FriendOfDeSoto

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

If you don't know what you're doing I suggest you don't buy a jukebox online but at a local store. That way you're probably on the safe side. The link one looks like the German version and your post pic is France/Belgium. They're not (edit: always) compatible. Plugs are a non-EU-standardized mess.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Being asked anyway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Remind me never to cross you.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Not being asked a version of this question every other day or so.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I believe you should fart excessively around it and indeed encourage fellow commuters to join in, as it will provide terrible air quality results here. Which will in turn improve ventilation measures in this area, which would not have happened otherwise. Checkmate! The act of observing alters the results!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

If you're on Android, by any chance, have you gone through all the battery optimization, background process killing, and startup settings? Some OEM's versions of Android are real bad in that way. Giving the app the right settings and permissions may decrease the number of delayed notifications like that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think speaking the language immediately condones the horrible acts of the people who spoke it in the past. German should've creased to exist 80 years ago.

There are certainly situations where use of English could be considered offensive, say, at a memorial of an atrocity. Carve those situations out and have a plan B - there is no necessity to all speak the same language all the time. It's enough if a good number of people in the right positions do. And consider that there already are English speakers in France, Iran, and North Korea (3 random examples that don't all love English-speaking countries).

English is already the lingua franca of the world and has displaced French as the language of diplomacy. In Europe before that were the Frankish tongue, Latin, Greek. Other places had other languages. It's no shoe-in that English will remain at the top but in our lifetimes I don't think it will change.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

My review came with an asterisk. I mainly wanted to point out how to get it free so you can make up your own mind.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

The short answer is no but the long answer is yes. You can fight like the old guy from Up! but in the end you'll probably lose (YMMV because of location).

Municipal planning though often involves spaces allocated for roads and stuff. So the plots of land don't all border each other but imaginary roadways have already been drawn up if not built already.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

It might be helpful to know where this is.

The easiest answer regardless is become active in local politics, try to get into the municipal government, and allocate funds to building up infrastructure in your area.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't remember if I bought it on Google Play so I don't know if you would need to. You can though test drive it guaranteed for free if you sideload the F-Droid app store and get it from there.

I stopped using it about two years ago because it felt it took forever loading feeds and switched to Tusky, which has less functionality (e.g. no post scheduling) but loads faster, I think, and works well for my limited needs. Fedilab's menus never put me off. But I never went back.

So that's a review that needs a pinch of salt or two.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I think it is possible but not very likely. And I think scale and economic prosperity may have something to do with it. I'm thinking of Singapore, which isn't the most democratic of states but also is tiny. Monaco falls into the same category. What those two very roughly have in common is economic strength and that seems to sort of compensate for lack of democratic liberties. I would drop the theory that a state the size of other countries' cities can establish an authoritarian leadership that doesn't rely mostly on fear mongering (but probably will here or there).

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