It does punish you for downvoting, though, and sometimes even upvoting. Just by upvoting what you like or think is important and downvoting what you think is bullshit on All, you can collect quite a few bans. Which is bullshit IMO.

I’m about twice your age, German and still got a St Nicholas gift bag from my mother. The answer might be “never”.

I had to replace mine every couple of years because they break (i.e. start leaking).

Depends on how little drug use counts as “drug-abusing”. I’d assume the majority of people use drugs like alcohol, nicotine, caffeine and cannabis/THC, and most use them for recreational purposes or “to deal with the stress”.

Same issue with “computer nerd”, really. One person’s nerd is another one’s normie.

If you’re changing your name for gender change reasons, it has recently become quite easy if you live in Germany. Probably not going to last given the far right’s popularity, though.

Probably depends on where you live. Laws differ substantially between different countries and possibly even between federal states.

Based on you not mentioning your country, I assume USA, though.

How do you find out the identity of a random person, though?

Gif is just an image format. It supports still images, too, and many if not most other image formats also support animations.

But it is true that with most displays, images are never truly still.

and you can sort posts by “latest comment” which replicates the old-school forum experience pretty well, but nobody does it that way

I do it that way, at least on posts with a manageable amount of comments where I actually care about the content of the comments (e.g. threads about someone asking how to do something).

Unsweetened buttermilk, or even better, ayran?

Virgin Bloody Mary is really good.

Or just … alcohol-free beer.

Fingathing and The Big Red Nebula Band by Fingathing. Kind of a big beat/instrumental hiphop thing, the band already has a fairly unique sound but it stands out even in their output.

A lot of conservatives literally kick out and/or disown their children for being gay. I wouldn’t call this “typical”.

Depending on where you are and what you look like, don’t do it in front of cops, though.

Oh yeah. It sucks trying to search for tips, solutions etc. when you only know the localized terms, and it’s rare that help resources in different languages are even somewhat useful and up-to-date.

Also, localized voice acting tends to be lame. For one reason or another they’re rarely as good as the original ones. Conversely, I found that German voice acting for games that were originally written in German can be quite good - it seems that localization just doesn’t have the same energy as the original.

I suppose I’m relatively spoiled as a German.

FAAMG or whatever they call themselves now) are now laying off massive amounts of workers to replace them with poorly implemented AI.

I do remember setting my webbrowser to English to avoid YouTube’s absurd automatic title translations, and that was before the LLM hype …

Fairly obvious if you grew up in a non-anglophone country. It’s part of the reason why certain kinds of people set their machines to English even if everything is localized well. And it’s not just error messages, most of the good learning material is in English, too, especially for niche or very recent software.

Makes me wonder what kind of device you’re using in the shower, though.

Weinstein might be a fairly common jewish name? Definitely not changing mine, it’s very common.

I’d definitely consider it if my family name was Hitler, or something that’s a common swear word nowadays to the point that few people even know the original meaning anymore. “Ficker” is a relatively common name in my country, but to contemporary people it’s basically “fucker”. Many change the name into “Fischer” or use their spouse’s name instead.

What’s a reasonable amount of start-up capital? I wonder if you could make a big difference in US politics if you had like 50 billion USD and invested it all into promoting progressive (i.e. left of the DNC-mainstream) politicians and policy. Making sure that the USA don’t fuck everyone else’s shit up would make a huge difference.

Like, how much money are all the fascist billionaires actually investing into politics?

Might be a little late for this approach, though, at this point I’d expect that three letter agencies would just assassinate me if I started that now.

Definitely.

German north sea coast seems nice. I don’t even live that far away from it, but because it’s rather popular, the prices for traveling there are too high for my budget. Buying or renting a space to live is obviously also expensive.

If we’re talking “which country is the least likely to get a far right government”, not sure. Norway seems like it’s doing pretty well overall, but I don’t really have much experience with Scandinavians. Also they’re pretty tall, which is kind of a pain if you aren’t tall, too.