Real connoiſſeurs uſe the long s.

Using humans like robots, what a wonderful idea!

It’s still interesting to analyse them like the cultural products they are.

Never. I live in a city with proper public transport, and I live close enough to the city center that I can easily walk there, or go by bike if I prefer.

I am considering getting my driving license, though. It’s useful for certain jobs, but it’s really expensive.

I’d have guessed emperor Wilhelm II, but it seems to just be a German officer.

Great choice. I love his pictures, they look so good, it’s as if he had traveled back in time with a digital camera.

Or ‘This is just a distraction from the Epstein files!’

and would appreciate if you’d keep your politics more to yourself.

This. Though to be fair, speaking as a Dutchman, our media are also still completely obsessed with American politics. Can’t blame that on Americans.

Even when Trump starts a nuclear war you guys will pretend it’s just a distraction from the Epstein files.

So do Americans. Hence why ‘politics’ and ‘news’ on .world by default are American politics and news.

Even the community intended for non-American world news is in practice flooded with American news anyway.

That reminds me of a Dutch saying: ‘You have to learn it on an old bicycle’.

There’s no actual difference in meaning/etymology between ‘Diets’ and ‘Deutsch’. They’re both derived from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz, meaning ‘of the people’. Well into at least the seventeenth century, probably the eighteenth (I’m basing this off what I’ve read myself in primary sources) ‘Duits’ was still commonly used in the Netherlands as well. It was essentially part of a distiction between ‘Duits’ and ‘Waals’, where those who were ‘Waals’ were the ‘others’.

Terrorist country #1

My desktop PC ran Windows 10 and didn’t have the magic Windows 11 chip. I tried to do some easy things to get it to recognise my PC as having that chip anyway, but it didn’t work, and I was a bit afraid it’d run like shit with 11 anyway.

So I just decided to try something different and install Linux. First on an old little laptop I had lying around. I tried Mint first, then OpenSUSE - the first because it was supposed to be easy to newcomers, the latter because it’s German (and I liked the way it felt when I tried it on my laptop).

After trying it for a bit, I just decided I’d install it on my desktop as I didn’t want to use Windows 10 without security updates anyway. I’ve now been using OpenSUSE Leap for about half a year, and I’m quite happy.

Ah, alright then. I thought I could use YaST’s GUI, but then I just need to do it using the terminal.

Isn’t it possible to make a manual snapshot?

It worked, so thank you!

I don’t read anything about that being the recommended method, but I’ll give it a shot and try that tomorrow, then.

Not a literal death threat, but close.

I once told someone screaming at the bus driver to be reasonable. It was a replacement bus service during winter because the aboveground metros couldn’t drive anymore. The buses were loaded with people, and someone apparently felt ill and had to get out of the bus, so people were screaming at the bus driver to stop. We were driving on the highway, though - you can’t just get out there, even if it wasn’t dangerous anyway.

If I remember correctly the bus driver stopped when it was possible and the ill person got off. When I got out at my stop, the person screaming the loudest got off as well, turned to face me and said: ‘I hope you get cancer.’

I think it’s more likely that the genocide denial will just continue on. Just cast doubt on anything concerning it, split hairs over the exact definition of ‘genocide’, poisoning the well by claiming all information illuminating the genocide is from Hamas and propaganda.

This is what’s happening now, I don’t see why it’d stop.

I don’t think for legal purposes - not specifically, anyway. All newspapers I read (Dutch ones) have opinion pieces which explicitly do reflect the opinion of the newspaper (written by the editors and generally known as a ‘commentary’). All other opinion pieces published by the newspaper are the opinion of the individual columnists, not of the newspaper (even though they published it and it may align with their opinion anyway).

It’s just transparant, pretty much.