utterly terrifying. The humiliation was even greater when the cashier asked for my ID (I was around 20 that time, I looked young enough for them to assume I was underage). Disgusting, horrible experience. Never again.

There was another case, where my best friend actually didn’t really ask for help, but it was a really serious case. Her mom got into jail as a victim of someone else’s attempt to clear himself in a corruption case. I helped her with my savings (a thousand dollars or so) to get her out of jail. Well, this was another horrible experience, but in a different way. I would do it again if such a situation arises, but luckily her and her entire family have managed to move to a better country since then.

To me it usually goes like this:

“No.”

Or sometimes:

“Nope.”

Or when I’m feeling polite:

“No, thanks.”

You mean, MMCCCXIII people.